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I think digital businesses big or small should wake to this reality that seams ever closing down upon business

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The difference is that Apple uses it to justify its App Store as the sole agent for the sale of software progr

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That is so no true in many ways.

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What is the minimum download number?

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i subscribe HBO Max, Apple TV+, Netflix and Amazon Prime. Theoretically plenty of choice. Yet I only manage t

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Increasing prices plus inflation.

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Also the MBP display quality as well as sound is at another league.

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Meaning I can live with the notch but not with the inefficiency of the Studio.

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A couple of weeks ago had a Surface Studio top of the line with 32GB, Windows 11 and all along with an MBP M1

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To each their own. I don't buy any device that takes a second to open the file manager while on battery .. agg

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It is as hard to say that MS overreacted as it is to imagine if it did not react. Would the iPad be even a big

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Hi. I personally don't care less for the positioning of the taskbar. Even though I understand the appeal to to

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“Windows is what users turn to when they need power”Humm. No. It’s probably the only tool users invested

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I could only imagine what would be when fully loaded with the usual stuff ... Norton etc etc.

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This weekend, Saturday precisely, went to pick up a brand new Surface Studio 32GB yada yada and of course Wind

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The market share of a default web browser of an OS with 83% market share beats the default browser of an OS w

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You don't need Alfred to do that. MacOS does what you want natively ... the feature is called Spotlight.

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Just wait for the article ... "Why I moved from Google Chrome to Microsoft Edge ..."

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I think it's a new feature on Windows 11. Go to settings to enable it. Don't know if its on Windows 10 ... may

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There are no free apps in the App Store apart from the ones from Apple.

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Well, that is the message meant by Apple ... hiding the fact that it pays no fees in these contexts!!!!!! So i

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I think as far as Tablet goes te future has been already here for sometime. The result is that is not a replac

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Don't use OneDrive. But Microsoft Teams performance is bad in the M1 Pro.

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Very curious about the iMac Pro and Mac Pro performance. Been using the MBP M1 Pro for the last two weeks and

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I have 5 AirTags. The thing that bugs me the most is that me and my wife sometimes share keys, say car keys.

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I believe tracker of this kind should be forbidden by law. Embedding trackers in purses, smartphones, cars …

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It may work as intended but that is not the litmus of a good solution much less of good design.Yes, Apple cann

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A Judge can. They can already crack open your place, your place … why such a fuss about a smartphone.

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It does not matter. Competition is on the devices, not the App Stores. Still I like the fact the MS is offerin

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I find this technology of using an smartphone as a credit and debit cards read a security hazard by the way.

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I meant, turning the iPhone into a POS.

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Yes … this is the feature that makes Apple approach unique at the moment. It basically turns any iPhone into

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This already exists in Android. Its provided by third party digital services … not Google.On the iPhone, whe

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Don’t know if people will care that much. I could easily see Microsoft getting into the playfield quick….

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I see PS5 nowhere around here. Can’t be bothered look at stock or make a pre-order for months to get one. Le

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Apple App Store is the only mechanism I know that has the ability to enforce fees over things it does not host

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I can’t imagine a company working with two others, than bought by one, if not to undercut the other sometime

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MS is amassing a huge amount of “real state” on many subjects. Has someone said, who can’t win … pay t

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"Your claims that only Apple has access to NFC is incorrect."For the purpose of implementing the standard that

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Indeed I'm not versed how the US gov is organized. In Europe, ID cards and drivers license are emitted by each

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From cherry picking facts to factoids.“Nothing in this situation precludes any other digital wallet from usi

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Yeah. Vert well cherry picked.

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I guess the standard also established a service contract between Apple and the governamental institutions.

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“… Spencer said that the Xbox Series X|S has already outsold all previous generation Xbox consoles despite

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I think you may be outdated regarding European practices. Europeans use SMS messages all the time for work and

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I find it weird that a modern open communication standard does not come already with privacy artifacts in 2022

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Well. I do use Android too. Maybe its because the EU there are more Androids than there are iPhones … or may

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I am very pro standards and I do agree that Apple should support messaging standards at the core as it does on

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‘Apple’s world-class portfolio of services proved essential in 2021, as people worldwide sought new ways t

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No. The Microsoft Store on Windows was designed to be like the macOS App Store. These numbers and success aren

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Oh, and tax payers are being used to enrich this systems … you know … those drivers license and ID that ar

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This is what happens when a company is allowed to usurp the value created and delivered by others by forcing i

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I’ve been waiting for a robust yet simple to use integration between Windows and Android for a tech. Send an

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It is meant to run o peoples heads … not the computer.For that matter It works as there are even articles wr

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It will take time.We use the HomePod daily … listen to music, control lights and shades, set reminders and t

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"this vaccine is so bad that in less than 6 months CDC Director Rochelle Walensky goes ..."Why don't

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"The flu is a completely different beast, varying from year to year."Why is the comparison with polio better?"

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".... But i am still pissed."Be pissed with COVID. Be pissed with the government inability to be truthful ...

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"There exists performance issues with the vaccines that are allowing Omnicron to spread in vaccinated populati

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What's the size of Cornell population? Right ... Can you provide an example of a flu vaccine that give you 100

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Hi. I see several anti-vaccine people here, and other places, talking about their decision is based on data. A

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I can’t even find one for sale in Europe … and I don’t care enough to end up in some list waiting for mo

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It is happening

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So anti-vaxers refuse to take the vaccine because they know for a fact does more harm than good. The proof is

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Windows everywhere is failed tech. Get over it.

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Apple and MS have been using the same kind of hardware for 20 years no by the way … Intel . Only now Apple i

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By the way in terms both software and devices don’t think Apple has the best ecosystem. Its just that their

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I believe in the links between devices. It’s akin to distributed personal computing and when it works is min

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When it come to these tactics Apple is way worst. It’s the master and MS the pupil.In fact, the MS comeback

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Qualcomm and MS have a temp exclusivity deal regarding Windows on ARM. A thing that has up until now failed fu

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Hi Paul. Thank you for the typo correction. I agree that names are important, especially people.If I offended

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Hi Thurrot, I don’t agree with your Industry wide assessments. Also with your conclusions in many reviews re

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Although I just bought the Apple Watch series 7, sapphire glass et all, Samsung watch are more pleasant to my

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Let’s stop pretending that finger print id was designed to deal with face mask situation.COVID just happened

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That is why right to repair exists. It might not be worth to spend time fixing something for Apple, but it mig

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This was bound to happen. I bet team of lawyers have concluded …Now, the App Store policies …PS: This prac

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Don’t understand your point. If users couldn’t by any means not use or consumer something would be a dicta

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This is a natural side effect of governamental agencies lineancy with Apple and other regarding their policie

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The price is on on par with MDM solutions out there. With the disadvantages of not being cross platform.

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The insistence of tech companies over VR, even after years of public rejection is showing.As it stands no comp

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I know, he should have sniffed some Trump stuff.

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It’s not the same. Windows Phone solution was never a popular device. Microsoft brand simply obfuscated this

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By the way. Why is this a reaction of an abuser? Well in no way it benefits YouTube customers/users … it har

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Crazy. Google reaction is one of an abuser.

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Take it or leave it aren’t choices. It may look like a choice but aren’t.

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As long as these App Stores are tied to the OS in ways creating obstacles to users in acquiring and installing

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What are the constraints of such a design?

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Humm. One can easily argue that the preferences of having a notch from left to right just because that is what

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That would be silly considering that this only make sense in maxOS due to existence of a permanent menu bar. A

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An example of Apple innovating the internals and updating the externals. What outstanding beefy machines these

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I think you should have a look at the DELL XPS OLEDs 13 and 15 and than reevaluate your assessment.

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Hi. In my opinion there is a fair amount of confusion on this topic … a confusion that in my view is steered

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Yeah. The major drawback is that the de facto standard is docX.If they did made iWork for Windows for free cou

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For a free office software kit, iWorks is brilliant. Finely Pivot Tables in Numbers … Curious about the Keyn

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I like the way the display works. I think they may have nailed it this time.Wish the OS was macOS / Touch and

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The entire widgets UI / spring board crashed on me 3 times last night on the iPad Pro 2020 12.9 … In 11 year

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What a senseless observation.

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I believe you would argue otherwise if Apple actually moved the needle further every year. No depth just cute

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This iPhone developments seam to have been dedicated mostly to video … saw some interesting things there. Th

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Let’s be honest. This mall would be worth 0 without the iPhone. So comparing this to a regular mall is nonse

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ERRATA: 556 Visual Studio seats a year. You would go bankrupt just to pay for a team that could use as many li

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There are many things Apple can do, including do nothing but remove the clause that is not compliant with the

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Their answer “just leave the Mac.”

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What about without running Office?

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By the way, if I was MS I would even stop supporting Office in iOS and Mobile Safari, (gradually) … In 4 yea

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But they actively prevented xCould to run on their systems … so …

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In my opinion, it makes sense at many levels. The current technological landscape is not to play nice with oth

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“It was literally part of the lawsuit. Epic said Apple didn’t have the right to charge a commission on pur

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This stuff usually looks much better in the pictures. Very few companies are able to make it look and feel the

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And also said that one of their policies was illegal as per Californian Competition Law, aka anti-competitive.

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I don’t understand. Why some people ever thought Apple’s right to be compensated for its IP was in questio

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Apple never forced 30% royalty fees in sales made outside the App Store, either directed or not by the the thi

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As someone might say … Apple does not want to get into royal mess :)

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Or even worst … eventually split force Apple to pivot the App Store into a separate company if it is found t

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Worst … eventually split force Apple to pivot the App Store into a separate company.

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Success is not illegal of course, but anti-competitive practices are. That is what the Judge said.

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“This judgement basically says it’s “unfair”, not “monopolistic”.”That is not what I read in the

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In my opinion is not a monopoly in eCommerce either, the App Store being just an instance. Yet the Judge simpl

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“I believe this is extremely unfair if no challenging to the principles guiding the Internet that fostered i

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Apple does not have a Monopoly over the smartphone market. That ship as sailed for now. Don’t understand Epi

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I’m very much pro regulating some smartphone manufactures policies and practices, the most prominent being A

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We can always count on Microsoft to do the right thing after doing everything else. This is just another itera

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Don’t think this solves the underlying problem. Which is some companies refusing to repair their products ri

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Don’t think this solves the underlying problem. Which is some companies refusing to repair their products ri

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The future is not about choice but the illusion of choice. “Would you rather study for an hour or study for

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Humm. It’s beta so things like this can happen and do happen regardless come from features around Ads or som

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This is not an dev problem, its not about Apple making concessions to devs. It’s an Internet problem … if

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The second part of my comment … I finished the previous one with “The problem in my opinion is that these

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The problem of all this is that Apple is still controlling the narrative. Apple is not making any concessions

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Let me try nevertheless write it short. If it does not work, try the longer explanation. My stance has nothing

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If I had more time I would write it shorter. But maybe its worth it. Who knows.

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Well your is even more bs if not a phenomenon of stupidity in my opinion. Even though we may arrive to the sam

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Oh by doing so, maybe than the market actually see what effectively paying for with this scheme and compare wi

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Will see. But hey, maybe Cloud services like AWS, Google owns and Azure got it all wrong. They should instead

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Congrats on the good job you have been doing. Looking forward to see the results of you next venture. Wish you

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Net Neutrality passed in 2015. The bill that would allow ISPs to offer tiered lanes per digital service kind o

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Imagine Apple. These companies policies around their mobile OSs in effect hold ransom internet users, third p

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This is beyond the warranty.time.I had a 4 year old MacBook Pro that had replaced for free in a similar progr

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Given the circumstances I’ve found this trial very vert fishy. Who are the two devs behind these trials, hon

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Let’s just wait to check how this one goes. This is the thing that annoys me amongst tech reviewers. No one

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Yes. The idea that this article creates the this kinds of feature release delays appears recurrently and as of

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SharePlay is an iOS thing, a mobile OS. As closed as Windows Phone was … now that was a dead end street.I a

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Well those over payed deigned and developer need to justify their salary every year right?

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I thing MS has thrown the Single Responsibility Principle down the toilet.Honestly, all I needed to start any

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Sounds good on paper. Like everything that MS announces.I personally need to trust MS back … Apple decisions

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So no, not everyone really wants to know just that.

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Adverstising is not illegal.

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In other words, if and when one trick ponies become illegal, bye bye 90%+ of US companies. Than it begs the qu

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Hopefully being one trick pony will never be illegal. Most companies have only one single source of revenue.

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From the biggest launch flops due to lack of stock to the fastest selling ever …

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Heheh, The no stock strategy has payed. Can’t find one anywhere …. But still the fastest sale …. Hehhehe

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What a money printing machine. Absolutely gravity defying.As I see it, the thing of Apple it marks innovation

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Using customer assets as products, data assets or other forms of assets is a thing that needs to be regulated.

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I would argue otherwise. Never had a security problem with macOS. Furthermore have the freedom to choose App S

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#3 it is possible, they do it on macOS. Apple would not be force to run at a loss as they don't run at a loss

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I simply like the fact that in macOS, just hits CMD-Space and faster than a bunk of an eye a google like searc

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Well it could but I think it is not either. Neither it is about App Store in general.For me its more wether it

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Well actually the regulator have done a lot in that matter. If it wasn’t for them they would probably be req

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They don’t need to lower the fees. No regulator can do that. What a regulator can do is in the context of pl

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Yes Apple its an amazing company. Still its nothing but a supplier of the world … like any other company. Th

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The idea that Apple critiques are forcing the App Store to be run at a loss is absurd.

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This is not about Epic.

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Curtis, I believe people should never be afraid to fight for the right thing. These companies are attempting t

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Something I would pay for … in the waiting list

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The Backbone was released in 2020. I believe that Kishi was even prior to that. Just marketing.

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I must say that Satya closing speech was one of the best I’ve seen this decade on creators and customers. So

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Even though I personally don’t have much use for such a feature in macOS you can m. Windows not sure.

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So now we have everything pushed to the left and a huge space of nothing on the right. Looks like a balanced u

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Special kettles for the perfect XBOX coffee brew is the next. Let’s just go wild.

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Its not at all condescending. If you want to believe that “money grab” means the same as “selling” its

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Interesting POV. When I buy bread, strawberries, petrol … one does not think of “money grab” buy a simpl

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Money grab

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Hi think you maybe confusing issues that may clogging issues that may harm the Anti Trust cause by putting ima

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Why is MS doing this just now after WWDC 3 weeks ago or so. I mean, common one can say that Apple hasn’t don

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Yes. I think Apple will allow floating windows in scenarios where it makes sense in a 13” display.IMHO the e

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Just to add one more note. Its tru that the FaceTime new feature presentation kind of looks awkward as a novel

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Its not really about mouse without borders or copy in paste between devices. Its really multitasking taken to

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MS and their demos … we also did it :)

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Why Apple fans and not macOS and iOS users only? Kind of look like that someone that uses Apple products must

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Apple just dropped the mic IMHO. The presentation was feature packed in and out. So much that will take time t

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That is how iOS works. You can make your iPad, Apple TY or HomePod your home hub.

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Superficially, just by looking at the images, the iOS UI looks like a iOS ripoff with a touch of Samsung Andro

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Been enjoying this for quite a few months now on all Apple devices. Apple TV UI itself defaults to Dolby Visio

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Dolby Vision & Atmos on Apple TV, iPad s … Apple TV+, Netflix so on and so forth. Als

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When will MS learn that people want just that gets out of the way. What’s next … Ads?

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“Dolby Atmos, however, will only be made available to a limited selection of music in the catalog and only v

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Absolutely. Both AptX HD and LDAC are lossy.

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For me the previous remote was ok. But I’ve found something better even when compared with the new remote.Tw

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Simply put, App Store policies demanding digital services to build their own devices and OS in order compete w

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See. No anti trust. Anti trust is played on the App Store policies and how it unbalances the relationship betw

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Don’t think there is any anti trust here. Others could already provide lossless and 3D audio like Sony does.

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Another time waster.

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I find al this fine based monitoring unfair to the market and makes regulators look like stupid. Instead Europ

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Windows is a hammer that thinks everything is a nail. If hammers could think that is.

