It sounds like your USA based tariffs are rather expensive vs ours in the UK.
Saarek
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With the next round of increases already on the horizon they should be careful about doing this. I pay for the
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I've just bought an iPhone SE for my father. He dropped his iPhone 6s and smashed the screen and it just did n
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We will have to see, but I suspect a revised 27" iMac will once again grace the Apple Store sooner rather than
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With respect I think you have to realise that Apple still has not released the full Apple Silcon line up, your
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Hey Paul,It'd be nice if it was just built in, but I use a combination of Call Protect and TextKiller and rare
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Tiger really was a fantastic OS, I still use it today for nostalgic reasons on a trusty old PowerBook G4. Ever
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I wish they offered the old system of Amazon Prime Delivery decoupled from the streaming side. I rarely watch
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I've got the same MacBook Pro and it's an absolute beast running Python and R against the previous Intel model
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Apple could easily drop the pricing of their Mac’s and go for Market Share.But Apple only cares about profit
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I concur with your comments about iOS being locked down.But the part about reasonably priced hardware, I mean
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I suspect that much of Samsungs market share is due to their cheap phones. You can pick up a Samsung Galaxy fo
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As an Xbox owner this is exciting stuff. As a Mac owner and someone who loves strategy/RPG games I want to cry
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Hmmmm, assuming they follow this in the U.K. I think I’ll stop using Netflix. Don’t use it enough to justi
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Depends on the country and the demographics. For places like the UK iMessage is very popular because 50% of th
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Come off it, as if Google would do it if the position was reversed. One big corporation trying to get another
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@VancouverNinja You seem to be assuming as wrote that Intel will suddenly start hitting every mark in their st
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Well I guess that's what happens when you can charge £699 for four small wheels for a Mac Pro Tower.
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The only problem with your statement, and ones like it, is that there isn't usually a truly comparable machine
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Paul, I wonder if your notch issue is because you keep switching between phones that don’t have a notch/hole
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Made the switch to HomePods the second they came out because I wanted privacy which you were guaranteed not to
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Thank God for Safari on the Mac. Super fast and no bloat/adware.
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I wonder if the two iPads I've got on backorder count in those numbers. Amazon took my money about 3 weeks ago
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This is my type of update. Primarily focused on refinement and bug fixing as opposed to new features.Big Sur w
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I've tried the competition and I really really wanted them to be good enough for me to make the switch, primar
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For the average home user iWork is all you'll ever need to cover the basics well. Apple Keynote was way ahead
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I feel for Amazon. The Kindle is in effect as near to a perfect product as one could get. I have no real reaso
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All of Apple's current product lines (exception being the Apple Silicon Macs, it's going to be a fun ride ther
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You do pay for it, their markup is around 35-40% on every Mac sold. Don't get me wrong, I much prefer to have
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I wish Microsoft would sell a version of Windows without the ads and spyware baked in. I'm happy to pay not to
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This is all great news. After years of boring stagnation Apple has lit a fire under the arse of everyone else
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I really miss Windows XP, to this day it remains my favourite version of Windows.
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Some of the tracks seem to sound worse using Spatial Audio, the Blink 182 track for example sounds a lot bette
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iCloud Private Relay, very nice and very overdue. It's as close as we will get to a full Apple supplied VPN an
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Windows is important, to computers in general. An ever improving Windows situation results in a virtuous circl
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Spatial Audio is the big take away for me, it’s going to go main stream now Apple is involved.Plus any headp
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As far as AAC specific the general view is that Apple's implementation is the best when it comes to the music
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I wonder if this will be an AirPod line exclusive? Guessing not if it’s out on Android too.I for one would l
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In reply to RM:Nah, he's saying it's just one greedy corporate company trying to get better terms ou
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impressive figures as always, but what a jump in Mac revenue. Yes, I know the pandemic has added to the figure
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In reply to bhofer:How interesting, I had, incorrectly it would appear, assumed that it was just the default.
