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Does this work on all recent versions of iOS or just the latest?  I certainly don't see the Emergency SOS on my home screen or does that just appear once triggered?   I'd like to set this up for the young members of my family.    

Great feature.  Glad it saved this woman.   Did we always have this many violent cretins in our society or do we just know about more incidences now due to all the media outlets and social media?  

When I was a teen in the 1960's, there was a particular avenue that I'd walk down to get to the subway or go to eat.  Especially in the winter, there weren't a lot of people there.   Inevitably, a car would stop, always a solo male, and ask for directions to the parkway.  I'd give the directions and they would always say, "do you want a lift?"   I obviously knew better and would say no (sometimes more than once) and it would never go beyond that.   No one ever left their car or insisted I get in.    But still...what a bunch of pervs!

Instead of fooling around with this stuff and destroying the integrity of the original recordings by manipulating phase and other techniques, Apple should simply try to come up with a way to add more bass to the internal speakers (if this is for gaming apps, then it's fine).   I know the new MBP is supposed to have better bass, but at the Apple store, I couldn't hear any difference, although as usual it was unbelievably noisy in the store.   (When Siri was first released, I couldn't make it work in the store either, because it was so noisy, Siri couldn't understand what I was saying).   This is one part of the Apple store design that they got wrong:  all hard surfaces, no absorption, lots of echo.   

SnickersMagoo said:

Wow....$1,000.00 for just the stand??? I'm glad I do not require such a high tech monitor, but I can appreciate those that do......If you can afford $5-6K for a monitor...what's another grand for the stand?

Not everyone buying something expensive is in the "price doesn't matter" crowd and just because you buy one expensive thing doesn't mean one can afford another somewhat less expensive thing because the first expensive thing might have already tapped you out.  

Let's say someone feels they really need a very high quality monitor because they're doing pro stills or video or other design work and need color accuracy (not that we yet know for sure that this monitor is color accurate - we just know it supposedly "looks good").   So they can't necessarily really afford it, but they believe they need it enough to invest in it anyway and they "find a way".   Another $1000 for the stand could be a big hurdle.   And while I realize the stand has some nice tech built into it, I think Apple thinking $1000 for the stand was going to be readily accepted displays (sic) an increasing amount of tone deafness, which I think has been a disease at Apple  for some time now.   The executives at Apple who make these kinds of product/pricing decisions are so highly compensated, that they've lost all touch with how people and (small) companies live in the real world (IMO).  

Having said that, I do wonder how many of these towers and monitors will wind up on the desks of the "rich" who don't do anything but ordinary tasks on their computers.   But if that leads to enough sales to make this viable for Apple to do, great.  

JFC_PA said:

boxcatcher said:

So how do you get it in Apple Wallet ...?

oh... unlike Japan’s system (where you get a separate, loadable card that you then add to Apple Wallet), it seems you can just tap compatible credit cards.  You have to enable the Express Transit option.

That may be added as support rolls out for the variety of discount fare cards they support beyond full fare rides. 

On the subway, there's no discount anymore for buying >X amount of fare.   There's still a discount for weekly and monthly passes, but it's very meager.  You have to use the subway >2x per day to make it a good deal.    And on the Long Island Railroad, it doesn't make any sense for a regular commuter to buy a single ticket.   I don't know how this would work on AMTRAK (or if it's supposed to) because AMTRAK is all reserved seating, so you have to have a ticket.  

Folio said:

Good. Now if only J. Ive in his expanse of spare time could redesign one of the world's most hellish stations

Well, it's not the subway area, which won't change, but a lot of what takes place in Penn Station is being moved to the Farley Post Office building, to the Moynihan Hall for AMTRAK and the LIRR.   That building has the same vintage as the original Penn Station that was torn down to make way for Madison Square Garden.   The subway area is exactly as awful as just about every other large subway station in NYC.