SuntanIronMan

A “testbed” doesn’t mean what you think it means. A mass-produced consumer product isn’t a testbed for anything. At least… it better not be, lol. That would be legitimately terrible. 

That would be like saying the first M1 MacBooks were a testbed for Apple Silicon. No. The testbed happened in the years prior to the release of the first M1 Macs.

geekmee said:

Remind me, what problem does a foldable solve??

It solves the problem of some people wanting to purchase it (an Apple foldable), but it doesn’t exist yet to purchase.

I mean, I don’t want an Apple foldable. However, some people do. Why is that not reason enough? That seems like a reasonably-reasonable reason… I reason, lol.

Oh, cool. Just out of curiosity I looked at the repair manual for the 2024 Beats Pill. Looks simple enough. The battery is a bit on the expensive side though. I have no need to replace the Beats Pill battery anytime soon, but its good to know that it’s fairly-easy to do so (when the times comes). Doubly good to know because I’ve been considering whether or not I should purchase a second Beats Pill (for that “Amplify Mode” and that split audio “Stereo Mode”). Knowing that I can do the battery replacement myself in the future might be enough of a push to get me to buy that second one.

Seems to be a small mistake in the battery replacement instructions of the 2024 Beats Pill though. Part 4 says to “Remove the bottom cover to access the battery cover. Save the bottom cover for reassembly.” But the Part 4 picture instead shows someone scraping-off some adhesive (but the Part 4 text makes no mention of that).

Hopefully there aren’t any similar mistakes in the more-complicated Mac-related repairs. (More-complicated and more-costly if you do something wrong while following the instructions.) Despite the mistake in the Beats Pill text though, the pictures makes it clear as to what you should be doing.

Edit: Just contacted someone at Apple. Very helpful person. Maybe that’ll get fixed soon.

Anilu_777 said:

If you can’t compete, ban. That’s not the way to innovate. 

I mean… it worked for China.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Netflix, etc. were prevented from operating in China (without extensive government restrictions). And that allowed home-grown Chinese companies to invest and innovate (… and occasionally steal foreign intellectual property…) in the vacuum (Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, iQIYI, and so on).

spheric said:

Don’t let this idiocy distract you from the full-on Nazi shit they’ve pushed through his executive orders. 

I mean… ordering the renaming place names… is something that’s been done before in the 1930s throughout Germany…

It’s not really a distraction so much as it is an actual part of it.