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Apple One is useless to me.  Too few choices on the bundles.  Family plan would almost work except Apple thinks 200GB is plenty to backup 6 iPhones and 6 iPads.  I have the 2TB iCloud storage because I also use Homekit compatible security cameras.  

Marvin said:

ITGUYINSD said:

I wasn't so thrilled with this series.  Watched season 1 and a few eposides of season 2 but nothing drew us back to it.

It had potential with the theme and some of the cast but it seemed like very little happened story-wise in each episode. The synopsis for the season and per episode is very short and mundane:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11828492/plotsummary

The big TV shows like Friends had loads of interesting events happen in each episode and they only had a 22 minute runtime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends#Season_1

It feels like a lot of TV series now try to drag out very thin material to as long a runtime as possible. They should be able to measure this objectively and use it as a metric when producing the episodes. Measure the meaningful plot points in the story, how impactful they are and how often they happen during the runtime. Eventful (frequency) and impactful stories are going to be more interesting to watch. Some slow burner shows can do ok but it's best to aim for interesting episodes.

I particularly found the constant use of 1st person commentary/verbal thoughts boring.  It was just a bit too much.

neverindoubt said:

DAalseth said:

Apple needs to sever all ties with Russia. Cut them off cold to updates, services, iCloud, AppleMusic, everything. Flip the switch without warning. You live in Russia your device is bricked and you are SOL. I know that Apple keeps talking about trying to protect their customers. It's too late for that. Until the general populace starts feeling the pain from Putin's war they won't put an end to it. Remember, that's what brought down the Tzar. The people get fed up with paying in blood and treasure for the Tzar's adventure in WWI. It's time for another revolution and Apple needs to step up and do their part.

I don’t think Apple should be doing business in Russia either, but you’re living in fantasy land if you think that “the general populace” will have anything to do with Putin’s exit.

Depends.  Does Putin rock the latest iPhone 13 or does he pack an Android?  With the former, a complete shutdown might get his attention.

22july2013 said:

crowley said:

9secondkox2 said:

Ridiculous. Apple needs to charge a fair fee for that link in order to cover the costs of platform usage and access to Apple customers, App Store and data center maintenance, marketing, and associated utilities. 

As someone previously stated, Apple didn’t make the sacrifices to offer a free ride. 

Apple’s cut pays for the manpower and resources that enable the various platforms to be the successes they are. That money doesn’t grow on trees. 

As a rule, I never mess with apps that destroy my seamless experience by forcing their shenanigans and try to make me jump through hoops to use their services when I previously had such an easy time handling everything through one easy, integrated, nice to use system. 

The last app was a reader app. It was easy to make purchases and worked perfectly. Then one day, they decided to destroy my experience, force me out of that convenience, and shove me to their website which lost my paid for archives, and didn’t work well for new items. 

Never again. If you don’t use apples system, I don’t use your app. It’s like the late 90s is back to turn the internet into the Wild West again. 

Poor, hard up Apple.  They do us all a favour by selling iPhones and iPads at cost, how are they possibly supposed to make money if they can't take a cut of subscription content that they had no hand in making?

So you wouldn't mind if Apple now stopped its ongoing work efforts to allow Siri to understand users who ask it by voice to start showing specific Netflix programs?

And you wouldn't mind if Apple selectively allowed Siri to only understand Netflix programming if the purchaser purchased Netflix through Apple's store?

So under your logic, Apple should get a cut of literally everything it does on your iPhone, iPad or Mac despite the fact that the functionality comes with the operating system that YOU paid for when you bought their greatly overpriced device?

Should Apple get a cut of YOUR profits on your stocks that you have displayed on the home page widgets?  Where does it end?  

Telling Siri to play something on Netflix doesn't cost Apple anything more than if you don't ask Siri anything.  But if you want to approach the slippery slope of Apple getting a cut of everything you do with 3rd party apps on YOUR device, then say goodbye to almost everything we use and love.

To answer your question, I've never asked Siri to do anything but answer questions or give directions or send a message while driving.  I'm not so lazy that I can't launch Netflix and play what I want myself.

charlesn said:

There's been a lot of coverage of the M2 Air vs the M2 MBP, but if you're customizing the M2 Air at all, the more interesting comparison quickly becomes the MBP 14". The higher spec'd stock M2 Air, plus a bump to 16GB of memory, brings the cost to $1699. For an additional $300, the base MBP 14" is a signficantly better laptop in almost every way: Faster chip, better graphics, bigger and better XDR display, better cooling system, an extra TB port, HDMI and SD ports, longer lasting battery--that's a whole lot of "better" for $300, with the only real downside being the weight. 

Agree 100%, and even better, the MBP 14 is often on sale for $1799, making it a $100 difference.  But there are some in other forums that argue the M2 Air is worth maxing out because it is fan-less and 1 pound lighter.  I've never heard the fan on my 14, except when I run a benchmark test.  Other than that, completely silent.  To each their own, I guess.