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  • AirPods Pro now available in Apple Stores worldwide

    philboogiephilboogie
    Thank you Apple; these don't fall out of my ears like the 1st gen did. Well, one ear to be accurate. No comment on the sound quality; that's a different topic. I will say that mine don't simply switch over to my 2016 12" MacBook. Neither did the 1st gen. Perhaps that W1 chip isn't 'just working?' It actually does work when connecting it as a regular BT device...(yes, the MB has Internet access).

    OT: but no stickers included. Also, the S and L letters on the silicon tips packaging aren't aligned. (yeah, yeah, cry me a river and all that...)

    AppleExposed

  • Spotify says subscriber growth now doubles Apple Music

    philboogiephilboogie
    That certainly seems plausible from my PoV: over here in Europe many get Spotify Premium for free when upgrading their DSL sub.

    h2p

  • Editorial: Why Microsoft Surface isn't growing after seven years of trying

    philboogiephilboogie
    mcdave said:
    I think the Surface line’s ‘slow’ growth is due to a few factors;

    1) The article compares the current slow-quarter with the peak-quarter 5 years ago. A peak to peak comparison shows $900m to $1,800m.  Have Mac sales doubled on that time?

    One can cherry pick the absolute best and worst numbers, but the article makes it pretty clear that A) Surface has only briefly moved from $1B quarters over the last 7 years of trying (black line on the chart) B) iPad has peaked very high but remains pretty reliably around $4-5 B C) Mac has also peaked but remains right around $6B D) Other is moving beyond computing and yes, it is growing dramatically faster than Surface, and from a starting point twice as high.



    2) Surface Books are aimed at the premium notebook market which is small with many established competitors (including Apple) and unlikely to show runaway growth.

    3) Surface tablets are a travesty to Windows users hence ‘real PC’.  Neither Windows nor its fanbase ever embraced touch.  Beyond a bit of scrolling,  compromised buttons and some pen input, there are no touch-first controls.  They were only going to sell to those who thought they could hit two birds with one stone only to realise they missed both.

    The real question is; what aid Apple going to do with the Mac to catch Surface’s limited growth?  Mac Pro and $2.5K notebooks won’t do it.

    You‘re asking for Apple’s $6B Mac business to grow as fast „as a percentage“ as Surface grew from zero, but really, Microsoft and Apple have the same market opportunities available to them. Microsoft devoted its efforts to building impractical design-heavy, poorly considered x86 PCs. Apple did make Macs better, but it created a new platform for mobile computing, and then entered wearables and other new markets to achieve growth. Microsoft didn‘t think to do that, so its results over the past decade have not been impressive.

    Stock-wise they do very good:



    https://www.netcials.com/stock-10-year-history/MSFT-Microsoft-Corporation/ ;
    avon b7Soli

  • Samsung issues patch for Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor problem

    philboogiephilboogie
    But you said they screwed up again by “not fixing it with their patch”. They did fix it with their patch. The above was about a possible file sharing problem, which is not not-fixing the root password bug. 
    Well, actually they brought on a different bug, the file sharing thing. But when they rolled those two patches into a newer patch, the root bug came back.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/updating-macos-can-bring-back-the-nasty-root-security-bug/

    (in all, there were other problems in that very week, with multiple sites posting negative stories on Apple)


    muthuk_vanalingam

  • If you've got an old macOS install image, it will probably stop working today

    philboogiephilboogie
    Still available, the lion from a mountain:
    https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion

    zhiro