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Choosing your Apple Watch: Case and band combinations demystifiedAfter deciding on a case size and material, choosing a band is the most important part of buying a new Apple Watch. Apple uses case and band combinat…
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Choosing your Apple Watch: Case and band combinations demystifiedAfter deciding on a case size and material, choosing a band is the most important part of buying a new Apple Watch. Apple uses case and band combinat…
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Apple Watch bands priced from $49 for sport to $449 for link bracelet, chargers cost $29/$39Pricing for accessories for the new Apple Watch was also revealed on Monday, with swappable bands carrying a wide range from $49 to $449. In addition…
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Study: 6% of iPhone 6 owners have used touchless Apple Pay in stores, 85% have notAccording to market research firm InfoScout, some six percent of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners have used Apple Pay to make a touchless transaction, whil…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero I am planning on using my iPhone 5s with Apple Pay when I get an Apple Watch, but can I use ApplePay online now? You can if you have one of the devices which support it: iPhone 6/6+ iPad Air 2 iPad Mini 3 ... -
Study: 6% of iPhone 6 owners have used touchless Apple Pay in stores, 85% have notAccording to market research firm InfoScout, some six percent of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners have used Apple Pay to make a touchless transaction, whil…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero And the people are shocked, SHOCKED I say, when people are duped into buying stuff that doesn't work; or sending money to their uncle in the Ivory Coast. Yet...every US high school student is required to be able ... -
Intel Core M lets new MacBook go light and fanless, but with sacrificesAt the heart of Apple's upcoming 12-inch MacBook is the Intel Core M, a processor series launched late last year and meant to power extremely light n…
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Rumor: Apple Watch faces staggering manufacturing issues, initial production run halvedAn extraordinarily dubious rumor from China suggests that Apple has been unable to solve critical issues in the manufacturing of the Apple Watch's fl…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero But making *millions* of anything is a huge task. As some may say ---Tru-dat! It is staggering when one thinks about it. For this watch, I wonder how many individual components Apple has to source and ... -
Apple opens up for new Steve Jobs biography to shape co-founder's public imageApple executives like CEO Tim Cook were willing to participate in interviews for the new biography <em>Becoming Steve Jobs</em> because of the main a…
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Apple to reveal new Apple TV with App Store, Siri & A8 CPU at WWDC in June - reportApple is planning to take the wraps off of a brand new Apple TV set-top box, featuring Siri integration and support for a native App Store, at its an…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero Just saw a headline that the NFL is dropping its blackout rules. I'm guessing this makes a live stream of NFL games to AppleTV much more likely. Link? -
Apple Watch's Workout app learns users' strides over time, Turlington Burns diary revealsIn the third week of her promotional Apple Watch diary, posted Thursday, model Christy Turlington Burns made mention of a previously unknown feature …
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AppleCare+ protection for Apple Watch could reach $999 - reportApple has yet to reveal how much it will charge to add AppleCare+ protection to its new wearable, but new screenshots that purport to show internal p…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero Not sure AppleCare covers user inflicted damage. The usual Apple warranty is 1 year, IIRC. 17% increase in cost for the sport; up to a 5% increase for Edition. Interesting. Quote: cover two incidents of ... -
Ousted HP CEO Carly Fiorina calls Apple's Tim Cook a hypocrite for stance on Indiana lawWhile many of Silicon Valley's elite are in lockstep opposition to Indiana's new "religious freedom" law, former Hewlett-Packard chief and potential …
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero There is a difference between doing business in a country with its own sovereignty; and speaking up as a citizen of a self-governing republic and commenting on its law making. Expecting Carly to make sense on any ... -
AppleCare+ protection for Apple Watch could reach $999 - reportApple has yet to reveal how much it will charge to add AppleCare+ protection to its new wearable, but new screenshots that purport to show internal p…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero Ah. Interesting. That might be a first for an apple product? IIRC, there was much angst over the water sensors in iPhone. Apple had a tell tale in them. Wonder if Apple Watch has such a thing. AppleCare+ (as ... -
