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  1. I first read this as a butthole flaw. Yes I am immature.
    7 points
  2. What a shock - an IT company that sells the most outrageously overpriced products in the universe, and has duped people into believing they are somehow worth it. Good grief, they have a monitor stand that costs $1,000.
    5 points
  3. OK... so back in the real world, the thing that really made it happen for iPhone was the release of iPhone SE 2020... which accounted for large chunk of iPhone sales. The phone which is an excellent value, BTW (seeing that you know it will be supported for at least 4 years). https://www.macrumors.com/2020...-sales-bright-spot-q2-2020/ . Add to that the last year's iPad which also starts at $330, the timing of Apple releasing lower cost products was just right. I have pretty high degree of confidence that $1000 stands are not where it's at.
    4 points
  4. Panasonic aims to increase Tesla battery capacity by 20%

    Making them smaller but longer lasting is a double boost to a EVs miles per charge since you're also reducing the weight. It'll be interesting to see what the range is in 5 years if they can keep getting steady battery advances.
    4 points
  5. Dumb. Nobody is going to have their map app persuade them to wear a mask or not. If it was more a reminder like "don't forget to bring your mask", that'd be one thing, but "wear a mask, save lives". Yeah, people have basically already decided on how they feel about masks. A simple reminder would be silly too even, my mask never leaves my car. I don't need it when I'm home. And if I'm anywhere else, I'm wearing it.
    3 points
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  7. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Windows has sure come a long way. A little inconsistent here and there but they're getting close.
    3 points
  8. The best time is yesterday and the second best time is now. Just buy it and don’t time the market. Hold on to the stock for a long time and you’d get rewarded. I myself will be buying Apple and Microsoft stock.
    2 points
  9. The iPhone came out in the late 2000s; that's not innovative?
    2 points
  10. I'M SHOCKED! No I'm not, it's this type of stuff that the hearing is all about, I hope they get dragged through the courts to no end, all of them.
    2 points
  11. So much for the level playing field unless you are a huge multi national corporation.
    2 points
  12. Getting tired of everyone and everything nagging about masks. There is enough info and PSAs out there to notify users. It is not an awareness issue. It is a people issue for not wanting to comply. Do not need anymore nags.
    2 points
  13. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    What support do Qualcomm offer in that lifespan?
    2 points
  14. Hehehehhehee. . . . Hey Beavis. . . he said "Butthole" . . . hehehehehe
    2 points
  15. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    So this will be supported for, at max, two years? (Qualcomm only supports mobile SoCs for three years and the Snapdragon 855 is 1.5 years old)
    2 points
  16. Another proof that US is in its own world
    2 points
  17. the flash intensity is a great addition! i hate when trying to take a pic of something close up, but just need a little extra light, not to get blown out by a flash as bright as the sun...
    2 points
  18. at least they didn't call it the 'gaping boothole' flaw....
    2 points
  19. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    ...and the spacecraft is talking to mission control. So, everything is looking good.
    2 points
  20. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    Successful launch and separation of Mars 2020 with the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter... it's on its way. Landing on Mars on February 18, 2021.
    2 points
  21. NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)

    Less than an hour away from launch (Launch at 7:50 a.m. EDT) Livestream is ... ummm ...live.
    2 points
  22. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    iOS 14's features were announced a month ago. Homescreen widgets are being introduced just now in iOS. Windows for phones has been around for years. If anyone is copying, it's Apple. How deluded can one be ?
    2 points
  23. Microsoft releases Edge 85 to the Beta channel with new features

