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Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by d110af5ccf »

Starmina wrote: post #58
adamrmcd wrote: post #53

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I cannot fathom why they would they remove previous scans/links. Maybe to enable a paywall archive? It's super slick how they showcase the object as you scroll down, but flattening it into a single URL and only making one scan available per month restricts your audience appeal. I only first heard of this site when they did the lego minifigs last month. Did they publish any other scans prior to that?

So you have actually a reason put your email in their newsletter input box because you wouldn't want to 'miss' anything you can't go back to.

Except the only thing it did was cause me to wonder if they were a new site. And then when I saw this my opinion of them dropped dramatically. It's a dark pattern and I don't want to support that.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by emmanueloga_ »

I imagine it may be hard and they don't have incentives to "fix it", but I think the single most important disadvantage of airpods is the battery life... no matter how long it lasts, there's no way to replace it, so they became essentially discardable items. [1]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by GhettoComputers »

varenc wrote: post #147
colejohnson66 wrote: post #123

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No. They do. I can see crash logs for assetsd, awdd, com.apple.mobilemail, DifferentialPrivacy, and much more. Just open up Settings and search “analytics”

On iOS you can see Apple’s telemetry in Settings -> Privacy -> Analytics -> Analytics Data. Or export with XCode. No idea if it’s exhaustive. But I can see things like general day by day analytics and recent crash reports. It’s a bit opaque and difficult to make sense of, but it’s still impressive they make this telemetry available to you at all.

That’s very cool, thanks!

I have most of it disabled this is what the firewall options are for OfferUp for example. https://ibb.co/SVbyybC Aside from analytics I can also block the ads from Bing in the app.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by kiwijamo »

elzbardico wrote: post #100

This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn't want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming. Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor,…

Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks.

I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase.

I've also owned other brands of laptops and I've not had any with the amount nor the severity of faults I've observed on Apple laptops.

I write this on my own ex-lease Lenovo X1 Carbon which has survived a 1m drop with a corner hitting a hard surface. Thankfully the only issue is the occasional black/darkening of an area of pixels on the lower-right corner of the LCD. I can 100% guarantee if it was a Macbook it would have been the end of it, no question whatsoever (given I've seen Macbook die from much less impact).

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by sundvor »

kiwijamo wrote: post #175
elzbardico wrote: post #100

This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn't want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming. Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor,…

Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks. I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase. I've also owned…

The engineering of the X1 Carbon is amazing. Durability is a design goal, it even has channels for directing liquid ingress away from the most vulnerable parts. Whilst not a guarantee against failures, it certainly doesn't hurt!

My own OG X1 Carbon (i7/8/256) still works today, and, amazingly, receives firmware updates. It is 9 years old.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by sundvor »

GhettoComputers wrote: post #169
jimmaswell wrote: post #143

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Aren't their recent laptops an overheating mess, not to mention needing dongles to plug anything in? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29197975

Jony Ive’s reign of terror is over. Butterfly keyboard is gone too. Charging DisplayPort Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s) USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s) USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s) Headphone

The keyboard replacement was the biggest improvement to me in the latest MacBooks.

I'm not an Apple person but I do like to keep tabs. Tried the butterfly keyboard and hated it so, so much - and that's not even touching on the function key row.

(As a Streamdeck user it would have been awesome if they had kept the touch screen strip _and_ restored the missing row of keys. Missed opportunity there.)

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