AppleCare+ protection for Apple Watch could reach $999 - reportApple has yet to reveal how much it will charge to add AppleCare+ protection to its new wearable, but new screenshots that purport to show internal p…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero Ah. Interesting. That might be a first for an apple product? IIRC, there was much angst over the water sensors in iPhone. Apple had a tell tale in them. Wonder if Apple Watch has such a thing. This time, they' ... -
AppleCare+ protection for Apple Watch could reach $999 - reportApple has yet to reveal how much it will charge to add AppleCare+ protection to its new wearable, but new screenshots that purport to show internal p…
[quote name="eightzero" url="/t/185577/applecare-protection-for-apple-watch-could-reach-999-report#post_2703472"]Not sure AppleCare covers user inflicted damage. [/quote] You mean like "Will It Blend"? Not covered. -
Ousted HP CEO Carly Fiorina calls Apple's Tim Cook a hypocrite for stance on Indiana lawWhile many of Silicon Valley's elite are in lockstep opposition to Indiana's new "religious freedom" law, former Hewlett-Packard chief and potential …
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero There is a difference between doing business in a country with its own sovereignty; and speaking up as a citizen of a self-governing republic and commenting on its law making. Absolutely. Like a true Republican, ... -
Ousted HP CEO Carly Fiorina calls Apple's Tim Cook a hypocrite for stance on Indiana lawWhile many of Silicon Valley's elite are in lockstep opposition to Indiana's new "religious freedom" law, former Hewlett-Packard chief and potential …
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero There is a difference between doing business in a country with its own sovereignty; and speaking up as a citizen of a self-governing republic and commenting on its law making. Or maybe just caring more about ... -
Next-gen Apple TV will not initially support 4K streaming, report saysIndustry watchers expect Apple to release a next-generation Apple TV set-top streamer later this year with a slew of upgrades, but the device might n…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero It is also possible (although less likely) we will see a line of Apple TV form factors. A stick version and a puck shape, for example. That would be interesting. There are a number of different form factors that ... -
Angela Ahrendts tells retail employees to push customers online for Apple Watch, 12" MacBook launcheIn a leaked internal memo sent to Apple Store employees on Tuesday, retail chief Angela Ahrendts asks her employees to help change customer opinion t…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero Angie Fail. I am trying to be generous by assuming the article contains only a snippet of the complete email. But it is email like this from very senior management that sort of drive me crazy. AAPL pays her ... -
Angela Ahrendts tells retail employees to push customers online for Apple Watch, 12" MacBook launcheIn a leaked internal memo sent to Apple Store employees on Tuesday, retail chief Angela Ahrendts asks her employees to help change customer opinion t…
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Initial Apple Watch stock dries up in minutes, shipping times quickly jump to 4-6 weeksConsumers who weren't ready to to order at exactly 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Friday have missed their opportunity to receive an Apple Watch on launc…
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Initial Apple Watch stock dries up in minutes, shipping times quickly jump to 4-6 weeksConsumers who weren't ready to to order at exactly 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Friday have missed their opportunity to receive an Apple Watch on launc…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero Building millions of anything is a herculean task, but Apple did rather play this close to the vest. IIRC, there is a shareholder earnings call on like 4/27. It will be interesting to hear Tim's comments. They ... -
Initial Apple Watch stock dries up in minutes, shipping times quickly jump to 4-6 weeksConsumers who weren't ready to to order at exactly 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Friday have missed their opportunity to receive an Apple Watch on launc…
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero "...and we are hard at work to bring this fantastic, personal device to even more people that love our products, and use them to improve their lives...." I doubt any real numbers cited on the call. We *might* ... -
Nearly all Apple Watch retail try-ons are resulting in preorders, Cowen saysCustomers who schedule an appointment to try on the Apple Watch are extremely likely to walk away with a preorder for the device, according to a new …
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero This sounds familiar too. My wife is skeptical, and we have been trying to control some discretionary spending. But...she yells at me *all the time* because "you don't answer the phone when you're at home." Yes, ... -
Nearly all Apple Watch retail try-ons are resulting in preorders, Cowen saysCustomers who schedule an appointment to try on the Apple Watch are extremely likely to walk away with a preorder for the device, according to a new …
Quote: Originally Posted by eightzero For the record, I thought your comments interesting and valuable. I think there is a lot of merit to "Apple Watch Ins't A Watch." Your analogy to the iPhone isn't a phone is apt. I don't get some of the ...
