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  • Steve Wozniak 'can't tell the difference' between iPhone 12 and iPhone 13

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    sdw2001 said:
    shareef777 said:
    darkvader said:
    What is wrong with you people?

    This is Woz, the guy who created Apple.  The Steve who REALLY created apple, not the attention whore Steve who liked taking credit for what Woz did.

    And he's absolutely right.  The iPhone 13 is effectively no different than the 12, which is no different than the 11.  Phones are a mature technology, and pretending that a new model every year is somehow going to be an amazing upgrade is idiotic at this point.

    "But battery life is better!" - Guess what?  That's not innovation, Apple could have done that all along, all it takes is making the phone thicker so a bigger battery fits inside.  We could have iPhones that work for a week without charging if Apple really gave up on the idiotic thin fetish.
    Pretty obvious that Apple's fanboys are ultra devout. I'd say even more than the Trump cult following. Any HINT of a non-glowing review of ANYTHING related to Apple and they jump into action like some sort of band of brothers.

    As you said, phones are mature technologies and nothing substantial has changed with them in years. On a related note, I'd be curious what he thinks of the M1Pro/Max based MacBooks. Now there's a substantial performance jump that's worth noting and not seen in a mobile device going from year to year in a VERY long time (if ever).
    The “Trump cult” is nearly 75 million people.  And as an Apple fan, I’m happy to criticize the company when it screws up.  On this topic, Woz has been living on his reputation for 40 years.  
    You're lumping in everyone that voted for Trump as a member of his cult following. They're not one in the same.

    As for Woz, the company has nothing to do with the situation. People are bashing Woz simply for saying the iPhone 12 and 13 are very similar (and they are). THAT is the heart of a cultist. Even infer mediocrity of a company/person and they'll come bashing in.
    elijahgwilliamlondonFileMakerFeller

  • Apple won't make a touch-screen MacBook Pro, but will improve third-party repairs

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    Offer MacOS Monterey on an iPad and you’re done. Should be relatively painless considering Monterey runs natively on M1 silicone, and would give people the opportunity to determine how useful/useless a full blown desktop OS is with a touchscreen.

    From there you can determine if enough people leveraged Monterey on iPads to see if a touchscreen is really wanted for a MacBook.
    williamlondondoozydozen

  • Compared: 2021 New 16-inch MacBook Pro vs. 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro

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    Love everything about the new MBPs, except the shell. Gives it a retro look, but still prefer the current design. And that’s saying a lot if that’s the only issue. (The notch/menu area of the screen is actually a plus in my book). Grabbed a 16”M1Max as soon as it was available. Sadly bumping just the memory to 64GB pushed delivery out to Dec. Strange that they didn’t prioritize their higher margin machines. I’m betting that they’re prioritizing the base to get as many out into the public so word spreads on how beastly these M1Pro/Max are. Very hyped!!!
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • New MacBook Pro driven by M1 Pro & M1 Max processors

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    Picked up an M1Max w/ 64G memory. Sucks that the memory config alone pushed the order back by over a month. Thought Cook was a logistics genius.
    williamlondonkillroywatto_cobra

  • Apple must make changes to in-app payment requirement, Dutch antitrust agency says

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    darkvader said:
    dewme said:
    Where this headed is that more and more apps will be free to download with a subscription managed totally out-of-band by the app developer. This is exactly how Microsoft Office 365 (and other subscription based apps) works today and it’s really not a big deal.

    From a consumer perspective it just means that you’re having to deal with a separate payment system for all of these out-of-band subscriptions and you’re handing out your personal and financial information to many more people. In other words, consumers are taking on more complexity, inconvenience, and privacy/security risk so that App developers can skim a little more profit from you. Yes, they can be nice and pass along some of their savings to you, but they don’t have to. They can charge whatever they want and with addictive games the sky is the limit.

    In the end, these out-of-band app subscription payment services aren’t screwing Apple nearly as much as they are screwing their customers. 

    And all because Apple got far too greedy.  A 30% cut is absolutely insane.

    Not that this is how I think the situation should be resolved.  Regulators need to end Apple's app store monopoly.  It's MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone, and I should be able to install apps from any source of MY choosing.  Apple's app store monopoly needs to end.

    Right, some of these cultists will eat you alive for even THINKING like that. The same ones that riled up against Microsoft’s inclusion of IE. Same ones that stand up against Google’s tracking/privacy issues on Google’s device (apparently Apple can do whatever they want since it’s THEIR phone, but when it comes to Google consumers come first).

    Wonder what they would think if auto manufacturers made it a requirement to buy parts for their vehicles only through them. What if businesses no longer wanted to give people breaks and/or vacation time? It’s their business, let them run it however they want.

    The instantly in some of these thoughts is mind boggling.
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