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  • Apple shares photos shot on iPhone XR

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    How did the Eric get the shot of the leaf with the bokeh effect? I thought the iPhone XR was limited to human subjects in portrait mode. Does Apple show pictures taken from third party apps as well?
    Physics.  There's no bokeh just a depth of focus effect.  Bokeh artifacts are caused by diffraction of spectral highlights on the shutter blades on a conventional camera lens but the term is constantly misused to refer to the depth of focus blur which is a natural effect of a lens with a large aperture (small aperture number for the non-camera folks, e.g. f/1.8) which gives a very narrow depth of focus. 
    n2itivguyStrangeDays

  • Apple's services will grow to over $100 billion per year in 2023, says Morgan Stanley

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    gmgravytrain said:
    Apple's stock price fell like a brick after the earnings report and that's the reality. I'm not going to get myself all excited just because of some high-price target prediction. I'm sure more Apple stock downgrades will be coming to hold the stock price down for at least a couple of months. All I know is the world is being driven by Android smartphones and the BRIC nation consumers will be carrying nothing but Android smartphones like a badge of honor. Apple won't be able to sell any iPhones to those BRIC nation consumers who probably don't even earn $1100 a year in salary. That will be four enormous countries where Apple won't have but a teeny, tiny fraction of iPhone purchasers. That is so sad. It's a wonder big investors tossed Apple stock into the toilet and flushed twice.

    Whenever I hear such blatant cheer-leading for Apple's stock price or value I just find it sort of annoying. It just seems much to high considering Apple's iPhone unit sales have pretty much stagnated. I wish fellow Apple shareholders the best of luck and maybe this scenario will actually happen, but I'm not holding my breath. If I see a 10% gain (from today) in Apple's share price before the end of the year, I'll be more than pleased. It won't please those greedy big investors but I'll continue to receive my Apple dividends and that's good enough for now.  Apple's P/E is back to 18 again and it always seems to yo-yo between 18 and 20.  I never expect Apple's P/E to be higher than 20.x while all the FANG and Microsoft stock shareholders get super-high P/Es as a matter of course.
    Fell like a brick?  Really did you look at the graph I posted?  It was a minuscule drop in the overall picture..
    dedgecko

  • Bloomberg's iCloud spy chip attack allegations technically impossible

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    jasenj1 said:
    That's what they want you to think!
    LOL. well, remember our illustrious leader now has access to area 51 so expect great things soon.
    GeorgeBMacSpamSandwich

  • Apple's iPhone XS Max smashes Google's Pixel 3 in benchmark testing

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    Copying and a 'good enough' approach to business will only get you so far!

    It shows the extraordinary effort Apple puts into every facet of the iPhone. From glass, software, chips, battery, cameras, antennas, etc., etc. 

    And, the syncing of everything across all my devices. 

    I will never have a Google, MS, Samsung, Amazon, or Facebook device in my home or service on my devices! :)

    I can't wait until Apple makes all my devices look "Anonymous" on the internet! 

    It's coming! :)

    You're in such a tiny minority, like one in a million.  The whole internet is Google's playground and Android OS overwhelmingly dominates.  Almost no one on the planet is concerned with personal privacy because almost everyone wants free services.  Paying for those free services with personal data is completely acceptable to billions of internet users.  Everyone believes Apple is missing out by not having eavesdropping/listening devices in every room.  I believe most consumers don't mind being spied upon.  It makes them feel important that someone is listening to their every word.
    'Android OS overwhelmingly dominates.'  .... Oh, I fell off my chair laughing.  Dominates in landfills, kids' basements and crackerjack toys maybe.
    radarthekatsteven n.StrangeDaysMuntzclaire1sflocalwilliamlondonwatto_cobramwhitemagman1979

  • Here are all of the Apple retail store openings, moves, and remodels

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    I am copying this comment I just wrote from the Angela Ahrendts post as it seems more relevant here:

    Let me start by saying I I love Apple Stores but this is a comment on the lack of ability easily to 'just buy something' and prompted by the Amazon Go experience in speed and efficiency that IMHO Apple should look at for a small corner of every new Apple Store:

    So ... here I was waiting for our local store to open, I was first there as I'd arrived too early, keen to buy an iPad as a present and I had another appointment soon thereafter.  I knew exactly what I wanted and last time I was there I was in and out in a flash.  

    It didn't start well but that's not Apple's fault lol, as the doors opened I was trampled by a crowd behind me.  Inside on either side grinning staff stood chatting with each other as two staff members stood with iPads in the middle of the store and people dutifully formed two lines, shepherded by a few helpers not standing at the sides chatting.  I could hear those at the head of both lines explaining issues and problems they had and the iPad holder patiently listened, several minutes passed before each time they were assigned a table to sit at.  

    Realizing that so far everyone ahead of me had a problem and I just wanted to buy and walk out,  I left the line and approached the staff standing at the sides to ask if I could buy an iPad?  I added 'I know exactly what I want.'  I was spoken to like a schoolboy caught by a teacher doing wrong.  'You have to get in line!' I was sternly told.  I was shocked and tried to explain I didn't need to see anyone, I just wanted to buy an iPad.  I was now even more sternly told, 'There is a system, you must stand in line!'  

    I swear I almost walked out.  I went back to the now much longer line and waited for what seemed like forever listening to people explain their issues in detail only to be told to sit at a table and wait for a designated Apple person to see them when it was their turn.  Not one person in front of me in either line ever simply stated they wanted to buy something.  

    Finally, I got to the front of the line I was in and said, "I just want to buy an iPad and I know exactly which one."  I waited as the person tapped away on her iPad and eventually told me which table to sit at.  I couldn't help myself, I asked if I could not simply be given the iPad I wanted and pay for it?  Again in a stern voice, I was told 'they had a system and I had to meet with an expert to guide me.'  I had to bite my tongue and took a deep breath and sat down and waited.  An hour after I entered the store I walked out the iPad I wanted.  

    I would humbly suggest Apple add an Amazon Go type section where people can walk in pick up a product and leave if they know exactly what they want.  

    p.s. I looked but cannot find an Apple Store Feedback section at Apple's feedback page and even there it is an extremely limited text count.
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