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  • Apple burns early iPad Pro adopters, loyal customers with Magic Keyboard incompatibility

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    thedba said:
    A whole lot of chest thumping, shirt tearing, soap box standing going on here. 
    Before throwing out your magic keyboards circa 2018 can you all wait and see when the new iPad Pro comes out?

    Unless Apple has intentionally displaced the 3 pins on the back of the iPad Pro 12.9, I don’t see why it still won’t attach and you still won’t be able to type on the older keyboard. 
    Chances are you won’t be able to fully close it and automatically  put your iPad to sleep. That’s it. Typing with it should not be a problem unless someone can confirm that Apple will intentionally disable keyboard functions inside the OS. 
    Actually, the magic keyboard came out right around this time last year but works with the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pro. 
    elijahg said:
    Unfortunately decisions like this are causing Apple to burn through goodwill and loyalty built up over many many years. Over the 25 years I've been using Macs they built up quite a bit, but mine is dangerously close to empty. Several friends have run out and abandoned Apple entirely. Cook forgets that without the loyal Apple customers that stuck with them in the '90's before he was on the scene, Apple wouldn't be here now. At the hands of Cook Apple is becoming typical of the big, lethargic profit rather than customer focussed companies we used to ridicule on these very forums.

    It wouldn't be so bad if the thing wasn't so overpriced; I remember Jobs announcing the price of the original iPad to cheers from the audience, for less than the keyboard alone is now. 
    Slightly inaccurate statement you’ve made there. The original iPad started at $499 WiFi only with 16GB of storage. 
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  • Wristcam is a $299 Apple Watch band with a camera

    marc gmarc g
    I’ve been waiting for this since late 2016. There’s no way in hell I’d pay the full price but when I supported, I think it was something $125. Wasn’t sure it was ever going to actually launch and they went as far as banning me from commenting on their Facebook page and removing my comments when I took them to task for the complete lack of updates. That said, I’ll be happy to get mine and even if I don’t use it as my full time watch band, it’ll still be fun to mess around with. 
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  • New OWC Thunderbolt Hub expands Thunderbolt 4 connectivity

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    sflocal said:
    I just received my 2020 iMac and while I love everything about it, the one thing that just irks me is Apple's decision to limit it to two TB3 ports.  It should have four.

    I have dual monitors, and two TB2 drives RAID towers.  Which means for now, I can't plug in any USBc devices.  WTF Apple?
    Not trying to be an apologist but want to point out that 2 TB ports are what come on the motherboards in these iMacs. I had a feeling TB4 was going to be announced but needed to replace my “ancient” 2007 iMac and am really glad I did.  
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  • 'AirPods Studio' renders based on leaked video surface

    marc gmarc g
    If they look like these and are comfortable with glasses, I’ll be trading in my Bose NC700s. I like the NC700s quite a bit but can only use with glasses for a short time. Without my glasses, they’re fine for hours but that doesn’t work sitting in my home office working. Fingers crossed. 
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  • Review: Apple's final Intel 27-inch iMac is going out with a bang

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    So glad I’m not the only one who gets annoyed by the complete lack of editorial oversight. At first I thought “ok, typos here and there no big deal”. But then I got to the storage comment and decided I had to comment. Come on people, take the time to have someone else look at your work before you upload. 
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