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  • The Wall Street Journal reportedly joins Apple News service, NYT and Washington Post decli...

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    fastasleep said:
    stevenoz said:

    Too bad Bezos won't give up his love of  profit, but that's that.
    Well, it is currently a value-add for Prime members at $3.99/mo (vs $9.99/mo), so this Apple News thing competes with that. It's understandable.

    ttollerton said:
    This news doesn’t hurt my feelings at all. The New York Slimes isn’t really news anymore.  
    Absolutely ridiculous. I read the 125 Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT every day and it's chock full of news — maybe you bought a knockoff?

    You Fake News™ types are really just clearly suckers for the age-old propaganda/disinformation campaign that Trump is recycling from the Soviets, Nazis, tin pot dictatorships, etc. Oldest trick in the book.
    With a diatribe like that, jumping to all manner of conclusions with 0 facts about what the other poster meant, you might want to look in the mirror as to what the problem is...
    patchythepirate

  • Apple unveils new AirPods with Wireless Charging Case, 50% more talk time & 'Hey Siri' [u]...

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    MplsP said:
    sandor said:
    dcgoo said:
    Outstanding!...  My first generation were really getting tired, down to about an hour battery life, less if on the phone.  Black would have been nice, but I'll take 'em!  Ordered


    Devices that are throw-away simply because the batteries are dying really irk me.
    Apple really should address this kind of waste.
    Totally agree - it would have been really nice if they had some means of making a cap that you could unscrew at the end of the post to replace the battery. Having a high-end device like AirPods that is designed to throw away in 3 years with no other options (and limited to no options for recycling) is poor design.
    How do you know that Apple won't properly recycle or dispose of them if you give to Apple?

    With ever smaller wearables (which are very element resistant), do you really expect to have a replaceable battery?  Its one thing to say "wouldn't it be great if", vs "Apple is so bad for not doing this"...that no one else can do...
    watto_cobra

  • Netflix will not offer programming on Apple TV service

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    Wow, it is amazing that most posters here completely missed the point of the article.  Netflix is stating that they will not be part of an Apple "video hub" - ability to purchase to and manage other subscriptions - IF that is even what Apple announces.  Nor that they would license content to Apple (which I don't think anyone thought would happen).  Not that Netflix is going to remove themselves from the Apple app ecosystem.

    This is no surprise - Netflix have never worked with the TV App, and just recently stopped new subscriptions from going through the App Store.  Again - no surprise, as a company like Netflix (same as Amazon did w.r.t. books back in the day) does not need Apple to gain new subscribers.  Netflix is able to promote and manage all that themselves.  Many smaller content providers however will not, and thus the App Store and TV App have value.

    When Netflix said that Apple wasn't a big revenue component - I 100% believe that they meant subscriptions through the App Store - not that Netflix wasn't used much by Apple device users (over a billion active devices, in the premium market, so that seems highly unlikely).  I have all manner of Apple devices, but still signed up directly to Netflix through the web.

    The articles are making it seem like Netflix has started to distance itself from Apple due to the competing service - and no doubt that will create more business tension - but Netflix (outside of App Store subscriptions) hasn't been buddies with Apple.  Netflix was never going to be in the TV App, regardless if Apple developed a service.  They want all content access to be in their own app.  This is power for them, and they want to keep it.  It is that simple.

    I would say it was the other way around - that Apple went down the path of original content because they found they didn't have any influence with content services to be able to develop the PLATFORM features like TV App (which has value to Apple device owners).  Many media articles say that you have to have "a seat at the (content) table" to have a better chance at deals / partnerships.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple debuts 2019 iPad Air with A12 Bionic chip and enhanced 10.5-inch display

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    falcon4617 said:
    StrangeDays said:
    Metriacanthosaurus said:
    HAHAHA. I knew it. Of course they did not update the low end iPad with a compelling offering. Nope. Just invented a new price point to gouge people even more.
    You mean the $329 offering? You’re honestly bitching about there being a cheap, medium, and top level tiers? 

    Issues. 
    That's because they are cheap, almost 200$ more for a "budget" model that came out two years ago. People are brainwashed by apples marketing it's pathetic!  I got a Moto g7 and it runs just as well as the overpriced iPhone zr
    Then why are you posting here?
    watto_cobra

  • 'AirPods 2' predicted to ship with with health features, improved sound, better texture

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    geekmee said:
    Who said AirPods 2 where going to be $200??....
    I could easily see Apple selling both AirPods, one for $99 and the newest for $160.
    With a wireless charging case and additional functionality, I don't think the new model would sell for same as old.  Likely $199.

    Hopefully the current version remains and reduced to perhaps $129ish.  The battery with my current ones is starting to degrade (I purchased right before Christmas in 2016, so just over 2 years old).  While I would like these rumoured new ones, with the Canadian exchange rate, they will no doubt be over $300 CAD.
    watto_cobra