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  • Woman sues Apple for hosting 'gambling apps' after spending thousands on in-game currency

    I've always been opposed to gambling and was ashamed to see a socialist "New"Labour Government remove restrictions and allow advertising. Children went hungry, wives/partners were beaten, Social Benefit payments were soaked up by gambling operators who were the only businesses left open and profitable on High Streets throughout those poorer areas of Britain. A Tax levied on the poorest which was given without question to British Banks which had no right to survive the collapse of world economies.

    Gambling is an obscured taxation which punishes the poor and the ill educated sections of our societies. Apple should not be a part of such fleecing, especially when it can pay accountants and lawyers to aide in paying the least possible tax.
    svanstrom
  • Apple Watch ECG detects heart condition in German woman

    jcbigears said:
    jcbigears said:
    Makes me furious that we still don’t have this feature active in Australia. There’s no reason for it not to be as once a medical device is FDA approved its a “tick the box” form for it to be approved here by our TGA. 
    Please, don't behave like you're an idiot. Cokacola would gain FDA approval as a cure for cancer if submitted. The bar for FDA clearance is so unbelievably low, all any "submission" has to claim is that a vaguely similar prior tech or medication has already been approved for the FDA to approve the new submission. Australian Health Dept. is doing Australians a great service. Oz may be a member of FiveEyes, but only three members have any brains...the USA ain't one of them.
    I'm in the industry and can testify that, as far as this device is concerned, it's passed a rigorous application process. It also has CE marking which these days is a higher bar. 

    You're an exceptionally ignorant and frightening industry insider. I hope you are confusing FDA and FCC Declarations in the USA?

     The CE Mark is a statement of conformity regarding the physical safety of the item being marketed, and is equivalent to the FCC., i.e., Materials used, fire-hazard, toxicity and such. The CE mark in no way represents acceptance as a medical device recognised to have been subject to numerous statistically valid and peer-reviewed clinical trials for use in clinical observations. In the EU Apple have to state clearly that the AppleWatch is not able to reliably detect cardiac abnormalities, nor can it be used diagnostically. The way to detect cardiac abnormality is via a multi-lead ambulatory analyser a patient wears for 24-48 hrs. One-off hospital tests will not necessarily detect subtle electrical abnormalities.

    The FDA lets any old tat "pass" regulation as it is capitalised by pharma and "Industry Insiders". You really need to watch the documentaries made about the seriously dangerous rubbish frequently FDA approved and imposed on US citizens... Oh, for one... Heard of synthesised oxycodone from Thebaine? An opioid drug first synthesized in Germany in 1916 and considered far too dangerous by German physicians for prolonged patient use is given FDA approval in the 70's (I think); a thoughtful decision which has led to around 1,000,000 US casualties and fatalities. In 1945 US companies stole millions and millions of German chemical patents which have since generated disgustingly unethical profits for US Pharma.
    spherickudulolliver
  • Apple Watch ECG detects heart condition in German woman

    jcbigears said:
    Makes me furious that we still don’t have this feature active in Australia. There’s no reason for it not to be as once a medical device is FDA approved its a “tick the box” form for it to be approved here by our TGA. 
    Please, don't behave like you're an idiot. Cokacola would gain FDA approval as a cure for cancer if submitted. The bar for FDA clearance is so unbelievably low, all any "submission" has to claim is that a vaguely similar prior tech or medication has already been approved for the FDA to approve the new submission. Australian Health Dept. is doing Australians a great service. Oz may be a member of FiveEyes, but only three members have any brains...the USA ain't one of them.
    svanstrom
  • Review: Sonos One brings high fidelity to smartspeakers


    Blunt said:
    Thanks for the review, much appreciated.

    With this product out there, it doesn’t make a lotta sense to me to buy the Homepod, especially since Apple is boycotting Spotify through Siri. After years(!) I still can’t tell Siri (which by itself is a pretty terrible voice assistant) to play song X in Spotify. They should be sued for blocking competition on their platform. 


    All your posts are negative about Apple. You should switch.
    Perhaps you should inform the Führer about this poster and his negative comments? We can have no negative comments here.
    CheeseFreezewilliamlondon
  • Review: Sonos One brings high fidelity to smartspeakers

    Would appleinsider writers please stop using the words "High Fidelity" unless they fully understand what the term means. There is no way on Earth this Sonos One speaker nor an Apple HomePod will ever produce High Fidelity audio. Never, never, ever...

    Audio is governed by the laws of physics, so no small container filled with loudspeakers will ever produce low frequencies at high amplitude  A human ear (commonly) hears wavelengths down to 20Hz, a listeners body can feel frequencies lower than 20Hz but they cannot hear them.

    I would hazard a guess from each Sonos One or HomePod enclosure (speaker) size (as seen) they will have crossover circuitry which will roll off steeply at 120-100Hz...they may reach 80Hz but the amplitude will be considerably lower (quieter) than those above the crossover rolloff frequencies aforementioned.

    A High Fidelity loudspeaker will produce a flat frequency response across the entire audible range of 20Hz - 20kHz. That is, for a given level of amplification no part of the frequency range will appear to be or indeed will be louder or quieter than preceding or succeeding frequencies.

    As sound is simply modulated heat, it will take until some genius manages to create the technology to sufficiently heat coincident focal points in the air of your living-room directly with lasers in such a way the heat can be modulated to produce even amplitude sound from the lowest discernible frequencies to the highest. That tech will be a long time coming.

    Meanwhile appleinsider contributors STOP LYING TO YOUR READERS and TREAT THEM AS INTELLIGENT CONSUMERS.
    unbeliever2williamlondonrattlhedrattlhed