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M1X Mac mini with more ports could launch within months
darkpaw said:I don't get why we'd ever need MagSafe on a desktop computer? For a laptop, great; someone comes along and treads on the cable, it pulls it out without breaking the port on the laptop or pulling the laptop to the floor, and the laptop continues running on battery power.
The day the iMac went on sale, reviewer Jason Snell compared the new iMac power cord to the old: "In practical terms, the force required to yank the magnetic power cable off the iMac is the same force required to yank the current iMac’s plastic power plug out of its socket."
Unless we're going to start referring to non-magnetic designs as "FrictionSafe", we should agree to only call products MagSafe that Apple calls MagSafe. -
Apple walks back macOS Monterey tab changes, refines search in iOS
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AirTag used by Boston police to recover stolen bike
p-dog said:I have one installed on my bicycle using a hidden mount. I also performed surgery on that AirTag to remove its speaker. I don’t want any sound to tip off a thief that there is a tracker on my bicycle. -
EU says smarthome 'gatekeepers' like Apple may harm competition
chaicka said:Gosh...I have been on Z-Wave and ZigBee products for years and honestly, the lack of deep investment on R&D to improve the shortfalls and expand functionalities to be more holistic matching lifestyles and use-cases of its audience have driven me away from them progressively....
And these IoT players blame the big tech firms for their failures to invest in R&D, expand its talent pools, etc to compete when they have head-start for years (if not for a decade)? Yet, when they have investors fundings during the beginning years, they spent huge on (somewhat false or never materialise) marketing, nice trips and benefits, paying the top execs handsomely, etc.
And that's anti-competitive behaviour? Wow...this era's leaders and regulators sure amaze me every now and then.
The EU, apparently, would like to kneecap any company(ies) that want to help consumers out of the current "smarthome" mess. -
iPhone user discovers MagSafe and ferrous sand do not mix