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  • How Apple could approach a folding iPhone

    jibjib
    Spitbath said:
    tundraboy said:
    I'd much prefer they apply flexible screen technology on large flat screen TVs so you can fold or roll those monstrosities and hide them when they're not in use.
    This already exists.
    Yes, LG makes and sells a 4k UHD rollable TV (65 inches).  I was interested until they announced the price: about $100,000 and it is currently out of stock. See https://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-oled65r1pua-signature-oled-4k-tv?nis=8 for details.
    zeus423watto_cobra

  • Electric vehicle maker Polestar beats Tesla to Apple CarPlay

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    mikethemartian said:
    I was under the impression that Tesla had no desire to use CarPlay so I don’t know how they were “beat”.
    They were "beat" because they are one of the very few car manufacturers that don't support CarPlay today.

    Personally, I will not even consider a car that doesn't have CarPlay -- and that is one of many reasons I don't plan to buy a Tesla.
    Graeme000Beatswilliamlondonvztrv1StrangeDayslolliverkingofsomewherehotwatto_cobra

  • Tesla, BMW don't appear to be gearing up to join Apple's new CarPlay vision

    jibjib
    Agreed. And I wouldn't buy a car from either company.
    And definitely not a car without CarPlay!
    command_f9secondkox2lolliverwatto_cobra

  • MacBook Pro Touch Bar could be revived as a strip that supports Apple Pencil

    jibjib
    I really liked the Touch Bar and although it was never implemented to its full potential, I would be very happy to see it come back on both MacBook and desktop Macs.  One of the options of a new Touch Bar might be an option to temporarily blank (a portion of it) an allow the Apple Pencil to be used. 
    To avoid some of the complaints to the previous Touch Bar, it need not replace the top row of control keys, and it could be located elsewhere, for example by (or on) the touchpad on a MacBook, on on a bezel below the actual screen.
    firelockwilliamlondon

  • Apple circulating anti-union talking points to retail store managers

    jibjib
    Here is an example of how a union gets in the way of a manager accommodating a workers wishes:
    My friend was in a union job when he took a year off from college.  The contract provided that a worker got his birthday "off."  My friend's birthday was on a Thursday, so he went to his boss and asked if he could take Friday instead.  The boss said ok.  However, the union came down on him because he dared to ask his manager, and made him take Thursday off because the union had "worked hard to get him that benefit, and he should be grateful." And how dare he go to his supervisor for such an issue.

    I personally have worked in union jobs, non-union jobs, and been a manager at unionized and non-unionized employers.  I greatly prefer non-union.
    Madbumjeffythequick