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  • Students failing college AP test due to unsupported HEIC iPhone photo format

    I'm not a programmer, but this seems to clearly be the fault of whoever is responsible for that College website. 

    Anyway, this only affected a very tiny amount of users, and a work around has now been found, so this is a non issue.


    coolfactor
  • Verizon enables 5G uploads, 30% speed increase over 4G

    I'm obviously not the target group for 5G, because I can't even remember uploading anything from my phone.

    There are auto-upload functions on phones of course, like when you take a photo or video and it will get  auto-uploaded to the cloud to your iPhoto library, but I always make sure that all of that stuff is disabled if I'm taking pictures or shooting video with my phone outside, because I don't use unlimited data.

    My current plan is 3GB a month I think, and that's plenty for me. I don't even end up using 1 GB of it probably. I do have unlimited data at home of course.

    I've actually had unlimited data for my phone for free for a few months now, because of the virus crap, and I haven't bothered to use any of it. What am I supposed to do, walk around outside streaming 4K netflix on a phone for hours every day? No thanks.
    lkruppjdb8167
  • 'iPhone 12' predicted to ship without EarPods, will boost AirPods sales

    Good. It's a waste to keep shipping an item that only ends up collecting dust in many people's drawers.

    People are free to choose whatever option they want.

    You want wireless/bluetooth? Good, choose that.

    You want wired? Good, choose that.

    You want no headphones at all? Good, you don't have to choose any option.

    Everybody is happy.


    watto_cobra
  • 'Apple Glass' details leaked, will cost $499 and work with prescriptions

    I've always been against leakers and I have even suggested strip searching all workers before when many leaks were coming out of Chinese suppliers.

    It's pretty obvious that there has to be some inside source or a mole that this leaker is getting their very detailed information from. How else would they be able to have seen an actual prototype of it? How many people would even have access to such a prototype?

    The guy in the video said that Apple had shadow banned their podcast and that Phil Schiller had blocked him on Twitter, so I'm not buying the theory that this is Apple leaking it through a third party source. Apple would like to announce this in one of their events in my opinion.

    Having said that, these glasses seem to be very interesting and the price seems to be quite reasonable too. A regular pair of glasses costs many hundreds of dollars. Apple glasses with built in tech for $499 seems to be very cheap. 

    I don't know much about AR or virtual reality, but I'm not going to dismiss these glasses, because past history has shown that those who doubt Apple's new products end up looking like complete fools and slobbering morons, almost every single time without fail.

    I look forward to seeing Apple actually announcing these things and hearing more details about it, but not from any leakers.

    This is a whole new product category for Apple. This is big. Look at how mad Steve Jobs got when there was that huge iPhone leak a while back, when some Apple employee forgot their unreleased iPhone in a bar. I want to see Tim Cook get equally mad about all of these current leaks that we've been seeing.

    I want to see raids on homes, I want to see police and the tech police busting down doors of the homes of the leakers. I want to see prison time. I want to see action.


    SpamSandwich
  • Tom Hanks film 'Greyhound' to premiere on Apple TV+ in $70M deal [u]

    Insane. Apple should instead buy Sony Pictures instead of negotiate extended licensing rights one film at a time. After all, Disney bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas for a paltry $4 billion.
    Indeed. Apple could have owned the entire Star Wars franchise instead of Disney and the Mandalorian could have been on Apple TV.
    watto_cobra