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What content? I don't upload any photos to Google.
Apple promised not to scan your photos with disabled iCloud. I don’t trust them to hold that promise, but may be you will.
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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.
>Yeah you are not going to release an update that has worse performance. Except keyboards in 2016 to 2019
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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…
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And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?
Apple has kind of disappointed me with the software situation on iPads. I have an iPad Pro that I use as a laptop, but the reality is that the processing power available is underused. It has a 120Hz screen, but websites can't render to the canvas at 120Hz. There is no CAD software (which is nice when you design something and head to your makerspace to actually manufacture it -- I just print plans out on paper, but it…
Whoa, what's with the huge bezel? My only Mini is a 1st-gen, but that has a tiny bezel on either side, with somewhat larger ones top-and-bottom, and I really like the resulting overall size & proportions. Did the top and bottom bezels shrink a ton so it just looks like the whole thing's bigger all around because they all match now, or did they widen the sides? Looking at the dimensions on WP it looks like the height…
The 5th gen has 3GB.
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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.
You're the only one talking about a "degoogled phone."
But I guess that answers my question. Probably not much scanning going on.
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What cultures are they not common in? I know you aren't talking about China, at least. Definitely not Japan, not most of East Asia. Probably not western Europe either, and it's pretty common in North America.
There's not a lot of new product hype in Amish communities.
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.
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Yes, they are allowed, of course... but being "unimpressed with Apple's marketing speak", a topic having been thoroughly traversed, seems counter to Hacker News's stated desire for comments that substantiate new thought, or create new or interesting discussions.
To the contrary, it's sparked quite the deep discussion about marketing hype, software companies, and views about the same across the world. More valuable, perhaps, than discussing an incremental upgrade to the iPad Mini?
How "new" are the discussions though? Maybe we should try to find a previous thread where someone said the same thing and compare the discussion there?