Genuinely, and I am definitely an Apple fan, I don't think that's true. I think Paul is very even-handed. He c
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I don't think they're right about this from the user's perspective. There are two options here: Apple implemen
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You're absolutely right: E2E encryption isn't part of the RCS standard at all. It's something tacked on by Goo
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And RCS doesn't support encryption for group chats, something which Google doesn't mention. It's "coming later
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Oh, and unlike ClipChamp, iMovie will export in 4K.
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Meanwhile, iMovie is free on Mac, IOS and iPadOS. Clips is free on iPhones and iPad. That $143 a year you'll p
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It never ceases to amaze me how much Microsoft makes updating a computer to the latest version of Windows a co
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It's funny you mention the X1 Carbon: when I bought mine, I deliberately specified one without a multitouch di
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I've had an X1 Carbon Gen 9 for a year or so and it's absolutely my favourite laptop. Robust, fast, reliable,
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Same for me. I use Edge for work stuff, as we are very much a Microsoft-based business, but my personal browsi
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I suspect the reason is more to do with that generation only having 6Gb of RAM vs the 8GB or 16GB on the M1-eq
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Not sure why you would want to run a windowing environment on a tiny screen, but each to his own I guess.
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Apple has two keynotes at WWDC: the main one, which is largely intended for consumers and media to find out mo
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Source? Because I think you’re confusing two things. For quite a few releases, you have had to downgrade the
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I think that needs a little bit more explanation. You might not like the way macOS handles windows, but that's
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Congratulations! Sounds like the seller really went the extra mile to help too -- a good seller makes such a d
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Although I'm a huge iPad fan and user, I really hope they do a good job with the Pixel Tablet (if that's what
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It is indeed £399, and if you're coming from a 3a that's a really decent upgrade.
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Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" is probably the definitive biography. Jobs authorised it, and Isaacson had acce
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I think it's always going to be a problem defining what a computer is by how it's used, but it's probably the
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I think your first point is right, Paul, although it's always arguable: yes, for a lot of people, an iPad is a
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I have both a Surface Book with 3:2 and a ThinkPad with 16:10 and I don't see a huge difference between them -
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I think it's quite extraordinary the reaction here about this. This is just standard professional user experie
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I just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying this entire series. You are going to put this together as a book, r
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It's a mark of just how good Rosetta is that I actually thought Teams was native on ARM already.
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You know that if you're a Mac user moving to Windows, every one of your complaints would be reversed -- and eq
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I haven't used that specific Thunderbolt dock, but I use a CalDigit one with both MacBook Pro (Intel version)
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Anyone who thinks that developers haven't made billions of dollars and created hugely profitable businesses fr
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I have to disagree with you about Panay, Paul: I much prefer his approach, which actually makes Windows intere
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Apple does not charge for its XCode dev tools, true - but on the other hand you need to pay the app store fee
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Because it simplifies the code base and gives the opportunity to make the user interface more simple. It reduc
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Absolutely agree. The number of people who talk about how everyone uses feature X or no-one uses feature Y wit
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I think Sinofsky's approach of valuing real-world telemetry data over enthusiast feedback was actually correct
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Even for an Apple, Google or Meta 10% of global profits is not to be sneezed at. And that recurs.
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“Basic” means SMS/MMS level. Which of course Google, Apple and many other chat apps already support. Whats
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Except that the extremist view of interoperability is that every client supports every feature, so as soon as
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You should check out the amount of personal data that WhatsApp harvests vs what iMessage wants. If the price o
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The notion that iMessage lock in is a key to customer loyalty is hogwash. Apple customer loyalty is just as hi
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I’ve seen a fair few hot takes along the lines of “iMessage will have to support RCS”, which is, of cour
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This is the way I open almost all applications on both Windows and Mac - search is just way easier than trying
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I'm not seeing anything in what Google are saying here that deals with the problem which you highlight: a comp
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Did they really have “Windows Mojave” t-shirts? That’s brilliant. Somewhere I still have the “I suppo
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You missed off "fluid" ?
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That's almost exactly the case form me. It would work fine with my M1 Mac mini, but I can also plug in my Thin
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Pro video users (and this is what the Studio is aimed at) care about performance and ports, in that order. Thi
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I love these kinds of posts. What I'm always struck by though is how little you can do now that you couldn't d
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It's a credit to Apple's Rosetta software that I didn't realise Dropbox wasn't native.
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This sounds like an amazing and exciting adventure - I'm looking forward to reading more about it.