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The way forward for Windows is just to be … Windows on the PC … faster … mode efficient. There no is ne

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Devices sales don’t subsidize the App Store. They do not provide that service at a loss by a wide margin.

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So basically either share 30% of your revenue for App Store hosting services or free?

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In reply to MikeGalos:makes sense.

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In reply to dftf:Don’t think that games is the same. The App Store does distribute and guarantees the delive

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In reply to dftf:“A little disappointing that the focus seems to solely be on music-streaming apps. I&#

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In reply to curtisspendlove:“I’ve seen the AWS bills of plenty of SaaS web apps. The monthly bill is a lit

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In reply to curtisspendlove:“But I don’t think it will be good for consumers. It will likely be far more c

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In reply to curtisspendlove:I think that is fair enough. Meaning, Apple editorials are marketing assets of App

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In reply to bkkcanuck:Take a Book Store. When you buy in a Book Store you don't need to go to another sto

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Ugh. A developer that forced me to install their own App Store in order to buy and

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In reply to toukale:Why? Family Share is currently not a mandatory policy in the App Store. Meaning that if yo

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In reply to toukale:I think Govs should learn from Apple. They should do an US State In App purchase device an

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In reply to RM:Dont agree access to iOS APIs should be free. Either licensed or free, at Apple discretion. It

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Well here is the problem. I understand you might use trust Apple. But as a general

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Fine, keep on using App Pay, App Store Payment if available. The issue at hand is

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In reply to lvthunder:Peanuts.

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In reply to bettyblue:Fine. Use Apple Pay, Pay Pall. No need to supply your credit card details each time. Hec

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In reply to curtisspendlove:“*IF* every dev were to use their own payment system and now people have to repe

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Curtis,If regulation comes down to the fact that App Store such as Apple can only

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In reply to bettyblue:The question is not so much if there is a “backdoor” to Apple and Google in app pur

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The crux of the matter is the in-app purchase policy. If the commission focuses on that they will have a very

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This is just another example how companies are all open and idealistic until they become big enough and procee

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In reply to Geoff:Have you tested it when is in someone else’s wrist close by? This only works if you are we

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The unlock through the Apple Watch when using a mask works 100%. Super.PS: Don’t see myself stop using the m

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This looks like an attempt to buy the Justice / Political system considering the on going cases. As for Jobs c

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In reply to crunchyfrog:Basically Apple can charge whatever for whatever goes through devices that they have b

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In reply to Calibr21:Don’t forget that you also need an iPhone to know that you aren’t being tracked by so

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Another feature for the do more slow people that will soon be moved out of place if not removed. MS suffers fr

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This is a good move. Digital pens should not cost 100 times more than a regular pen. It does not deliver 100 t

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In reply to paul-thurrott:It depends on what is typical. If typical is word processing and web browsing, PPTs

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In reply to innitrichie:Personally I will go with the $10 Belkin option also on the site. Or even cheaper in s

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In reply to RobertJasiek:The battery is replaceable.

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In reply to Saarek:I was expecting this chip on entry level iMacs... but was not expecting the 8GB for starter

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In reply to garrygbain:No. Its stealing again. “No one” is buying Surface Studios :)

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What’s with that chin in the iMac? Jezzz

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In reply to paul-thurrott:True. But I don’t recall that to be an issue on other Windows laptops that are rev

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You know what? Apple will do Timeline right :)The way I see it the ability to go to one place where we can qui

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Heheh. A political stunt, Boris style. No one believes of course that UK thinks that the US presents a Nationa

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The only reason I don’t touch Blazor and MAUI at the moment its because of MS history in abandoning stuff. S

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“Oddly, and despite their rampant reliability issues, curious design choices, and outright rejection of mode

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Was really thinking about Gaming laptop PCs. Yes, a good desktop gaming PC is usually

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Fully agree with you that the iPadOS FS User Interface targets a different kind of us

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Sorry, for the mess, don’t know precisely what happened. Read your reply, went to a

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In reply to RobertJasiek:I agree that the iPadOS is a true productivity tool and it’s brilliant. Myself and

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In reply to sarenberg:The iPad Pro sound is brilliant for this type of device. Bass and everything. If you ar

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In reply to curtisspendlove:I’ve moved to a combination of the iPad Pro and the an iMac, left the laptop beh

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Well people are tired of spending lots of money and things still not going well. It happens a lot. I think peo

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In reply to Vladimir:Had the same problem. Kids want Roblox, Minecraft, Among US as do they friends.

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In reply to Michael_Jones:I had the same problems you describe on top of others with SP3. After two pens, two

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In reply to irfaanwahid:Some people need to provide validation for their paycheck.

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Technical people in the active know and understand the speed gains on the M[ compared to Intel devices in the

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Hi. My opinion diverges from those articles. Through their narrative we can conclude

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In reply to MutualCore:What?Apple did not fail with the HomePod. That’s the wrong conclusion. It discontinue

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Hands free computing devices such as speakers are the ones that benefit the most from voice user interfaces. S

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Glasses here we go ....

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MS buying out potential competition to its MS Teams. Will we see an MS Teams for gamers? Most probably.

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There seams to be someone inside the company that it is a compulsive shopper.

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In reply to bkkcanuck:If war breaks out with China better open fabs in Mars.You are correct in pointing out th

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Yes it does. But we have learned in history that it just takes half a decade to go f

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In reply to curtisspendlove:I think its fair to say regarding the M1 Macs that there are still a few trade-ins

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In reply to dftf:“Compared to most low-end to mid-range AMD and Intel CPUs right now, the Apple M1 is superi

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In reply to Saarek:“I think their concern, and it is a valid concern, is that Apple will continue to humilia

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In reply to lwetzel:Its a bit weak to be honest. They should rather focus on convincing OEMs.

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I believe Intel lost the the long term plot some time ago when it comes to the value of its products. The PC

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In reply to paul-thurrott:By discontinuing the HomePod in what way is not doing the right thing? My HomePod is

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In reply to Saarek:We will have plenty updates for the HomePod for years and years to come. As many as you may

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It was just a badly priced product IMHO. If it was $599 would be more in the ballpark.Whoever would appreciate

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In reply to b6gd:Find incredible the animosity Apple accolades have against competing companies.As customer or

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:As a customer I like the App Store, as a digital service businessman I find the p

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I believe that the strategy of MS is to be wherever customers are while trying to deliver the best experiences

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In reply to cavalier_eternal: “I have the notion that any discussion of how well the policy works and how it

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:The facts aren’t the point but it’s interpretation. The point is that conside

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Lower prices or higher, that is not the point. Still probably be lower, or one wo

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Fine. So I'm not ignoring anything you said. Simply counter argued some of y

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Hi. What is really strange is that your are assuming that your experience in sell

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:“Probably the most compelling thing they offer is simplifying international sal

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In reply to dftf: As I’ve said, brick and mortar world of Stores does not charge for 30% of the businesses t

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I believe the core issue is that the 30% comission, 15% if one does not really have a business yet, is simply

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In reply to dcdevito:Maybe start running like its 2021?

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I think it always did like everyone else. It just made it easier for people with a massive number of photos in

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In reply to Calibr21:Google is one of the main culprits of this situation. It abused the trust and a system th

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Frankstein software design. But it pays of. Not for me, but for Microsoft.

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In reply to jolla:I really liked him in the first talks. Than I used its creations and stopped believing the v

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So Shortcuts come to Windows 10.

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In reply to Pungkuss:If you think businesses have a the free choice of to be or not to be in Google search, yo

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Super

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In reply to b6gd:"is wrong in so many ways. Nice attempt to take this down some woke path FFS. You failed, mis

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In reply to Saarek:“The App Store is, provably by a high margin, far more profitable for developers than all

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In reply to b6gd:“then let's open up Xbox and let all Xbox users get games and services from anywhere o

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In reply to Saarek:Today do you think its is the App Store that converts the lead into a sale or is the devel

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In reply to toukale:Imagine two roads, one leading to place A and the other to place B. The people that you ne

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In reply to RobertJasiek:The main problem is not Google Search, but what it does beyond. As for instance selec

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In reply to paul-thurrott:So was the PC market before Windows.Or say cars before Ford.The Internet before Goog

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In reply to paul-thurrott:No it is not.. You are evaluating this product. And if your beating this product de

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In reply to curtisspendlove:No. I’m saying that developers would have the choice. They don´t. Take Office s

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In reply to Andi:Apple has a bunch of options. Make multiple App Store plans like Cloud services do. Indeed fo

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In reply to lvthunder:Yes. I want that. I don’t need sugar cubes, that is for monkeys. The fact is developer

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In reply to codymesh:Less for Facebook. People will flock to Google News to get the News :) It’s called comp

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In reply to lvthunder:Peoe have in front a perfect example. MacOS. You can use exclusively the App Store if yo

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In reply to lvthunder:No one is saying that you couldn’t be using the App Store still. Thatis not in questio

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In reply to toukale:If N iOS user could get the app %30 cheaper elsewhere, including subscription ... wait ...

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In reply to lvthunder:Yes it should! They should charge the infrastructure required to deploy and update the a

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In reply to lvthunder:But that is it. The App Store is no supplier of anything but Apps. It does not for insta

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In reply to toukale:No one wants to get a piece of Apple platform. The smartphone market already existed, so d

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Epic has a case that either way it will shape the digital world “forever”. Competition is being eschewed d

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In reply to dftf:In reply to Brett_B:Limitation is a limitation a problem is a problem. Some limitations becom

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The MBP two ports, up to two displays, one up to 6K. One can use something like this to get 8 ports, no need f

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Yup. That is absolutely true. The idea that people use Windows virtual machines on

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In reply to dftf:Yes! I believe that it’s just great. Pushing the industry forward not sideways as its usual

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The argument here seams to incline toward that any reviewer that puts this new tech clearly ahead of WinTel is

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In reply to wright_is:Yosemite, Mid 2007. With a patch we could install even Mojave, but it would not work wit

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In reply to wright_is:XP was far from that. It was the first proper Microsoft do it all OS, Before that it was

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In reply to onetokeep:Wow and Apple is expensive.MS must be subsidizing this to be that cheap.EDIT: Oh and the

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In reply to RoundaboutSkid:Yeah. It looks like 20 year old tech. UMPC much?

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I wonder about Gmail. YouTube don’t mind the tracking. Don’t use any other Google app anyway.I believe tha

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Total waste of time. These are just example apps. The bulletin feature is mostly useless.

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In reply to paul-thurrott:I was not expecting you would agree. The purpose of these reviews is to explain to t

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In reply to wright_is:The last major OS update for iMac 24” 2007 was El Capitain. El Capitain support ended

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In reply to paul-thurrott:The viable time of the current M1 is at least the same as the Razer Book. The metal

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In reply to Prebengh:True. Apple may opt to follow the way it phases out older designs in iOS. These will prob

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If you need more performance, better display, way longer battery life, silence ... MBP M1. Heck, even the MB A

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Microsoft Teams in iOS still sucks. Buggy like hell.PS: By the way, in iOS still does not work in the browser.

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I still couldn’t get a unit :(. Mind you haven’t tried hard.

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Maybe you already have the right solution. A tablet paired with a desktop its a power

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As expected the iOS apps performance is top notch in the M1. Yet are less usable in the macOS than in iOS. I

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In reply to curtisspendlove:I believe that Apple does not care less how it compares with MS or what MS has. Th

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In reply to paul-thurrott:You also found odd Apple clames about the M1. Don’t think at all they are manipula

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In reply to reefer2:Today, customers have basically two options, either go Windows or macOS. Talking about lo

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In reply to ianbetteridge:I think Robert is simply incorporating reports on problems around Apple for the sak

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In reply to ianbetteridge:Taking the Surface has an example: My case, bought two of them ... refrained to buy

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In reply to ghostrider:You attention seeker :)

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In reply to lvthunder:A MS fart with some good Marketing makes money. This applies to Apple too. It does not m

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I attribute Apple success to a mix bag of:A number of ice breaking technology. Technology that others up until

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In reply to illuminated:In certain workflows, you bet.Yes, at first sight it is weird. Than it becomes normal

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in their product line, the weakest link was macOS Intel ... and they are sorting that out.Can’t wait to see

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In reply to Dan:No consumer knows. And you are correct, it’s does not need to. It is not about PWA.Soon you

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In reply to arthemis:Eventually they will. The market needs to keep in the pressure on platforms offering alte

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Windows is the best platform supporting PWAs. This is great for devs.I think this is the future for most produ

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Let the party begin. Intel is buying Macs for reviewers to compare with. MS is slashing prices showing the pat

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Replacing an MBA battery costs $130 including servicing on Apple.I suppose the op jus

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In reply to bluvg:It does not crush the M1 in any shape or form. But yeah, the chrome engine behind Electron i

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In reply to Michael_Babiuk:Personally do t use it much neither bother me. Don’t understand all the fuss. PS:

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In reply to CasualAdventurer:Nonsense

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Any links for the legislation?

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In reply to Mike_Peluso:I agree that the branding is flawed ... something like Xbook would sound better.There

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In reply to paul-thurrott:My 10 year old, in tech perspective he comes from the iPad generation, has been aski

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In reply to VancouverNinja:Is that a user problem?I can’t imagine a user saying: “hey I have a problem, do

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What user problem does this solve?

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Please, please don’t get bothered. My intent was not in attacking you, but providi

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Agreed that for today’s standards is not good enough.But a couple of notes that di

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In reply to Bob_Shutts:It is in several countries. Usually at the expense of the reseller.

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Ok. The process of factory resetting the an Windows PC is more user friendly. How many times does a user do th

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I always thought for your usage, getting a Mac desktop made no sense apart from the cost savings compared to a

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In reply to sharpsone:And the digital promise of being cheaper than physical copies has sailed! Content is mor

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People using specialized mouses such as the Logitech MX3 have been reporting some problems. Also people connec

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In reply to lvthunder:I fully agree. I think MBAs can be compared high end laptops from DELL, Surface, HP, In

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In reply to lvthunder:Sure, use a MacBook Air M1 for that matter using the same workflows (we have) That is wh

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In reply to crunchyfrog:Using the Mini it’s impossible to ascertain the performance / / battery life ratio.

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It’s kind of weird your choice of the Mac Mini to review the M1 when clearly this first gen chip was targete

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“...Sam Burd told Reuters this month that the PC industry was experiencing a “renaissance” ...”Th

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Happy new year to all. May 2021 bring to all growth, prosperity and friendships in all areas of life.

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In reply to Markld:Well It looks like it has achieved far more than XBOX Series X already, so maybe it stands

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In reply to Markld:As I said. I thought Thurrot had. So my thoughts were in such a scenario as it did not comp

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Ok. Got it. I thought you had. It’s your list anyway.

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I guess you may have missed the break through product of 2020 as far as personal computing goes.The Mac M1.I d

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So US companies can on mass move their production to Asia, heck not move, actually hire Asian production in pa

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Just don’t understand why digital copies, except probably for books, are more expensive than analogue copie

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In reply to paul-thurrott:The user said that there are other alternatives that do as well. But I agree with yo

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In reply to SvenJ:Still. It’s not a good practice. There are many many things that need to be regulated to p

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Hehehe. A smile over the last two paragraphs.I believe the fundamental point deviding opinions is if a company

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I think they should have honored the quote provided and not change it after the goods were received. On the is

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In reply to Jim_Vernon:Well, I’m sure your car is yours yet you can’t just roll over other people propert

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I must say that the speed things are being ported to M1 exceeds all my expectations. Not to take credit from t

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In reply to curtisspendlove:I’m not trying to claim it is illegal. I don’t care about legality in this par

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Its just coincidental. If Epic was in the same position as Apple would probably play

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I use the Mac for all things productivity and don’t use Chrome as a primary browser for the web. Only use it

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In reply to curtisspendlove:If Epic Game store had a 60% market share in the mobile device scene (smartphones

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I personally don’t use Ad blockers. I simply don’t go to sites that over use them. For instance, Thurrot s

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In reply to Saarek:Of course a company wants to make money. What’s wrong with that?Now Epic is fighting agai

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In reply to Saarek:Consent forms should be standardized by the OS / Browser. Of course the text over what its

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So FB is fighting for the right to bug users devices with no consent. How sweet.Tech companies have been playi

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PS5 is fresh and well cooked while XBOX Series X its just well cooked. Even if little better cooked in the hig

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In reply to wright_is:Enterprise will not move for slower and more expensive devices. That is for sure!

