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lkrupp said:

alanh said:

To get the best deals on Apple hardware it’s often best to buy from a 3rd party reseller like B&H. You can save a lot more by doing that than the 3% offered by the card! 

Well I come from an era when third party resellers were openly hostile to Apple products and tucked them away in the back corners of their stores. When Apple started opening its own stores those same resellers screamed bloody murder about being pushed out. Because of that experience I always buy my Apple products directly from Apple no matter the price difference. Just me.

I usually do too (although not always, such as getting a spare Airport Express after Apple had discontinued them). 

I've found that there's more "understanding" if you have a problem and take it back to the Apple Store - and you bought it from Apple.

Fire up the popcorn ! p.s. I especially like the part "... the chipmaker has failed to show it will likely win on appeal".

apple tree said:

Kudos to Apple for supporting discontinued hardware. I'll keep using them for as long as they are functional.

Amen to that. I bought an extra to have as a spare (still in the shrinkwrap). And an extra Express too since that's what I use for music throughout the house.

chasm said:

Hopefully the appeal judges will make Qualcomm pay up while they consider the case.

Qualcomm already paid. This case was them trying to get some of it back.

toysandme said:

rwx9901 said:

I also use an Apple Watch.  When I use DND on my iPhone it automatically sets it for the watch as well.  However, during the night my watch face randomly lights up for about 5 seconds or so for no reason at all.  Anyone know how to make this stop?  I'm having to cover the watch face with a dark cloth just so I don't have to see it flash in the middle of the night.  I thought setting DND would make this stop.

Swipe up from the bottom of the watch face and scroll to the theater (mask) faces. Hit that and then cover the watch a few seconds and the screen will go dark until you touch it again. 

Note that this will silence the alarm also. I use that to wake up in the morning - silencing it would be Bad. So my go-to-bed sequence is as follows:- (1)set DND (blue icon) until the morning, (2)turn on theatre-mode (orange icon), (3)turn OFF silent (red bell icon).

One more item of note; the flash in the middle of the night might be from movement or a touch. But I have also noticed a few seconds of light from the BACK of the watch (Watch 3). I have no idea what that's about.