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In reply to djr1984:From what I can gather it was a lot harder to implement than one might assume. They had to
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In reply to StevenLayton:If you want the option of allowing certain apps to track you then enable the "Allow a
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I’ve been using the beta for around 7 weeks, absolutely fantastic having my Apple Watch unlock my iPhone.The
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Genuine question here. I’m an Xbox owner, love my console.To me the whole point of my Xbox is the library of
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In reply to curtisspendlove:I have, our entire household is Apple based. They’ve released what would in effe
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In reply to Greg Green:I appreciate that, I own a MacBook Air M1 with just the 8GB of Ram so know first hand j
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I've been waiting for them to replace the Apple TV, definitely going to be ordering that bad boy.But the
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Glad to hear the feature is remaining, it's genuinely useful and one of the things I really like about Wi
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In reply to MikeCerm:Could you imagine the justified public outrage, laws & lawsuits that would have follo
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In reply to bettyblue:Interesting, I live on Safari and have no issues at all. I use Wipr to block ads, etc, w
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I find my iPad experience to be the same as you. I’m not interested in it at all from a laptop/productivity
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I still don’t get why people use Chrome over Safari or Firefox.It was obvious to me when it first came out t
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It's like moaning that McDonalds doesn't share their Big Mac Sauce with Burger King. Apple Music is
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Apple Arcade is a fantastic service for my family and well worth the price. For £4.99 a month my children get
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In reply to crunchyfrog:It is, but I make a point out of making it as difficult as I can to track me. Extensio
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In reply to avidfan451:No different to when Samsung was stealing Apple iPhone design left right and centre whi
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In reply to ebraiter:Apple will likely continue to hold out, but Mozilla is already losing money and so might
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Steps like this make sense, but are also cause for concern. I remember well the days of Internet Explorer wher
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I think that's where I am. In terms of resolution, sensor size, pixels, etc, a
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I'm amazed by the improvements in phone cameras and the computational element is really helping them shin
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Interesting review, thank you Brad.Most of the reviews I’ve seen so far say how brilliant the sound is, but
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I don't think Intel is rattled because they expect the Mac Market share to suddenly grow to dominating pr
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Might well pick up a pair of these, will see what the reviews say.
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In reply to james.h.robinson:I see where you are coming from, and I do get it, genuinely, I do. But I've
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In reply to james.h.robinson:I use mine all the time, primarily for music, but also to make phone calls, set t
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In reply to ghostrider:Sure, Apple does it because it helps lock people in. But it also has advantages for the
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I suppose so, but my point was that we can expect the HomePods to maintain their ful
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In reply to Winner:Most reviewers agree , from an audio perspective, that the HomePod was excellent value. I&#
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"Third, this is an important reminder to everyone here wringing their hands over the removal of Cortana from t
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In reply to txag:I appreciate that, and you are right. However, the physical dimensions are not that far off e
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The problem for the iPhone 12 Mini is not the size, but rather that it's facing competition from another
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Sounds like these had a reasonable run. Outside of Apple around 4 years in the tech world is pretty good. It&#
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In reply to djr1984:Snap! One of my first jobs was in a copy shop. Man that makes me feel so old, doubt there
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It would seem that unless you have the same foresight and deep pockets as Apple then you're bang out of l
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Does this mean that their new phones will receive the latest versions of Android for at least four years, or j
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In reply to paul-thurrott:At first I typically upgraded my iPhone every year, but as the line matured my upgra
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In reply to nbplopes:You have some fair points, I think though that the balance lies somewhere between our two
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In reply to nbplopes:It’s a tough one. Despite the relatively huge world wide difference in market share bet
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“Many kids grew up using Chromebooks in school, and as they enter the workforce, their needs evolve" How old
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Looks good, very much on Brand. Assuming the reviews are positive I might just grab a pair for my Xbox One X.
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In reply to MikeGalos:Apple have always been first to drop legacy ports and peripherals. There were similar ou
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It's a fair comment Paul, the answer as you know is that there isn't one.