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In reply to evox81:No. I’m not advocating not doing public beta tests. Is this a public beta test? What is

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Can’t just they test this thing internally considering the device is also of their doing / Surface X? How la

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In reply to sammyg:The issue of these companies is not regarding a specific feature, rather than a collection

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In reply to sammyg:"You can easily switch platforms. Apple is not sticking a gun to your head. It is not a law

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In reply to bkkcanuck:True. But people tend to compare with the previous transition with an erroneous mindset

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In reply to scovious:“Pro’s” usually upgrade every 3-5 years. More so the ones that actually use the su

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In reply to jolla:you can video calls, share screen and all that.so I guess you may not know what slack isbut

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I think this makes sense. Slack is a very well made tool for its purpose. Since ever it integrates text messag

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There is no public data to conclude the impact of the issues in terms of numbers of users ... well if one does

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In reply to paul-thurrott:I think fans of any brand behave the same way regardless if they are Apple’s, Micr

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I’ve bought SP2 to try out ... than came the SP3 ... was really excited. It’ sounded and looked perfect, j

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Aside from another bad technical design decision don’t see for much of a problem with this.What is the prob

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Guys if you don't fine tune your perception over the M1 you'll miss the decade ...Hell was unleashed

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Two corrections:T2 is not TPM. Both platforms aim the same but its not. In fact ask any expert about the diffe

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In reply to truerock2:OMG you got Apple back to back with a single line of “code”.

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In reply to paul-thurrott:“you need medical attention“I guess not. The scale has changed. What used high p

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I think this is a good move. An Apple T2 like security chip for Windows machines.

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In reply to bitcortex:The most expensive PC you can buy is a laptop. The price / performance ratio compared to

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In reply to bkkcanuck:Yes. I’m very worried too. It’s not good to go from a monoculture to another one.

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In reply to sammyg:I disagree. I think Apple does cut off, but it takes time. MS does not cut off, it lets it

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In reply to shameer_mulji:Well, the Windows Phone was not Windows. People understood that. Talking about actua

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In reply to bitcortex:If you consider the history of tech you will conclude that price performance is never at

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Corrected the spell of your name. Sorry for the offense, wasn’t meant.A title ”L

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@thurrott, so it seams that they weren't lying. I'm with you in thinking that the company squeezes t

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In reply to bitcortex:I disagree entirely. There is nothing more loyal than a Windows user. With 80% plus mark

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In reply to MikeCerm:On comments about the Mac. That is what happens in a successful technical transition. Don

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In my Mac as well as of others that I know, from 2012 up to 2019, the final Big Sur seams to run a bit faster

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In reply to paul-thurrott:AnandTech would disagree. Lies of Omission, yet Apple actually posted on the site th

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In reply to paul-thurrott:will see.Digress of course that benchmarks today still mean nothing. It means far mo

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It seams Apple is being modest ....https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/11/m1-macbook-air-first-benchmark/If more

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In reply to RobertJasiek:It might be a rip off, but is less than any Surface offering.By the way, for $500 jus

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If you go here: https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/They list all the Intel models used for comparing performance.Che

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Agreed. On Windows, developers care even less about ARM than they cared about the Wi

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It would not make sense for them bet on half truths and lies when it can be discredited in the following week

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In reply to wright_is:“Apple's true advantage is its complete disregard for its users and developers.&n

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In reply to james.h.robinson:I did not say that Nadella does not know what he is talking about. I’m sure he

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This is an impressive new beginning. It’s true that others have aimed the same cross device / platform and s

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This thing as previous gens does so many things at launch, great specs. But I can’t really figure out what

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In reply to thurrotcommentator:I know we can program for XBOX using a Windows machine. Back in the days we cou

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In reply to bkkcanuck:Not necessarily. In practice what we have seen is that power efficiency comes with a pen

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Really hope they come up with a new design so that people just by looking at it, know it’s something else, f

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The thing Im most curious about is if Apple will take this as an opportunity to close the macOS app “sidelo

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Well batteries used to be easily replaceable :)I don’t buy into this idea that ba

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In reply to binarytb:It does not seam that independent when they arguing in favor of the dependency.

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In reply to bkkcanuck:“The DOJ seems to be attacking the wrong problem to begin with... the bigger issue is

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In reply to MikeGalos:I’m no Google fan but this is hilarious. MS interpretation of standards lead to the IE

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The Max has a much better image stabilization, moving sensor, giving 2.5 stops leverage in low light. Which me

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Thurrot, I bet that if the reviews of the Max for photos and videos are has positive as I think it will you’

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in this hour long sales pitch, it’s quite clear they are selling a pocketable personal computer. Not a thing

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In reply to scovious:Yes it would. Australia? EU is trying todo what is right. The way this is going today is

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What enclosure is that? Looks nice.

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In reply to toukale:The average Joe does not care for the App Store either. They care for the use of their dev

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In reply to lvthunder:Why is Apple cutting of Xbox users?

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In reply to sammyg:“You have choices. Go with an Android phone. “What you are arguing is precondition

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In reply to Greg Green:We are talking about buying and selling digital services and apps on personal computers

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Personally I believe MS could pressure by leaving out iOS and keep on attributing Apple the responsibility for

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In reply to RM:Nope. The point is not that Apple is a closed ecosystem. There is no problem with that.The prob

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In reply to lvthunder:It did not start that way. It turned to be that way once it became a waste land. They ar

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In reply to toukale:“Actually, consumers love the current arrangement.”I guess you come to that conclusion

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In reply to bkkcanuck:I have said that is not a Store and gave a specific example that was not disputed. Kobo

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:show us the policy

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In reply to bkkcanuck:First it was just like Best Buy, now it's an Agency following an Agency model. Or h

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In reply to bkkcanuck:True. But you don't go to Apple house / app to buy an Apple TV and then be charged

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In reply to bkkcanuck:I think if you going to argue that that an App Store is like an analog store, case in ca

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In reply to lvthunder:This is not a store. It’s a device to install apps on the users device. Best Buy does

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It's the same. They haven't just enforced their policies. These services should be regulated across

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Spotify is in violation of the App Store written policies. So Apple must be apply

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For Windows you have a tool called Persistent Windows that solves the problem described. On the Mac I used Moo

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In reply to OntarioPundit:Probably you have seen by other answers how different this new reality is from analo

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This was bound to happen. Next will be MS for sure.The inability of GOV to understand the digital medium and i

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:True. But we are talking about a monopoly over the sale of someone else’s produ

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Apple has little to no appreciation for devs and ther participation in helping them sell iOS devices. No? If I

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I’m waiting to see how the actual gaming experience and games will be on each platform.The rest is folk.

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I like Spotify. I don’t condone Apple practices on the matter of the App Store.Still, they are getting what

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Now you can setup the Apple Watch without an iPhone sort of. You need at least one in the family. You can setu

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I think this is a good move from NVidia. ARM designs need more quality competition.

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In reply to SvenJ:MS put out a product for people to buy, including me.Just gave my opinion.What is yours apa

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Apple is just pushing its envelope to see as far will the actors in the market allow this. When I mean the mar

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I think is for people who want the best Office experience in the pocket. Eschewing the concept of productivity

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It’s kind of like:If you can only take a device on your pocket on a daily basis what would you take? I guess

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In reply to adam.mt:I remember that.

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I suppose that the X supports double the framerate at 1440p

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In reply to scovious:Not really. There is little moral in speeding up the justice system and a weak resolution

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In reply to illuminated:Election time.

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Hi,What wallpaper is that? Do you have a link?Cheers.

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In reply to yaddamaster:The digital market place is totally different from the analog space. Comparisons betwe

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I guess this only applied to the Government right?“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of

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In reply to lvthunder:On the first point, actually it does work that way in many cases.On the second point, th

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In reply to Greg Green:The idea that they can run it the way they want it is a fallacy. They can run it accor

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What about the other integrations. messaging, voice call relay, copy and paste, we browser history ..., notes

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I really like what Samsung is doing ... on paper. I get a good impression in the first months. After that it�

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In reply to Mcgillivray:#and suddenly the App store will be making $0 per day”If for some devs is just what

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In reply to lvthunder:3.1.1: If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of examp

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In reply to lvthunder:A general-purpose computer is one that, given the appropriate software de

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In reply to SvenJ:This is not for Epic alone. These cases have come to the “public” attention several time

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In reply to curtisspendlove:This or regulate over general purpose devices and specialty devices.General purpos

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Yes. But still. If you look at Apple contract / agreement, the company can do bas

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I think Epic got what they expected as most likely. Apple and its accolades probably did not. As per Apple con

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In reply to RM:I subscribe Apple Arcade, and both my kinds, one 9 and the other 13 prefer Minecraft, Fortnite

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In reply to Saarek:If you have a digital business you need to where you customer are. Case in case in the US o

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In reply to A_lurker:Its my impression that it may have to do with the Political landscape Lin the US. It may

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Maybe Epic thinks differently, yet considering the Epics move of putting they own

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It’s out for the grab. Courtesy of the Gov. I don’t understand Amazon not bidding. They could surveil the

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Epic is looking to find the contract illegal, which can be if it is considered emp

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In reply to lvthunder:Bringing Xbox and PlayStation at the moment is based on a fallacy. Not one in two Americ

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Hi. I think you are moving backwards as far as performance and fault tolerance goes. If you have wiring clutte

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In reply to Andi:Just the fact that you take a 15%-30% revenue share of any digital business that goes through

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In reply to Stooks:“If I created an app I would submit it and basically wait for my payments.”Is that dire

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In reply to Stooks:Yes. But it’s not about say Thurrot not buying. If 1 in 2 of its mobile customers have ch

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In reply to paul-thurrott:I’m not saying that its about you, I’m saying that you seam to be using the same

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This is ridiculous from Russsia.Still Apple is getting what it deserves for charging 30% revenue share for som

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Those load times kill the experience for me. I would need to be pretty desperate to get an Xbox fix/

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You don’t need to be one player to have major control.Here is the thing Leo, most business are going digital

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In reply to lvthunder:I agree with you it shouldn’t count. But iOS devices market share is indeed winged to

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In reply to lvthunder:My the understanding of what you have said was within the context of the article topic.

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In reply to lvthunder:I have no problem with an company success up to and including being Monopoly.I do have a

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In reply to Prebengh:“So Apple plays a gatekeeper role on its own platforms. But it can also see which servi

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In reply to lvthunder:If you think that $45 is down to the cost of the infrastructure for you to be able to do

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In reply to lvthunder:That someone is the developer. Has it happens with any business. Spotify is willing to p

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In reply to toukale:The free Apps are established by Apple's POLICY. All Apps need to offer a free venue

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I really like Apple devices and software offerings. So this share has little to do with it. Has more to do wit

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Qualcomm might get their image burned from this as I suspected the perception would fall on “Its a Qualcomm

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Hi, were does it end? Leverage it not illegal neither is offering apps for free. In my mind I guess it becomes

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In reply to paul-thurrott:People forget that MS had its shared of punished illegal practices.Around here it do

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Humm, Teams is like Skype as much as Slack is like Zoom ... well for now as it seam

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In reply to Geoff:If you have a dominant position in a market and you bundle new products for free that aim to

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It’s kind of a bummer when you define a product category only to see someone else fully subsidizing a compe

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Oh no not another one. Every 6 months or so they launch another UX future. It looks like more internal org mar

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Apple practices have not yet been found illegal. This is important. Neither seams to be the stance of MS.Still

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The problem I have with these new languages is that they don’t solve the fundamental problem of today’s ap

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In reply to kevinbouwman:The EU is financially not United. Even values seam to be taking a hit.At the moment t

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In reply to glenn8878:You can say the same about Ireland.Apple or any other company Multi national company i

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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Well, why not? Apple wants an percentage over the overall service provided by thi

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Hi,“What this case is really about, of course, is that Apple was able to find a legal workaround to paying t

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In reply to JanesJr1:Your line of questioning is based on sophisms. Asking people if they want to be given shi

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In reply to behindmyscreen:Man, I am the admin of the system. The upload button one day is there and the other

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Just judging by the picture it looks like a regular plastic tower where the grI’ll mildly resembles the Mac

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Call it a hunch.

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In reply to ghostrider:Yeah. And no insiders, no rings, no feature dropping bit by bit for months on end pump

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That is all fine and dandy. But in the iPad we cannot even upload or delete files. Amongst so many other thing

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In reply to HellcatM:Yeah. We all know what that will be all about. Sell the company in pieces, make it cheape

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So MS was sub contracting the development of the OS for the Duo? That's commitment.

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In reply to red77star:It might not, for the same reason that probably MS has plenty of time to get ARM PC to

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In reply to paul-thurrott:As a software engineer I believe that everything configurable is not optimum neither

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In reply to paul-thurrott:I use the command-space combo a lot to launch apps.I barely use the dock for that m

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As far as competition goes conglomerates like the one of Apple, Google, Microsoft ... just to name there of th

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SoThe search thing looks like a bad version of macOS SpotilightThe task bar customisation looks like a bad ver

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In reply to Geoff:“And most people, including Paul, generally accept that benchmarks are untrustworthy most

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In reply to RobertJasiek:No now you have declared iPad OS is 10 years behind in FS and Finder is 8. That asses

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Humm. So now we a resorting to reports?On iOS 11, “On My iPad” location would no

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In reply to RobertJasiek:It is impossible to work well in iCloud Drive and badly in the local file system. The

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In reply to RobertJasiek:”I do not use a mounted cloud server drive. In fact, I have never used any cloud bu

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Hey. It’s very simple. You cannot have access to OS system files or app system file

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In reply to RobertJasiek:“Apple advertises the iPad (Pro) as a computer (of sort). “There are many ki

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In reply to RobertJasiek:"You mention cloud. While cloud can be used by those wishing to use it, it is no solu

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In reply to RobertJasiek:”management of files of all apps together instead of app-centric and operations for

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In reply to MikeGalos:Today we have clouds. Clouds means rain. Therefore today it will rain.

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In reply to RobertJasiek:What would you like improved in the file management department?

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Let me try to explain somethings inexplicable for some. At least the way I see it.Most people want to pick the

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I don’t care much for widgets. I’ve seen many implementations since Apple (macOS X Tiger, 2005) and Window

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In reply to jgraebner:Hopefully its gonna shake something. I’m tired of throttle boxes. The issue is not how

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In reply to Waethorn:Maybe its because people got tired for caring about MS pushes only to be than disappointe

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Windows users will not change because of this. They will change if Apple disrupts the Desktop and Portable com

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This presentation was like if Microsoft presented ... Windows on ARM, x64 on ARM and UWP with millions of apps

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In reply to paul-thurrott:The company improved because it lost mobile and the web (IE). So it needed to adapt.

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In reply to shameermuljiI do have an idea. I can say this, a analog shop as many customers would be financial

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Hey Thurrott. A company has a monopoly when it dominates a sector or industry. No wa

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In reply to lvthunder:Where is yours that it would not?

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In reply to dftf:"Apple is providing a service to these companies and not getting compensated for it because t

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In reply to Omen_20:I disagree. I think the intent was initially to simplify app downloads, updates and billin

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In reply to mjarosch:As you I like the App Store service. But is it valued at 30% revenue share of businesses

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In reply to lvthunder:In the end who gets charged its the consumer unless you think the money in those 30% com

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In reply to lvthunder:You in turn sell a metaphor. Here is another one.What if all Telcos decided to charge Ap

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Apple should be fined heavily and forced to abandoned the practice of charging for services and goods that doe

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In reply to RonV42:There is something rotten in that stance. The only way is to compete technologically and in

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"The United States will not cede leadership in global innovation"Meaning a non American leader in global innov

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Somehow I got access to this article. Don’t know why because I’m not a Premium user.Just a quick note to w

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Just wished they opened up this facilities to countries with better consumer credit ratings than the US. Count

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This is just the regular features with an education label and for the peculiar we need to wait until when the

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In reply to Oreo:Mac Pro uses an ARM chips but not within the scope of the current conversation. It’s functi

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I honestly can’t see a reason at the moment why Apple who do this apart from moving stock options. If that i

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In reply to mjgerrard:Having owned those things for a fact In the Windows case not even sure if gen 7 is enoug

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In reply to paul-thurrott:‘Personally I don’t care who wins or looses. Been using laptops since 97 and non

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In reply to lvthunder:You mean regular computers as Windows 10 right?Because there are plenty evidences that A

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In reply to miamimauler:There seams to be trend in the US where any internal problems in the country are due

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In reply to longhorn:Its a gamble.

