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AppleZulu said:

I'm more interested in Parag Agrawal and Bret Taylor. Are there any chances that either of them will give a corporate damn as to whether their company's product is used to facilitate the spread of misinformation that kills people or undermines democracy? Time will tell.

One person's misinformation is another person's fight against the mainstream media and the slander and filtering of real news it provides.  There's a dangerous step when these social media companies 'filter' what they perceive as misinformation.  Remember when Youtube and Twitter were banning posts regarding the origin of Covid19?  Well, that didn't age well.  We need these platforms to be free of the bias of the operator and let the users decide what is real and what is fake.  

I just upgraded to the 13 Pro Max and sold my iPhone 11 Pro.  I never thought twice about the battery on my 11 Pro.  I have a Bose sound dock at work and would leave the phone plugged in all day long which would keep the battery at 100%.  Some days I would let the battery run down to 5-10% before charging.  Most of the time would use a mix of my 5 watt charger, my 29 watt charger and a Qi charger depending on where I was and what I had available.  Other times I'd start charging it when it was 90% to top it off.  Basically I followed no rules and charged it randomly with different powered chargers at different times of the day.  When I sold the phone, battery health was 92%.  Don't worry about the battery and just live your life!

My wife was sporting an iPhone 8 and was happy with it (except for the battery is starting to show its age).  She decided to get the 13 mini this weekend with the rumors of the mini being discontinued next year.  She really like the small form factor.  It's a heck of a nice phone, she digs the upgrade for sure.
We were able to walk into the Apple store and buy the 13 mini immediately.  Seems like sales are pretty slow for this model if they had them in stock the day after release.

Glad they acknowledged the issue.  Got my 13 Pro Max going yesterday and immediately noticed that it won't unlock with apple watch.  Get a message that it can't communicate with the watch.  

boltsfan17 said:

Personally, I think it's way better ordering through your carrier. Usually never any issues and I always get release date delivery. My carrier preorders went live like 5 minutes before 8am. 

Agreed.  AT&T let me start pre-order at 4:58 and I had the phone ordered with a 9/24 delivery date by 5am sharp.