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Sure if you have the excel file created in Numbers/excel/whatever app, you can email from there.
They have share sheets now
They have share sheets now
iWatch. Can someone tell me the major difference between iWatch Sport and iWatch?
One is aluminum and one is stainless steel. Is everything inside the same?
My main use is to be able to receive text and calls, or notification of a call. In my office, we can't have any smart phones out on the desk. But are allow to make (personal) calls using office phone.
Also, how durable is the aluminum body phone? Thin like a soda can? Like phones, I've seen rubber protective cases. Is it necessary IRL? I have no plans to go hiking or fishing wearing a iWatch.
Also, does size matter? Yes, I will ask the wife. One size is consider "men's watch" and the other women. But I'm wondering if the smaller size make it more difficult to use. It's kind of like a smaller screen phone. I plan to get one for the wife too. Just wondering if we should both get the 42mm version.
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One is aluminum and one is stainless steel. Is everything inside the same?
My main use is to be able to receive text and calls, or notification of a call. In my office, we can't have any smart phones out on the desk. But are allow to make (personal) calls using office phone.
Also, how durable is the aluminum body phone? Thin like a soda can? Like phones, I've seen rubber protective cases. Is it necessary IRL? I have no plans to go hiking or fishing wearing a iWatch.
Also, does size matter? Yes, I will ask the wife. One size is consider "men's watch" and the other women. But I'm wondering if the smaller size make it more difficult to use. It's kind of like a smaller screen phone. I plan to get one for the wife too. Just wondering if we should both get the 42mm version.
TIA
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The screen is made out of different material between the two.
They are pretty durable.
They are pretty durable.
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Internals are the same. I know more men who got the smaller size than women who got the larger. And I found that 4mm wasn't enough to change how easily read things are.
Don't ask questions online though. Go to a store and try them out.
Don't ask questions online though. Go to a store and try them out.
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Yes, goto the store and try them on.
Also it's not called an iWatch.
Just Apple Watch.
Also it's not called an iWatch.
Just Apple Watch.
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So what's the latest rumor as far as release date goes for the iPhone 7?
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September? Just like the iPhone 5, 5S, 6, 6S
More specifically around September 9-12
More specifically around September 9-12
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iPhone 4 = Mon. June 7, 2010
iPhone 4S = Tues. Oct 4, 2011
iPhone 5 = Wed. Sept 12, 2012
iPhone 5S = Tues. Sept 10, 2013
iPhone 6 / 6 plus = Tues. Sept 9, 2014
If Apple follows the 3 prior announcement schedules (during a Tues or Wed of the 2nd full week in Sept), then iPhone 6S / 6S plus will be announced some time between Tues. Sept 8, 2015 and Wed. Sept 16, 2015. That's 6-7 weeks away.
iPhone 4S = Tues. Oct 4, 2011
iPhone 5 = Wed. Sept 12, 2012
iPhone 5S = Tues. Sept 10, 2013
iPhone 6 / 6 plus = Tues. Sept 9, 2014
If Apple follows the 3 prior announcement schedules (during a Tues or Wed of the 2nd full week in Sept), then iPhone 6S / 6S plus will be announced some time between Tues. Sept 8, 2015 and Wed. Sept 16, 2015. That's 6-7 weeks away.
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Yeah, that's right Apple, reward them by continuing to build your phones there.
Chinese regulators ban iPhone 6 models
Chinese regulators ban iPhone 6 models
Yeah, that's right Apple, reward them by continuing to build your phones there.
Chinese regulators ban iPhone 6 models
Chinese regulators ban iPhone 6 models
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Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid | The Verge
Another day, another rumor that Apple is going to ditch the headphone jack on the next iPhone in favor of sending out audio over Lightning. Or another phone beats Apple to the punch by ditching the headphone jack in favor of passing out audio over USB-C. What exciting times for phones! We’re so out of ideas that actively making them shittier and more user-hostile is the only innovation left.DITCHING THE HEADPHONE JACK ON PHONES MAKES THEM WORSELook, I know you’re going to tell me that the traditional TRS headphone jack is a billion years old and prone to failure and that life is about progress and whatever else you need to repeat deliriously into your bed of old HTC extUSB dongles and insane magnetic Palm adapters to sleep at night. But just face facts: ditching the headphone jack on phones makes them worse, in extremely obvious ways. Let’s count them!
