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  • iPhone 15 Pro review three months later: Worth every penny

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    dbs888 said:
    I sense a little FanBoi hyperbole in this post. The titanium doesn't "wrap over the aluminum frame". 
    No, William has it. The outer rim is titanium, but that's it. The internal frame is aluminum to reduce weight even further. Also, I can say there is a perceptible difference in weight. The iPhone 15 Pro Max I have with a Pitaka aramid fiber case now weighs just slightly more than the iPhone 14 Pro Max without a case. That's a big deal.
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  • Google Drive users complain of missing files, months of data disappearing

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    slurpy said:

    That's just an unrealistic and untenable mentality in this day and age. Literally everything lives in the cloud include critical services that don't even have the option of backing up offline. 
    I disagree. We're discussing cloud storage, so documents, files, etc. I'm not sure what you mean by "critical services" that you can't back up.

    Memory is cheaper than ever. Buy a couple TBs, hook it up to a Mac, run daily local backups of all your data. Or, if you're all in on iPad and iPhone like me and don't utilize a Mac in your workflow, have your essential data saved locally and keep frequent backups in an external SSD.

    For example, I have iCloud Photos and I have them saved locally to both my iPad Pro and iPhone. They are also stored in Apple's iCloud. Crucial files are backed up regularly on an external SSD, work files are local and synced with the cloud. So I have multiple copies in multiple locations including the cloud.

    It sounds like these Google Drive users had their canonical files in the cloud and nowhere else. That's never a good idea. Ever.
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  • 'Napoleon' is a hit with the box office, but not so much with critics

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    winstoner71 said:
    Speaking of criticism
    Rule number 3. If you've got an issue or see mistakes in the article, please send us an email. Complaining in the forums derails the conversation. The topic should be about the news, not how it was written.

    Thank you
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  • iPhone 16 to use graphene heat sink to solve overheating issues

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    bigcountry said:
    So... what good does this do when most iPhone owners have their phone in a case that has very poor thermal conductivity?
    Getting the heat off of the battery and the processor is the first priority. After that, it's not that big an issue. The graphene heat sink is more important for getting heat away from critical components, which will be more efficient than what's there now.
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  • Volvo to focus on value adds outside the infotainment system, will leave CarPlay alone

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    22july2013 said:
    FYI - There are hundreds of American companies that make their own clothing in America. There are three companies in the USA that make TVs. There are ten companies in America that assemble computers. And look below where this iPhone model is made (in a country that is a democracy.)
    idk dude. That's a lot of sidestepping to rationalize buying a product that's sourced mostly from China. You're not going to avoid the country, so it's best not to try or else risk losing your mind. Like, even if the companies that make TVs in America are local, it is almost guaranteed the parts and chips come from outside the US, most of which are sourced from China.

    You're fighting a losing battle here. "American Made" is one of the biggest lies of the 21st century. Like, you're going to have a hard time finding a single consumer product that doesn't have one piece of its development sourced from China at some point, be it labor, materials, machinery used in the assembly line, etc.

    Even if an iPhone says made in Taiwan or made in India, most of its parts and origin is China. It's just the reality we've created by outsourcing everything.
    mikethemartian said:
    Who the hell chooses a vehicle based on the infotainment system?
    It's actually one of the most popular decision points for most consumers shopping for cars. I'm one of them. No CarPlay, no purchase.
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