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I have the previous (Gen 9) X1 Carbon and it's a delightful machine. I maxed it out with a 1Tb SSD and 32Gb of
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I've heard a few reports of this and definitely don't doubt you - although I have both M1 and Intel Macs and t
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And of course for the same level of performance, design and features, you're really not paying much more for A
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That's correct. Outside gaming and the enthusiast market, almost no one upgrades RAM.
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This really is a walk down memory lane for me. About the same time, I was freelancing and did a Tablet PC labs
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I had one of the Acer C110 tablet PCs, and used it as my main device for a couple of years. It was a pretty go
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First, it’s worth mentioning that your iPad is 11 years old, and got six major revisions of the OS. That’s
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To be fair, they can’t be behind on Android 12L yet, as it’s not actually released ?
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I’m much the same. I love mine - although it’s a second device, not only phone.
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I think the thing that people are missing when they talk about RCS as a standard is the sorry state of support
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They communicate with non-Apple users perfectly well, with the existing SMS standard.
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I'm glad you mentioned Typora, because I think it's by far the best Markdown editor for Windows (and there's a
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The keyboard is very reminiscent of the old PowerBook G4 12in, which was a good keyboard but had more travel t
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I thought I was the only person who loved the TouchBar :)
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I know this isn't going to happen, but I would love it if Apple offered some bare-bones features which integra
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Yeah, I agree. I don't like Samsung and wouldn't buy their products, but those silly names are just juvenile.
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Apple TV+ has really found its feet lately and has some good shows on it. I like that their approach is basica
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I don’t know if it’s changed but the thing that really turned me against Fitbit was it locking my fitness
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It's very telling contrasting the quality of Google's iOS apps vs Microsoft's. Microsoft's developers aren't t
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I am very jealous of your collection of Byte magazines - I loved them!
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I am sceptical about this. The amount that MFi brings in is tiny.
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"Can you? I didn't think you can change the launcher on an iOS device. You can install Microsoft's apps, but i
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/13/covid-uk-coronavirus-cases-deaths-and-vaccinations-todayIf you t
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“The pandemic is over”. Which is why in the UK we just hit a new record number of cases. We’re a little
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I’ve had this ThinkPad for a couple of months now and it’s easily my favourite laptop to work on. I bought
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I'm not sure what the use case would be for 64GB in an ultrabook - surely if you really need that much RAM you
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Yeah, I think you're right - "normal" will be inch by inch, not just one big change. And some things will neve
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Not sure if Lenovo is just being conservative here: mine originally gave a delivery date of six weeks, and tur
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Yes, you can swap over using the Lenovo Vantage software.
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To be honest, although there's some other good features in Monterey, this is the stand-out one for many people
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Half of me reminisces about the days when you had to hack stuff together, and then I watch an antique tech vid
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I genuinely don't see what the big deal is. Lots of people who use Office don't know that it even exists on mo
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Well... it's complicated. Apple at the time was a set of warring fiefdoms: the Macintosh group (led by Jobs),
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You must remember too that the microcomputer crowd all saw IBM as an "evil" force in computing. Microcomputers
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I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max and it is an absolute chonk of a phone, but it’s also very, very good - the batt
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I think you hit the nail on the head here Joe. It's not that the world is crying out for 3D emoji. But it's st
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It just works for me. However, if you do something like resize the windows or use them in a split view when yo
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Hi Paul - how's the Thinkpad X1 Carbon review going? I'm mostly curious because I own one, and I'd love to kno
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There's not a lot of things I subscribe to but Paul's site is one of them. Although I often disagree with his
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That would also explain why my new Thinkpad (which came with Windows 10) didn't want to update to Windows 11 o
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Oddly, when I ordered mine recently, not having a facial recognition camera was not an option - and I ordered
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I've been a "mostly Mac" user for quite a while, despite having a gaming laptop and a Surface, but Windows 11
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Paul, I could not agree with you more. What was promised was a simple, elegant idea that was easy for users to
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It's a significant improvement over Windows 10 and I like it a lot. I keep hearing again and again that "it's
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Yes, I think you sum it up nicely. I have an M1 12.9in iPad Pro and it’s absolutely my favourite device. But
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I think you make a very good point. I like to keep both an Android and iOS phone around (I still can't shake t
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It’s a very good point and I hope you’re right.
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An average, apparently, of a billion dollars revenue a day over the full year.
