Maybe it was shoved under the rug because it didn’t happen? Developer Mode only applies to watchOS and iOS,

rosyna
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Why would Ethernet need drivers for macOS? No other Thunderbolt dock does. And what audio capabilities are in
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On iOS, there’s a restriction of not being able to charge just to access OS-provided features, like picture-
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As a Showtime production, Halo is also available in markets where Showtime exists but Paramount+ does not. You
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In the US, text messages are really strong as carriers in the US eliminated the per-SMS fee (and had always al
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Google is explicitly “encouraging Apple to join the rest of the mobile industry and adopt RCS so that we can
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FWIW, California is the fifth largest economy in the world by GDP. UK is sixth.
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You can’t run any development tools that’s generate WOA binaries on it and it doesn’t support RDP becaus
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No one makes both color accurate and high-resolution OLED panels between 9 and 24 inches. If you want color ac
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The “required replacement parts” only applies to the battery and display
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can you try recording 10-15 minutes of video? There’s been some claims the Pixel 5a overheats when capturing
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Note: Arm has moved beyond the old big.LITTLE architecture and now uses DynamIQ. This architecture is used in
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“Hardware and software sales in the first quarter of last fiscal year were substantially driven by the March
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There is less than 1% in breakthrough infections in those vaccinated, depending on the number of unvaccinated
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That’s Pepsi, not the mRNA vaccines.
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There a minimum limit of about 1nm before quantum tunneling allows electrons to jump the border between transi
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Parallels is a virtualization product, not an emulator. I’m not sure where the confusion about this comes fr
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Ugh, the cameras aren’t even calibrated enough that there’s a *noticeable* color shift when switching betw
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If you want to know what service has a movie or TV show, open the Apple TV app on the iPad and search for the
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Apple also implements ARMv8.3, which includes an instruction to significantly optimize an exceedingly common J
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The OnePlus 9 series uses the same Sony sensors used by other smartphones. The “Hasselblad” brand was lice
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In reply to Minke:thats where Notes.app comes in with secure notes.
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In reply to peterc:Yeah, these super expensive cameras are expensive for the name. They use Fuji sensors and g
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Hasselblad is now just a name licensing company. Much like Zeiss.
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The M1 Macs support displays up to 6K resolution. These displays are typically limited to 4K on this class of
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Tom’s Hardware has the slides from Intel with all the points that this sponsored advertising (M1 vs Intel)
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Having your iOS app available on Apple Silicon Macs is an opt-out decision by the developer. If the developer
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Google’s post is about the upcoming IDFA changes and is completely unrelated to the Privacy Nutrition Labels
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The three companies listed in the PR are all Chinese-owned: Motorola (owned by Lenovo), BBK Electronics, and X
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In reply to glenn8878:that wasn’t emulation, that was binary translation, which is a different and faster st
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Paul, what are the native apps you use on your mobile devices?
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In reply to pachi:They’ll work if you run Photoshop under Rosetta.
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In reply to rosyna:I looked into and yes, by default the OnePlus 8T ships in an over-saturated “Vivid” mod
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Paul, I’ve seen you use “HDR color pop” in multiple articles. Isn’t that just a euphemism for “over
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Oh, and, the new M1-powered Mac devices will be the first to run iOS apps (as long as developers opt-in to mak
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In reply to solomonrex:isn’t that exactly what the 1TB expansion drive is for?
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Are these consoles allowed to connect to Xbox Live before their release dates and day one patches?
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“Getting up and running is little changed from previous iPhones. There are still many, many setup steps to w
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In reply to sammyg:Sadly, no. When any service looks up your credit report, it’s considered a “hard” hit
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Reminder: getting approval for access to Xbox All Access requires a good credit rating (as it’s issued via a
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In reply to sammyg:It’s ironical, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has an *extremely* deep-seated NIH sy
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To enable this feature in iOS 14, go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound Recognition (in the Hearing Sec
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In reply to alissa914:this new plan allows for up to 4TB if iCloud storage.
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In reply to spiderman2:is it? Microsoft had to cancel their event next week because of the leak, even though a
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In reply to CharlesWallace:Sadly, the final is only rolling out to Pixel devices while the other listed device
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PUBG is a UE4 game owned by Tencent. Fornite is a UE4 game from a company with 40% ownership by Tencent.Either
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Given the limitations, I’m wondering why Microsoft hasn’t investigated GATT for use with the iPhone.
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So don’t get an Elite controller if you own a Roomba, is what I’m hearing?
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In reply to codymesh: Stock price is a reflection of how confident rich people are in the potential of a compa
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In reply to papalakaka:Having loss leaders is perfectly legal while predatory pricing (the accusation here) ma
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In reply to lilmoe:they are releasing a firmware update to do just that…
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They’re all shareholder-owned public entities that, by law, are required to compete as vociferously as possi
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In reply to paradyne:Yes, “KPIs” means “kernel programming interfaces”…We also know for a fact OEMs
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Sadly, software developers have to explicitly opt into these new KPIs. That’ll harm uptake for years.
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Is $399 a typo? The Xbox One X and PS4 Pro can be bought from various retailers for far less.Even the Microsof
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The $49.99/mo price increases to $93/mo in the second year of the two year contract.
