Sarkany

genovelle said:

Will the UK handle the deaths from batteries and calls from consumers who brick their devices prematurely by calling themselves repairing them. This will run quite a few companies out of business as few of them can afford to take on this additional expense in the none Apple world because they are already loosing money on these devices. 

svanstrom said:

Sarkany said:

ihatescreennames said:

I’ll be happy when ATT rolls out. I wonder, though, if people will even pay attention or just tap to make the dialog box disappear so they can get on with whatever. I know a lot of people who claim not to care about being tracked. 

Side note: I’d like it if Apple surprised everyone with features like this and the paste notification. Wouldn’t if be great if you updated one day and got to see how many apps were surreptitiously checking your clipboard before those apps had a chance to fix the behavior?

I don’t care to be tracked because when you’re connected, you’re tracked one way or another.

So you don’t want privacy in the future because you don’t have privacy today; and you’re happy with everyone easily being able to track you as long as there’s one party able to track you?

M68000 said:

The choice in phone sizes is great this year.   The mini’s screen area approaches the screen area of the older 8 plus but is much easier to hold.   I just wish I could get some really good data on whether or not magnets in the 12 series are going to be safe near the body for long periods.  I mean after all,  holding a phone close to your ear while on call puts the magnets very close to inner ear and the eyes.  I don’t want to sound like an alarmist but I think about things like this.   Neodymium type magnets are the strongest type it appears.  Just not thrilled with having MagSafe yet.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I am an indie dev and I am not delighted. 30% was perfectly reasonable. What I want is full access to the iPhone via SDKs and far less restrictions on the features I can provide to my customers. I am tired of Apple standing on the neck of the entire computer industry. With all their talk of "think different" and examples of radical thinkers, in reality Apple wants none of that in their ecosystem. Dare to create anything Apple does not like and you will be banned. Home automation would have happened by now if Apple had provided a real WiFi SDK and not insisted that developers use the craptastic HomeKit SDK with its high fees for hardware makers.