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AppleInsider said:

Back in April, Emergency SOS also saved a snowboarder in Switzerland. On a solo trip at about 10,000 feet altitude, Tim Blakey fell into a hidden crevasse in the snow.

Despite an iPhone battery life of 3%, he could use Emergency SOS to contact emergency services. Rescuers found him and took him to the hospital for an injured ankle.

I presume "April" is supposed to be some other month, given the satellite version of Emergency SOS didn't gen enabled until November.  The service was not available in April 2022.

This is somewhat old news, especially looking at the single-core comparisons.  Geekbench shows a single-core score of 1756 for the 2022 Mac Studio with the M1 Max (10 core: 8 high-performance, 2 high-efficiency), but 1900 for the 13-inch 2022 MacBook Pro with the M2 (8 core: 4 high-performance, 4 high-efficiency).  Because the M1 Max has double the number of performance cores compared to the base M2, it outperforms the M2 on multicore (Mac Studio M1 Max: 12336, MBP M2: 8735), which should be expected. So with the M2 Pro having the potential for the same count of high-performance cores (8) as the M1 Max, it should come as no surprise that the M2 Pro can exceed the M1 Max on a strictly CPU benchmark test.

The main benefits of the "Max" series are in GPU performance, memory bandwidth (double the Pro series of same generation), and the additional ProRes encoder/decoder.  If you look within the same generation (i.e. M1 Pro vs M1 Max), the CPU performance gains on the Max vs the Pro of the same core count are very subtle: 

- MBP 16" 2021, M1 Pro (10 core): 1742 single core test, 12141 multi-core test
- MBP 16" 2021, M1 Max (10 core): 1745 single core test, 12191 multi-core test

Source: Mac Benchmarks - Geekbench Browser

pjohnt said:

"Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.

How about a new term:

elon (verb): to announce intentions to buy a multi-billion dollar company, waiver on that commitment, then be legally bound to consummate the purchase, followed by letting go a large amount of staff thus bringing instability to the company's operations, changing policies daily that confuse the company's customers/users and cast doubt on the company's ability to provide value to them, insisting your remaining employees have no work/life balance, all leading to the ultimate demise of the very company you hoped to improve, simultaneously casting massive public skepticism on your abilities as a leader and a humane person.

Example: After he eloned the heck out of Twitter, who in their right mind would want to go to Mars as his employee?

zeus423 said:

Is it possible to NOT have the display always on with the Pro?  I seriously do not need that extra light on my nightstand at night or while the phone is in my pocket. 

Yes, you can definitely have your sleeping iPhone 14 Pro like prior iPhones with no always-on display. Source: “iPhone User Guide”, the iOS 16 edition released today (available in Apple’s Books app). Search for “always on” and you’ll find you can disable always-on. It also mentions there are scenarios where the display is temporarily turned off: when starting a CarPlay session, when the phone is flipped face down, when it senses a paired Apple Watch is not nearby, and when sleep mode is activated (or otherwise around the time you generally stop using your phone when you go to bed). 

If “sharing” content like a movie or TV show, I wonder if all parties on the FaceTime call must have not only the app, but also a subscription on the service that’s providing the content. Seems to me Disney wouldn’t want people to SharePlay movies to multiple households if only 1 has a subscription.