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In reply to spiderman2:Name a competing watch with a similar feature selection, including a large catalogue of
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In reply to crunchyfrog:I think for me the Apple Watch did not really come into its own until Series 4, althou
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In reply to scovious:As Yoshi mentioned, if you buy the cellular model you do not need your iPhone with you to
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In reply to remc86007:In the future, for that pesky windows only app, especially old ones like the one he is l
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In reply to nbplopes:Over the last few years my attitude has really changed to this invasion of privacy. Initi
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It's like asking a stalker to come clean to their victims! It's about time these companies are force
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In reply to illuminated:I understand what you are saying. But when I ran a cost analysis it was still cheaper
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In reply to illuminated:It's something I investigated. My iMac Pro is data crunching around 18 hours a da
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In reply to illuminated:Possibly, I sold the 16" as it was depreciating far quicker than Mac's normally d
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In reply to illuminated:This is not a scientific comparison, but I like playing the old Total War games on my
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In reply to SyncMe:I think, at least to my mind, this is the first time in a long time where you can point at
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In reply to remc86007:But then, like Apple, they should have booked out capacity years in advance. That's
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I wonder what the hold up is. New products are always a bit constrained at launch, but we are two months passe
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This move worries me, although I appreciate why they are doing it. Part of what I love about the Mac is that,
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In reply to bluvg:I assume the long awaited and ridiculously overdue Apple TV refresh might be one of those. W
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In reply to ghostrider:I think the total value of a proposition really depends on your circumstances.For examp
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Genuine question, because I'm really intrigued here. Why is it that many people want a touch screen on th
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In reply to wright_is:Ah, my mistake. Whenever someone says full HD my head says 1080P.
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I tend to favour the dying breed of games that are single player only RPG's or perhaps the occasional and
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In reply to shawn.healey:I find that most users, whether PC or Mac, tend to shy away from keyboard commands. T
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In reply to Prebengh:Let Paul get the reviews out of the way first and then decide on his full comments. Let&#
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I had a Razer mouse back in the day when I was really into Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament, it was a fanta
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In reply to jdawgnoonan:If memory serves correctly it was 2008 when the MacBook line went from arguably the be
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In reply to longhorn:With all due respect, it's not clumsy design. I say this because as I am typing this
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In reply to longhorn:That's fair enough, but I also frequently use a 2020 Dell Notebook for work purposes
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In reply to bkkcanuck:Ah, that would explain it. Chrome might be popular, but it's also a terrible and un
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In reply to lvthunder:Not sure why you think that. I remember video conferencing back in the late 90's. S
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From my own personal experience, the best features of the M1 MacBooks is that they give top of the line Intel
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In reply to paul-thurrott:What's worse it when you get into the $300 category, so much junk there that is
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I hear that. Every time the marketers are allowed control they just make terrible de
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They're still building out their content. I'm not surprised it was free initially as there was very
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In reply to beholderseye:Out of interest what version of Mac OS are you using on the old iMac? iTunes might be
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Intel is in real trouble, have been for a while now in fact. I remember reading an in-depth head to head test
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It will be interesting to see how these new CPU's perfom. I suspect that Apple is planning to absolutely
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In reply to avalancheccm:That makes sense, I forgot that they were using Chrome as the engine for Edge. I don&
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In reply to CliffordSF:I find that ads ruin sites, so I block them by default. I also find myself in a bit of
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Genuinely out of interest here, who are the people who requested Edge for the Mac and why?I know that people h
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Ah come off it Paul. Epic is a corporation that simply wants to make more money. The
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In reply to ragingthunder:You're right, but the average spending power of someone in the UK or the USA is
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In reply to nbplopes:More than that, the sites should automatically default to no consent until explicitly tol
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It's like a Peeping Tom begging people not to shut their curtains. It's a disgusting invasion of pri
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You're right, I misread the article and took it as Prime Video. I'm not su
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In reply to sammyg:I tend to buy my games on disc because I can complete and sell it on. I also tend to wait 3
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Easy to talk about big numbers when you give people no choice but to have said service! If I could scrap Prime
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I love my AirPods Pro, but then they weren't that much more expensive than other decent brands out there
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Didn't the iPhone X have the same problem? Unusual that they did not fix the problem back then, why keep
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In reply to kb923689:I loved Windows 7 and much prefer it to Windows 10. Long may it live!
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In reply to sammyg:It is and it isn’t. Microsoft has the market share and price advantage.As the market grow
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I know I've said it before, but Microsoft need to get their butts in gear and fully support WOA by making
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In reply to blue77star:Nvidia bought Arm, but Apple's chips are all custom designed and patented and with
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The new benchmarks are starting to come out and it seems, if anything, that Apple understated the performance.