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In reply to SvenJ:In such a small screen, up to 13", the only usable Window is the one on top, max two windows

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In reply to maggiej:I have no problems doing that task. Both with touch, trackpad or mouse. In fact the File M

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Personally I think this is too soon. If it happens. They should improve iPad OS and make it the best small mob

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In reply to Chris_Kez:For Excel Pivot Tables you need to use the Excel web app on the iPP. Unfortunately iPad

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In reply to Vladimir:Agreed.But as it is, the day I see it, if eventually Google get split, who stands to win

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In reply to MikeCerm:What about Microsoft Office, Windows, XBox, Smartphones (no bother lost it), MS Cloud., S

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1) Android / Huawai US Gov attack;2) MS wins questionably a mega contract with US state department 3) US is th

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In reply to Chris_Kez:The first thing, it’s not just better. It’s a HUGE difference. Especially if you go

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In reply to scan:So this device is a good and cost efficient solution because by buying it I’m supporting

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In reply to scan:How does all that mambo jambo help me using this ultra smart system? On the other hand the O

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Still dealing with IE technical devastation in customers sites ...

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In reply to scan:It seams that we have a different definition of what Hardware is.Also I’ve heard Surface X

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It’s piece of beautified junk that plays on the over sold fallacy a PC is an efficient shape shifter. Pocket

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In reply to RobertJasiek:I don't understand why you were even considering an iPhone. Honestly, it seams t

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In reply to RobertJasiek:You can still buy a phone within those requirements.its your decision not buy one. No

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If it is not, It should be Illegal for any retailer to charge for anything they don't sell and or distrib

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I don't see the appeal of an ARM based macOS. As much as I don't see the appeal of a ARM based Windo

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People that choose either and are happy, do so for quite different reasons. Who ever looks at t as a replaceme

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In reply to RobertJasiek:I agree with you on the first paragraph (One thumbs for that). But the rest was in m

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In reply to truerock2:In the video Paul said at 22:40 say that "eventually they released keyboard support". Th

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Hi, Just to share a theory of mine around how Apple has been managing the evolution of iPad. I believe the way

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In reply to truerock2:The interesting bit is how can iPad can still be a game changer in 2020?How can a device

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In reply to Andi:Well, with over 35 years in the IT industry, when it comes to buying devices for work and the

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In reply to Andi:Your last paragraph, you came across like an angry person. That profile "horrendous"? If you

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It will be interesting to see how this innovative keyboard approach holds on the lap, how that hinge will get

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This will be good for Microsoft. Windows did it’s role and it’s evolving. Time for a broader vision becaus

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In reply to orbsitron:Why is SMS support weak in iOS? I personally find it excellent in comparison. For ages I

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My Toshiba M300 back in 2005 with Windows XP Tablet Edition did what is described with the stylus (Pen input s

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In reply to Daekar:One could never buy absolute security. I’m more tired of subliminar messages telling me I

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I've never seen Ads oping up in notifications from Apple. Have you ever seen it Thurrot? The articule poi

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In reply to SvenJ:Lol

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“Through these lawsuits, we will continue sending a message to people trying to abuse our services that Face

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In reply to John_Craig:So the foundation for your truth it's about how well your share portfolio goes?Int

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In reply to jupast:Rubino’s has always been a Microsoft propaganda backyard.On the Apple side we have Rene R

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In reply to curtisspendlove:These devices are not tailored for development tasks. They are ok for remoting to

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In reply to Andi:Well there is fact and there is fiction. I state for a fact using the same kind of apps that

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What does it mean to be a personal productivity assistant? Even less useful than it was?I have heard that is o

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In reply to Daekar:I think mouse will be progressively fill its rightful role as the primary input method on t

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This is gonna flop just like the MacBook.There is Apple interest and Professional/Dev interest. 1) As one of

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This is a potential Win Win cenario for Apple:its good for users to have more service options in their favorit

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There should be no phone app. Instead just pair the phone with the PC/MS Cloud and have the all thing transpar

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Glad to know it’s not a phone but a Duo. Made the decision easier.

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In reply to Andi:I see no subscribe button on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify and many streaming services. Not

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Which policy is that? It would be a nice subject for good old journalistic research.People can steam games fro

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Devs will only touch this if it helps them sell more. With no customer base in dual screen products ... it wil

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In reply to 7ajefmz:Why should it even be supported at the start?

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Another Windows version.I'm both e heavy Windows and macOS user. Granted, more of a macOs user in the las

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In reply to trevorcurtis:Ive was right about the need to evolve the look of iOS. Yes, it was not a easy journe

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In reply to trevorcurtis:I wish I’m wrong. But it will buggier than ever. Check Surface firmware bug fixes s

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It's definitely a story teller.. He is driven and hungry. Yet products ... full of systemic problems (che

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In reply to c3po2:Because it is not revolutionary but workanary.

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In reply to c3po2:Wow. So bitter.

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In reply to cayo:I personally don’t trust the Smart TV OSs for longevity. You end up need to upgrade not due

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In reply to bnyklue:In Windows you can get the x64 version. Why would you want the UWP version?

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It will be interesting to see how will Apple address its weaknesses. For now TC has been playing by the book,

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In reply to illuminated: Price will kill this product.This is not a scalable business at all.

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Carbon Negative, Mobile First, Cloud First, Intelligent Edge ...I like Nadella, but his speech is so full of

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This Google initiative is going on for years. Instead of winning about it why doesn't MS and other really

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In reply to paul-thurrott:We probably would say that it was a glitch in the AÍ improvement code. We already h

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In reply to m_p_w_84:Absolutely. They have shown that the customer is the product.The question is why are they

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I must say I like the design. Simple and elegant.PS: There are many ways to design a rectangular cuboid after

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So the trash can is in near release.

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In reply to Saarek:I agree with you. Yet I must say that the approach to marketing these products is superfici

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In reply to illrigger:Agreed. But it’s important to understand if we are dealing with scrutiny or some form

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The company did not admit that its tracking user's location, because its not!“The management of ultra

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MS almost every year redesigns its apps. At least that's the impression I get. Or so they make it look li

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In reply to AnthonyE1778:If that's the actual case with no hidden agenda why didn't MS deployed such

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In reply to ecumenical:MS pushed a bunch of foggy uncertain if not unofficial statements. It got crucified for

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The future is here, customers are ready for this approach to consoles, as you so well described, just look ar

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At $50 to $70 a game plus subscription ... it’s crazy, a curiosity. Cloud Gaming At the moment it’s an add

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In reply to TriplePlayed:"I guess what Stadia also really needs is an offline license as well."My impression i

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VS Code is great

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Do you guys believe that they would not have a clue if the thing would get to the shops a month before?This wa

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We use Slack. It is simpler Tobias and for that matter more efficient.

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In reply to Winner:In that respect Microsoft does it far better. That is one thing they do not bead a lesson f

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In reply to Stooks:In a way I'm said that I'm moving away from laptops to a combination of iMac and

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In reply to Bob_Shutts:He is ticked off because he can no longer write about how bad the Macbook keyboards are

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In reply to ncwalz:... Windows RT, Groove, Silverlight , SP3/4/5 bogged firmwares .... haaaa for so many magic

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Its new as when you build a new house or you buy a new car. It's not new has it if was never done.It feel

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When actually getting the product to work is a feature. How low is the bar?

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There is. a serious mental health problem in Apple dome.

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In reply to EraseYourself:That might be what is expected by customers. But knowing MS it never does what its e

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You are comparing Apple to oranges. Any exclusives? Nope. Apple launched with exclusives only ... for the good

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In reply to dontbeevil:It is funny because you have been missing the point in the last 10 years. I think its t

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In reply to MikeGalos:Yes. It’s a lot harder especially when MS can’t get it right even in their own produ

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In terms of functional robustness of major software releases, by now it’s clear that this year was worst in

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Reports of bricked HomePods due to the update are going wild.

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In reply to audiofreak39:Indexation can and should happen locally by default. Only by user request should be a

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I liked Live Tiles in the Windows Phone. On Windows Tablets & PCs I felt it interrupted the flow.I think m

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In reply to ghostrider:As excellent as the Azure can be, betting all in on one technical approach, in a projec

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From all the devices in the Surface line, the Surface Laptop is the one I believe that it’s the most well ba

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In reply to MikeGalos:Engineering “Sir, for the first time we did! We achieved the goal of releasing a new

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I'm confused if MS is pulling an Apple or simply doing what it does best.

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In reply to dontbeevil:So because it has the “same” design as some Huawei phone is now a guarantee of qual

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In reply to dontbeevil:How come? I just told you that not even form iPad Fresco was mentioned on this site.You

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In reply to dontbeevil:Do not recall Fresco on the iPad being mentioned on this site either.A total fail :)

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In reply to dontbeevil:Nobody complains because such a thing is part of the Windows tech economy. When it come

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In reply to sannyashi:I share the same concern. Quality as been falling while devices get shinier and prices g

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I don't think is lack of capabilities of the device to deal with full blown Photoshop capabilities. But r

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In reply to dontbeevil:Yup :)

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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Yes. I agree with you that how the last major update went through was quite unchara

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In reply to Bill_Russell:Objectively this means that we have over 700 million active devices with IOS13 after

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I don't recall any kind of default apps in iOS that does not come by default in the Android devices that

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Let me see. So a phone with one less lens equally lovely display if not better, super fast Face ID , not made

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In reply to wright_is:I know. I guess that Paul being veteran tech journalist I was expecting a more thoughtfu

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In reply to paul-thurrott:It is true indeed in one perspective at least. Yet it is charged with a negative and

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In macOS you don't need a USB drive with the OS to make a clean install. You already have one bakes in yo

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I am amazed that MS took so long to make this first step. If Microsoft starts to implement features that take

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In reply to Winner:Call and receive calls to and from people with your cell phone from a PC for which you alre

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In reply to SvenJ:It would be relevant in the sense that iOS developers can than bake also proper mouse suppor

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In reply to dontbeevil:That is not true. Remember USB to USB-C. Or Apple first ditching internal CD/DVD drives

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In reply to shameermulji:The only way to seriousley re-energize the Mac App Store market is to match the Apple

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I think this is a great feature ... if it works well.

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I think this is a great feature ... if it works well. But they had to wait until Catalina was out?

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In reply to ecumenical:Details :)

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Here is a different perspective. In the 100 million Mac users most users don’t care if more and better apps

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Isn’t What’s App also from Facebook?. So Facebook wants to know who your close friends and family actually

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Do you guys really think that a unproven tech, in this case Windows on ARM, should come at the same price if n

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Só MS presents a laptop with Windows on ARM and an innovative mobile device (Neo) with Intel x86. How confus

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In reply to nbplopes:To all the votes down. I sincerely hope that my not so positive impression is totally off

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In reply to bluvg:Better late than never.

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In reply to F4IL:If not later. Delays are not uncommon in these contexts.

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In reply to aretzios:It happens all the time with Microsoft and Panos. All the time.

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I have been in this position quite often. Feeling inspired by a Panos presentation, but disinspired by the re

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I must say that if Pano's did not push the boundaries of his own pleasure in hearing his voice so much he

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While ahead could have bring PSNow to mobile, tables and major TV sets such has LG and Samsung including thei

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In reply to MikeGalos:Yup. Microsoft school.Blame someone else. Its a bit like "you are holding it wrong" yet

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The smart glasses with no display it’s a brilliant idea while the tech gurus .... so simple yet .... Pair th

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In reply to dontbeevil:Absolutely. Spot on. Just put a thumbs up on your reply.

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In reply to dontbeevil:Same thing for MacBook's and MacBooks Airs. lI guess you don't disagree with

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If they could only make them in such way it stops delivering Pentium II level performance would be nice.

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In reply to andyhi:Ok.

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In my experience all vendors of thin and light Windows based PCs equipped with what looks to be powerful CPUs,

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In reply to RobertJasiek:All of the issues you point out has nothing to the with the file manager. If the app

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It might be interesting for film makers. For most people the bump will be probably a nuisance.

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In reply to RobertJasiek:What do you mean mean by general file manager? You can store your any of your content

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I'm going to buy none of this this year. My iPhone X and Apple Watch 3 its just fine (maybe the watch at

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This is weird. The square framing the lenses looks almost identical in style to something I saw a a couple of

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In reply to MikeGalos:So Google states that will comply with the huawei embargo imposed for security and marke

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So this was an attack done months ago, for which in January there was a patch to fix it by Apple, and now the

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In reply to jgraebner:I use call relay between devices all the time. Smartphone, PC, Tablet and smartwatch.Bet

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In reply to Rob_Wade:Dare I say that with your superior intelligence you must feel very lonely in this world.

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As the Post PC era evolves we are seeing a myriad of speciality new devices. Were there was only the PC / Mac

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Amazon irreverence strikes me. A major retailer that can be more irreverent in consumer tech than both Apple,

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In reply to dontbeevil:Hehe T/3

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In reply to dontbeevil: Glad you have not a problem with the Headline this time around :)

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In reply to PeteB:And that becomes one of the problems of MS these days.

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In reply to kcorax:Probably. So why do we need the Your Phone App really? to send my SMSs to Microsoft?

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Why does this need to connect to the Cloud to connect to the phone centimeters away blows my mind. It’s just

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In reply to mister2forme:I find this solution a dead end. It not really one device either. So what's the

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It’s just feature for the feature fake. They can say to the users that “we dot it”. Compare approaches u

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In reply to glenn8878:Yeah. That reasoning just busted a few years ago. And it’s coming back . Guess with wh

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In reply to skane2600:Yeah. Insane. There is a high risk, ok let’s increase it and than we jump in :)Crazy.

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In reply to ghostrider:Hooks like this is not the way to keep people loyal. Take for instance marriage.

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In reply to robinwilson16: We don’t know if such thing even works. But it is in the “brochure” indeed.

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Looks more years of beta testing than months. Your mileage may vary of course.

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In reply to techguy33:What is a true representation of reality?

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I believe that the iPad OS will disrupt the $200-$800 netbook market. The iPad 2018 ($330) already outperforms

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Wow. After 30 years, you gotta have a fake video to show of the new look.

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I think it’s a good idea.

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Why would a tech company with the expertise of Google hire another company to do the scraping?heck they alread

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Facebook has not yet understood that lacks credibility.They seam to be looking for new ways to have used data

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It looks that Apple has switched gears this year across the board.

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In reply to ghostrider:You have other options that maybe be a better fit for your adult brain. Don’t unders

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In reply to Hifihedgehog:Evil like many words in the American dictionary became voided of meaning. It became a

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In reply to Winner:You can. They simply snap on to a grid

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Track them while their young, a friend forever

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In reply to mystilleef:Hangouts does not work in anything but Chrome as far as my experience goes.

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This is unethical towards users. MS pulled this off before. Now they all open until .... the same old lies.Wet

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In reply to Daekar:As I said, any company dealing with a US blacklisted company may face sanctions in the Amer

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In reply to Daekar:Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, multiple high end cloths brands .... ... are in the Chinese Mark

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In reply to lvthunder:Are you naive?Any company that breaks the US embargo to Huawei can face US sanctions.ARM

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In reply to MikeGalos:"This really is not about the trade war."Lololol. "Huawei was already under tight s

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In my view, Mr. Trump just nuked a major Chinese tech company.Furthermore, he is putting US allies to ransom t

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In reply to codymesh:Maybe they should have branded it Macbrook Pro 19. Maybe that would look newer to you.

