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  • Amazon Echo Frames smart glasses now available, Echo Loop smart ring dead

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    MustSeeUHDTV said:

    Those look nice. You can hardly tell from regular glasses except the larger hinges and temples which is where the batteries are.

    HUD is nice, but I would like smart glasses to have night vision. That would be neat.

    HUD is nice; but these don’t have that.

    As far as I can tell these are basically like failing to copy the AirPods Pro, and then implementing the transparency mode by putting the speakers on a stick outside your ear.

    What (if anything) am I missing here??
    watto_cobra

  • MagSafe Duo Charger limited to 11W with 20W adapter

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    I’m not one to often invoke the holiness Steve Jobs himself, but… He absolutely would have blown a fuse if he’d seen this confusing mess Apple has created, in about a month, with different chargers and standards (all of it invisible to the average user).
    williamlondon80s_Apple_GuyFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Samsung's 'do-all' Lifestyle Smart Monitor ships with AirPlay 2 support

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    luxuriant said:
    Looking at the specs, its brightness is just 200 nits. Despite the impressive contrast delivered by its VA panel, it can't do much with HDR if that's all the brightness it can manage. I'd be interested in a much higher spec monitor with all these bells and whisles but not, I'm afraid, in this offering.
    I really wish Apple went back to making a good mid line monitor. There's always a lot of tradeoffs for Mac buyers with these 3rd party monitors, and brightens is a usual suspect. If they just took the iMac 27 inch, took out the iMac and sold it as a monitor I'd be up for that. 
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  • Apple will ship macOS Big Sur on Thursday

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    While the “experts” before me proclaim wisdom in not trusting Apple saying the software is ready, I’m sitting here happily using the very stable and fully functioning beta.  B) 

    ymmv
    jdb8167

  • Facebook, Google, other major developers decline to offer native Apple silicon apps at lau...

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    rob53 said:
    22july2013 said:
    Maybe the future of all apps is through a browser, especially if HTML starts supporting app-like user interfaces. And since streaming apps already exist, then maybe that's our window to the future of desktop apps, not just games. That may be the approach for big companies that dislike Apple's App Store interface. I suspect Google and Facebook are discussing whether they can bypass the App Store by using streaming for all their apps for Apple Silicon. Just a guess.
    Disagree. I’d rather have local apps that have been security tested than having to rely on the browser to protect everything. I don’t trust websites and don’t trust running their apps. Already seen abuse on medical and commercial sites that just don’t want to run on Mac browsers. 
    The "abuse" you see in browsers is often also in apps, just hidden from your eyes, and enough part of the functionality of the app that it easily passes through the security tests.
    williamlondonronn