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  • Volvo to focus on value adds outside the infotainment system, will leave CarPlay alone

    Graeme000Graeme000
    Hopefully they're adding physical buttons back too. I test drove an XC40 a couple years ago while car shopping and had to quickly nix it from the list after trying to adjust the fan speed. The salesperson suggested I try voice control. Not likely. All touchscreen and voice control has been proven to be more distracting than physical knobs. 
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  • Epic 'Killers of the Flower Moon' flops at the box office

    Graeme000Graeme000
    WilliamGallagher said:
    Stabitha_Christie said:
    And another clickbait headline from Apple Insider. 

    So the move flopped because ticket sales were down 61%... okay... So the Taylor Swift movie that was number dropped 63% from its first week to it's second... So I guess that is a flop as well? Large drops after an initial opening are not terribly unusual and even with the large drop, Killers of the Flower Moon was still the third highest grossing moving in its second weekend. Maybe Apple Insider should refrain from commenting on industries that it really doesn't know much about but at this rate one has to wonder what AI actually has any sort of expertise in. 


    The Eras Tour earned over $90 million in its first weekend, so even with a drop, its second-weekend take was greater that Flower Moon's opening.
    You're whole argument in the article is that it dropped by 60% in the second week, but you failed to point out that Eras Tour did the same thing. Seems like it's only a strong argument when you leave out details like that. If it's the case that most movies drop by that much, it'd be worth mentioning that so the reader has the entire picture and it isn't a big deal. Maybe the bigger deal is the low ticket sales.
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  • A lament for the Touch Bar

    Graeme000Graeme000
    I still use and enjoy my MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. Although admittedly, the primary thing I use the Touch Bar for is to scrub forward and skip YouTube ads. 
    It does make scrubbing through any videos really easy, but that’s really my main use for it. It’s definitely too inconsistent to know when any other programs use it or not. 
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  • Notifications in iOS 17 are too quiet, and there's nothing you can do about it

    Graeme000Graeme000
    Ooo this is a welcome change! No more constant dings of other people receiving messages or getting updates.
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  • iPhone 15 Pro Max delivery estimates hit October minutes into preorders

    Graeme000Graeme000
    AppleInsider said:

    Apple's preorders started late -- two minutes late or so in the US and up to around six minutes internationally -- but for a very brief time all iPhones were listed as delivering on September 22. That's the date Apple announced they would, but it's not the date that stayed true for very long.

    Not sure where you get those very specific numbers, but from my own experience and reading among the forums, "up to around six minutes internationally" is pretty optimistic. My experience through the web and app was 20 minutes.
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