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In reply to lvthunder:Dont think the intention was to justify. But to void some higher moral ground when discu

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In reply to Waethorn:I have much stronger ties with the US than China. Cultural, emotional, businesses ... eve

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In reply to Waethorn:Sfill waiting for the so called “evidences” of either nuclear or chemical weapons in

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In reply to Waethorn:Do you even read the stuff?Has is said. It has no legal ties. In the US there are no CEOs

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In reply to JustMe:Selling digital content or directing users to a POS outside the boundaries of Safari its f

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In reply to Daekar:Why not Amazon?

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In reply to provision l-3:The App Store it’s a Store not a directory of Apps. Yet I do think that it’s exc

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This is all fine and dandy, but the prices of apps are the same or more expensive in other stores.What about W

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In reply to skane2600:PWA is UWP for cross platform apps.

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It does not look like UWP was the only one being demote in priority. It seams that the Windows Store was as we

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In reply to bzero22:I am from the time where systems root access was the norm. And systems with more than one

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In reply to bzero22:Apple Music it’s not a device level app? What about email? If not, why? What about healt

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In reply to bzero22:From that stance I can conclude that any email software violates the App Store rules. Why

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Not defending Apple as I know it’s no saint. Furthermore, I’m highly critical of the way Apple is handling

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In reply to MikeGalos:I guess anything that can exist quite nicely without MS it's a problem.

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In the end of the day all we have replaced a huge bundle (called Cable) with several mini bundles now called (

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In reply to Andi:Thank you for helping me. Yet your reasoning does not make much sense for the sole reason tha

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In reply to Truffles:I don't disagree with a principle based system. The question is then where the princ

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Parental Control is a specific case of device management. Apple has to be careful. Time and time again it has

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Why is SSO such a special consideration of Edge and not of other browsers?. I use right now SSO across all bro

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In reply to skane2600:You don’t see because the somewhat technical.explanation was just baloney. I read the

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I think this happens because one of the executives has a stake in Stardock.

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In reply to dontbe_evil:There are Sets of them

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In reply to MikeGalos:That and before Hololens and Surface Hub truly leave beta.

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In reply to Truffles:Nobody buys a Mac because of iMessages.

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In reply to skane2600:What? No icon changes? Shame on them.

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In reply to Stooks:Post Windows Phone

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In reply to skane2600:Was just saying why I think one off software license prices came down. Leaving businesse

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In reply to skane2600:What contributed to the reduction of the cost of software, is the move from software as

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In reply to skane2600:“Win32 compatibility is the only differentiator Windows offers over other pl

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Yes I do not need MS failures to validate my choices in Apple products. I also use Mic

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Unfortunately they did not copy the time it took to resolve or avoid the issue and let

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Mike brains seam to be quite active on this one :) Yay :)

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From what I’ve heard it rose the bar in smartphone photography indeed. I mean for people who like artifacts

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In my option Google should just block Europe from using their search engine. Of course MS would not be willing

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Incredible how Internet Browsers in the Windows PC is still major prosumer interest ... thing. This, keyboards

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So now calculators are a thing in the Windows camp. So inspiring.MS has you guys going in circles like rats in

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In reply to Greg Green:I am not against doubling my revenues.Pretending to be CEO of one of the companies targ

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In reply to Bats:Whoever wanted to buy Xbox games already bought an Xbox. Meaning Xbox in the cloud will not b

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In reply to lvthunder:If someone told you “I’ll make you rich. All you have todo is give me half of what y

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Jokes aside, I've been lately concerned about how Apple is treating "their Customers".In several occasion

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Really?"If no OEM stands up to build Windows devices we'll build them. There will

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Next, it will be in Stadia.

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Immediate internal memo? It looks like they are a bit nervous.

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In reply to MikeGalos:You sound desperate. Hanging out with Microsoft much?

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In reply to ghostrider:Innovation starts here. Better than keyboard talk isn’t it?

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It will do everything smoothly but a cup of coffee. Even that may be possible in the near future.

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Man Paul. You are full of factoids.As for Netflix not joining because of some Apple is evil notion.They have n

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It’s common practice for retailers to offer their own products in their stores.I am not saying that it’s

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In reply to SvenJ:The idea of apps having UIs that scale as the canvas/display size change is as old as comp

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In reply to rmlounsbury:Forgot about that one.You nailed it. It was never a cost effective approach. Meaning,

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Maybe you haven’t heard of Asus Padfone. A product that was here before MS Continuum

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In the my Mac this version looks fast.

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So Windows 10 Mobile with some changes in UI, integrated PWA support and ... Windows Lite here we go.PS: Windo

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It makes sense, now that their engeneers have a clear grasp of the problem domain

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I personally find ad blockers principles perverse if not illegal.If people want to play with content free of a

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In reply to ghostrider:Albeit I understand you stance on Word and PPT, when it comes to Excel ...

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In reply to HellcatM:what?

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I thought Samsung was passed it’s mimetic phase . I guess that it’s not the case.

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In reply to Tallin:I don’t think you understand the dynamics of contention.Starts with purposely the lack of

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In reply to Stooks:Precisely.

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The title is misleading. That is not what Apple did and entices hate speach.

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The title is misleading and entices hate speach. That is not what Apple has done.This is a discuting way to wi

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Microsoft 365? Will be a CDO.

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In reply to MikeGalos:There you have it. After all these years your experience with Milo has been vindicated.

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In reply to dontbe_evil:That is it I am not in love with Apple neither in hate with MS. That is simply not my

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For me this is the only Surface that makes sense if not for the price.

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In reply to dontbe_evil:That is a funny observation on a site made out of Windows buthurts. Sone are recovere

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In reply to MikeGalos:Maybe you should gather a bunch of shareholders and file a complain. Yet a warning to t

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In reply to MikeGalos:The closest organization to you is Microsoft. We all know that, so stop pretending you a

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I think Cook should just shut up and admit his error in silence. The crux is that TC and Co pushed the price b

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In reply to MikeGalos:What? Lololol.show me that number int the financials.

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In reply to jbinaz:A few corrections. It may have been designed to inspire PC makers but ....it revealed that

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I don't care why it is bent. It is not supposed to be.I feel Apple is loosing focus of what it is importa

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Windows 10 with macOS look a like wallpapers it’s just so desperate :)

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That is all fine and dandy but on Black Friday in Portugal there were almost no Xbox ‘s to be seen in the ma

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In reply to ChristopherCollins:That’s is fine, But you see, Alexa and Cortana can also use Siri Shortcuts, a

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In reply to dontbe_evil:yes people have been misguided and have been taken for a ride in the last 10 years or

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In reply to dsharp75:You guys can’t stand the fact that got your arses lighten up from your mono cultural be

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In reply to MikeGalos:Well it looks like Apple does more money with search than Microsoft Bing ... and they do

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It’s not a work around. That and many more is what Siri Shortcuts are for.Man your mind when it comes to App

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In reply to MikeGalos:Funny that when it comes anything else but MS stuff you seam unable to apply the same re

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In reply to Brazbit:How many Surface configurations are out there?MS Windows team can't even get Surface

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This is more a reflection of Apple extremely unfriendly pricing models to the consumer and prosumer of late,

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In reply to wright_is:Funny in 2012 no MacBooks had either DVD or BR players.

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With the ever increasing prices way beyond inflation Apple it’s becoming in my book just another company ran

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In reply to ghostrider:"Apple call it 'customer service', I call it 'ensuring customer loyalty&

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Well I have that problem with SP3 touch after a year and .... basically they told me “either pay to get fix

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Products like this make the new iPad Pro a bargain.

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In reply to Waethorn: Reference please.

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In reply to Minke:I did not feel insulted considering I have been concerned about probably long before Paul.

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In reply to ErichK:Just the fact that I'm being voted down even in my second non snarky and more "reasona

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I think this is great news ... hopefully. Apple needs a slap in the hand considering the rising prices in the

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Although your intents may be sincere your approach to the topic of digital privacy d

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Who would want Android without Google? Windows people :)The vast majority , would probably choose something e

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In reply to Silversee:The point of Google is to collect data around your interests in context. As long that th

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In reply to jaredthegeek:Which is way more than any Surface laptop with an integrated graphics card.

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In reply to dontbe_evil:.... without forgetting to save users photos and not deleting files. They still settin

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When it comes to the safeguard of digital assets, Privacy and Security is fundamentally the same thing.It jus

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The S9+ it's a lovely device. The price just came down dramatically, Samsung style ... you will like it.

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In reply to lilmoe:I am knowledgeable enough. What do you wanna know?

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In reply to skane2600:With the aim of a full edge to edge surface of glass, the notch it's a good workaro

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In reply to provision l-3:Of course if this was the design of choice than the TouchID on screen would be also

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For me this is what Apple should have done instead of the notch. It is also better for security and privacy ma

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In reply to Maktaba:Due to popular culture and Superman.

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In reply to Winner:True. But whoever complains about iPhones prices and than change smartphone every year or t

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This is something I have been waiting for years and years since I got cured from the desktop/laptop gaming ri

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In reply to Winner:Ot maybe. But the idea of HDR is not to get neither the highlights or darkest shadows clipp

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In reply to lvthunder:It's only a bug if it is not working as intended. Another thing is, can it work bet

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In reply to Winner:Where did Apple said it was a bug?

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In reply to Bob_Shutts:Yes. The state of journalism. Trump gets it and takes advantage of all the carnaval.It�

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In reply to jrickel96:They never said it was an accident or a bug. They are not even using an official channel

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I’m glad that they are improving this.

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In reply to maethorechannen:So iif Chrome and Search are the primary vessels of their Ad business, and if they

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In reply to HellcatM:Yes!!! They should start selling Pixels across Europe too.

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In reply to maethorechannen:But you were already paying them with the data you create, weren’t you? You know

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In reply to HellcatM:Most people perceive these apps as free. Now that Google put a value on it, let’s see h

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In reply to MadsM:That is what Google wants you to think. Honestly, if you were not paying already for the app

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I am not sure how Google will get away with this. I mean, having users pay for their apps when their apps are

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In reply to skane2600:PWA is more of a dev thing not a user thing. The benefit for the dev is flexibility and

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In reply to skane2600:Web apps work the same everywhere.

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This move is good news for MS. It allow them to legally make and distribute Windroid without Google Play and r

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In reply to Stooks:The Verge review is over an early release aka alpha for a product that will be liunched nex

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In reply to karma77police:As an amateur photographer I use Affinity Photo on the iPad Pro. Know someprofession

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In reply to Stooks:Clearly you have more info than Adobe itself. I mean, Adobe repeatedly said its the full Ad

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In reply to Prebengh:With me it failed more than that. Every other day it fails here or there much like Touch

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In reply to Brockman:He seams to prefer the Touch ID, that is all. I was hoping for Touch ID below the glass a

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In reply to Andi:Macs have been the preferred machines for technical and scientific driven people long before

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I guess by latest IOS updates you mean two years ago updates?PS: By the way swiftkey is in IOS, but but .... w

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In reply to nbplopes:Dont understand why people are voting me down. To demonstrate what I’ve said it’s a t

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In reply to longhorn:"So by "modern" OSes you mean OSes without multitasking, advanced window manage

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In reply to longhorn:Yes. It's meant to be subtle ... color changes with the flow of color and "light" in

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In reply to nbplopes:https://youtu.be/-t90uq80GHAHere is a video I've done to illustrate what I tried to

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In reply to Bats:You have no clue and deserve to be just that, clueless :)

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One thing that impressed me is that in the dark mode both the tone and the brightness of windows change accord

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All businesses align their efforts with their core business model. Apple it's selling devices, Google is

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I guess the Surface story is also one about integrity.

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In reply to dontbe_evil:The amount of misinformation around Apple products and services is incredible.There is

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Windows traditionally had people from the MSDN schools sort of speak. You know, Visual Basic and than C# ... c

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In reply to curtisspendlove:I agree. There is not much if anything for actual users here for now.The title it�

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In reply to SupaPete:Can you point out an instance where Apple changed a setting on people’s phones outside

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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:A week a go I had an encounter with someone that shared your point of

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In reply to SupaPete:Whatever. Go and buy a WP.

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In reply to SupaPete:I was just answering to this observation:"What they do for a good number of years is that

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In reply to SupaPete:I believe that they have a solid ecosystem, robust devices, the user gets relevant update

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The reality is that Apple has a smartphone offer that goes from 450 to 1500 give or take.Now, the mindless Ame

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Microsoft should stop this nonsense. They should have a Microsoft Message and Microsoft Talk, for iOS, Android

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That wallpaper is a beauty. Can anyone share the link?

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In reply to ajsmsg78:source please

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In reply to Andi:Did not noticed that on my fully loaded SP3 kit. Worst $2000 investment I did on tech. Really

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In reply to skane2600:my point Is that we seam to demand way more from device manaufactirers in terms of qual

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In reply to skane2600:Yes. Precisely my point when we compare the extent of devices warranties vs software. Th

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In reply to skane2600:Maybe. But you still don’t have a grasp of the purpose of a warranty for instance..A w

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In reply to Andi:Yes. But Consumer Report was not about Skylake based Surfaces but Surfaces previous to Skylak

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In reply to Andi:Most Mac users are professionals. That is why there has been such big amounts of people compl

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In reply to Andi:The mentioned report was referring to Surface Pro 3, there was no Skylake. Skylake cane with

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In reply to skane2600:The idea that software malfunction has minimal consequences in comparison with hardware

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In reply to skane2600:So you prefer all China than? What about HP and DELL?Motorola has given up already ....

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In reply to Andi:"That's why those class actions suits exist. Because Apple fixes stuff indeed, at your e

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In reply to Andi:I never bought Apple Care. In my country by law we get 2 years warranty.

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Yes.It amazes me that the only American company that is in the top 5 of smartphone

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Yes, every Apple problem is endemic. That is basically what you seam to believe, considering the enumeration.T

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In reply to glenn8878:MS bought PureView to Nokia in the first place. Well, actually they bought almost the en

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In reply to curtisspendlove:Yes. II think my next combination will be a Desktop, probably iMac and an iPad Pr

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In reply to MikeGalos:Vertical mouses has been here for years man. You really should get out more from the Win

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In reply to curtisspendlove:If class action lawsuits over severe CPU throttling were consumer winners, the ent

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In reply to Stooks:"The $1299 Macbook you are talking about goes away at the end of this year. Apple announced

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In reply to Stooks:I don’t understand what you are complaining about than. You wanted a product you bought t

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In reply to Stooks:Funny. I have a Mac Mini from 2009, still with DVI outputs and connects my DELL through a

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In reply to RobertJasiek:I understand aspiration of many for any device to work well as both a Workstation, D

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Hi Robert. I don’t think the iPad or Surface Go can be the Workstation for me eithe

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Just replying with a video that might help you with the Files app, but also change t

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In reply to WP7Mango:That’s what I call positive affirmation :)But in many ways its not inferior to a MacBoo

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Maybe its because you are using One Drive with it.

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In reply to Andi:You have a file manager just like Windows in case you don’t know.

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In reply to macguy59:Most Windows users do that too. If you consider active apps instead of running apps.

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I just wonder, if people applied the same reasoning that makes this thing great for them, but to an iPad Pro o

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In reply to Stooks: Again, nice deflection.And I could almost bet you have no top of the line MacBook Pro from

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In reply to Stooks:Nice deflection.

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In reply to ghostrider:We all got tooled for 30 years. I repeat, up until recentely this company did not knew

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In reply to skane2600:Absurd is to be so categorical over something some people seam to have little experience

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In reply to Michael_Miller:This device is for tools. It’s small, its cute, it has a nice display. After that

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In reply to MikeGalos:“If a computer did NOT have a Day 1 update I'd be more concerned.”WARNING: Real

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In reply to CaedenV:And once you have one device for everything you will notice how crap such solution is.

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In reply to JG1170:I guess you consider yourself extremely smart by being baby sitter of your tech. Congrats.

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In reply to DBSync:Yes, and up if you total the three Qs.

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This is a very good advert.

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In reply to bluvg:Maybe that is the case. My unlike was on this piece of marketing material:"These moments can

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I really don't understand why is this so difficult to achieve by MS.

