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Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by post_break »

handrous wrote: post #65
post_break wrote: post #2

I will say, having USB C on my iPad is very nice. Now if only they would do it for the iPhone. After the CSAM stuff hit I switched back to Android and it's so nice to only need one cable for everything.

Their still having two connectors is even more annoying than I thought it would be. We have lots of iDevices from several generations and even brand new ones—but only some of them, though, significantly, all the iPhones—are still shipping with lightning, years after they should have gone to USB-C. Given how long we're able to keep these things around and in use, that means we'll be dealing with stupid lightning cable…

Not only do they have two connectors, they have two different Apple pencils too. Need to make sure you buy the right one.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by theshrike79 »

allenu wrote: post #105
anm89 wrote: post #6

I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.

And each release is "our best camera yet" or "fastest processor yet" or "best battery yet". I mean, yeah, you're probably not going to release an update that has worse performance. Apple is the master at emphasizing things like this.

Would you, as a company CEO go on stage and announce "this camera is pretty much on par with the one last year and the CPU is the same too and actually we kinda lost a bit of battery life"? :D

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by danaris »

handrous wrote: post #107
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's so that you can hold the iPad comfortably without accidentally activating something on the screen.

Sure, but they don't do that with their phones, and like hell I'm carrying this thing around without a case (which is also why they don't bother to make their iPhones so they're easy to use caseless, or make them so the backs are flat without a case—everyone uses a case unless they're trying to signal "I'm rich enough that if I drop this and the screen shatters I'll just shrug and buy another immediately, and if it h…

You can hold the phone with one hand, with fingers on one side and thumb on the other.

You're going to need to be able to grip an edge of the iPad—even the mini—so it needs a little more space for that.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by dboreham »

tomtimtall wrote: post #96
delaaxe wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obnoxious overhyping is not normal in most cultures around the world.

What? Yes it definitely is. Look at every single traditional market in every single European country, or in South America. You’ll find people screaming about the worlds best this and world best that. If you walk down a random street in England you see 14 of the world best beers and 7 of them will be the worlds oldest pub. Naturally all the commercials are the same. You’d have to be a recluse to think that overhyping…

Haven't been to Scotland then.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by golergka »

defaultname wrote: post #36
anm89 wrote: post #6

I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.

Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected. It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed…

> Every single company that sells things does this.

Software companies moving from update releases to subscription models are a great counter-example. There's plenty of bad sides to a subscription model, but at least PR and marketing departments can be much more honest about slow and incremental updates.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by theshrike79 »

lrae wrote: post #123
runjake wrote: post #72

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It does seem ass backwards. Google scans your content for CSAM on their servers. And they scan your content for demographic and advertising data and god knows what else. I do not see your logic here. It appears to be an ill-decided knee-jerk reaction.

> Google scans your content for CSAM on their servers. How does their content get on google's servers? And last time I checked, there was no content-scanning feature implemented in Android (and especially not in Graphene, Calyx, Lineage, or what ever.)

Nothing was going to get scanned on iOS either, unless you had "upload to Apple servers" enabled...

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by root-z »

defaultname wrote: post #36
anm89 wrote: post #6

I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.

Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected. It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed…

You are right that it's just sales language, but people, tech folks in particular, don't have to like it and it's nothing wrong to voice their complaints. In fact it would be quite freshing today if some company start talking down to earth languages, like "hey we are giving you basically the same phone as last year with slightly better camera etc. It's useful though."

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by lrae »

tmccrary55 wrote: post #29
pwthornton wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite an awkward endorsement for Android!

Especially weird (though understandable) because it's basically "Doesn't scan your device and send the information to a corporation and the government" when Android basically does that everywhere, all the time. But Android does it for profit, Apple does it "for the children."

Would you be down to write a blog post about how a "degoogled phone" still scans your data and sends it to Google? Let's say a Pixel 5 with CalyxOS? I didn't know thats the case.

Tbh, I'd even love to see a current blog post on how much and what data a "semi-degoogled" random OEM phone with the shipped Android sends.

Or maybe there is one that I don't know of, would love to see it.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by himaraya »

runjake wrote: post #72
post_break wrote: post #41

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Sometimes the alternative isn't much better, so instead of trying to punish myself and get a pixel, degoogle everything, etc. I voted with my wallet. Do I just keep my iPhone and let them get away with the CSAM on device scanning? I chose not to, even if the privacy is worse on android. Some may think that's ass backwards, but it was a solution for my beliefs.

It does seem ass backwards. Google scans your content for CSAM on their servers. And they scan your content for demographic and advertising data and god knows what else. I do not see your logic here. It appears to be an ill-decided knee-jerk reaction.

Nah, Android 12 makes opting out of data collection for ads pretty straightforward. I'll take server scans instead of device scans any day of the week.
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