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12Strangers said:

what happened to the free market capitalism that he espouses?  

It's going the same way of the "free speech" he espouses. 

I thought Silent Mode silences everything but alarms and haptics. Even Do Not Disturb doesn't silence alarms. If set they go off and you have to silence them. So maybe this toggle does let you prevent alarms from sounding? That would seem to actually make more sense. Same toggle different purpose.


EDIT: I found this (but AI won't let me edit my previous posts)

Gear Patrol said:
Most people who wear their Apple Watch to bed either have Sleep Focus enabled or Silent Mode turned on. Both options silence all notifications to not wake you up during the night. This includes alarms, which vibrate instead.
https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/apple-watch-break-through-silent-mode/

Xed said:

sloth77 said:

Xed said:

proline said:

You're probably right. It's sad, because with MagSafe half the electricity gets used to increase the entropy of the universe which raises carbon emissions for no reason. It is slow, it makes the phones bigger and heavier, and hardly anyone uses it. And yet, for so many years the only thing reviewers would say every September was "and it still doesn't have teh wireless chargez!". Apple doesn't want the big story in September to be that, so they will include the wasteful and useless thing.

There's a ridiculous number of false statements in your post. Is that suppose to be parody that is falling flat?

Actually most of the statements are true.  It is less efficient than wired charging, it is slower than wired charging and it does make the phone fractionally heavier (if not bigger).

But I don't agree that hardly anyone uses it - I suspect most people wirelessly charge.

You believe that...

• MagSafe half the electricity gets used to increase the entropy of the universe which raises carbon emissions for no reason
• It is slow
• hardly anyone uses it
• wasteful and useless thing

None of those things are true as stated and most of the others have some truth to them but are lame duck statements, like "makes the phones bigger and heavier."

He told you what he believed:

sloth77 said:
It is less efficient than wired charging, it is slower than wired charging and it does make the phone fractionally heavier (if not bigger).

But I don't agree that hardly anyone uses it - I suspect most people wirelessly charge.

 and you deliberately choose to ignore and misrepresent that. WTF.

The main reason I'd want a folding phone is for slightly more real estate but larger icons and text via selectable resolution or scaling, but not just via an Accessibility menu. I realize that's not what most people want with a folder.

I have an iPP and an iPm, and use them regularly. But I really don't like that Apple changes some apps to iPadOS making them less usable to me. I hate the sidebars that so many Apple apps to have. I want iPhone configurations on an iPad. More space - make stuff bigger so I can see it better. Settings adjustments after the fact rarely do the apps do justice to what I want to see. Some apps need them, yes.

Apple is spending time and money making MacOS look more like iOS and I really hate that. They should be spending that time and money on a) making MacOS less buggy and b) making iPadOS more like iOS.

Most people probably think I've got that last bit backwards. There are far more iPhones in use than iPads. I hate that simple things in the UIs are located differently. So I'll hope that Apple doesn't screw up the UI for a folder. But they'll want to empathize the uniqueness of it with "Isn't that special" tweaks.

That said I won't be paying $1000 for a phone let alone $200. If the folder is no thicker than a 2GS, I could live with it providing it met my UI prefs to some degree. It would have to have a screen that would be viewed when closed. I wouldn't open a phone to see who's calling, check messages, or see the time, when I have an Watch.

It looks like it should ship with a ball gag. So I've heard. If it works for someone that's all that matters. I've yet to buy an AVP but I really want one. I'll probably try the dual headband first. This thing just seems too involved. Maybe just attach some He balloons to the AVP.