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In reply to skane2600:Its a not a complaint but an observation.I guess, like art, some things if need a descri

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In a world of so many bad decisions and doings, I guess that deciding and doing the right thing for the custom

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I think Air, Macbook and MacBook Air are out. Macbook and MacBook Air will be replaced by the iPad Pro line.Th

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I think they should do like MS. We are working on I t, improving day in day out,, wait for a software update.

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In reply to Chris_Kez:I understand. But Nadella says that core to the partnership is their common rivalry wil

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In reply to Chris_Kez:I think it’s great MS having its tech used by many companies including Walmart. You kn

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Why is MS getting into retail wars as if it does not have its own to win, does not make much sense to me. Amaz

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I think it should be measured by what problems it solves in that segment and how well it solves them. PS: for

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In terms of reach and modus operandi Google is the new MS, at it has been for some years now. This move puts

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In reply to skane2600:1) Understood. This medium has its limits for good communication. ARM architectures are

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In reply to skane2600:I am lost about what you are skeptical about and why. I am trying to follow your reasoni

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In reply to jrickel96:ARM is not bull for the needs of AutoCAD workstations, or Hollywood type of movies, soft

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In reply to skane2600:1) Exactly. Don’t you think he or she will know after taking it to support? Has you sa

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In reply to skane2600:On 1)Ok. But the common man will not because he will not know that its emulating an x32

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In reply to Chris_Hedlund:Its just Thurrot being honest and telling like it is ;)PS: The betas were immediatel

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In reply to skane2600:"I think a more credible argument is that ARM dilutes the value of Windows by limiting w

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I think it is great that more OSs support ARM. More choices for the consumer ... but they need to be good choi

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In reply to MikeGalos:I personally don’t know how many reports exist to judge it as a defective design. All

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In reply to MikeGalos:Like any other company Apple in my experience passes costs in the product price. In my e

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In reply to MikeGalos:Not trying to change the subject. Evaluation ialways comes by contrast. Its one of the f

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In reply to MikeGalos:As I remember most reports started coming in the second half of last year. As for the cl

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In reply to MikeGalos:Ask Paul if MS ever admitted there was a design flaw with his Surface Book gen 1,. Or if

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In reply to AllThisEv1l:I know. Just because it has a rationale does not make it right.

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In reply to Daekar:What is in your opinion their philosophy?I think its more complex for the user to figure ou

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In reply to MikeGalos:I fully agree with this observation. Indeed Apple is changing and becoming a lot like MS

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In reply to mau47:Spot on.

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In reply to SvenJ:Amazon, the source of truth :) Have you guys seen the ratings of those devices? https://www.

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In reply to MikeGalos:Has anyone done a Qi unit that actualky charge two or more devices at the same time? No.

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As a first stage of MR for general consumers makes more sense tethered to an handheld, like an iPhone or Ninte

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In reply to skane2600:I think the only reason why both MS and Google never got this act toguether it’s becau

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In reply to skane2600:The thing should be totally transparent like it is on the iPhone. When you use iMessages

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Can you please clarify why he was flat out wrong in the examples he gave? I've read your previous article

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Well he actually wrote something that it’s not misleading in anyway. He went on to R

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In reply to aThingOrTwo:Absolutely.Only a non developer would assume that even a C# application does not make

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Waiting to see when people leave package of toilet paper coupled with a $1000 of bills payed automagically bec

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Some things that seamed off to me in this article.Electron: Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript,

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In reply to trevor.chadwick.3:I understand you’re point of view. As as software engeneer I was educated in s

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In reply to Robert_Wade:You're statement just shows to me how confused you seam to be. Reminds me the rem

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In reply to bluvg:Yes. Going in circles. Presenting the old as new.

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In reply to trevor.chadwick.3:MS was screwed because of the lack of innovation in the Windows camp, day in da

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The problem I have with Chromebooks is that I still don't know what they are particularly good at. I unde

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I still use 2015.

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Yeah and Google is bringing Android apps to iOS with PWA ... catch the drift?This move its all about developer

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In reply to karma77police:The end game is to control software, the flow of software. MS does not need to buy L

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Github its mainly about pushing and storing code publicly making it a good tool for open source projects to th

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Nice article. Its called a well crafted execution rather than a half baked ideas pushed to customers. It just

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In reply to FalseAgent:Yes. But the point of the article is that Tim/Apple has been telling lies about it. Hav

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In reply to skane2600:Cross platform APIs is something that is as old as computing. So are cross platform fram

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In reply to Jeffsters:A quick recap of facts (not rewriting them as Paul tried to do)...Are they looking to me

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In reply to skane2600:I agree. But MS had its own Git kind of repository that did not work for a reason as wel

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In reply to pderosa:Forcing these community into any of the Titans harms its not what the community wants or n

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Please, please don't do it Github. Please don't, not to Microsoft or Google. Keep yourself independe

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In reply to Mestiphal:Well. My wife, she is a high school maths teacher. Every other week she says “I think

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My wife’s dying SP3 (a three year machine $1700+) updated ok.I think it’s good that MS is achieving this v

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In reply to lbastie:Welcome yo the rabbits hole.I think you should at least try to swap it once to see if it�

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Very, very few people will buy a PC based on how well it supports Alexa or Google Assistant If anyone.At least

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In reply to skane2600:The impact is none for the moment. If you want a PC this might be an option.Whoever is t

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In reply to TEAMSWITCHER:Yes. The Macbook line up has not been updated yet (present release is from June 2017)

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For me, in this context, great user experience don't go well with performance problems and lacking in bat

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In reply to WmPitcher:That makes more sense. But I guess MS has the perfect environment to test this thing bet

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In reply to MikeGalos:So this is when more or less Corporation remodel their conference rooms. Given and take

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This is a lovely realistic practical mockup.MS quite often makes impressive display of tech yet to be released

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Android:New gestures, notch support, no home button.The biggest, mostly a follow up on Apple stance.Google New

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In reply to JG1170:Yes, if you pair with a Mac OS device you actually get the future as far as Windows / Andro

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When will MS launch its Windroid - a MS driven Android variant?The way MS its approaching the edge, in particu

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The big news is the evenue share policy.

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I don’t understand your reasoning. At one moment you find great value in bringing handheld apps to Windows 1

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In reply to plettza:Spotify core business is not in selling music copies. But selling the ability to listen to

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In reply to karma77police:True. Yet Apple it’s basically leveraging here. They came really late to the music

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It’s well deserved. They basically came up with the revolution in music streaming services after downloads.

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The rumours were around Apple selling iPhone X's less than Apple predicted. From that, the "negative" min

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In reply to Saxwulf:I am glad they are well. Just stay there.

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There we go again. Apple needs to sort this spills of information.Google will now come charging. Samsung altog

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You have surprised me for the candid, open and objective review over a brand new Windows thing. Don't tak

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In reply to karma77police:A PC Laptop its a mobile device. What a PC Laptop is not, its an handheld device. It

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Timeline it’s a feature that makes a lot of sense. Hopefully it will be searchable.

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Considering that MS is such a global company why don’t they go for city names all over the globe?Windows New

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In reply to reverseswing:In iOS it’s called spoken notifications I think. One can turn it in on and of. But

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In reply to obarthelemy:So your mom does not play Scrabble in Windows because "her app" as you put it is not t

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In reply to Ugur:I don’t think Handheld apps are crappy in comparison with desktop/laptop apps. They are act

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In reply to FalseAgent:Let me try to make it more bearable :)Neither Windows or OSX have an app problem. Both

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Apple Is not bringing iPad apps to OSX ok. Did not think it was necessary. Don’t really think users are aski

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"Faced with the unacceptable, I’m trying to solve my Pixel audio issues the way an Apple user would. By thro

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if there is an a far bigger and damaging error was when the PC industry adopted the 16:9 for laptops. Compared

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In reply to Stooks:Apple is dropping the ball in that aspect. In 10 yearsI haven’t got used to present somet

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Hi. I still have not seen or heard a sound from the HomePod. But judging by the reviews I would say its not a

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In reply to Daekar:Yes. I don't know if it is a fad or not. But I'm still not convinced by this devi

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The AirPods are good well rounded product for whoever owns iPhone or other Apple devices and came in the right

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What irritates me is not the publicity that MS is pushing in Windows 10. Is that we get the publicity and we s

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In reply to devSpeed:You should have switched to iOS than because this feature has been there for years."Hey S

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In reply to waclark57:Yes. Have both of course. I find touch for scroll great as well as for many other things

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Nadella is saying Windows is no longer the core MS development platform. Azure/Cloud is the MS platform now. T

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In reply to Stooks:We have to agree that the statement its an exaggeration, the question is how close is it fr

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In reply to Jeffery_Commaroto:I think no one wants to pay for anything in principle. Don't need a study f

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In reply to Bats:If the technology was so great so would be the experience. If the experience was great, consi

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I'm a bit puzzled about the ability of HP to sell these well proven devices at $600, yet it asks $1000 fo

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Embedded Windows CE all over again.

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Its interesting to see how each company has entirely different strategies to tackle the future.Apple is at its

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I think Nadella once he saw what Windows on ARM is ... he had enough.The future of Windows is to be a MS Cloud

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In reply to skane2600:Valid when such common meaning is not used to simply wing around a rehetoric devoided of

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In reply to alissa914g:Yes, a $30 discount its lame.

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In reply to skane2600:Yes. Don’t think turning iOS into a desktop OS is the way to go. Nevertheless its use

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Saw the event last night and ...I really disliked the tone of the event. I felt that both teachers and student

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There we go. Paul will return his Samsung, put Pixel 2 in a shelve and buy this one.Since I tried the Huawei c

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In reply to MikeGalos:As I remember my tablet PC, to work with it as a Tablet I really needed a stylus. It was

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This is going to sell like hot cakes if the pencil support is as great as the iPad Pro. I can see a lot of edu

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If I went to Android again probably this would be my phone of choice because of photography. I particularly li

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Due to probably my age, 45 with still young children, with not as much time to dedicate to myself and resolvin

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Not even Apple did this move. I mean, hardwiring their Apple Store with the App Store. Instead they have opted

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In reply to jaredthegeek:The biggest problem I have is that it does not perform closed to either a Tablet or a

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I think naivety on top of profit its a difficult point to be made.The fact is the Facebook is setup for users

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Don’t think there is much of a problem here. I remember when tech moved from x32 to x64. One even needed to

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Battery life for video playback is really, really impressive. This kind of values I've never seen.Nice,

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In reply to Daekar:HiThe idea that form and function are two different things is not correct. Form and functio

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If we cut through the chase, for the price, this is neither a premium content consumption tablet (1) or a mid

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I find it hard to believe this justification considering a company like MS. I mean, they have built Teams mean

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Hi Paul,Maybe one day you can write about MS history because the way I see, when it comes to totally assimilat

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Don’t understand. So it achieves human parity but is not good enough to be used by humans.J wonder with who

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It is interesting how Apple chooses its business. It is trying to fix the magazine publishing business as it t

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Just downloaded it. Put a paper on top of my couch. Camera parallel to the couch, nothing. Only cought the pap

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I don't understand whats all the fuss about the Always Connected PC. I had an Always Connected Tablet, an

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In reply to lordbaal1:When I used Windows 10, since the beginning used Edge to browse the web. Used chrome jus

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On the Ireland Case:Even though the nature of digital its fluid at some point it meets the physical nature of

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I agree with you. Especially when such copies are devoided of any technical constraints. Just Cosmetic.For ins

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"The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviou

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In reply to karma77police:Anti-Trurst is about what companies cannot do to others rather than limiting what t

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In reply to Waethorn:That is a nice start :)

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I'm really "glad" that my MacBook Pro for 2009 was protected first than my SP3 from 2014.

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In reply to Waethorn:Did it? I simply saw a couple of screens and a guy clicking an install button or somethin

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Here is what Office Watch says about desktop Office 365 on ARM:"It’s also possible to get ‘full’ Of

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In reply to Bill_Russell:Yeah. I’ve noticed that lately the wording of Paul seams to be towards Hijacking th

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I’m super excited about the potential of PWAs and MS anticipation move to supporte it in the App Store is gr

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The problem I have with Google approach is that there is no way to ascertain if they hold themselves to the sa

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In reply to skane2600:I can comment on the first because I've done some simple non scientific tests. We c

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In reply to skane2600:It depends. Standard productivity software from a speed perspective, the cheapest iPad P

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I think too many people are assuming that ARM based Windows PC will be cheaper than Intel based PCs.There is n

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On Windows 10 Modes (S, Home, Home Advanced, Pro, Pro Workstation)I find that all this very unacessarly comple

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Even though I've noticed that videos are not commented as Article here is another try ...The Battery / Th

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Saying X or Y active users with no time frame attached is worth very little.Is it per month? Per quarter? Per

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In reply to PincasX:No for me the solution it’s not making it a preference. As I’ve alured in my post in t

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My views over this have been changing over time. For me it is a simple technical solution to a technical probl

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Google today its what Microsoft was decades ago, but much faster and efficient. The future of MS may well be t

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In reply to Pulagatha:The idea that just because MS does software it should sell all sorts of digital things

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I rarely used this feature on the iPhone and certainly never on a PC.Groove Music was doomed from the start. T

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In reply to paul-thurrott:It was actually Google Research along with other Researchers that spotted the issue.

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This is a complex issue that cannot be seen like this IMHO.1) There are two new found classes of "flaws" or "b

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This I think its nice for people that mainly use Amazon and Microsoft services. I have an Alexa speaker, mainl

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In reply to Stooks:Nevertheless from what I’ve said ....I fully understand that it’s mainly an engineering

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In reply to Stooks:Yes. I bought an Alexa integrated speaker to see what was all about. Although I liked some

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In reply to 1armedGeek:Look. I know people prefer t think that Apple is slowing down their phones to force the

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What about what all other companies do? Why don’t journalists that are supposed to be technically way above

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In reply to 1armedGeek:Here is what you may not understand. This phenomena is experienced in any mobile device

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In reply to 1armedGeek:Yes. But all of them slow down due to an eroding battery, some not even just due to tha

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In reply to MikeGalos:Well from what I’ve said you can delusionally conclude anything really.But to put it s

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Rarely Apple disappointed me and this is no exception. The only disappointement I have with Apple at the momen

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In reply to MikeGalos:So basically you have a problem with all companies but decide to voice your lovely crite

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In reply to skane2600:In my experience the UX to operate an app effcientely with the thumb needs to be quite d

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In reply to JG1170:You are being sarcastic over Windows users in the coffee shop for sure :)Becausein that sce

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“Apple’s idea behind merging iOS and Mac apps is almost exactly like Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platf

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In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:Mine was a PSION Series 3 from 1991 or so. There were a bunch of hand

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It looks like a PSION Computer with dual display.I had it a long time ago. Even before Windows CE come to town

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In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:Are you still in the humor mode?

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i understand we need to try these machines.Yet I’ve noticed how reluctant is the marketing spiel around thes

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In reply to William_Kempf:Ok. My point is that I don’t have an issue I guess. For me they can test it howeve

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In reply to William_Kempf:So you have a issue with the way they test things.

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In reply to Jeffsters:There is a random down voter around. Maybe is a bug or something . Or maybe it’s not s

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In reply to SocialDanny123:They do. I know of schools in Europe that use the G Suite on Windows machines.

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Google has not marketed Chrome OS outside the US as far as I can tell. This is what the graphs shows. There wa

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In reply to Jeffsters:All companies are.

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An insider is a tester, it’s not a person that gets features sooner todo whatever. The “whatever” it’s

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It seams to me Apple quality is cracking with their success. They always had eventual problems but lately it h

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In reply to Brazbit:I just woke up and was patched. So honestely do not know the story in between.

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Yup, bad. Hours later, patched, good.