    Not trolling, genuinely curious. Why would anyone still be on 8.1? Because it gets security updates until January 10, 2023 and doesn't receive bi-yearly feature updates.
    2 points
  24. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Windows 10 solidified my move away from Windows as my daily driver OS. I couldn’t deal with the inconsistencies, botched updates (both cumulative and feature), and constant beta testing feeling. As soon as they axed the majority of their QA in favor of agile and public betas, I knew the quality would tank. Other OSes also follow the agile model, but have a far better track record for consistency. Windows 10 may be better in its development cycle now, but I’ve already left and see no incentive to come back.
    2 points
  25. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Well said. This is to be expected when young kids are let loose without mature supervision having actual worldly experience, coupled with minimal testing before being unleashed to an unsuspecting world. MS should not have been so hasty to "kill" Windows-7 until they had a truly worthy successor. (Yes, businesses got a multiple year reprieve, but what about individual users for whom Windows-7 is a much more suitable OS?)
    2 points
  26. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    If you mean Cortana, she did talk back then, unless your sound card driver was not installed. She went away in the recent releases. But then again, badmouthing Cortana is standard ranting cliche here in Neowin.
    2 points
  27. Yup. And always remember that recently Apple has been fooling Wall Street by covering up weakening sales numbers with increased profits because they increased the price per unit (thereby increasing the total profits). This trend cannot be sustained and, as people are seeing with their insanely overpriced flagships, are already fleeing to lower cost alternatives...even if they stay in the Apple ecosystem! Wall Street runs Apple in the post-Jobs era. That guarantees that Apple will keep doing anything to maximize profits without reducing prices (as we are seeing with their ARM announcement heralding the imminent end of the Apple prosumer market). Eventually, this shell game will fail as it did with, for example, cinema ticket prices being raised every year to hide the fact that fewer people were going to the movies every year (even before the pandemic). But as long as Wall Street operates like a rich gambler's game of musical chairs, caveat emptor, folks. The 99% will always be the last people to know when the music is about to stop. While I agree Apple is fooling everyone on Wall Street. My investment profile really appreciates the 11% growth and a 4 to 1 stock split that will happen at the end of August.
    1 point
  28. Yup. And always remember that recently Apple has been fooling Wall Street by covering up weakening sales numbers with increased profits because they increased the price per unit (thereby increasing the total profits). This trend cannot be sustained and, as people are seeing with their insanely overpriced flagships, are already fleeing to lower cost alternatives...even if they stay in the Apple ecosystem! Wall Street runs Apple in the post-Jobs era. That guarantees that Apple will keep doing anything to maximize profits without reducing prices (as we are seeing with their ARM announcement heralding the imminent end of the Apple prosumer market). Eventually, this shell game will fail as it did with, for example, cinema ticket prices being raised every year to hide the fact that fewer people were going to the movies every year (even before the pandemic). But as long as Wall Street operates like a rich gambler's game of musical chairs, caveat emptor, folks. The 99% will always be the last people to know when the music is about to stop.
    1 point
  29. Neowin.net Minecraft Server (Old Server)

    For how many are usually on at a time the ram is fine, its handled 10 players at a time before, its main area it falls behind on is cpu power, after people calm down with exploring the cpu issue mostly goes away. Vanilla servers work perfectly fine and can be left running for months without maintenance. its the modded servers and their plugins that add extra taxation to the system
    1 point
  30. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    Duo is a phone, I've not heard it being advertised in any other way. If they removed the ability to make calls, the Duo would be DOA. it makes no sense as a phone IMO anyway as there's no outside display, speaker, or mic. I'd imagine it would be awkward to take a call with the thing having to be open. It's shown in this video. You open the phone and fold it backwards, which shuts off the rear display. Operation looks fine to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU78s9ExFFA thanks; I could never get a solid answer if it folded all the way back and/or what would happen with the rear display before now and hadn't seen that video before either.
    1 point
  31. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    Duo is a phone, I've not heard it being advertised in any other way. If they removed the ability to make calls, the Duo would be DOA. it makes no sense as a phone IMO anyway as there's no outside display, speaker, or mic. I'd imagine it would be awkward to take a call with the thing having to be open. It's shown in this video. You open the phone and fold it backwards, which shuts off the rear display. Operation looks fine to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU78s9ExFFA
    1 point
  32. Microsoft announces new Teams features for education

