2 1/2 years later, I couldn’t resist one of these at half the original price
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European Editor of 9to5Mac. No pitches in DM, please! Likes words, tech, tango, photos, videos, travel, tall buildings, theatre, bicycles, Malbec, and tea.
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I think Apple has figured out how to turn watch bands into a subscription service
Would bring the Mac in line with the iPhone and iPad ranges – something at (almost) every price level ...
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I believe it’s approximately seven fewer than you
Snapchat down for many, company says aware of problem and working on a fix wp.me/p1xtr9-1IPu
This is untrue: he removed the note from his Xeet
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Writing website content: $1/word
Rewriting AI-written website content: $2/word
One step closer to being able to leave cards at home ...
Rare for Apple to speak out on the record in this kind of situation ...
Be fair – it's outside the M25, so arriving in the right country is a win
Exclusive jailhouse photo as Jony Ive finally jailed for Butterfly keyboard design
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If only a racist moron posting racist moron stuff could have been predicted
I can see Apple controlling the whole in-car experience, including the self-driving UI ...
The Ladybird Book of Statistics may be of assistance
Tim Cook (or a PR person) has now deleted That Photo from Twitter … wp.me/p1xtr9-1KOV
Well, some people do, but you fired them
How many times does the tech industry have to explain to governments what a monumentally dumb idea this is?
Puts pressure on Apple to add new features and boost the reliability of its own ecosystem ...
A friend's unsuccessful attempt to refuse 2yo daughter an ice-cream. Him: I don't have my wallet. Her: You can use your watch.
Just doing a firmware update on a bicycle, after enabling Find My for it - as you do
Apple really has achieved that ‘single slab of glass’ impression, and I actually like the notch ...
To be clear, it’s not explicitly targeting one company – the law will apply to all. But at this point, Apple is the only major smartphone company which hasn’t already adopted USB-C.
iOS 8.3 has broken my iKettle app. Now I have to walk to the kitchen to switch the kettle on manually. Like some kind of savage.
The key question this raises is: How could Apple have known this if it wasn't scanning iCloud accounts ... ?
Planning on doing some apartment swaps for holidays, so needed to make a smart home accessible to people without the need for them to install apps. Old iPad Air worth little now, so repurposed it as a dedicated control panel, locked into the Home app.
Day 11, and I am a free man! A free man without energy, but still: I’m going for a walk after work, even if it is just around the block. 🙂
I owned that laptop and acoustic coupler in 1983 :-)
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Yeah, but they’d still get stuck in traffic unless you somehow get them off ordinary roads onto their own dedicated pathways.
Amazon sets out to prove no-one ever reads terms and conditions … See 42.10 :-D aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
Pro tip: If someone is able to scrape [hundreds of] millions of records from your service without being detected, that is indeed a data breach ...
Urgent notice: 2016 is now the subject of an immediate worldwide recall. An updated version of 2015 will be supplied as a replacement.
So far, so good! Only problem I’ve hit in the first 30 minutes of use is the battery indicator is broken – still reads 100% ...
It arrived late, after I went out for the evening, but I have it now. First impressions piece to follow by Monday morning.
Crimes against cabling. 20 years, no possibility of parole.
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Dunno: mine is set to Contacts Only, like any sane person
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Olivia's account was entirely credible, but none of us were in the room, so we might have offered you the benefit of the doubt but for this non-apology. It says more about you than Olivia did, and that's saying something ...
Today’s iPad will be foldable, but only once
Effectively, the M1 Max chip includes $4000’s worth of virtual Afterburner cards ...
Do you have any evidence for this, aside from everything he's said and done in the past few months?
Dogs have owners, cats have staff
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I updated and my cloth crashed. Is there any way to downgrade?
I loved it! It was coupled to a pager, so Telecom Gold/Dialcom would page me when I received an email* and then I’d use a payphone to logon and pick it up. *Oh, the days when I’d receive 1-2 emails a day ...
To anyone who has been offered a second/third shot but hasn’t yet gotten around to it, I highly recommend you prioritise it. COVID absolutely flattened me for four days despite three shots; I wouldn’t even like to imagine what it would have been like otherwise.
A lot of performance (but also a lot of dollars) in a very compact, audiophile-quality AirPlay speaker system
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We weren't hurting anyone, just engaging in your standard, everyday Naziism ...
The ultra-wide lens sells it to me, and hoping Night Mode will match the hype ...
Was worried about reports of the casing having curved edges, but I'm fine with these MacBook Pro-like sides ...
9to5mac.com/2020/09/23/unl has been adopted in iOS 14.5 (developer beta, should hit public beta in a week or so)
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“I’ll have a tweet, please.”
“Who from?”
“I DON’T CARE, I JUST REALLY LOVE TWEETS"
When is Apple Pay Cash coming to other countries, I wonder … ?
Irony award: People expressing disappointment that Apple’s big announcement doesn’t seem to offer anything to them ...
I thought it was Apple’s best keynote in years, with the format a big part of that ...
The three reasons I support Right to Repair, but also appreciate the flip side of the coin ...
Next iPhone X Diary piece coming next week, with a focus on the camera. I continue to be blown away by the low-light performance.
Bad news: 18-month old iPhone with swollen battery, which also bent the display.
Good news: being repaired or (almost certainly) replaced under warranty, with a loaner phone to tide me over. Will be interesting trying the iPhone 8.
It’s going to be an iPhone 9 ...
I can’t believe I actually have to prompt Apple to do this ...
I'd say this is one of the most beautiful Apple Stores in the world ...