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We have been through this before, though, with Android Honeycomb in 2011. Google, as Google almost always does
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Leaving aside that Apple doesn’t make an “M1X”, I’d recommend you read a proper technical overview lik
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I remember this well. I was working at MacUser UK at the time, either as reviews or news editor, and review un
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Android 12 is a huge upgrade and almost enough to tempt me away from iPhone, but the hardware for Android just
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Prices are higher and many of the call-related features like call screening, wait on hold and Duplex aren't av
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Looking forward to the full review. I've been looking for a replacement for the various Windows machines that
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It's annoying that Microsoft has over promised and under delivered, but I'm generally pleased with the user in
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That's annoying, but the apps where the developer has allowed it mostly run very well. If the Android apps can
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It's worth a try. I prefer it to both Spotify and Apple Music.
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It is a GREAT idea for a certain kind of technically-astute user who wants "choice" like this. For ordinary us
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Lose developers to where, though? If Google and Apple both charged developers, say, $500 per year to get acces
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But under the system that Paul is describing, you could easily just end up on a web page from any app which lo
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What you're suggesting would benefit end users – but that's almost exactly what would not happen, as it redu
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Android ≠ Google Play Services, of course. As I'm sure you know, Google has been moving a raft of APIs and f
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I would never go direct for a subscription if I had the choice, given how bad many third parties are at making
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I think Google's claim is actually even more of a nonsense than you're saying. Google's costs for Android deve
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I have the same experience. I work for a large international business and whenever I get together with colleag
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This got me too - it’s distributed via the Microsoft Store, so you need to go there and update apps after yo
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It's annoying that this phone isn't available in the UK, as I'm in the market for a decent mid-range phone wit
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I've had this happen to me before on Windows 10.
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Hard disagree. This is an excellent feature and one that I would use every day. I've yet to find any really go
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I absolutely love the ability to drag from tasks to calendar to block off time. Use this everyday.
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Updated this morning, Chat is there - yay! Unfortunately, once you have opened it, there appears to be no way
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Yeah, that's why rebuilding it with native tools on whatever platform, rather than relying on Electron, is a b
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Well there are a couple of hundred million Mac users and I don't know how many Chromebooks they could replace
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Absolutely spot on. "The market for mobile phones" is a market. "The market for Android phones" is a market. A
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The devil is in showing this creates harm to consumers – doesn't matter if it reduces the profits of other c
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Of course, and similarly every single small player who gets large wants to control the market. It's intrinsic
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You are correct, and that is why people are focusing on completely the wrong things.The government is struggli
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Increased competition in payment processing won’t drive down prices. Payment processes are notorious for abu
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Those folks will carry on getting Windows 10 releases for another four years, if they want to hold up to their
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Congratulations, you've almost grasped the point of Windows 11 :)After the past year's bumper harvest of new m
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Can you sync health data from Fitbit to Apple Health? No. Now that really is lock in.
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I really wish Apple would just copy the way that the two screens interact on Surface Duo. That, to me, seems a
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He doesn't, but I would be interested to hear where you think Apple meets the definition of having a monopoly,
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There’s no way this is a spec to build anything on. Surely this is a test rig rather than a build one?
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“The tablet market continues to defy expectations with the strength of its comeback” probably gives you th
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Why is user-replaceable preferable to replaceable by a qualified technician? Old part
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In reply to RobertJasiek:The model that you're using is a bit of an over-simplification of the environmen
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In reply to nbplopes:That chin is where literally the entire computer lives.
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Touchscreens on laptops I can see the point of. Touchscreens on desktops? Nope.
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In reply to JustMe:You're right to question, because there's all kinds of stalking scenarios which a
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In reply to crunchyfrog:The good news is you can indeed purchase the remote separately. The bad news is that i
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In reply to paul-thurrott:At least it's not in the egregious camp of crapware that used to plague Windows
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In reply to Prebengh:I have an M1 Mac mini, and there were definitely some problems with OneDrive early on. My
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In reply to bluvg:Very few phones are as thin as an average laptop lid. Side by side, my iPhone is about doubl
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Little bit puzzled by what you’re saying Robert. How is file management “not gene
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I think the iPad range might be the best products Apple makes.
