lowededwookie

It’s not just Apple that have been found guilty of this. Companies like Harvey Norman, Dick Smith, Supercheap Autos, Bunnings, all of which are Australian owned companies.

All offer their own warranties but they are not needed because all products in New Zealand are covered by the Consumer Guarantees Act.

Apple NZ however technically does not exist even if they do have their own offices here. Everything is run out of Australia.

MisterKit said:

This would seem to break cross platform compatibility between Mac and iOS versions. Annotated documents will be read only on Mac in some aspects.

In this article about Digital Books it seems to imply macOS as well

https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/27/apple-unveils-digital-books-tool-for-creating-media-on-the-ipad-at-field-trip-event

jeffharris said:

After I got an iPhone 7, my iPhone 6 just sat for about 6 months.
I plugged it, hoping to wipe it and either sell it or use it like an iPod Touch.
However. it couldn't even charge enough to boot up. It stopped charging altogether.

When I took it to the Apple Store, they said I should just throw it away, the repair would be too expensive.
They didn't even have a definitive answer as to what was wrong with it.

Gotta love it. 

How long did you leave it on charge for. You do realise even when turned off a device, any device, will still use power with the battery connected and therefore drain the battery? Also given the nature of Lithium batteries the idea you can simply plug it in and it will go is not true at all. In fact a drained iPhone will not turn on until it is around 10% charged from flat. That’s around about 30 minutes because it won’t be a fast charge.

Wunderlist is rubbish on the Apple Watch.

I use my Apple Watch to remind me of large mail I have to deliver ( I’m a motorcycle postie) and I found both Wunderlist and Swipes to have issues with large amounts of reminders as well as synching issues when completing the task/reminder. I just find the built in Reminders app to be more powerful for my needs.

suddenly newton said:

Tech tear-down porn. How many new iPhones are lost to people who profit from destroying them to promote their websites, YouTube channels (amateur "drop tests") and the like?

I love the iFixIt tear downs not because I want to fix them but because Apple doesn’t show their construction. These tear downs are a public service really.

It’s so fascinating to see how much Apple can cram into a small case. They’ve taken what they’ve done with the MacBooks and found a way to do that to an iPhone which makes sense.

I love Apple because after having spent 18 years working in IT as a Systems Engineer and having to repair many desktops and laptops no one else comes close to Apple’s designs even with these tear downs coming out.

Compare a MacBook Pro to a high end HP or Lenovo or Dell or even Alienware and you’ll see the pathetic designs of those machines in comparison.

To fit so much tech in such a tiny space is a phenominal achievement.