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  • Australian swimmer caught in riptides rescued using his Apple Watch

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    mikethemartian said:
    I assume he was in cellular range. The satellite feature is currently only on the iPhone, isn’t it?
    Correct, but you will find cell coverage usually extends some distance from the shore.  The area he lives in is a fairly developed beach community.
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  • Apple offers a first look at upcoming Messages via satellite feature

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    Just WOW! I regularly go to an area where I have to sponge off people with StarlInk set ups - just to send the messages, "I'm ok I made it". And then "on the way home". 

    Apple just killed the sat phone business for most use cases.
    watto_cobra

  • Japan's parliament has approved a law that will force third party App Stores on Apple & Go...

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    VictorMortimer said:
    Congratulations to Japan!

    What we really need is Apple to be mandated to allow normal software installation on iDevices worldwide, but especially here in the US.  I doubt the feds are going to get around to it soon, so hopefully a few states will pass something.  There's no way Apple will do a state-by-state separate version of iDevice OSs, so the whole country (and hopefully the whole world) will finally get normal software installation.

    That is such as ass-backwards step in the user experience.  Let's go back to Windows 95.
    Expecting Apple to do everything for free as a "service" to developers? Non-developers have no idea how much infrastructure Apple provides to app developers that adds  huge value. They should be able to charge 30% for that.  I felt the value of what they provided was easily worth that.

    Simply dealing with world-wide banking  and non-US app stores so that magically $ appear in the developers bank account  is one other thing that comes to mind.. I could go on and on.
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  • Steve Jobs screamed advice at Starbucks CEO, who wishes he'd listened

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    John Oliver hit the nail on the head when he said something along the lines that Starbucks is now just a public toilet that serves some coffee as well.  It is so depressing to go into some locations where they have removed all the tables and chairs so the homeless don't hang out. The "baristas" look tense and worried having to deal with it. 
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  • New video highlights ongoing struggles between Apple and union members

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    Well I think we would need to see both points of view. Obviously a video released by one-side is not going to be an impartial view on the issue.
    "and someone who's helping a customer decide which MacBook is right for them is as important to the puzzle as someone who designed the MacBook "

    Not true, and that is reflected in the salary the MacBook engineer receives which is almost certainly multiples of the retail employee. The MacBook engineer did a masters of engineering, followed by years of industry experience to rise to the top of his field. That's worth more... a lot more .... to Apple.
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