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jas99 said:

saarek said:

Sounds like a typical Apple issue. For the amount of profit they make you’d figure they’d invest in better cables by now.

Hopefully enough people will be impacted so as to cause a world wide repair programme. Apple won’t do the right thing here without being forced into it.

Typical? Really?

No. This is highly unusual. 

Apple devices are famous for their long life and durability. 

Typically you buy a new Mac because you want to, not because you have to. 

I had my Mac Pro's power supply fail, then the logic board failed after roughly 5 years. I had a Core 2 iMac fail with vertical lines on the screen after about 4 years. My 2019 i9 iMac's CPU or logic board failed. The battery in my 2010 Macbook Pro turned into a spicy pillow. So yeah, Mac reliability is not amazing. Still, better than my work Dell which is on motherboard number 3 in 2 years.

AppleInsider said:

The advantage of microLED is that it could offer OLED-like contrast and brightness, but without requiring a backlight panel.

Instead, the microLEDs are used directly to make the picture. They are deposited in a pattern, with each able to display red, green, or blue light. This also eliminates the need for a color filtering layer.

What? OLED doesn't have a backlight panel, OLED pixels are "used directly" to make the picture and they don't need a color filtering layer. You are confusing LCD and LED. Either way LCD is irrelevant on the Watch because it uses OLED. The actual advantages to MicroLED are it's essentially immune to burn in, the brightness is higher, colour quality can be better and potentially less power consumption. You are welcome to credit me in the article.

mknelson said:

The logic for the limited warranty is probably something along the lines of "The design was tested for IP##, if there is water ingress under those conditions you must have damaged the seals".

That is a flawed argument. By that standard, zero warranty claims could ever exist because there would never be a manufacturing defect; every problem is user-created, which is obviously false. A defect in the seal could have existed from the factory, and allow water ingress when used in the conditions it's advertised with. To exclude that is no different to excluding camera problems due to using it in the sun too much, when advertising the phone being used to take photos in the sun.

My iPhone 13 Pro had dust in the lens, despite being sealed. You're saying that shouldn't have been covered because I must have somehow done something to get dust in the lens?

Either way in the UK, or the EU, and I would imagine Canada, Apple would have not a leg to stand on. You can't advertise the use of something then claim that using it that way might damage the product and that they won't cover it. That's just ridiculous, and it's fraudulent advertising.

The cost is certainly a factor, as is the incompatibility with anything else. I can get Stray on the Mac App Store for $30, or I can wait for a Steam sale and get it for $20. The Mac App Store doesn't have sales that I am aware of. And if I get the game on Steam, I can play it on Mac or Windows. Why would I ever buy it on the MAS?

A big part of the resistance was this would enable less 'friendly' governments to add particular images they didn't approve of to the database, CSAM or not. It could potentially flag images and therefore people that had anti-government photos in their library. Imagine a pro-Ukranian Russian citizen screenshotting some article to show a friend, but Putin had screenshots of that same article pushed into Russia's national CSAM database. All of a sudden that citizen has fallen out of a 10th story window. It is a lot harder to quietly compel Apple to write spyware for iOS than it is to simply add a signature to a database.