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It is a bad thing as it happened just at a transitional period in chargers. If it was just another USB A connector, then it wouldn't have been an issue. But we are now in the transition of USB C chargers and most people don't have a "box of them".

Newer devices are advertising that they have ever faster charging options, but these need the newer USB C connectors to reach these advertised speeds, which as I mentioned, most people don't already have. So you are stuck buying another thing to use what they were advertised as having.

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Market size has also gone up. 30 years ago and selling a million copies is mind-blowing. Today it's on the lower end of big game launch. Lower profit per unit, but many more units sold which really helps balance out the difference.

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Restarting phone as well so the same thing

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You turn it off. It says so in the link.

User Controls: Android users always have full control over which of their devices participate in the Find My Device network and how those devices participate. Users can either stick with the default and contribute to aggregated location reporting, opt into contributing non-aggregated locations, or turn the network off altogether.

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More like it's because it doesn't support Mac as much as they want them to.

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Merchant of the Void by 3Teeth with Mick Gordon (maker of the Doom 2016 and Eternal soundtrack(

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how can something be so courageous and yet so true (slrpnk.net)

Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee...

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Like fighting against the fur trade in a Canada Goose jacket.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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Not on my phone though. Pixel 4a, bought outright from Google but in Canada, no credit.

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I didn't, but this is what shows after I did. Still not there.

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    The vision pro has been out for less than 2 months and every review pretty much only shows the outside and never the main menu.

    The only ones "in the loop" of this level of detail of the vision pro would be only the most die hard Apple fans.

    Here is the review from The Verge. None of the images show that menu screen. And it's not alone. Here is a review from Are Technica, which is a well known pro-Apple site (it's often nicknamed Apple Technica), and even they never show that image.

    Not sure where you think not recognizing the vision pro menu would make most people "out of the loop".

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    As the site has never posted a profit in all its 18 years of operation, when has it not failed in a business sense?

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    Lucky you.

    Had to call a company for support of a $40,000 piece of equipment. They were at first willing to help and asked to FaceTime the call. When I told them I don't have an iPhone, I was pretty much shut down and told to just call a local repair man. (The repair man, not associated with them, helped me completely over the phone. Didn't need video or anything)

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    It's one of the leading companies in restaurant equipment. Worth a little $750 million. It's a serious company and they didn't care.

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    The problem with your iPod comparison is most likely you didnt use a good MP3 player. They existed before iPod, they just didnt get the marketing blitz Apple did. Cowon comes to mind, and had much better quality audio.

    The iPhone was copying what MS had innovated with Windows Mobile 2005 (a fully usable mobile phone that didn't need physical buttons.) Issue was 3rd parties kept putting keyboards on the phones, so Microsoft created their Surface range to help stop these blunders.

    As for your other comments, the iPad was Apple rushing to compete with Android tablets like the Android Vega.

    Apple was always noted as having low res (1600x900 screens) while everyone was moving hi res like 1080p. You can thank the PC world for those, or you most likely still be using a 1600x900 screen.

    TouchID? Fingerprint scanners have been on laptops for at least 15 years.

    Face ID? You mean Windows Hello with MS's Kinect technology?

    OSX was innovative... by dropping their own macOS coded OS in favor of using someone elses work? Ok... odd flex there...

    OSX came out at the same time as WinXP, not 95.... Worst. Apple. History. Revisionist. Ever.

    The first wireless earbuds were released in 2014, long before airpods. And companies like Sony already made them common and popular before airpods.

    As for the Vision Pro, its literally Apple aping Microsoft (again). Its called the HoloLens, came out in 2016. Here is a TED talk about it.

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    Though since I'm bored, I'll bite again.

    MS got their original UI from Xerox, just like Apple copied as well. The difference was, Apple was sued for the copying.

    As for Android, what about it? It was started in 2003 by Android Inc, and Google bought it in 2005 to build a "handheld mobile device". You know, when Steve Jobs was showing the Moto Rokr, Apples failed first foray into smartphones? Apple just looked around, saw Microsoft was building for the modern smartphone and even Google was already getting a jump start into it as well.

    And well, this being Apple, they just copied someone else (big shocker here...) And they ripped off LG, but LG in the end didn't sue. It's well known that the LG Prada was shown off (and won the iF Design Award) in Sept of 2006. 5 months later, a (now known) glitchy prototype that even when released wasn't complete (no cut and paste).

    The real issue for you isn't your "done seeking out a non-group think argument", the reality is you are desperately looking for a group-think group that only sees Apple as some all mighty and infallible company that can do no wrong and none can do better than them. I wish you the best of luck finding such a group, but as you've noticed, it won't be here.

    PS, I forgot add about the "128 kbps"... yeah, about that. 192 kbps were a thing then. And still, no, they don't "all sound the same". Good MP3 players have a good hardware DAC, and the iPod didn't have a good one. Cowon did though

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