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My Xbox One X should last me another 2 years or so, I don't buy new consoles until enough next gen titles
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It's just Apple's way, although it can be frustrating for the more technic
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In reply to truerock2:Personally I think it's a great move. There are a lot more iPhone/iPad users out th
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In reply to RobertJasiek:I use Windows and Mac OS on a daily basis. My personal preference is with Mac OS, but
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Paul, I agree that benchmarks are only useful as an indicator of performance, usuall
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Exactly Paul, if Microsoft themselves cannot be bothered to support it why on earth
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In reply to lvthunder:No, I’m not saying Microsoft should just abandon X86, that would be foolish.But they s
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In reply to lvthunder:Yes, Qualcomms chips are rubbish compared to Apple's, but that's not why I sin
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Looking at the Anandtech comments today it seems that we have reason to be very optimistic about Apple's
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In reply to MikeCerm:But this is a £1300 "Pro" laptop. Home users will likely not need more than two ports, b
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In reply to behindmyscreen:USB-C refers to the connector
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In reply to DRL42:It's a bit of a joke that you'd want a touch screen on a laptop! Why would you wan
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This is the one Mac they announced that I was really disappointed in. Still just 16GB Ram limit, still just tw
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Will they be issuing replacements for those handsets that don't exhibit this "design feature"?
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No issue on mine as of yet, still if the replacement programme is there then it's fine, these things happ
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I'm not sure what Google is so afraid of. They make the best search engine out there, period. No other co
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As Android is supposedly open, why don't people just buy the phone they actually want and then flash it w
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In reply to remc86007:Listening to music on an Echo Dot is like listening to music on cheap £2.99 headphones,
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Smartphones are now like laptops and the product announcements, from any company, are just boring. Slightly fa
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Paul, I wonder if you aimed too high up the pricing scale with the Series 6 and FitBit Sense. Sounds like the
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Awesome news for XBOX if the next Fallout or Elder Scrolls is exclusive, will really address the imbalance bet
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I owned and loved the Nike Fuel Band, so I can see the appeal of a much more basic device.I’d not get one no
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Sounds like a bargain to me, hopefully this will pt the XBOX on a great footing this generation.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You're right, but you also know I was referring to the XBox specifically in rel
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I'm well aware of what a monopoly is: "the exclusive possession or control of t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Apple does not have a monopoly, only 13% of all smartphones sold in 2019 were iPhone
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In reply to ecumenical:That's a shame, although expected. Feels like the One X never got close to being t
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It's an unusual move hiding the Xbox Series S, if anything it's what the average person will likely
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Paul, Apple's margins have been in the 30-35% region for decades. When the App
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In reply to Hawaiianteg:I never mentioned the cost of the App Store.But it is true that Apple poured Billions
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In reply to exreey:What’s the difference. If a developer sells a game for £10 and makes £7 that’s ok in
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This dispute has nothing to do with Epic wanting to be some white knight out to improve the world. It's a
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The pot calling the kettle black!How about Microsoft remove or significantly lower their 30% fee for games on
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Not quite, in this case the rent is free. Instead of paying rent you pay a 30% cut on
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In reply to Andi:Apple specifies that if you offer a payment option outside of iOS you must also have the opti
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I don't see the issue here, in fact I remember Paul himself commenting on how reasonable the 30% fee was
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I'd hoped for a pick and mix bundle. I personally have no interest whatsoever in Apple Arcade, but I coul
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In reply to dftf:For most basic tasks dual core is more than enough. My daughter is happily using my old 2010
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I see where you are coming from, but these machines start at just £149 which includ
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It's easy to grow fast when you're in the low to no profit section of a market and have relatively l
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In reply to systembuilder:This seems reminiscent of the Pentium 4 cock-up. Intel let the marketing department
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In reply to RobertJasiek:I suppose it's largely what I am used to. You look at the physical size of the a
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In reply to RobertJasiek:I love the small arrow keys, I absolutely hated the 2016-19 design. Quite possibly du
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In reply to Michael_Johnston:My daughter has one of these for university. Some day's it gets as much as 1
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In reply to glenn8878:The Mac will only ever make up a small amount of market share. It's not because the
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In reply to glenn8878:Out of interest why? I can fully understand you being happy with Windows and having no p
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In reply to dmitryko:I'm intrigued by your comments, rather I don't really understand them.Let'
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In reply to Stooks:Your numbers are not necessarily representative of the professional user base of each platf
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In reply to Stooks:We use Mac's at work for our data science department. The servers are Linux based and
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In reply to red77star:Yes, because you have extensively been able to use and benchmark the performance of a Ma
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Balanced, concise and completely on point. Great article.