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Paul was given the fully configured NUC 10. The one Intel sells to consumers for $616 has no SSD, HDD, RAM, or
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but on iPhones, Microsoft allows users to play a single game due to Apple’s App Store policies.Which policie
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I know you haven’t used Apple Maps in forever, Paul, but you listed the “existing features of Maps pre-iOS
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In reply to Andi:Slight clarification, Messages falls back to SMS if iMessage isn’t available for a contact.
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There’s also zero encryption in RCS while iMessage is end-to-end encrypted.
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It’s likened to the Magic Keyboard because it is that thing. It’s “new” as it’s the first time the 2
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Sadly, The Simpsons doesn’t have autoplay.
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FWIW, the man that complained is worth $30 million, sold a house for $1.75 million (he doesn’t live in the U
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How many apps are preinstalled on the Pixel 4 XL? How many of those are first-party apps that have third-party
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Paul, I had thought in a previous piece (or on What The Tech) you said you had never used the original AirPods
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Why is it understandable that the Pixel 4 doesn’t include headphones?
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So Google has decided on a class of commands that adds no value to selling targeted advertising?
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In reply to Travis:He considers anything not in the FPS genre to be a “kiddie game”
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In reply to BrianEricFord:non-beta users won’t have their recording saved at all since there’s no option.
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It’s the iPad version, and the iPad version is crap on full screen too (only really usable when in multitask
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both are supported on Catalina too.
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Paul, as you mentioned Call of Duty Mobile not working with the Xbox controller on the OnePlus 7T, are you goi
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Instead of using an extension, why not have Thurrott.com implement the actual standard for supporting dark mod
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In reply to czenisek:It’s a retread of the PonoMusic failure Mr. Young tried years ago (2012). That adventur
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In reply to ianw789:These aren’t new issues (they’re from 2016) and they’re addressed by using IOMMU an
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I didn’t seem to see anything about patent licensing in the linked to article? Is it an open spec with paten
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In reply to ghostrider:The section of the document titled How Siri Protects Your Privacy shows the exact oppos
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In reply to lilmoe:Safari was the first browser to automatically disable third-party cookies. Ad companies the
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In reply to Stooks:Although Safari generally implements all the things discussed in the policy first, this is
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Two companies. (Vivo and Oppo, but weirdly leaving out OnePlus, Realmi) and (Xiaomi). I do wonder about the se
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But why can’t Apple simply restrict unnecessary data collection via its VoIP APIs?I think this shows a funda
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In reply to unkinected:He couldn’t be, Amazon’s family plan is $14.99/mo
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Aren’t Spotify and Apple Music both $10/mo?
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In reply to Bdsrev:Safari has disabled third party cookies by default for a long time (I think it may have alw
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:The question should be, “How many instances of slack can this run? 6? 10?”
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Getting an IP rating isn’t expensive, just that it implies a warranty that BBK doesn’t want to fulfill.
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In reply to nbplopes:It opens up lawsuits against PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo.
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OpenDoc for the Web.
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In reply to sevenacids:I’m not sure I understand. ARM is an openly licensed architecture with many vendors m
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The second, Article 17, is called the upload filter and it makes new content policing requirements of sites li
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In reply to ghostrider:The headline doesn’t agree with the article, which doesn’t list anything more expen
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Xbox Game PassOffice 365
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In reply to bluvg:Only if you have the Enterprise SKU.
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What is “Verizon’s CDMA-based LTE network”?
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In reply to Jacob Klein:It’s just a new version of the same dated SMS/MMS standards, with the same security
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I know this is ad copy and all, but it does a disservice to not mention Huawei was caught cheating on benchmar
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The big difference seems to be TikTok was initially developed for regions that ban Facebook outright…
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“You can really see the bezel size when you watch a full-screen video”What’s in the photo is not “full
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Originally (when I wrote that comment), the Pixel 3 tech specs did not show these in
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But these aren’t even included with the Pixel 3 devices, which lack a headphone jack?!
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Universal Clipboard was added in iOS 10. What’s new to iOS 12 is the Continuity Camera, which allows you to
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Read the September 2018 iOS Security White Paper (“iOS Security Guide”) and search for “A12” to find t
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“By many measures, iOS 12 is a fairly minor upgrade.”Interesting how Paul says it’s “fairly minor” w
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Based on that ad copy, I’m starting to wonder if the first version of the adapter was causing a hardware fai
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Per Ars Technica, Google publicly disclosed the Fortnite security flaw 7 days *after* Epic fixed the bug.
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Netflix had always increased the cost of the subscription if you went through the iTunes Store…
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What does Chrome OS look like when it kernel panics?
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“It’s obvious that being glued to your phone isn’t healthy.”Why? Is there a peer-reviewed study that s
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In reply to Brazbit:Who said anything about it being remotely activated? It’s activated on the phone side wh
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“That application, like so many Win32 applications, is complex and large, and I doubt that simply checking a
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It’s not a “character”, it’s what’s known as a “grapheme cluster”.
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In reply to Stooks:Paul also seems to get the definition of “crop” wrong. When you see the black bars on t
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Steamboat Willy was released in 1928. Mega Man 2 was released in 1989.