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In reply to Saarek:It's probably worth £4.99 a month just to stop the kids nagging you about loot boxes
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Apple Arcade is a very nice service for two kinds of gamers: casuals, who don't want to end up in the wor
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In reply to nbplopes:“People don’t buy a PC because its run on Intel or RIZEN. They buy a PC because it ru
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Notably missing: The Surface Pro X, which is the most beautifully designed Windows PC I’ve used for years. N
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In reply to jimchamplin:So in the past 24 hours I’ve used four different computers: A MacBook Pro 16; a Raze
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In reply to crunchyfrog:I don’t think they’re embarrassing, but they are a little “meh”. For a non-tec
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Ahh, the clarion call of spring has arrived: the quarterly "Apple is cutting/boosting production" story has em
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In reply to Adlton:This x10000.
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In reply to RobertJasiek:I think you have hit the problem that Windows faces on the head. All the things you h
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In reply to jolla:Pumped is just Panos' natural state - it's when he gets super-pumped that you know
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Well Apple has moved from macOS X to macOS 11, so obviously Microsoft has to follow suit ;)Seriously though, r
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The key question is whether this mode will also turn off the ability of TV manufacturers to track everything y
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In reply to nbplopes:"Just the other day, Apple forbid its users accessing digital services such as xCloud and
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In reply to Saarek:"There is a good reason for that, of course, and that’s that there is a lot more money to
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:The key question, as always, is "where is the consumer harm?" Are phone prices high? No
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In reply to reefer2:Really strange then that I use mostly Microsoft services with them. The same services I us
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Although I can see that happening in phones and "pure" tablets, I don't think
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In reply to spraly:For the same price you could buy a much more capable Surface Book, which is a "real machine
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In reply to canamrotax:In common with most companies, Apple, and Google, and Microsoft all compete in areas an
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In reply to JG1170:The Android that people actually want to buy - the version you find on almost all phones -
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In reply to JG1170:Those figures are global. No one is sending out checks to the rest of the world
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In reply to reefer2:How dare they make products that people want to buy
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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Hugely so. At the time, Microsoft killing off Office would have been another nail
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In reply to bkkcanuck:There is a pretty widely-reported issue with battery life and iOS 14, which may be affec
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In reply to shark47:We are really beyond the point where you can explain Apple's success by "goodwill", "
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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Anyone who has struggled with the performance of every Wear OS device in history
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In reply to Jeffsters:This is very true, and I suspect that the relationship between Apple and Microsoft (whic
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In reply to nbplopes:People buy these products once or twice, sometimes three (the true believers) yet end up
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:Trust me, if Microsoft could trade 10% margin for an overall (close to) doubling in
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In reply to dougone:I'm not aware that a reality distortion field can print money. Can you expand?
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In reply to MikeCerm:Them's fighting words :)But seriously, for anyone who spends a lot of time typing ke
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In reply to wright_is:I think Paul has talked elsewhere about it being more of an ergonomic decision, in the s
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In reply to Paul_Nelson:You're not the only one :) I think it depends a lot on what you're using it
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"And unlike the more expensive and locked-in Apple Watch"...Paul, I get that you don't like Apple and tha
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In reply to filipvh:Seconded - I’ve found that after a while Siri app suggestions are uncannily good.
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In reply to beckerrt:Had the Pixel 5 been basically a 4XL with better battery life and 5G, it would have a dec
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In reply to Saarek:Basically because Android isn't really open source, at least not in a meaningful way.
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If this is Google's new strategy for the Pixel line then I'm afraid that the Pixel 4 XL will be the
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I'm really looking forward to making Edge/Outlook my defaults. Although I like Safari and Mail, my compan
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In reply to Vladimir:Sort of. Developers can't release to the App Store anything which takes advantage of
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In reply to glenn8878:Just a minor point, Glenn: iOS has over 50% market share in the US, and around 25% globa
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From what I understand, when you install an app which is capable of acting as the default mail or browser, you
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In reply to Saarek:I think you hit the nail on the head here nicely Saarek - this is a machine for normal user
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What a fantastic opportunity, good luck!
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In reply to glenn8878:Microsoft doesn't have to convince developers to do Windows on ARM. It's final
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I'm still unconvinced, for a couple of reasons.First, remember that while Apple
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One thing to remember about that 7% for Intel: the mix of chips that Apple buys skews towards the high end, hi
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I’m really hoping the keyboard cover doesn’t only lie flat like that, and that it clicks up on to the bott
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In reply to VancouverNinja:If Microsoft supports Siri shortcuts with the Cortana app, yes.
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:And of course Chrome on iOS uses the rendering engine of Safari.
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"The public rationale for this was that Edge’s rendering engine was more secure, provided better battery lif