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  • New Apple AirPods with smaller components could launch in late 2018

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    tjwolf said:
    No surprise here. :) This is what Apple does. I love mine. It's the most Apple-like device I've bought recently! By that I mean, no one else has come close to duplicating the beautiful design and features!

    Reminds me when I got the first iPod Shuffle. White, one little light, very simple design. And it achieved 80% market share the Friday after it was released! :)

    Best.

    P.S. I would really recommend them to everyone. :)
    Completely agree.  While the Apple Watch has helped me (finally) to shed quite a few pounds and live healthier, the AirPods are truly a pleasure to use.  There's just no describing the feeling of not fumbling with or untangling wires, of not having to answer Bluetooth connection questions, of not having to preface a Siri request with "Hey Siri", of almost never having to consciously having to charge the things (the Airpods' charge lasts long enough than I care to keep any device in my ear at a time; after putting them in their case for just a few minutes, they're ready to bring it on again.  I only charge the case once a week.)

    Even the lack of volume control and skip track - which I initially griped about - turns out to be a non-issue.  At least for Apple Watch owners - since when you play music, those controls automatically appear on the watch face.  Volume control is adjusted by turning the crown, you get skip/back/pause, and track title too.

    My only continued quibbles with AirPods are minor and revolve around the design: I don't have particularly big hands, but sometimes I struggle to get those things out of their case.  They're so damn slippery and rounded - no place to get a grip!  Also, I found out the hard way that while the AirPods themselves are relatively water proof, the case definitely is not!  So don't do like me and forget them in your jeans pocket when you start the wash :-(   Maybe a rubber seal around the lid?  That would also help with the loud sound whenever you close the lid - has woken up my wife on a couple occasion (the lid is slippery too!).  Also, things get pretty cruddy around the hinges if you keep 'em in your pocket.
    As Gruber's video showed, we're supposed to rotate them out of their recesses in the case by pushing out at the top. In other words, put your finger in the gap where the light is and push out, right for the right one, then left for the left one.

    Easy, but you have to do it with awareness. Very Zen. Gruber's video is how I found out about the trick.


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  • Apple's recent software problems are bad, but shouldn't lead to knee-jerk personnel decisi...

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    Matchbooks from the launch ceremony, lessons in hubris.

    Kids, be sure to save your Galaxy Note 7 and Trump campaign memorabilia!
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  • Apple's recent software problems are bad, but shouldn't lead to knee-jerk personnel decisi...

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    ecarlseen said:
    Terrible analogies here. 

    Apple's software quality has been noticeably on the decline for many years now. They're well still ahead of their main competition (Google and Microsoft), but this may or may not last. It seems to have gotten worse around the time that they started doing public betas - I'm wondering if in-house testing was scaled down in conjunction with that.
    And I'm wondering if increasing complexity and the distraction of building and moving into a new headquarters might have anything to do with an increase in software "declne" — if that is even the case, objectively.
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  • Apple's AirPods a smash hit, shipments could reach 28M in 2018

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    AirPods are among the best things to ever happen in technology, in my opinion.

    For another view from the UK, the capital of anti-Apple envy, see the Macalope:

     https://www.macworld.com/article/3239354/phone-accessories/if-you-don-t-have-anything-nice-to-say-about-airpods-write-it-up.html

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  • Apple software sees disastrous, embarrassing week with iOS springboard crash, macOS root u...

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    kruegdude said:
    If I were to hazard a guess as to why were seeing a higher than normal number of bugs in the code I’d pin it on either parts of the code base being rewritten in a new language or the disruptions caused by the move to a new physical development environment. Or a bit of both. JMHO. 
    Managing the design, the building, and the move in to the new quarters has to have been a major distraction for all the divisions of the company. That, and maybe the code-base rewriting as you say, plus the exponential increase in complexity of all software across all devices — as several commenters here point out — these could all combine to create the conditions for a period of dysfunctional software issues over the last few years.

    I wish that people who tend to get shrill over Apple's "decline" or their "priorities" would keep these real-world factors in mind. In the old days, from a big-picture perspective, we used to say that such-and-such a company was "going through some growing pains." I think that's about the right tone to apply here, not one that questions the entire vision of Apple from Tim Cook on down. 

    Still, I think the article here is useful to Apple to hear from Apple Insider, if only as feedback, even if the tone is somewhat "hyperbolic," as @StrangeDays says.
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