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Breaking news: Reuters is reporting that the iPhone 14 Pro will use the A15 chip rather than the A16 Bionic as previously claimed.

https://stocks.apple.com/ApGhyJsmST0mBVVhSFcBYwA

(Obviously an error, but weird that someone who thought themselves qualified to report on this would go out of their way to state it.)

bluefire1 said:

Even though AppleInsider said that orders had begun at exactly 5amPST, it took an extra minute for it to appear in my Apple Store app. Because I completed all the preorder information two days earlier, I sailed through the purchase process and was not only finished within a minute, I received an email notification almost immediately afterwards. Thanks Apple!

I hope you got a “Pro” model—you are obviously a pro. 

Even on a bad day, the online experience beats the in-store experience by a large margin. The last two times I bought an iPhone (one for me, one for a gift), it took around an hour in the store, despite the fact that I knew exactly what I wanted when I walked in the door. Both times I was in too much of a rush to wait for delivery of an online purchase, but it seemed crazy to me that I couldn’t just hand someone my credit card and walk out the door a few minutes later, the way you can in most retail stores when you know what you want, are ready to pay, and they have it in stock. Instead you find one person who can put your name on a list to talk to a salesperson, wait a long time for them, then talk to them, wait a while for the device to be sent out from a back room…

I’m hoping to never be in a position again where I have to buy a phone in a hurry, but sometimes your phone just dies and you don’t have a lot of options. I guess maybe the purpose is to force you to stand around with nothing to do but play with other Apple devices, in the hope that you’ll buy more stuff? It may also be faster if you buy online for in-store pickup, but I bet you still have to wait a while to talk to the person who can help you.

Two steps forward, one step back.

When I travel for extended periods, I usually get a pre-paid SIM card with a local plan. I guess I can look into getting a non-US model when the time comes. 

AllOFUS said:

Nobody cares about this nonsense goal that Apple has set for itself - “100 carbon neutral “. We are taking a overdose of this “climate change” argument. Best example of an argument is “Water levels are rising everywhere and cities are going to be submerged” if one just searches on the internet, you will realize the earth always has gone through phases forever and cities have been submerged for 1000s of years ahead, What carbon emission was then? Cars or factories 1000s of years back? Wake up. 

Most of what we think of as “carbon emission” comes from combustion, a.k.a. fire, which is believed to have existed even thousands of years ago. Sometimes very large fires are caused by natural phenomena such as lightning.