(Also, here is a list of reasons you might actually prefer Lightning headphones, by my friend Vlad Savov, but let’s be clear that my list is the superior one.)
1. Digital audio means DRM audio
Oh look, I won this argument in one shot. For years the entertainment industry has decried what they call the "analog loophole" of headphone jacks, and now we’re making their dreams come true by closing it.WINTER IS COMINGRestricting audio output to a purely digital connection means that music publishers and streaming companies can start to insist on digital copyright enforcement mechanisms. We moved our video systems to HDMI and got HDCP, remember? Copyright enforcement technology never stops piracy and always hurts the people who most rely on legal fair use, but you can bet the music industry is going to start cracking down on "unauthorized" playback and recording devices anyway. We deal with DRM when it comes to video because we generally don’t rewatch and take TV shows and movies with us, but you will rue the day Apple decided to make the iPhone another 1mm thinner the instant you get a "playback device not supported" message. Winter is coming.
2. Wireless headphones and speakers are fine, not great
I am surrounded by wireless speaker systems. (I work at The Verge, after all.) And while they mostly work fine, sometimes they crackle out and fail. It sucks to share a wireless speaker among multiple devices. Bluetooth headphones require me to charge yet another battery. You haven’t known pain until you’ve chosen to use Bluetooth audio in a car instead of an aux jack.
Bluetooth: next year it’ll work great.
3. Dongles are stupid, especially when they require other dongles
Shut up, you say. All of your complaints will be handled by this charming $29 dongle that converts digital audio to a standard headphone jack!HAVE SOME DIGNITYTo which I will respond: here is a photo of Dieter Bohn and his beloved single-port MacBook, living his fullest #donglelife during our WWDC liveblog:Everything is going to be great when you want to use your expensive headphones andcharge your phone at the same time. You are going to love everything about that situation. You are going to hold your 1mm thinner phone and sincerely believe that the small reduction in thickness is definitely worth carrying multiple additional dongles.
Also, they’re called fucking dongles. Let’s not do this to ourselves. Have some dignity.
4. Ditching a deeply established standard will disproportionately impact accessibility
The traditional headphone jack is a standard for a reason — it works. It works so well that an entire ecosystem of other kinds of devices has built up around it, and millions of people have access to compatible devices at every conceivable price point. The headphone jack might be less good on some metrics than Lightning or USB-C audio, but it is spectacularly better than anything else in the world at being accessible, enabling, open, and democratizing. A change that will cost every iPhone user at least $29 extra for a dongle (or more for new headphones) is not a change designed to benefit everyone. And you don’t need to get rid of the headphone jack to make a phone waterproof; plenty of waterproof phones have shipped with headphone jacks already.
5. Making Android and iPhone headphones incompatible is so incredibly arrogant and stupid there’s not even explanatory text under this one
6. No one is asking for this
Raise your hand if the thing you wanted most from your next phone was either fewer ports or more dongles.
I didn’t think so. You wanted better battery life, didn’t you? Everyone just wants better battery life.
Vote with your dollars.
(Also, here is a list of reasons you might actually prefer Lightning headphones, by my friend Vlad Savov, but let’s be clear that my list is the superior one.)
