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  • Latest iOS 11.2 beta clarifies that Control Center doesn't fully disable Wi-Fi and Bluetoo...

    Eric_in_CTEric_in_CT
    A nice middle ground might be to throw the advisor as shown, with the "OK", and a "don't tell me again."

    Experts toggle "don't tell me again" the 1st time.
    People like me might say OK for about 5 to 10 times until we "get it."
    Some might be grateful for the reminder every time.

    Everybody wins?
    randominternetpersonchiajony0

  • iPhone X out-of-warranty repairs eclipse iPhone 8 Plus at $549, screen repairs run $279

    Eric_in_CTEric_in_CT
    appleinsiderfan said:
    Is AC still necessary if you are careful with your phone?
    This is a smidge annoying/short-sighted. 

    Do we need car-insurance if we drive carefully?

    Life insurance if we don't rock-climb?

    Insurance is for the UNEXPECTED.
    StrangeDays

  • Review: Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular further establishes an emerging computing platf...

    Eric_in_CTEric_in_CT
    It's worth noting that iOS does support the ability to connect multiple Apple Watches to one iPhone. This could allow someone to have a "dressy" edition or stainless steel model alongside a "sporty" aluminum one. It could also allow someone to keep an older model around (say, a first-gen owner who buys a Series 3) and use that one at night for sleep tracking with third-party apps.
    What a fantastic idea THIS is.  Wow.  Never thought of this.

    If needed, WatchOS could use the "heartbeat = yes/no" to decide which watch is "active".  Man.  So cool.

    My glasses are like this.  My "nice" ones have straight ear-pieces that stop above the ear.  Any hot activity where I look down, and they slide.  I use the backups (prior prescription) that hook around the ears, for mowing the lawn, working on cars, etc.

    Wow.  Nice AW + Workhorse AW.

    That's so cool I can hardly stand it, and I don't even own an AW!

    E.
    watto_cobra

  • London's ex-mayor Boris Johnson pitched Apple on sponsoring the failed Garden Bridge proje...

    Eric_in_CTEric_in_CT
    It doesn't sound totally crazy to me (not counting project bloat).

    Consider their iconic Apple Cube in New York City.

    Apple likes an iconic store in an iconic location, even at sky-high rental prices.

    This is just a (very expensive) extension of that.

    Apple might have seen it as "Guys, we can get a store IN the Thames River!  With a beautiful natural approach on each side."

    Even if it was $250million to get it going (not counting $-bloat), the whole thing might have tempted them from a brand-management perspective.

    This would be as cool (cooler?) version of the glass cube, but in London.

    I can see Apple taking the meeting.

    And if they got the store, I assume the next items for discussion would be:

    If the agreed prices blows up, we need guarantees we're not on the hook for the rest, but SOMEone is.
    Who designs/manages the vegetation on each approach?  (it must be insanely-great forever).

    Cool idea, to talk about at least.  Then real-life killed it.

    E.
    d_2

  • 'Baby Driver' cut in real time with Avid on Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro

    Eric_in_CTEric_in_CT
    mtbnut said:
    That's amazing. I feel like an idiot. I can barely use iMovie to make stupid movies of my kids.
    I'm in the same boat.  Years ago on the white G4 Macbook, I made probably 50 movies overall of kids, using a Sony whatever-Cam over firewire to iMovie HD-6.  It was definitely homegrown but I did have a title-screen, chapters, I would ease audio down then up between cuts.  I used actual music a time or two. 

    I just "got" that program, the basics of it anyway, and it was fun to do.  All I thought about while making the movie was the future-experience I was creating. 

    Burned DVDs right on the MacBook and mailed them to family, and even exported the video BACK to the camera, and then exported THAT to a !VCR! to make !tapes! for a couple of grandparent holdouts!  (Just a few times on that).

    When iMovie 8 came out "all re-imagined", it was so horrible I never made a movie again.  It was exactly like being in Windows Hell, where you're fighting/pleading/begging to get ANYthing to work.  No thought of your content or creativity, just head-banging fighting the tool.

    iMovieHD 6 (to me) met Jonathan Ivy's vision that the tools fade away and it's just your content.

    "iMovie", that black-quad-screen experience was the exact opposite.

    I only blame myself for not being able to "get it", or at least find a middle-ground, but that's my experience.  Have some very old movies digitized in iMovie right now; haven't touched them in years.  Can't stand it.

    E.
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