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Workers riot at Wistron iPhone plant in India over shorted pay
Welcome to India. Supposed democracy where 98% of the population are treated like human garbage, due to barbaric, medieval caste system, mindless religious zealotry and grotesque overpopulation. If Apple don't want to see their humanistic reputation (what's left of it after almost selling their soul to capture Chinese market) sullied even further, they had better tighten their grip and sense of responsibility over their proxies there.
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Apple's HomePod mini review: the speaker for the rest of us
Couldn't agree more. 1) My full-size HomePod has impressive "heavy" sound, but in general the bass is set way too high and there's no way to adjust it. Apple prides itself with music appreciation, but without an equalizer you just can't take such a device seriously. 2) Literally each and every time I play music from my Mac or iPhone to my HomePod, I can 100% count on there being some connectivity issue. I walk in the door, tell my iPhone to play its music on HomePod, it does, then 15 seconds later it loses the connection, for no reason. Every. Time. Reconnecting wastes about 3 minutes of my time, then the connection drops again at random intervals after that - 10 minutes, 30 minutes, between songs/videos, just randomly. I paid $349 for it 2 years ago and, although I still use it in my work-from-home office, I wouldn't buy it now at 1/2 that price and the Mini just sounds like more of the same, only weaker. Surely they could have figured out a way for it to play music from a phone using only Bluetooth, like at the beach (it requires WiFi to function at all, and only 802.11n?! - sorry, what year is this? This product is off-brand because it's riddled with compromises and seems behind the times. My HomePod's reliability is as if it wasn't even made by Apple, to connect with Apple products. I hope this isn't an indication of what's to come from them.MacQuadra840av said:This review makes no sense at all. The majority of the article identifies all the flaws of the mini, and carries over all the flaws from the first failed HomePod, yet somehow they give it 4.5 out of 5 stars. Apple cannot even clear them out at $199 on sale, yet they come out with another severely compromised product and overprice it at $99. AI forgot to bring up the failed Wi-Fi issue with the mini. Many reports coming in of the mini's Wi-Fi failing constantly, and rebooting it only fixes it for a few minutes before Wi-Fi fails again. Wi-Fi is required for the product to function, so basically people are left with a round ball that does nothing. It is odd that Apple now powers the mini with the silicon from the discontinued watch 5 and makes it run tvOS(?), but then again, they powered the original HomePod with the outdated and discontinued A8. Even worse, they are using an outdated Wi-Fi protocol because the mini only supports 802.11n! Even their discontinued AirPort Extreme from 2013 supported 802.11ac! No wonder it is failing on Wi-Fi networks. It is like they are making these things from their own bargain bin of leftover and outdated parts. (Remember when Apple made lousy PowerPC 603e computers by jamming a 64-bit processor onto a leftover Quadra 32-bit board? That is how they are building these HomePod products).
I honestly don't know why people think the HomePod sounds good. It is far too heavy on the bass and too boomy, and Apple refuses to incorporate tone/EQ controls so people can tailor the sound to their own liking. It is Apple's way, or no way. Too many restrictions on a speaker that take away the enjoyment of its sole purpose - to listen to music. Sorry, but the 4.5 rating is a joke.
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Chinese video platforms reportedly axe Apple's 'Hi, Speed' livestream
Apple is the smartest, most valuable company on Earth. China has a ruthless, repressive, totalitarian, imperial government and their society has no regard for pluralism or diversity in any political or cultural aspect of its society. Its leaders are utterly unaccountable to the people they supposedly serve. Chinese "business" is all about the Communist Party in corrupt sweetheart deals with ruthless, robber-baron, nepotistic capitalists. Chinese despise foreigners at home and treat hosts in other countries like garbage. I'd gladly pay a couple dollars more for a phone than have any piece of it made in China.tommikele said:JWSC said:That’s it China. Just keep going. Just keep giving Apple more reasons to diversify manufacturing out of your country. The sooner, the better. And good riddance.
The Chinese are the ones who are in a position to say good riddance to Apple and not the other way around as you claim.
You don't know too much about business, do you?
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Apple confirms Oct 13th event to announce new 'iPhone 12' family
You guys have way too much time on your hands.AppleZulu said:
Clearly, you’re .0001% brilliant.22july2013 said:
The difference is that picking a horse is about a 1 in 10 chance, even a monkey could do it, while picking a product name out of the air with no inside information is about 1 in 100,000.crowley said:
It's hardly prescience if you're saying yourself that there's a 98% chance that it won't happen. If I say there's a 2% chance of a horse winning then I don't claim a victory when it crosses the finish line first.22july2013 said:
Enough of this nonsense please.
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'iPhone 12' starts at 64GB storage, ships to sellers on October 5 says leaker
It would be great if pricing were fair and transparent, but reality. I'm sure the raw steel used by Ferrari is not actually 10x more expensive than the steel used by Ford, but brand.Ofer said:
Agreed. It’s a ridiculous ripoff how much of a premium Apple charges for memory and storage.SpamSandwich said:Still can’t figure out how it is Apple can order such a high volume of memory chips for its devices, but they never seem to get a price break that can be passed along to consumers.