1. Digital audio means DRM audio
Oh look, I won this argument in one shot. For years the entertainment industry has decried what they call the "analog loophole" of headphone jacks, and now we’re making their dreams come true by closing it.WINTER IS COMINGRestricting audio output to a purely digital connection means that music publishers and streaming companies can start to insist on digital copyright enforcement mechanisms. We moved our video systems to HDMI and got HDCP, remember? Copyright enforcement technology never stops piracy and always hurts the people who most rely on legal fair use, but you can bet the music industry is going to start cracking down on "unauthorized" playback and recording devices anyway. We deal with DRM when it comes to video because we generally don’t rewatch and take TV shows and movies with us, but you will rue the day Apple decided to make the iPhone another 1mm thinner the instant you get a "playback device not supported" message. Winter is coming.
2. Wireless headphones and speakers are fine, not great
I am surrounded by wireless speaker systems. (I work at The Verge, after all.) And while they mostly work fine, sometimes they crackle out and fail. It sucks to share a wireless speaker among multiple devices. Bluetooth headphones require me to charge yet another battery. You haven’t known pain until you’ve chosen to use Bluetooth audio in a car instead of an aux jack.
Bluetooth: next year it’ll work great.
3. Dongles are stupid, especially when they require other dongles
Shut up, you say. All of your complaints will be handled by this charming $29 dongle that converts digital audio to a standard headphone jack!HAVE SOME DIGNITYTo which I will respond: here is a photo of Dieter Bohn and his beloved single-port MacBook, living his fullest #donglelife during our WWDC liveblog:Everything is going to be great when you want to use your expensive headphones andcharge your phone at the same time. You are going to love everything about that situation. You are going to hold your 1mm thinner phone and sincerely believe that the small reduction in thickness is definitely worth carrying multiple additional dongles.
Also, they’re called fucking dongles. Let’s not do this to ourselves. Have some dignity.
4. Ditching a deeply established standard will disproportionately impact accessibility
The traditional headphone jack is a standard for a reason — it works. It works so well that an entire ecosystem of other kinds of devices has built up around it, and millions of people have access to compatible devices at every conceivable price point. The headphone jack might be less good on some metrics than Lightning or USB-C audio, but it is spectacularly better than anything else in the world at being accessible, enabling, open, and democratizing. A change that will cost every iPhone user at least $29 extra for a dongle (or more for new headphones) is not a change designed to benefit everyone. And you don’t need to get rid of the headphone jack to make a phone waterproof; plenty of waterproof phones have shipped with headphone jacks already.
5. Making Android and iPhone headphones incompatible is so incredibly arrogant and stupid there’s not even explanatory text under this one
6. No one is asking for this
Raise your hand if the thing you wanted most from your next phone was either fewer ports or more dongles.
I didn’t think so. You wanted better battery life, didn’t you? Everyone just wants better battery life.
Vote with your dollars.
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Then again they've "predicted" paper thin iPhones for years so I won't hold my breath.
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That picture of the Macbook is stupid.
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whiny millennial bitching. Get rid of the fucking headphone jack, who cares.
Between BT streaming in both my cars, BT earbuds for my workouts, and apple TV hooked up to my up my home theater w/ iTunes match and iTunes music...everyone else can go cry in their corner of butthurt.
Everyone has to find something to complain about, bitches.
Between BT streaming in both my cars, BT earbuds for my workouts, and apple TV hooked up to my up my home theater w/ iTunes match and iTunes music...everyone else can go cry in their corner of butthurt.
Everyone has to find something to complain about, bitches.
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^Sad but true. I don't use earbuds. Then again Android phones don't come with them. I have BT headphones for the gym, BT for the car, BT for the house or Spotify via PS4. The stupid things fall out my earhole anyway.
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I'll happily take digital audio so as long as they start making lightning-enabled DAC's so I can power some sick earbuds.
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Sounds like you need one of these...
https://www.oppodigital.com/headphon...-2-Images.aspx
https://www.oppodigital.com/headphon...-2-Images.aspx
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Only time I use my headphone port is for the Aux-in of my TLs head unit. Im too cheap to buy a Bluetooth adapter
That Verge article is surprisingly annoying, and odd, given how hard they usually ride Apple's nutsack.
