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  • Apple announces $399 Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular, letting you ditch your iPhone for...

    cgWerks said:
    JanNL said:
    Only repeating what they said during the keynote, with mixed/average use.
    OK, here we go:
    https://www.apple.com/watch/battery.html

    1 hour.... which its pretty darn impressive, actually. So, if you want the watch to last all day, and make a call... maybe 20 min of call time?
    (That's like 2-3x what I was thinking, so I'm impressed.)
    I don’t really enjoy talking on the phone, so this is a nice excuse to keep it short. “Okay, I don’t have much battery left. See you at lunch!”
    cgWerks
  • Apple reportedly choosing not to hide sensor 'notch' on 'iPhone 8's' OLED display

    This shouldn't surprise anyone who's seen Apple's battery case.
    trashman69
  • Head of Indian telecoms regulator says Apple dragging its heels on government 'do not dist...

    I think the difference here is that the government wants more power over the phone than Apple wants to allow. For example, I have used nomorobo to block calls, but Apple doesn't allow it to actually block the calls, it just sends them to voicemail. This makes some sense, because Apple doesn't want some third party app that decides to just block all calls from given numbers. What if the call were actually legitimate and the user never got the call? This is a lot of power to put into the hands of third party developers, some of whom try to break various rules.

    Also, nomorobo can't block all calls. Specifically, I get a LOT of junk calls from number that have my same prefix (not area code). So if my number is (XXX) 333-4567, any call from 333 cannot be blocked (sent to voicemail). I'm not sure why this is, but I would really like to be able to stop those calls.

    As a side note, I also use Google Voice, and I never get annoying calls from the Google Voice number, so it is possible to successfully filter calls. I would love to see Apple do something more about this.
    leavingthebigglostkiwi
  • Case maker 'highly confident' on Apple's final 'iPhone 8' design, doubling down on product...

    Nice looking mockup. This looks plausible and good looking.
    Metriacanthosauruspscooter63levi
  • 1Password irks security experts in push toward cloud-based vaults

    I like this company. It used to be the only software I would consider.

    However, not allowing local-only copies of passwords means that when (if?) someone breaks into 1Password's servers, people are going to have the potential to have all their passwords stolen. The password vaults will almost definitely be heavily encrypted, but the potential for widespread harm is huge, and once high value things like all people's passwords are online all in one place, the motivation to hack into it is going to be extremely high. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I am saying that my level of trust would be much lower.

    netmageGeorgeBMac