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On the one hand I enjoy playing games on my MacBook Pro during down time and the transition to Arm CPU's
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In reply to YouWereWarned:Even searching now on DuckDuckGo it does not reflect this article.
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I'm not sure I fully understand the anger at the 30% fee. For a 30% cut the developer gets access to the
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As an Apple user this is great news. Weather Apps are notorious for harvesting personal location data, so this
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"it would be far more interesting if its browser worked on more dominant platforms like Windows and Android" S
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In reply to remc86007:Back in November 2018 the A12X either matched or nearly matched the top end X86 CPU'
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In reply to reefer:Part of the problem they've had with the iPads is that they just keep going. Most peop
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Are they able to claim sales for devices that they gave away? I assume a fair few of this number is made up of
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In reply to RobertJasiek:If you're using the Pro version of Windows 10 you can disable the tracking reaso
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Compared to competing machines in the same market.
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Our servers are Linux based. They have found that Mac OS, which is Unix based, is q
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In reply to illuminated:You obviously have no comprehension of the type of work that these machines are used f
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In reply to illuminated:For many use cases that may well suffice. The systems in our Data Science team are eff
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The pricing is only "crazy" to ordinary people who have no need for a machine like this. For the niche market
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The iPhone killed Flash and good riddance to it. HTML 5 and other open standards are so much better!
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In reply to ghostrider:The iPhone 11 is essentially the iPhone Pro without the OLED display and telephoto lens
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Looks good, but you know that it'll be destroyed by the latest Apple CPU.
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Man, what a jog down memory lane. Although I am a Mac user now, and have been since 2003, I fondly remeber mak
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Good, that's exactly how it should be. I want privacy, I trust Apple because they make money out of respe
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I suspect that for most people, especially in the near future, this will not prove an issue. With services lik
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I note that they are still selling the 2017 Non Touch Bar version at full price. As someone who has this model
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Windows 10 hastened my transition to Mac, after having been a dual user for around 15 years.I found it rather
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I'm more into the Apple world and have only played with Android when setting up cheap phones and tablets
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I own two echo dots and an Apple HomePod and my purchasing decision for each was very different.I have an echo
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I unplugged my Kinect a month after the update forced Cortana on my XBOX, what an unwelcome update that was. I
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I completely moved to Mac OS after Windows 8, the ads were kind of the last straw in what had been a gradual m
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I can't wait for Apple to deliver their first set of Mac's based on Arm. Things like the browser etc
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Software was never perfect, but it feels that because of the internet and how easy it is to push updates out t
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I've not used Skype since they released the abortion that is the new version on iOS back in July last yea
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In reply to SimonFlynn:Depends on your iPad. If you are using one from 2017 or newer you're unlikely to n
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In reply to Maktaba:Apple's LCD's have always been the absolute best in class on the iPhones. It may
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iPhone Xr for me, my iPhone 6s Plus is getting a bit long in the tooth. I don't personally care about OLE
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In reply to nbplopes:They can't, because it isn't true.
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In reply to ayebang: Yes, iOS 12 supporting the iPhone 5s which dates all the way back to 2013 is the perfect
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In reply to melinau:I suppose it depends on ones definition of support. It could be software support in terms
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Wow, just wow. I’ve been following you for years Paul, and generally I agree with a lot of what you have to
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I'll probably upgrade my original Xbox One once I get a newer TV, near end of next year perhaps.I suspect
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Hell, it's about damn time. Messages in the cloud was expected way back in September, unbelievable that t
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I wouldn't be so quick to chuck Apple in the "only catching up" bucket, there are many areas where they i
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I don't understand your disdain for the notch. I think having info such as battery life in the notches ma