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  • Apple's Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro up for preorder on Amazon, supposedly ships on May 30

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    apple ][ said:
    If anybody thinks that it's priced too high or they can't afford it or they don't think it's worth it or whatever other reason they might have, then don't buy it.
    Absolutely. 

    However, there does come a point when a price is universally considered too high, I reckon. 

    If the keyboard - a keyboard, albeit on a pivoting arm - was $999 would there be some people who think it represented good reasonable value? How about $1,499? What is the ‘taking the piss’ point for a keyboard with trackpad? $99? $199? $299, $349 ... for a keyboard & trackpad  ... albeit a ‘magic*’ one?

    * ‘Magic’ - how embarrassing is that? I can’t believe Apple marketing ever pushed that, and can’t believe it’s been in use for so long. 
    MplsP

  • Looking back at 15 years of the iPad, Apple's revolutionary tablet

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    shardsofme said:

    ...
    So 100% of my computing is on five-year old hardware that has performed faultlessly for the duration, is on a current OS, and shows no sign of running out of steam. I wonder how many users rocking other platforms can say that?
    My MacBook initial aluminum Unibody design is my workhorse. Bought new in 2008, though I’ve now got an SSD and have to use a Bluetooth mouse. It hasn’t been able to update to the latest system software for a while, but it soldiers-on nevertheless. I’m still quite happy with my iPhone 7 too.

    Yes, it’s a good thing for Apple they’ve developed their Services offerings, 😂 

    I recall many years ago Apple had an Italian heading the European operation. He was prescient and quoted saying that the operating system of the future was effectively the Web browser - that’s what people would use primarily. I’m not sure Apple were very pleased with that. He was sacked shortly thereafter. 

    My ancient MacBook runs a Safari and Chrome web browser just fine and those ARE my primary applications. 
    watto_cobraronn

  • Editorial: Steve Jobs would have been proud of Tim Cook's Apple News & Apple TV event

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    "Steve Jobs would have been proud..."


    This sounds creepily religious.

    No one has any idea what Steve Jobs would have thought.

    Let's not forget that 'The Steve' thought a number of things were good, which weren't; no arrow cursor key on the keyboard, the original iMac hockey-puck mouse and the iTunes based social media thing, whatever it was called, spring quickly to mind. If you care about Apple, it's best to drop comments about Steve Jobs in reference to current technologies, movements in cultural values and global market economies and politics. 

    After all, it is perfectly possible, if Steve were around today, he might say, "You know, 'whatever', I'm kinda bewildered about the world at the moment, so I'm just not going to comment". 
    Abalos65osmartormenajr

  • Poor customer service is tarnishing Apple's image in India

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    seanismorris said:
    Sounds like Apple is being set up to fail in India
    Presumably Apple’s competitors are operating under the same retail conditions, yet in this survey they have scored much higher. It would have been useful if the article included a relative price comparison with the roughly equivalent competing products. 
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  • Apple execs turn into their Memoji doppelgangers for World Emoji Day

    pembrokepembroke
    Hmmm, are these examples poor, in terms of their proximity to the subject, because the person making these memojis isn’t particularly good at making Memojis? Or is the technology not as sophisticated as I expected?
    JWSC