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In reply to Waethorn:Yeah. There is a huge disconnect between what all the big 4 companies (except one) are sa

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2018 and MS is still walking circles with this for years and years :( Maybe now with Hadoop they can sort this

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Hi, talking about smart speaker and Alexa ... last week I bought cheap smart speaker with Alexa for the first

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Hehe, Paul and his saga against Apple reviewers.But have a look at my comment/review on Brads article about th

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Hi Brad,I think if you bought the Air Pods for the purpose of using it main at the gym, this was not definitel

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This is interesting. MS is doing really good stuff in Azure and Visual Studio Code.Visial Studio? It’s getti

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Thank you for the reply.Would you say that the core strengths of this device is Proj

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Interesting that the picture opening the post does not coincide with actual pictures of the device in Android

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$1000 device future proof for one year? I don’t get this kind of future proof.I understand it might fill you

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The advantage of Pixel 2 XL over the iPhone X in this context is clear. Comparable camera ... cheaper.If that

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In reply to Rob_Wade:Wha does Apple has to do with it? Can you care to explain?Because it look like by your re

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To be honest for the first time since the iPhone 1, even I am surprised.Need to ponder ... Because there is s

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In reply to JG1170:The deck of cards for app switching its pretty much standard on any phone today.Palm Pre an

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Hi Paul,I agree that the initial review on The Verge looks like the most balanced amongst this set.But we arri

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These are excellent news. Let’s hope MS seeks it through 200%.Cheers.

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I like the looks. A simple clean look packing what it looks like tons of horsepower.Pair that with robustness

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In reply to karma77police:PWA aims to integrate in the same umbrella a series of technologies and concepts tha

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In reply to unkinected:“Apple quietly told suppliers they could reduce the accuracy of the face-recognition

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In reply to winlonghorn:Ha ok. So this announcement it’s all about the party over an announced release date

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How many times MS needs to announce the same thing, over and over and over and over ...

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For some reason I see people very interested in this vision. But can one person talk me through the disadvanta

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I'm glad that out of the three there is at least one big consumer targeting company that its out of this

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I like the specs. I’m looking forward to see if it works up to the specs in real life. In the past this has

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I think if MS is aiming any kind of robust integration between Windows 10 PC workflows and Android its has at

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In reply to Jacob Klein:People and developers are waiting anyway with this pace.The challenge is not so much i

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Considering Surfaces, at least in Europe, are easy easy to be seen on shops, MS tried to pull an Apple, iMHO t

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In reply to Jacob Klein:I think the goal should not be releasing features but features that millions of people

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I don't know what its so exciting about this. Been doing that for over 5 years in the iPhone, with family

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In reply to Jacob Klein:I was being sarcastic. If it’s a known difficulty to get users to vupdate in mass wi

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In reply to glenn8878:Microsft it’s promoting Office 365, Bing and Azure. Windows 10 it’s just a means for

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The problem of this two times a year update scheme is that ....Ok ... a certain amount of user is with Windows

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Its alive until they killed it. I say this because historically in my book, the word of MS as an institution,

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In reply to paul-thurrott:Looking forward to read about your experience.Your are spot on in clearly identifyin

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The article is mostly a reiteration if Google’s Presentation. The tone ... everything. Hummm.I was expecting

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This should have happened a long time ago:Users would have adopted a reliable way to deal with audio assets so

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It looks like Google is testing out the consolidation between YouTube and Google Play.

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In reply to PincasX:Clarifying why tech savvy Apple users did not gave their opinion on this move immediately.

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In reply to PincasX:Apple fans like carrier neutrality as much as net neutrality from an OS/Device functional

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Amazon has been playing its cards in very very intelligent way. Kind of reminds me Apple when it came with the

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In reply to wright_is:Yes. For embedded Android TV along with satellite and cable tunners is for me the bigge

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I find it funny that people are drooling over Google Assistant coming to premium Android TV setup boxes justi

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Makes sense.

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In reply to MikeGalos:I think you are quite right in your conclusion about what Paul is saying. But calling 21

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In reply to skane2600:I think we are going on a tangent here. You have to decide, as well as Paul, if you want

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In reply to skane2600:People Will not think in terms of differences but in terms of how to use the devices tak

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In reply to skane2600:So it's more a question of expectation not complexity. It is easily solved as long

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In reply to wright_is:Do people get frustrated when they switch from a Surface Pro to their iPhone and back be

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"There are a few arguments to be made about how people just adapt to what they use. But that’s where iOS rea

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In reply to Roger Ramjet:The problem in your reasoning is that browser market share is calculated based on usa

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MS is going on circles with this comm stuff without ever tackling the things that matter in this context.Apple

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I am with you on this Brad. It is just way to expensive for not to be precise in such critical operation as un

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I just want say this. Don't confuse cinicism with intelligence. There seams to be too much of the first a

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In reply to FalseAgent:I too was not impressed with the performance of the facial recognition to unlock it. Al

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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:One particular evident example was the iWatch Rumor. Started long before smartwatch

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In reply to Speednet:He was referring to face recognition / sign in on phones. Does MS have a phone that does

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Bezel-less design is a Qualcom innovation? OLED? Heheh. One can imagine the rest than ... right?Qualcomm its n

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Personally I think we are 75 to 100 years far from a conversational UI. Everything looks highly scripted, not

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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:I think what you meant is that buying a phone from Google, Samsung, Acer, Lenovo

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I think the world needs to promote another multiplatorm browser but chrome.Has long as tech journalists keep p

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i think overall at the moment, apart from phones, regularpeople are just experimententing alternative forms of

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This Cortana, Siri or Google Assistant centric way to talk with AI does not work well from many angles easy in

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I thought that Alexa had a Skills API :)I wonder how than well integrated will be Amazon/Alexa on Windows 10S

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I think all stakes are open for next gen productivity ecossystems. Each with its advantages and weaknesses. Wi

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What this phone can do really sounds awesome. I was not excited by Galaxy S8 but this ...Let's see how it

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This Cortana centric way to talk with AI does not work well. This is not just the fault of Cortana, but Siri,

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I don't use Windows 10 S and personally I will probably never will. If I wanted something like an iPad Pr

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What about years and years denying the problems and promising fixes that never came? What about they keyboard

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In reply to SvenJ:Hi. The difficulty is not that one for a company like Google. They have solved the described

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I don't understand this way of rolling out features ...Why is handsfree calling such a difficult feature

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In reply to hrlngrv:People only report hardware problems in case of total failure. For instance, would. MS acc

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The more MS fights the CR the worst it will get for them. It is becoming clear by the day that they turned a b

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In reply to skane2600:I have no problems admitting it when I detect a mistake of mine about anything. Thank yo

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In reply to Roger Ramjet:Read it again ... you may be correct.My point of confusion was the "bulshit". Paul w

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In reply to Roger Ramjet:On another note, take a deep look at this chart: chart.jpgWhat can be said? Instead o

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In reply to Roger Ramjet:The author my have all the issues he feels with MS response. Never refered to it as b

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"But the biggest issue I have with “customer satisfaction” is that it’s kind of a bullshit measurement w

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In reply to Roger Ramjet:Haven't read it until now. Yes you noticed your error, but further comment goes

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In reply to Roger Ramjet: Do you know how to read? Look at the graph ... it says laptops. Why you came up with

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This was to be expected in my experience with Surface. It's strange that took so long for consumer report

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Has far as i am concerned if PQ for Videos in the Apple TV is better than in other devices, including the ones

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In reply to SvenJ:I know they have ....I think is not about "me too" but I am not so sure if the priority trig

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"Apple’s Surface rip-offs ..."Bring on the violines ....

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What a heartening story. Kudus to MS for giving a shot at this finally ... pushed by Apple of course, who else

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Hi. I don't go on on in an run of the mill of what is the best camera in abstract. To put it in simple te

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I don't remember MS doing the same thing Paul would like Apple to do. To be honest as a customer I would

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In reply to ghostrider:That is why it should be free download install and use. That would be a different appro

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For imaging Paint does not do the job at any level. Most people I see, use Paint to crop or rescale images and

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In reply to Roger Ramjet:Personally I am a bit tired of MS grand plans. I have way too many times analysed MS

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I just wonder if this product will be bought because it makes use of Microsoft tech. Maybe for companies but e

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From a journalist point of view it might be interesting to pinpoint in great certainty the sources of revenue.

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Probably I'll be the last one providing a comment on this theme. With the Windows Store MS needs to focus

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In reply to Wiredcoach:Did Android Stores got rid of piracy? That is the closest equivalent to Windows Store I

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In reply to brad-sams:Thank you Brad. I am glad the my English skills were not an impediment to me this time t

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I personally don't see this has much of a problem. Not even I see it has a failure of the PC standard aka

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In reply to MikeGalos:I think Gardener/IDDC considers that any computer running Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Hom

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This makes sense. Now this will come to end user sometime.You see, they sell you the Windows S. Than if you wa

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In reply to nbplopes:I would like also add the following to my comment based on my experience with my iPad Pro

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Hi Paul, I bought the iPad Pro and still have not decided for the keyboard.Have you tried the cursor controll

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In reply to Waethorn:An MVP is not a MS representative by any means. Its an award given by MS to people that a

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I agree that devices should just work out of the box. Most the stuff I use does. Still I think its not uncommo

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Hi. I really don't understand why people think that this practice founded in "vaporware" as anything posi

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In reply to Win74ever:I digress. I think Windows 10 is full of groundbreaking features within the Windows cont

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In reply to nbplopes:I guess the down votes may mean that most people have a very narrow view over what vaporw

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There is a new epedemy of vaporware in overehelming proportions. Some people may call it transparency but that

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IMHO Windows 10 S should be free and MS should strive to strive to get revenue through the App Store and other

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In reply to jgraebner:Yes. It was a big upgrade in many ways but not so much in the features he argues he

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In reply to OntarioPundit:If it needs charging is dead.The problem we have today is that there are simply too

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This is very interesting and it can be huge, really huge.

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In reply to paul-thurrott:So what is the problem with that? For instance Window 10 Aniversary got more attenti

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This article was a funny. Full of paradoxes. For instance: "The iPhone is awesome. There’s just one problem:

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I find this review odd, extremely odd. I get that people experiences may be different, but being so different

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In reply to Daekar:Keep wandering.

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In reply to ezraward:If MS does not bother updating both my SP2 and SP3 as advertised by the fantastic new u

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In reply to Jeffsters:I may be mistaken but the patent only covers automatic activation of the "do not disturb

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In reply to MikeGalos:Saying that Google is a one trick poney in that manner is the same as saying MS is a one

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In reply to MikeGalos:Well they did not claim that invented it, did they? So are you saying that MS did? Hopef

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In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:Productivity is the amount of value you create with what you produce.

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In reply to skane2600:Yes. I tend to see PC has a form factor, so a Mac is a PC much like a Windows PC. I thin

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FUD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt).Having said this Personally I use Edge in Wind

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Who put VR and MR in Windows gamers agenda drumming it up with formidable tech marketing initiatives was MS. N

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In reply to Stooks:iPads are not loosing to Chromeboks but to Smartphonesjust like anything else. You might sa

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Hi a couple of notes:1) Surface RT did not had the power or the form factor, in other words the context, for s

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This is a shame. Ive never mind tech arriving to such level that i could not repair it myself. But now even pe

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In reply to sberti:So 3 years, 3 Surfaces Pro in roll?

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Wow Andrew that is unlucky say the least. To be honest, considering the update that came so fast you might be

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Nice review.Not that I give much to synthetic benchmarks but in this case, considering such a discrepancy in

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In reply to Stooks:The unit of time does not change with system. It might be the case that this new iPad is so

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In reply to Stooks:They have not blew anything yet. Why are people in such a rush to replace the PCs?I think t

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In reply to Stooks:I keep linking that article because I think its important, I think it is interesting that a

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In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:All i have to say ia this: https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/

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In reply to Ugur:https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/apple-ipad-pro-10-5

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In reply to Angusmatheson:https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/apple-ipad-pro-10-5

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In reply to Ugur:Generically speaking I find people on the Windows camp including the Microsoft Press too eage

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I would like to have your opinion how this works comparatively say to say a Surface Pro in the same price rang

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In reply to Brian Hodges::) Surface Car:Can you imagine needing to detach and reattach the steering wheel at 1

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The interesting bit about AI in self driving cars it is not driven by the Cloud :) Data is not much of a probl

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In reply to Chris_Kez:I'm not here to tell MS what to do. I'm just a user that payed for solutions n

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In reply to Luka Radunovic:If you think that consoles gaming is loosing users to the PC ... think twice. If yo

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In reply to Lars lalaa:Don't know. I don't think it will be this year. On another hand Apple always

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"This is, I think, a winning formula"Hi Paul. I would like to present the following.https://www.statista.com/s

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In reply to MikeGalos:You seam to enjoy distorting reality? What is the point of that? It does not really help

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In reply to Grizzly:No, there will be a way to lock this down to the operator, This is a way for MS start some

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Hi Brad, I think you are loosing focus on important stuff. Well known technologists are not gushing over drag

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In reply to Jorge Garcia:I do not think Microsoft has cracked the code yet ... in my experience of course."Tru

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In reply to William Clark:I agree with you. The iPad Pro is way too expensive for not to make all the dues of

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In reply to Jorge Garcia:I don't think they ever will merge OS X with iOS. I believe that there is a meth

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In reply to skane2600:Given what you have just said, I get the impression you know very little about anything

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In reply to MikeGalos:I think we cannot compare the power position that MS had back than in the consumer space

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"Given all this, I’ve ordered a 10.5-inch iPad Pro to see whether the future has finally arrived. Or whether

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I think this kind of thinking has evolved for the good. The idea everything in an OS should be replaceable but

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One the reasons I like WWDC is that there is very little speculation, talk about vision, demos show the real t

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File history never really work that well. Like most MS Windows solutions is not hassle free for one. Onedrive

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Hi, just to say that I find there is a fare amount of romanticism regarding Microsoft vs the rest of the tech

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Hi Paul, I don't like the point of view of Boring vs non Boring. I think it is obvious that MS tech marke

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In reply to Matthias Kraßnitzer:Imagine, imagine, imagine .... Take for instance project Natal:https://www.yo

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In reply to Jallopy:No, it did it 2006 already. Just FYI.In 2007 everyone that listen to the broader world of

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"Mixed Reality", "Half Lie" and "Half Truth" is all the same thing. Its like "Universal Windows Platform", aft

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Some people finding it exciting the overwhelming cadence of futuristic things that don't actually work. T

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Everyone is talking about the next big thing and AI this AI, or is it Mixreality or is it ..... I remember whe

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For me, Tim Cook is not the man for the job. His strategy is a very profitable one but also looks very fragile

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In reply to Tallin:With Windows you need to have your account in each device in order to share anything. Furth

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In reply to Chris Lindloff:In spite of the above take this in practice observation about costs.For work &

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In reply to Chris Lindloff:Once I was with the Macbook with my SP3 on the side, don't remember why. A guy

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In reply to PeteB:"WGAF"Well Paul likes to compare stuff across Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. and you

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In reply to Bats:You half right. Yes several time Paul made it look like that MS invented this specific format

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In reply to Luka Pribanić:Don't think that will ever anytime soon. PWAs are good enough for most apps to

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In reply to lordbaal1:Its so simple isn't it? If that was true here is a joke that could be said about UW

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In reply to skane2600:Thank you for clarifying.My point is simple: Today when we develop an a digital service

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In reply to skane2600:Don't understand why the down vote. Clearly considering your answer I communicated

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Hi,I think a lot of times MS thinks too far into the future where things are still very immature for a technol

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In reply to Chris Lindloff:If you ask anyone why they choose its definitely not because of Ads. So if it not b

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In reply to Ugur:I agree that they went to sort out and service big data problems starting with search. Still

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There are several things that made Google a great success.1) Google Search. Has I remember it all started here

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Hi Paul, I'm not sure if you are looking for an full online only Web App or a Progressive App, meaning th

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Hi,1) It's not so much that Windows 10 runs PWA's, but that PWA's run on Windows 10. This is an

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Yes this was to be expected. iTunes and iCloud is already on Windows, supporting the App Store its just a natu

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Microsoft seams still following a business model based licensing the OS for its consumer / prosumer oriented O

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In reply to SvenJ:Progressive apps started by being apps that run within a browser with the sophistication an

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In reply to nbplopes:Further if this is was not confusing emough MS Windows branch is now promissing that some

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I don't understand how a $50 different in price make it an alternative. But hey, I'm sure I will.In

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In reply to SvenJ:Yes. That bugs me a lot. That is why I only use Gmail, Search and Google Maps. Even that I&#

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Its difficult to follow what MS is doing. It seams to be riddled with hoops and loops, both for developers and

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I agree. It seams that Google failed in bringing Androids Apps to Chrome in a sound, robust and convincing way

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In reply to nbplopes:Why is this observation voted down I have no clue. It's the truth of the matter.The

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In reply to rameshthanikodi:Not surprising. Apple conference is in June, so they are just bringing on some pre

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In reply to RobertJasiek:Battery replacement and repair for fair prices is not Apple.Yet I agree with the rest

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The all collage of Windows 10 S with this laptop is just totally fake and manipulative. No one in its proper m

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In reply to obarthelemy:I would not say they are luxury. I'm a tech guy and tech guys tend to buy stuff b

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In reply to Bats:A tend to read Paul thoughts with large pits of salt. I find him to be more sober when he tal

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In reply to nbplopes:I is also interesting that after an event dedicated to Education ... no one is talking ab

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In reply to nbplopes:One more note. Panos Panay about Surface is in hight contrast with my experience with the

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Hi,I think someone should actually write a review of this MS presentation from an Education perspective. I mea

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In reply to Simard57:No. It has to do with the user culture I guess. Technical people use whatever browser is

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In reply to Jeff Jones:I fully agree with your first sentence.But you counter argument seams to be in the line

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This device looks really nice. It looks more polished than both Surface Pro and Sufacebook. I guess that the S

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Personally I believe that there is still no good solution on the market that can fully replace pen and paper i

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Good find.

