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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook personally invested $1 million in Trump's inauguration

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    m4m40 said:
    Fucking gross.
    Totally agree ... the land of 'money, guns, lawyers & celebrities' & they act like its normal. Not to mention any sensible use of taxpayer money & public health care. 
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  • Apple Intelligence second wave arrives today -- what you need to know

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    zimmermann said:
    I have this friend that bought the same clever all electric Volvo as I did. Immediately she disabled al the features I have come to like and find very helping after I got used to them. It took a while of adjusting, but now I don’t want to go back. I expect the same to happen with A.I. in Apple things, perhaps even more so as it is Apple and I’m one hour per day in my car, as with my phone… 
    Another bunch of needless, interfering digital pest shite that I don’t need and certainly have disabled in the beta. Perhaps Apple should better examine the general usability of iOS & iPadOS basics …. eg, is so dreadful, still, to simply enter or edit a text field in say a search engine. Hopeless, picking and poking and totally avoiding the obvious.

    Other point: all this crap usually comes turned on. 
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  • J.D. Vance shouldn't open his mouth about Apple if he doesn't have a clue

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    Meanwhile, is apparently perfectly fine for Apple to do EU money laundering in Ireland?

    Otherwise, who in the hell cares about these particular moronic American politicians. Far more compelling matters going on across the world than this kind of parochial rubbish.
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  • 13-inch iPad Pro review: hardware of the future running software of the past

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    Agree with much of that.
    Yes the rubber exterior of the expensive keyboard is impractical and shows mars easily; and yes, dbrand do have skins for that (mine on the way).
    And yes, iPadOS certainly needs some modernisation now, perhaps iPadOS 18 may give us some improvements but I suspect this will by more about knee-jerk response to AI elsewhere, something I have zero interest in for the iPad.
    In terms of Apple’s accessories, there is still no cover & sides protection for the iPad (very odd)  nor anything else yet for keyboard compatibility, Pitaka soon I believe.

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  • iPad Pro hands on: Luxury technology in an impossibly-thin package

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    dee_dee said:
    This isn’t luxury anything until the toddler software is improved. 
    Mixed feelings about this one: have been working with the 13” iPad Pro pretty solidly for the last few days; traded up my iPad Pro 11 2nd Gen & I would have expected that there would have been a significant improvement between the two.

    Not so, really. Vastly overstated and overpriced. There are surprisingly few differences in day-to-day use & this incudes some reasonably cpu-intensive tasks, eg, photo & video editing. Performance difference is ‘slightly’ better; screen difference the same really, noting HDR playback from Apple+, Netflix etc. Slightly better. The single most improved difference is the camera now in landscape, finally, obviously, well overdue. The biggest minus in this respect is the downgrading of the cameras & surprisingly, I really miss the zoom lens.

    The other surprise was in adding ESR’s latest Rebound Keyboard. Has been brilliant & now with a row of function keys. I’d half expected I’d persevere with that for a while then eventually cave in and buy the outrageously expensive new Apple Magic Keyboard. But not so, this ESR device is very, very good & not going anywhere. AUD$113 shipped vs. $AUD$549. A no brainer. Oh, and the balance is much better than Apple when actually used ‘on my lap’ (90% of the time). The Apple is still fwd heavy and overbalances, even more so with the new model which has a steeper angle on the Pad attachment. The ESR also provides a magnetic sleeve with sides protection for the iPad, also missing from Apple. ESR; fast bluetooth, no lag. Yes separate charging.

    Another surprising plus for me is re. the (what I’d also thought) ‘toddler software’ and crippled iPadOS. Not quite so much at all with the Keyboard & which opens up so much extra functionality in this iPad. Now I am able to much more easily, say, access & work with the file system & dirs, ditto for local NAS, Cloud, printing & the rest. Keyboard trackpad & keyboard controls, stage manager & navigating windows etc etc. Very, very surprised with this one & clearly the keyboard brings the iPad alive in ways I hadn’t previously realised. My laptop hasn’t needed to be opened since this arrived (an excellent Ausus touchscreen unit).

    Mind you, I have the feeling that this would have been exactly the same on my previous iPar Pro 11 also running iPadOS 17.5. The biggest difference was the addition of the ESR Keyboard. I’m hoping and expecting that WWWDC & iPadOS 18 will actually begin to truly leverage what might be under the hood here in this very pricey 13” iPad Pro, but do have the feeling it will be more of the same; underwhelming & only marginal improvements. We’ll see.




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