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sog35 said:

So he got a crack on his Watch by watching TV? 

No, the crack was probably initiated in the factory and was initially hard to see.  It could have grown just through finger pressure.

stevie said:

jkichline said:

 I'd like to see them match this technology.

Samsung copied this many years ago.

I had my suspicions, well done.

rogifan_old said:

I'm always amused with these fantasies about how Apple is going to/should screw it's competition. One minute content blockers and spotlight are going to put a hurt on Google and ooh Apple should do its own search engine cuz that would really screw Google. Or Apple needs to make ARM Macs cuz that would really screw Intel. Now it's bring all their cloud stuff in house so they can screw Amazon. Thankfully I think Apple's decision making is focused on providing the best experience for consumers not how can we screw our competitors.

Too right!  Imagine Apple run by DED - out of business in under a year.

mytdave said:

So let me get this straight... Apple sells real products and Google sells advertising. Apple posts $76B in revenue and Google posts $21B, yet Google's market cap is higher than Apple? A tad bit over-valued are we?!?! That's Wallstreet for you. Now you know why most people consider investing in Wallstreet as simply gambling.

This is the trouble with the share market ponzi-scheme - If a companies income isn't distributed to shareholders - the only 'value' a company has is what someone in the future 'thinks' the value is, which in turn is based on their hope that someone else in the future will think someone else in the future.....  The value is an arbitrary intangible.  A company that pays out a decent proportion of it's earnings to it's shareholders has a far more tangible value.

slurpy said:

zroger73 said:

You got that right - especially number 2. The bigger Apple has gotten (and particularly in the post-Jobs era), the more complicated and buggy their products have become.

Complete horse-shit. I've been using Apple products for a long time. No, they're not "buggier". They just have 10X the features and 100X the userbase, so obviously 1000X the whining and bitching. There isn't a shred of evidence to suggest anything is empirically buggier, except that for every person who complained online 10 years ago, you now have a thousand. That's what happens when you sell 13,000,000 devices in a single fucking weekend. I can't even recall the last time my Mac crashed or had an issue, and that never used to be the case. As for my iPhone/iPad, they're rock solid, and infinitely more useable and flexible than they were only a few years ago. Try again.

For the first 18 months of my owning my MBPR, It would just freeze - not even a blue screen of death or the grace to display a kernel panic screen.  Sometimes this would happen twice a day or twice a week or sometimes a couple months without.  The problem was of course OSX.  How do I know - because it finally got fixed with a late Mavericks update.  I  had something like that occur only a couple times in almost 9 years of daily use of a Powerbook Ti.

Speaking of which.  In the photo below is the power plug for that venerable machine.  I'll say it again - nigh on 9 years of daily use.  Contrast that with the POS cable Apple supplies with the MBPR.  The first one pictured is the original.  I am always amazed at peoples wondrous stories of walking into Apple Stores and having the kind dudes not only replacing user broken parts like  smashed screen without charge, but then also replace almost every other component voluntarily including MBs.  It must be something you only get in the US.

That first plug was after just 18 months of use.  Apple wanted to f*****g charge me for the service call just to talk with them.  I had to threaten small claims court action just to get to talk to someone without being charged for the call.  Then they had the cheek to say it wasn't covered as it was past the 12 month warranty.  I had to point out that under EU law I had at least a 2 year warranty.  I did get them to send me a replacement, but it shouldn't have taken threats of legal action and shouting.

The third image is of the replacement plug, 18 months or so on.  Underneath the tape is the same shít.  That's Apple quality and attention to detail for you post iOS.