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  • Apple Vision Pro imminent, with launch rumored at end of January

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    humbug1873 said:
    So with the 3d scan of your ears for the AirPods and know the 3d scan of the face for the Vision Pro (FaceID is only stored locally!) ... Apple know gains the looks of all the users buying into the ecosystem. 

    2024 is much closer to 1984 now.
    Incorrect nonsense. FaceID converted to a hash and stored locally. Try again 
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  • Apple hardware execs discuss 'profound' changes in chip business

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    iqatedo said:
    sirdir said:
    h4y3s said:
    The incredible vertical alignment that Apple is able to achieve is going to lead to superior products, and the "It just works" principal for years to come. We should feel lucky to live in such an age
    Still I‘d say you can have an experience that is almost as good today with a windows PC, something that wasn’t possible 20 years ago.
    I use Dell notebooks for work, and the experience is not nearly as good as a Mac, no ifs or butts. The fact that the fans still kick in on Windows machines sitting idle is a joke — the opposite of the sort of benefits gained from vertical integration. Then there is Windows itself, which is still kludgy and awkward.

    Nope. 
    'Then there is Windows itself, which is still kludgy and awkward' Is Windows still DOS based... or am I just showing my age?
    I don’t think so, but there’s still evidence of years of bolt-ons. In settings, for example, there are two or three GUI styles — the newer Windows 10 flat menus, but then also legacy Windows panels and expanders and stuff. Some articles about it. 
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  • Despite what you may have heard, don't write off the iMac just yet

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    What’s there to not be breathless about? It’s desk Mac. It’s fast. It’s very thin. What more did you want it to do? De-cork wine bottles? I mean c’mon this a pretty mature product category — 40 years of desktop Macs!
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  • If you're using a Magic Keyboard, you've opened up an attack vector

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    maltz said:
    I've never really understood the popularity of wireless mice and keyboards, but especially keyboards.  Mice, ok, the cord can be annoying if it tends to get hung up on something, but rearranging the cord or desk layout has always fixed that for me.  But keyboards are stationary.  What's the point of it being wireless?  And having to mess with charging and/or changing batteries is a hassle.

    That's not to say there aren't ANY use cases - I have a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo for my HTPC for when the IR remote doesn't suffice, for example.  And our conference room at work has wireless so the computer driving the large display there can be used by anyone at the table.  But the typical "sitting at your desk using your computer" case I don't really get.
    Who wants a computer on their desk? 

    Who wants cords laying around their nice desk?

    Cords knock things over.

    Cords limit your ability to effortlessly move the keyboard to your lap and recline. 
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  • A bride-to-be discovers a reality-bending mistake in Apple's computational photography

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    nah it’s just accidental panorama. there are only two poses - left and right, stitched in the middle. the clerk likely used it by accident (done the same myself). the original photo is horizontally wide like a short pano. 

    the two halves of the pano:

    left:


    and right:

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