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  • Apple releases MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone

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    flydog said:
    OctoMonkey said:
    Wow is that thing...  ugly.  As much as I hate to say it, bring back Jony!  ugh - I regret saying it already.
    What would he do?  Make it a hemisphere instead of a rectangular cube?  Make the Apple logo a different color?
    If I had to guess...  make it look far better, but function far worse.  Imagine it being color matching and more consistent with the dimensions of the phone...  but tended to overheat and blocked any/all wireless communication from working.

    Something like that.
    williamlondon

  • Apple releases MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone

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    Wow is that thing...  ugly.  As much as I hate to say it, bring back Jony!  ugh - I regret saying it already.
    williamlondonh4y3s

  • Mint Mobile data breach allowed attacker to port phone numbers

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    StrangeDays said:
    Damn sorry to hear that, but glad we weren’t affected. 

    We switched to Mint (owned by Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds) and are big fans — $15 a month, period. My days of paying AT&T $160 got 2 lines are over… The website is cleaner, the bills are insanely clear, and since I pay annual I don’t even have to worry about the bill every month. 

    Dumb pipes. That’s what I want.
    Last year we switched to Comcast xfinity mobile and are similarly pleased.  $15 before taxes and $29.40 after taxes for 5 lines.  Plus, adding an additional Comcast service provided a $10 per month service credit to our internet bill, giving us a net $19.40 per month for 5 lines...  essentially $4.00 per line per month!  To top it off, they gave us $300 in pre-paid Visa cards over the course of the first three months.  We left Verizon when we switched, but the Comcast service piggybacks on the Verizon network.  No idea how they are making money...  or perhaps it shows just how much money Verizon (and their ilk) are siphoning from the pockets of the masses.
    StrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • Apple launches new Apple TV 4K with A12 Bionic CPU, redesigned Siri remote

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    bigcountry said:
    I guess the only remaining question I have is: will it play 4K videos from my photo library at 4K? As it stands right now with the most recently available Apple TV 4K, it will only play my own videos back in 1080p resolution. This seems to be an artificial limitation, since it's obviously possible to play back 4K video from many different sources in various HDR formats at up to 30p on the current box. 

    If the new model is required for 4K playback of personal videos, that would be petty, but would probably still convince me to upgrade. But if not? Between the new remotes working with the older models as well as the iPhone-aided calibration working with the older models, there's not much going for the new model from what I can tell.
    You may want to look into running something like a Plex server.  All my personal videos are either 1080P or 4K and all play in their native format via my Plex server and the Plex application on my AppleTV 4K.
    bigcountrywatto_cobra

  • The case for Apple TV -- why Apple's 'hobby' isn't as dead as critics think

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    jony0 said:
    If Apple wants to make a fundamental improvement, add a Thunderbolt/USB port for adding an external camera.

    Just put a bloody USB port on it already ! This is on my wish list since Gen 2 ( I had a Gen 1). It would cost close to nothing to bring much more functionality.
    A port for a camera is fine but all I would want it for is an external drive to play an entire library of digital movies. I live in the woods with slow internet so streaming is always sketchy. Things most of you with hi speed can take for granted are difficult here. Just playing a playlist coming from the cloud rather than locally is a silly concept and hit or miss with some lag, and then you can forget about photos from Photos. Steve Jobs said while introducing Gen 2 that the people don't want so sync anymore (from iTunes), but he wasn't thinking of us with slow speed.
    I went from 1st generation to 4th and now 5th.  I do (essentially) zero streaming as, for a variety of reasons, I am not a fan of it.  Instead, I have a Plex server with a substantial amount of storage.  On it I have my music and video files.  My internet connection can go down and everything is still available to me.  You might want to consider something like this as well.
    Beatswatto_cobra