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Refurbished 12.9-inch iPad Pro now on sale through Apple's online store
jkichline said:cnocbui said:I agree. I needed to get my daughter a laptop a year ago. I considered an iPad briefly, but at a starting price of €200 more than the 15" Toshiba with an i5 processor, 4Gb and 500Gb HD I got her, it seemed a 'bit' overpriced.
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Redesigned, ultra-thin MacBook Pro with AMD GPU not expected to debut at 'iPhone 7' event Sept. 7
thewhitefalcon said:rob53 said:Will this MacBook Pro actually be a "Pro" model or another space handicapped laptop? I need a new Mac, my iMac from early 2009 isn't going to run macOS Sierra so I need to figure out whether I want to buy a laptop and an external monitor or another iMac. I use my iPhone on the road but there are things that just won't work easily on a phone or an iPad. A laptop would be easy to take on the road but unless it's capable of doing all the things I do on my iMac, it won't be worth it.
Will the AMD GPU be speed/performance limited because of its size? Will Apple be forced to use a speed-limited CPU because of cooling and battery life?
But the GPU will be on a much better process, and use a more efficient arch.
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Apple counters Australian banks' call for iPhone NFC access, cites handset security
beowulfschmidt said:I am so sick and tired of things being called "anti-competitive" that aren't any such thing.
Is it "anti-competitive" for a restaurant to serve only the food that they themselves prepare? Is it "anti-competitive" for factory car dealers to only sell their own brand of automobile?
The why the fvck is it "anti-competitive" for a device payment service provider to only support their own payment app?
It is not anti-competitive for Apple to restrict access to the NFC chip, or any other part of the iPhone. The banks are free to develop, market, and manufacture their own solutions, thus competing in the market.
Good luck with that.
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New Google Photos ad riffs on struggles of 16GB iPhone users
dklebedev said:16 gigs here. 3000 items in Photos. 18000 tracks in Music. Half storage empty. Zero problems.
8 GB free and no problems, you say. I don't even want to know what bit rate you have encoded your music at, it would be worse than listening to AM radio.
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Refurbished 12.9-inch iPad Pro now on sale through Apple's online store
k2kw said:entropys said:Evenat refurb prices it is just too expensive. The launch of this iPad Pro should have been the opportunity to reset the prices of the entire iPad line downward to goose sales. Instead the dicks moved price points of new products upward, and kept selling ipads with old CPUs, with continued falling sales as a result. I bet the higher margins do not offset the decline in ipad sales.
When the iPad originally came out everybody was surprised that Jobs was able to Price it starting at $499 when earlier tablets were more expensive. Jobs also cut the price of the original MacBook Air (that's what motivate me to buy mine). The entry level i9.7 inch Pad pro is $100 overpriced. The 12.9 inch Pro is $200 over priced. Without a price cut I think that the next two quarters of sells will fall off the Cliff now that the initial surge for new models is over.
The iPad pro should also support multiple user/accounts for families and small offices.