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nunzy said:

If Apple is coming out with audiophile-quality headphones, it makes perfect sense that they would not use the Beat brand for them. Beat is not associated with audiophile-quality.

The recent Studio 3 wireless have been well received from the audio quality point of view though

rob53 said:

nunzy said:

Apple should buy Disney. They want content. Isn't Steve's wife a major owner of both companies? She's worth billions.

Like I said that acquisition would never be approved. 

Whether or not it makes business sense, there's no reason it wouldn't be approved or there even be grounds to disapprove it.  It would just add to Apple's content that they are building up without giving them a dominant share of market.  Streaming market is extremely robust with many and growing number of competitors, e.g., Amazon, Google, Sony, Comcast, etc., etc.  

f1ferrari said:

cornchip said:

So my driver's license is just floating around in my pocket now?

Since states have barcodes information on our licenses, why couldn’t they be digitally stored as well?

It is being studied in several jurisdictions      https://www.gemalto.com/drivers-license/extended-offer/digital-ddl

bakerzdosen said:

larrya said:

hodar said:

Is there a reason why the Series 2 cannot do this?

I suspect it is making use of the altimeter in Series 3, which is present in Series 2 but not enabled (based on previous comments in other topics here). 

I hope you're not correct, but the more I think about it, I'm betting you are.

It is correct.  There are apps for tracking altitude gain for the Series 2, but they rely on your iPhone's GPS, so you will get the attendant limitations, especially the drain on battery life, versus the advantages of a watch based accelerometer.

applesandbannanas said:

I have an iPhone 6. It works perfectly well, but since the removal of the headphone socket, and now the fingerprint recognition. I'm out. About the only iPhone I'll upgrade to would be a 6s. The new Galaxy S9, is looking promising too, even though I hate Android.

Sorry to hear that. You might want to read the Samsung "privacy" statement first.  It will scare the hell out of you that basically everything you do on the phone gives them the right to scoop it up for their permanent use and to share with their "partners" or subsidiaries or successor companies.  They also admit to what the ultimate Big Brother, aka Google, is doing.  They are linking all of your data across sites, services, etc., into a master account under your name.  Of course, that's what Google is also doing, and to an even greater, previously unimaginable extent.    I can't believe anyone who read that statement would ever be comfortable knowing that Google and Samsung are amassing a massive dossier on you (Google calls it your "universal identifier"-- that in of itself is deplorable, but that dossier is available to law enforcement, as they concede in their privacy statements, but also to criminal hackers, intel agencies, despotic governments.