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  • Scottish school system to supply students and staff with 39,000 iPads

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    Please - give them less tech. It will be infinitesimally better for their learning...
    martinxyz

  • Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

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    dymmas said:
    The HomePod is a remarkably mediocre product. 

    Wake me up when they can be used as TV speakers. Yawn. 
    What a useful post you have provided. Been able to do this for ages...
    Without an an AppleTV - a product that should be retired just for its ungodly remote - just as external speakers to any old TV (as thousands of speakers can)?

    Pray tell us how... I'll wait. In the meantime, you can educate yourself with this (as can the ignorant poster to whom I responded above): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207705
    Of course we can’t show you how as it cannot be done without an Apple TV. Your original post did not include the adverbial phrase “without an Apple TV”, which would have added the necessary modification to your statement.

    Adding this qualification in a future post and calling people ignorant for not reading it in the original one is a little disingenuous. 
    williamlondon

  • Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

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    Rayz2016 said:
    An interesting development, and a tough choice. When this happens, it makes folk wary of buying other products in the same range. 

    I think the problem was that at that price it needed to do more, and because Siri is not up to snuff, it couldn’t. At £99, folk are happy to pay for a small speaker, even if Siri can’t match the capabilities of the competition.  But again, cancelling the big sister will make potential buyers nervous. 

    But Apple throwing in the towel at the high end is a rare occurrence  it could just be a matter of refocusing, or it could be something more serious. In any case, I’m definitely steering clear of the AirPods Max because I suspect they’ll go the same way. 

    Still, got to admire how ruthless they are with their own products. 
    I was thinking exactly the same thing re AirPods Max. Unlike the Homepods, however, they sound pretty ordinary. 
    spock1234

  • Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

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    anantksundaram said:
    The HomePod is a remarkably mediocre product. 

    Wake me up when they can be used as TV speakers. Yawn. 
    What a useful post you have provided. Been able to do this for ages...
    equality72521rcfajas99watto_cobradoozydozen

  • Initial failures of Apple's butterfly keyboard doomed it from the start

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    anantksundaram said:
    The butterfly keyboard was an unmitigated disaster. 

    Bards will wail about it one day. 
    Really? This defines our times?

    I enjoy typing in this keyboard, so not unmitigated...
    king editor the grate