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darbus69 said:

Gimme a folder, it’s the one feature that’s missing for Apple-For someone who walks and rides bikes a lot it is the form factor I desire most. Hurry up Apple, not getting any younger😉

I'm a cyclist too and the last thing I want is to have to keep unfolding my phone during a ride to check a map or my Strava stats. 

This is the local council's fault. When you convert a road into pedestrian only, you put bollards in place to block vehicles. It is not rocket science.

This is the very thing that's making me cancel Amazon Prime this coming Monday (the day they add ads to Prime Video.) If these companies wanted to wean us off of all the streaming services, they're finding a way to do it. People hate ads.

M68000 said:

Does anybody find this really hard to believe?  There is an acceleration rate on objects that increases per second because of gravity.  It’s something like 9.8 meters a second per second.  A freefall from 16000 feet is no joke.  Could this be a made up story? I have cracked iphone screens from about 5 feet, can’t imagine what 16000 feet would do.

I think you responded to the wrong story. But assuming you're talking about the iPhone that survived falling out of the Alaskan 737 MAX, it's believable because iPhones have large flat surfaces so their terminal velocity is not very high; probably less than 100MPH. As long as it landed on a soft surface (grass, leaves), it's totally possible for the iPhone to have sustained minimal damage.

hmurchison said:

They thought the clone vendors would attempt to expand into new markets but instead they 
simply sought to cannibalize the company with inferior offerings.

The clones weren't inferior. I bought several PowerComputing units for my then employer and they worked great. They were faster at a lower price than Apple's Macs.