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Hi Paul,Here are my two cents regarding the forces sustaining pushing Windows Cloud. Of course there maybe oth

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Personally I think its bad play for Samsung to get into the PC space. Clearly they do not speak to the Windows

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Samsung has been on my tech radar for quite sometime, more so since the advent of Galaxy S6.One thing that I k

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I think MS is on to something with this. If only they get the details right. I could see even in the video som

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That is one of the reasons why I'm not buying anything else from MS for personal use. There are many othe

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In reply to nbplopes:Examples of already healthy markets that MS decided to "contribute" to:Productivity Solut

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What is doing with its productivity suite regarding other platforms but Windows is no more than the same with

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In reply to nbplopes:There is more in this MS support to Samsung Galaxy S8 than contracts or promoting its ser

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In reply to Mark from CO:My point was that like you, many times I also think that MS is better positioned to m

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In reply to Mark from CO:The error of MS comes prior to the happening of the iPhone. The iPhone came so much a

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There is no indication that these Android or iOS growth is done at the expense of PC form factor. What the sta

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In reply to MikeGalos:Paul also reported that Apple is looking for total platform control. Any statistics on t

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In reply to nbplopes:Mac Pro was the odd bit on the update cycle. Now we know why.

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In reply to skane2600:I don't think they are loosing money on the Macbook's or iMac's, but Mac

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In reply to skane2600:People that need a PC will never go for a tablet whatever. Mac user or Windows user. I t

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I think is interesting that one can see the company this way and looking for total control platform.Apple / Co

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The perfect OS for ADHD.

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On another note I don't understand what Paul is complaining. Having a device that does not work properly

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When I bought the Samsung A5 S it came with all a lot of MS apps installed side by side with Samsung apps. One

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I tend to agree more with what Paul says than what he writes :)You guys never said the words "technological m

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I think it makes sense MS to release the update to systems that they have tested. Because even in those in the

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In reply to lilmoe:Samsung was almost nothing in the smartphone scene before Android or copying Apple. Blaming

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I saw last night the presentation summary on another site. What stroke me is how Apple unshamely copy Apple, e

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The best thing is that it feels faster. I still dislike the overall experience.

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It's an error to dismiss Samsung Dex and Bixby. Especially if we consider the Asian market. Most Androids

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Considering the feature improvement an new features list why is this called Creators? Gamer Update would prob

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In reply to nbplopes:Take for instance Xmarin ...

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In reply to nbplopes:On another note, using development machines with third party Ohs to build a platform or a

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If the future of "new gen" devices is to look and feel much like a Windows PC than they failed! Yes. they can

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In reply to wocowboy:And some say Apple enforces a closed system when comparing with Windows. It is and always

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I'm curious what are the iOS/Apple apps and services that do not work well on iOS. My experience is that

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This number is absolutely incredible at all counts. Basically the size of one small country in population or

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In reply to GeekWithKids:You are payiing 20 bucks a month for custon domain support. Everything else you can g

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In reply to ym73:I would not want that to be standard either. I think diversity is important for evolution to

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This expensive

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In reply to Ugur:If these things run well whatever they propose to be run why does it matter if it is an A8, A

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In reply to Mharm:My experience is that overall Macs are simpler to use because its features are not only more

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I don't really see the big deal either. I believe people should be allowed to chose the tools they feel m

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If we take into account all the aspects that make a good product we can only conclude that Surface Studio in-s

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I think what what the viewer said about being half baked is that are certain parts of the system that seam raw

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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:Yes I know. I have two of those, that is why I said what I said. These thin U syste

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In reply to Paul Thurrott:I think you are correct and I was wrong, got confused. I just wonder how this thing

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I would just like to note that these are basically Core M Processors!!!! Intel rebranded the all thing. So all

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In reply to FlightControl:Give it time. MS will relentlessly absorb every single feature of Slack. By offering

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Integration with third party Cloud Storage providers is baked in for instance with iOS default Email client (y

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In reply to Vidua:Don't confuse software developers with software developer consultants. One builds produ

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MS decided to attack Slack business. There is no way around it. And took the core functions of the successful

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Today its not just about performance independently of anything else. We moved on from the need of more perform

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Wow, the incredible Skype tech now on UWP with the amazing Pip mode. This PiP mode on Windows 10 appeared in m

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I find it impressive that the home broadband in the US is so tight and costs so much. Considering that the maj

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I remember that article. The reasoning was really weird ... something like this."I'm really in love with

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In reply to skane2600:I think the software market in Windows gives you the answer no matter what you and I thi

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"Many companies had no trouble creating sophisticated Windows 3.0 and 3.1 programs despite not having access t

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Nokia is an interesting company again (HMD). Still a strong brand world wide (shared memory) coupled with a sm

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In reply to Tony Barrett:I'm not an MS fan, but this analysis does not seam right. Windows Store serviced

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In reply to Luka Radunovic:I think enterprises can custom the store. For them it's just a secured distrib

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In reply to hrlngrv:The Store is not just about UWP. But secured containers of win32 apps. Meaning added secur

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In reply to jimchamplin:True. This feature has been If I remember in OSX since the App Store appeared. I don&#

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This looks similar OSX. By default only App Store apps are granted OS permission to install, no questions aske

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So it's not a positive sign I guess. If not what would it be?Granted long term success is never guarantee

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In reply to jjaegers:1) The computing base of XBOX One is puny comported with tablets and even more with smart

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In reply to jboman32768:Sidesync works by mirroring the phone screen, at least to take and make calls from the

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In reply to Neville Bagnall:Hehehe. Why did MS abandoned Xenix even though it predicted it could well be the b

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Instragram its like twitter but for photos.

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We are slowly going back to the age were high price stuff works but poorly.

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On the new Paul article about the Ads of iPad Pro using Word to show it can be a productivity tool too.If this

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That awesome reset feature that is coming to Windows 10 (Interne Recovery)... the company that Paul likes to t

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In reply to nbplopes:One more Info for educational purposes. Have you have heard about NeXT Step / Open Step f

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In reply to nbplopes:Sophisticated cross platform app development (notive) is entirely feasible today. Have a

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In reply to jbuccola:Clearly you don't know what Open Source is. Any code referred in that page can not o

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It was already a subpar OS for the time. Apple is such a closed system according to Paul but back than it was

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In reply to glenn8878: Backup and recovery has been an utility like a toaster in the Mac world for years and y

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In reply to mmcewan: It does blend until you actually use a system that makes mostly no noise at all. Than it

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Another good looking PC device with questionable engeneering for the price I guess. This is seams to be a recu

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In reply to karma77police: Absolutely. Eventually one more, the Windows Cloud with the App Store constraint. W

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In reply to ym73: Nice assessment. Some people stay in the LA LA Land of the past. Just one note. If MS is doi

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It looks good, but will it bend?

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I'm converted to Visual Studio Code for everything Web development supporting tenths of thousands of user. I s

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If the licensing is actually free, its only natural that the Windows Store only apps will be the policy.

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There is one thing that puzzles me still. Microsoft is all about "Mobile first, Cloud First".  Unfortunat

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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein: I think most user don't update their phones because of fear to break or loose s

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In reply to RM: So could MS with Windows 10 and ... I don't think that such move is what Google has in mind. H

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You don't need Apple TV to play iTunes content on the TV wirelessly. There are plenty third party devices that

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The Insider scheme on XBOX One seams to be working better considering the quality of their output vs Windows 1

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Microsoft announced Hololens in January 2015. I think it is quite clear that the reason was just one ... to be

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I think its clear that Microsoft lost the mobile computing bandwagon, the mobile computing era. They were one

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In reply to Pbike908: "Google can potentially kick some serious a$$ with Android capable Chromebooks" Consider

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Hi, My father used to say, "there is not free lunch". Considering Google's great comes from Ads in their

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Windows 10 "has" this feature. The "has" is in quotes because I tried to use it with several Windows 10 Mobile

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Personally if budget is not the core concern I would put the Mac on top anytime. I'm a technical person,

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In reply to rdenos: What you fail to mention is that most security features you tout require new hardware to b

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I find it odd that MS has prioritized the launch of the People Feature (whatever the is) after an entire

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In reply to lvthunder: I was not talking about your particularly. After one year from launch it is expected th

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In reply to RM: They will go has far has they ever went as a content provider. Including shutting down the act

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In reply to JudaZuk: All Ads are suggestions. If a company suggests you to buy something directly or indirectl

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Windows 10, the ADHD paradise. PS: Does Windows 10 have ADHD?

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In december I considered buying this machine. Being a owner of 2 Surface Pro's, 2 and 3, and familiar with the

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Looks like MS is putting its folding display patent to use. But who ever designed MS business model in the ebo

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Just to report a thing that happen just a few hours ago. I opened up my SP2 tried to login with the my regular

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In reply to jlmerrill: It has been working like that since OSX Lion or so. Maybe there something different wit

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In reply to warren: It works if the Website to support it. Because none do, it does not work.  The way fo

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Paul I'm sorry but this post is really weird. After the Consumer Report came out this is what Apple did: Phill

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I find hilarious and sad this MS fanbase grudge over Nokia. A brand most Americans probably did not knew befor

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In reply to woelfel: Yup. A Zunified images of Grove and Emails apps. That is all we can see here. I love

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In reply to karma77police: The same problems diagnosed in Surface Pro 3 and 4 were in Surface Pro 1 an 2. At l

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People still believe in the magic wand, year after year. Sometimes I wonder if MS has good engineers for 

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Comparing Apple to Blackberry because of iMessage ... its a forceful bridge ... wishful thinking? Why on

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"Why anyone might consider a MacBook Pro over this baffles me. " Because its not just about the machine?

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In reply to MikeGalos: Steve Jobs made that statement in the context where most if not all smartphones require

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 If they could just fix the WiFi in SP3 once and for all (and other system gliches)   You know I got

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In reply to wright_is: I have the Volt enabled on the OSX (bitlocker) .  So the entire Windows 10 virtual

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Nokia is not a patent Troll. The company never acquired or patented stuff in  order to be able to sue oth

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In reply to mystilleef: :) So true. I think integrity has nothing to do with Paul's preferences. It's more of

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In reply to MutualCore: Its hard no to give them money. I just bought a MacBook Pro 15" from 2015. Guess what

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DISCLAIMER: I just like good products. The cheaper the the more I like them, yet that has nothing to do with b

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I find it hard to use these statistics to ascertain the conclusions exposed in this article. There are too man

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In reply to kenhes: I think what is mostly pissing off customers is  combination of two things.  1)

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In reply to Waethorn: MS is very good at playing the rumor game. Rumor is a marketing tool. Its a way for a co

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In reply to MikeGalos: Give me a break. Are you that naïve? How many times MS missed launch dates? Have y

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Hehehe. If MS delays something there comes a throughout analysis ... https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-

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Apple will never come up with a stylus based phones. No one wants that, no one!  https://www.youtube.com/

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I In reply to PeteB: By experience I think you may be correct. Pairing the Surface Book with  displa

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Here is my wish for Christmas to come from Microsoft. 1) Make Surface Book really really stable and robus

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I said before, the Windows Insider Program is mostly a marketing tool and not a QA measure. At least on t

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In reply to Joe_Blo: I tend to agree with you. I believe that Paul is as much an emotional tech writer. To the

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I think that there is a market expectation that either the smartphone or the tablet, or a combination of both

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In reply to ken_loewen: Yeah. I think the size of the windows app store shows how forced the 2 in 1s are. This

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The surface line has termal problems which void the value of any high end configuration. These do not manifest

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I rreally like MS aesthetics for the Surface line.A breath of fresh air in the market. But given what they aim

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Linux is quite relevant in the server world.  Most developers build client / server applications, not jus

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The pricing of this book its an exercise in stupidity. I am getting worried about the future of buying tech lo

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In reply to zybch: Yes I have that game.

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In reply to mark_rasmussen: Wrong. No one would by an Amiga (unless you are a collector). PS: Stuff is worth w

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I would really would like go be able to do more stuff with Xbox One. This update for my usage totally misses t

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In reply to allanwith:   "We need"? Yeah right :) Just a side note on another article that I have not rea

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In reply to MikeGalos: When Apple dropped integrated Floppy drives, DVD drives and so on, was also a flawed de

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In reply to fastoy: That is where I think Apple dropped the ball. The new iPhone should have adopted USB-C alr

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In reply to kenhes: It is being phased out. That is why adapters for legacy tech is supported. This  just

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In reply to lordbaal1: You don't need more. Actually you'll less in the middle term. But even the ones you nee

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Yes, Yes, Yes. By the way, make those docks integrated with the monitors. So we simply connect one cabe from t

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I am interested in knowing how many trade ins they achieved with the previous program. And with this one. I th

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In reply to jjaegers: Putting Amazon aside, because their ambition is to be a one stop shop for absolutely eve

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Its the Apple approach to a problem that XBOX One Guide also tries to solve. I don0t think neither Netfli

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I don't care much about being or not a last year CPU. I don't buy CPU's. I'm more interested in knowing if thi

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In reply to Adam_Desrosiers: The Windows crowd has gone mad. Totally mad. The thing looks great with a price t

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A Macupdate maybe long overdue, but the fact is that even without an update it handles the DPI across mulriple

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In reply to FalseAgent: If I would even prefer in a failed product ... that says much about this pro

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My kids have the Wii U and one 3DS each. They share an iPad with me but each want their own. Oh and the oldest

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In reply to FalseAgent: ARM has the performance not the spec if you know what I mean. I have a Surface Pro 3 C

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In reply to Alkaidia:   Yes, But didn't they simply just changed some settings on the Store to

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Another atrocious app that people will not use. Bridge much? Some people might think that MS is not at fault b

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The family plan of Spotify is better. This convollutted pricing model is the future? The only thing worst than

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MS fans will always be disappointed by any MS "Discontinuity". Still what I notice is that Windows i

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This is really a smart move from Google.

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I have all other GOWs. I'm not buying this ome. To be honest I feel that probably XBOX One is that last consol

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In reply to trevor_chdwck: Uau, Senior Architect. Looks impressive. But you forgot to answer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ..

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In reply to DemBones: The One Windows vision is so shiny that basically hides the underlying problems. The rea

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I dont get how people still gets excited about this stuff. These guys are always in the airwaves. Its the upda

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The most important aspec of this launch is not the Pixel, but all set of devices around Google Assistant.

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Microsoft IMHO has given up leading the future of personal computing. The emphasis on enterprise security

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I would like to know what is the business case of something like the Elite X3 at $1200 aprox. I ask this becau

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Its not about the features. The correct question should be IMHO.  What problems people care about Windows

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There are too many Julio Vernes at MS. I've seen many videos from MS about the MS Vision of the future. F