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Admit? Like it's a secret he's trying to cover up? Apple people simply don't care. They know Apple's "late." (Inasmuch as someone else has done a similar thing, or used a similar p…

Let's assume some measurable number of people might do this, purely for arguments sake. Why does the resale value of old iPhones not reflect these devices being "unusable?"

Good. Now add a distinction between IAPs for consumables vs features vs content.

The whole problem is that the batteries can't deliver that performance. They can throttle the chip to what the battery can deliver or it will crash. Maybe Apple's more conservative…

I'd say "your notification tray", but it seems like the majority has already lost that one.

Apple needs to do way better at informing the user when the battery is notably degraded, and when that degradation is leading to notable throttling. Particularly, when as the throt…

Who in the world would run right out and buy a new iPhone if their last one became unusable in one year? People switch to the iPhone because of their longer usable life compared to…

I don't think you can have such a number, as it hinges so heavily on unknowable future usage and environmental factors. And frankly now that sudden shutdown isn't a thing, I don't …

I don't think geeks get to throw stones on shorthand. For Mb vs MB vs MiB alone we've lost any and all credibility.

Good old fashioned junk mail, background check services, and consumer research? Even if they keep their literal word and don't sell your actual history, and you use SSL so they can…

Through leaks like this one. Leaks that can be partially validated or corroborated, but which (by their nature) cannot be entirely proven true. And those leaks were very transparen…

The problem with this comparison is that, while it's not remotely easy , it's far easier to compete with Facebook or Google than to compete with an ISP. Facebook barely existed 10 …

It would make perfect sense if they'd bundled a controller (and/or made it more straightforward to have ipads/ipods/phones usable as controllers) and put an A8X in it. It would've …

I would guess: 1. Because the mindset of work > leisure is rewarded in the U.S., so wealthier people aren't choosing work because they're wealthier, they're wealthier because they …

It didn't? I distinctly remember the same sort of FUD progression with regards to the ozone hole. 1. It wasn't actually happening/a problem. (It's hippy nonsense. [insert sarcastic…

Basically, yeah. Some stuff is necessarily distinct. But an awful lot of it is not. And given the way this tech is advancing, and the cost of retrofitting, most of the stuff people…

As terrible as this idea is for phones -- it's perfect for home automation. Having each and every widget doing its own network and software stack is just a mess. Nevermind having t…

The environmental conditions of a 'scorched' Earth aren't themselves that big a problem. The bigger problem is the disparity between how many people are on Earth now, and how many …

If the choice is between data security and a few family members being unwilling to click an email link, I'd choose data security. Let's face it: the kind of people who only look at…

It did when the alternative was the entire educational process behind knowing what they need, what tradeoffs are inherent, what the price should be , what vendors provide it at the…

For some users, sure. But that'd be about the user, not the platform. And more specifically, that'd probably be mostly about the time and place of use, not even the user. If those …

When you already know which vendors you're using. If we get our misc bits from newegg, I might search newegg, but I don't need google.

Well, yeah, at the scale of "real research" it doesn't really work. But you wouldn't want to do that on a tiny screen even if copy/paste was up to it. You probably wouldn't even wa…

Are taking notes, managing projects, sending emails, outlining documents, etc not active ?

Don't all the browsers offer some implementation of 'cloud tabs', cloud bookmarks, and/or 'read later' sorts of features? Who needs copy/paste?