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  • Apple ID rebrand to 'Apple Account' expected in iOS 18 & macOS 15

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    It won't help.

    Users have no idea what you're talking about when you say Apple ID, they don't know that it's an email address, they don't know that it's the same thing they use for iCloud, they're confused as to what iCloud is, and they definitely don't know how to remove devices they're selling/giving away from it.

    I don't know what the fix is, but a simple rename isn't going to help.
    AfarstarjeffharrisMrBunsidebyronlwilliamlondon

  • Apple's Butterfly keyboard repair program winds down soon

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    I'm not buying that a majority of owners didn't have problems with those horrible keyboards.  Some people just lived with it, but given the number of top case replacements I saw come through because of keyboards... nope, it was a problem for almost everybody.  Now, I'm not saying I didn't get a few users new batteries for free because the keyboard repair extension existed, but every one of those that I did the user was just living with at least one bad key because they weren't aware they could get it fixed for free.  If it hadn't existed I'd have put in a 3rd party battery, because buying a new top case just to change a battery is stupid.
    kdupuis77williamlondongrandact73MplsP

  • M3 MacBook Air is easy to take apart, but parts pairing is still a pain

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    macxpress said:
    Xed said:
    Good thing I don’t know anybody who gives a shirt about that, let alone any normals. 
    You know you can like Apple products -and- want them to be easier for DIYers to repair and upgrade.

    I found the video interesting and I'm glad that these are easier to repair. 
    While I agree the video is interesting, 99.999999% of Apple customers really don't give a shit one way or another if they can repair it. The vast majority will just take it somewhere to get fixed should something go wrong. It's really only some on these Mac forums that make a big stink about repairability because they think Apple should make a computer like they did back in the 90's where everything is removable. . 
    It's more like 10% that don't care.  The rest of us are sick of the consumer hostility.

    Even if you aren't going to fix it yourself, parts pairing makes repairs MUCH more expensive for everyone and causes millions of repairable devices to turn into landfill.

    And yes, some of us absolutely DO want computers to be made like they were in the '90s and 2000s when everything was removable.  It's the right way to build a computer that has parts that fail.  It's ridiculous that storage chips, which WILL fail, are soldered.  Even LPDDR5 RAM is now available in LPCAMM removable modules.  There's no excuse for Apple's nonsense.
    ctt_zhgrandact73williamlondon

  • M3 MacBook Air is easy to take apart, but parts pairing is still a pain

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    Oregon has now passed a right to repair law that bans parts pairing. 

    Apple's days of keeping us from being able to repair our own computers are coming to an end.  It only takes one state to make Apple's consumer hostility end in the US.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • The potential TikTok ban is being decided on by the wrong people

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    rob53 said:
    Why are we worried about China? The majority of products sold in the USA, well the world, are made in China and even conservative company owners (Walmart, Home Depot, Tesla, the list keeps going on) support the manufacturing of products in China. If we cut ties with China, there would be almost nothing on store shelves, except for local produce. 

    As for worrying about China's spying on USA computer systems, including citizens computers, this activity is done by every single country in the world against every other single country in the world. The USA spends a ton of money spying on other countries computer systems and networks. If you think I'm wrong, you're totally misinformed and have your head buried in the sand. What do you think the NSA's job is? Politicians need to admit this fact and stop blaming other country's products for doing exactly what American products do. 

    robin huber said:
    Social media is a Pandora’s box of unintended consequences. Enough of “influencers” please. More curated newspapers and less firehose of stupid people’s opinions is fine with me. 
    Sorry, but you need to stop blaming social media and giving newspapers any credit for telling the truth. Media of all kinds, including simple spoken words at "social" and un-social groupings have been lying, telling half-truths, etc., since the dawn of time. People are hesitant to actually tell the truth unless it serves them. As for influencers, I totally agree. They're the new-wave snake oil salesman of American history, trying to prop up a product they know stinks. Do I listen to influencers? Absolutely not. I do read technical articles, like those presented by Appleinsider (used to simply say AI but I can't anymore since AI means something totally different) but since I've been in this industry for 50 years, I have enough background to know which influencer/commenter is selling me garbage.

    Should we be worried about China?  Of course.  They're a hostile fascist dictatorship.

    But TikTok isn't the problem.  And as far as privacy is concerned, F*c*book and Google are far more dangerous to Americans.

    And you're absolutely right, journalism is a disaster.  The best journalism in the country is comedy shows.  Faux Nooz has always been garbage, CNN, WaPo, NYT have all hit the toilet, your local newspaper is probably part of the craphole that is USA Today, local TV 'news' is a mix of feel good fluff and copaganda.

    With all that, an app from a repressive dictatorship has bizarrely turned out to be one of the better sources for actual information, even if it does also have idiots eating tide pods.
    lolliver