Nobody asked for a thinner phone than already is. Nobody asked for the headphone jack to be removed. I mean, why? Is it THAT obstrusive? So now I have another adapter I have to worry about if my peripherals are aux only? And will there be a way to simultaneously charge my iPhone and listen to music if my peripheral doesn't have BT?
Nobody asked for a thinner phone than already is. Nobody asked for the headphone jack to be removed. I mean, why? Is it THAT obstrusive? So now I have another adapter I have to worry about if my peripherals are aux only? And will there be a way to simultaneously charge my iPhone and listen to music if my peripheral doesn't have BT?
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Like the iPhone SE :)
I finally picked up a gray SE a week ago; I wish Apple had matte black as a color.
Loading the back-up from iCloud went flawlessly, the SE is quick and smooth, it paired immediately with my 3G TL and works perfectly every time.
There are a lot of -5 and -5S around.
After the initial launch in March, the demand for the SE was enough that it wasn't in stock in the Apple or AT&T stores around L.A. until last week, although it could be ordered for delivery within two weeks or so. Either Apple underestimated demand or production was way behind.
Loading the back-up from iCloud went flawlessly, the SE is quick and smooth, it paired immediately with my 3G TL and works perfectly every time.
After the initial launch in March, the demand for the SE was enough that it wasn't in stock in the Apple or AT&T stores around L.A. until last week, although it could be ordered for delivery within two weeks or so. Either Apple underestimated demand or production was way behind.
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I'm dumping my POS 6+ for a Note 6 later this year FYI. There are things I like about the iPhone but there are things I definitely don't. I'm surprised the warranty phone I got when my original phone's touchscreen died has the same stupid glitchy issues the original one had (getting stuck in landscape orientation to name one), and the replacement phone now has a touchscreen that is dying (give it a gentle wack and it works again). Battery life sucks, meh.. I thought this experience was going to shift me completely to Apple. Hell to the no. My next CPU will be a windows machine.
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Good luck with all that.
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Windows makes CPUs now?
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Originally Posted by #1 STUNNA
Windows makes CPUs now?
Currently Post-Acura
Should this also go in a Florida thread? And I'm sure this will go far even though he didn't pay the dues to uphold the patent.
Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings - Mac Rumors
Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings - Mac Rumors
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Let's not forget the Apple Newton developednin 1987 and released in 1993.
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I guess cpu isn't such good abbreviation for computer.
I loved this phone in the beginning. I just wasn't expecting to have so many issues, and there are just some dumb things about it. Like moving your cursor through text, or downloading photos onto my PC. And meh battery life. After seeing what the Note 5 could do with its stylus and (possible) 2 day battery life I'm ready to jump Apple ship for now.
I loved this phone in the beginning. I just wasn't expecting to have so many issues, and there are just some dumb things about it. Like moving your cursor through text, or downloading photos onto my PC. And meh battery life. After seeing what the Note 5 could do with its stylus and (possible) 2 day battery life I'm ready to jump Apple ship for now.
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Whiskers (06-29-2016)
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If you could wait 3 mos the next Note will be released.
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I'm liking iOS 10
slide to unlock
the swipe left for special audio section in control center
slide to unlock
the swipe left for special audio section in control center
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Originally Posted by #1 STUNNA
I'm liking iOS 10
slide to unlock
the swipe left for special audio section in control center
slide to unlock
the swipe left for special audio section in control center
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PPTP VPN support
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Universal clipboard is fucking dope! Super handy for 2 factor authentication
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I am curious what the expiration time is on items copied to the universal clipboard. Could you go back three days later (or three weeks) and retrieve that clipped data? I know it is using icloud to sync, are your historical clips available if you log into icloud?
EDIT: I am seeing mixed messages about how the sync occurs... Some places are saying via icloud and some say via secure peer to peer between devices...
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I bet it stays forever until it's rewritten. And I bet there is no way to grab a history.
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Im thinking its Bluetooth and handoff