sweetheart777

I would actually consider buying one, but...

1. If you have a problem, you can't go to an Apple store.
2. Yes, I want someone in Russia to reassemble my iPhone and put in microphones that beam straight to Putin.
3. So now that they know you have more money than brains, it's worthwhile to steal your financial information and reroute it to Mother Russia.

Such a shame though. They are...purty...shiny, too!

Since Apple doesn't sell servers, or sell its custom ASIC to any outside manufacturers, Apple's migration doesn't really hurt Intel. Intel makes the big money on servers. Apple is less than 3% of Intel's overall business, and that's including modems and lesser components. The volume on Macs is insignificant compared to the number of Chromebook and Windows PC devices sold.

Appleish said:

Finally. I have 8 CVSs within a mile of me. The closest Walgreens is 5 miles away.

Target? Your turn...

I have a CVS within a mile of me. Because of Apple Pay, I drive about 6 miles each way to Walgreens. And I'm betting I can still get to Walgreens, get what I want and get home faster than if I go to CVS.

Count me also as someone who swapped to Walgreens because CVS wouldn't accept Apple Pay. Walgreens now has all my prescriptions, so they won't get me back as a customer. Every time I asked at CVS, the managers would give me some line about Apple wanting 30% of the sales price, but when I was ask them how Walgreens can afford it, they would get quiet.

That’s not a difficult piece of music to reproduce. Try something with intricate instrument interplay, not electronic boops and beeps. Coins and Promises by Margaret Becker. I love my XS Max, but the bass passages that rattle the windows in my car while Maggie’s voice glistens, the phone doesn’t even attempt to reproduce. My clock radio does a better job.

or try The Walk by Steven Curtis Chapman on the Abbey Road Sessions album. The improv section at the end has such great stereo separation and imaging that I’ve had a passenger exclaim “It’s like I’m right on stage between them”, but on the phone there’s barely a left and a right.

Try those two pieces on a “real” music system, then on the two phones. If the Note even comes close to a real music system, I’ll buy one.