    Slack has the same issues with conversations.
    1 point
  33. Pretty much everything is now known about the Surface Duo

    Another Kin disaster.
    1 point
  34. Plex launches more than 80 live TV channel for users worldwide

    If you are lucky enough to have a smart TV then you could just use the Plex app to stream the channel directly on the TV
    1 point
  35. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    The UI is what kills me. While they're out there focused on some dumbass transparent frames and lighting that surrounds the mouse, we still have many menus where many have complained about that haven't seen continued refinement. Microsoft has this bad habit of trying to force everyone into compliance, rather than refining the experience. It's such a damn shame too because products like Office have continued to get better both on visuals and features, but in Windows, their still trying to figure out how they want the menus to look rather than sitting down and asking, "What would people like to see in these menus? How can we make their lives easier?" It's just a goddamn mess, as if they have no sense of direction with the menus. Also Calculator is the only app that actually ever implemented a lot of the new UI stuff, like hover shadows and so on. Meanwhile Mail, Calendar, and so on are an unusable mess that haven't changed since launch pretty much at all.
    1 point
  36. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    The UI is what kills me. While they're out there focused on some dumbass transparent frames and lighting that surrounds the mouse, we still have many menus where many have complained about that haven't seen continued refinement. Microsoft has this bad habit of trying to force everyone into compliance, rather than refining the experience. It's such a damn shame too because products like Office have continued to get better both on visuals and features, but in Windows, their still trying to figure out how they want the menus to look rather than sitting down and asking, "What would people like to see in these menus? How can we make their lives easier?" It's just a goddamn mess, as if they have no sense of direction with the menus.
    1 point
  37. What “Unix crap”? Unix wasn’t mentioned anywhere.
    1 point
  38. Google chrome home page

    From what I can tell, without an addon, there is no option for altering or modifying what opens when you create a new tab. Don't you love the richness of Google's products?
    1 point
  39. Yay, Unix crap shoved into UEFI, and so far the stories are talking about how 'Windows' is vulnerable. This is not a Windows story. This affects essentially everything, even opening up a huge hole to circumvent PS4 DRM protection mechanisms.
    1 point
  40. Microsoft Edge 84.0.522.49 [Update]

    84.0.522.49 is now available.
    1 point
  41. Google One app now includes free phone backups, and heads to iOS

    Two things: 1) Apple's free storage tier is 5 GB, while Google's free tier is 15 GB. I wish Apple offered a bit more for their free tier. 2) I have much more faith/better experience in the backup/restore process from Apple. I've had less than stellar experience with Android's backup/restore, where certain apps don't restore at all (it's a surprise if an app restore properly).
    1 point
  42. First time in my life, I purchased an iPhone!

    I've been hearing that the Duo isn't being marketed as a phone but a mini-tablet / new age PDA so it may not have the phone app and such. Just something to consider as you look/decide your upgrade.
    1 point
  43. What's even the point of these hearings? CEO's of these multi-billion corporations basically get there to be smug about it coz they know no one can do a damn thing about it. We really need to talk about 1 billion fines when they abuse privacy or market to be above competitors, otherwise it's all a joke to them and they can do whatever the hell they want by just throwing cash at the "problem". How many small(er) businesses trying to enter same or similar market can do that?
    1 point
  44. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Lets see...it was a piece of garbage when released, and now its evolved into a piece of ######. That about sums it up.
    1 point
  45. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    "Windows 11 Home Edition version 2020 "N" (European Union conform edition without Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player but with Edge and Movies & TV apps)"
    1 point
  46. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    I agree with you in the first half. Inconsistent UI? Check. Settings is still awful? Check. Control Panel still exists? Check. Windows Store is still broken and full of crap? Check. But the Windows Update stuff? Nope.
    1 point
  47. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    This feature was indeed present in the original release, and even in pre-release beta versions. But I am not surprised that you've not heard it. After all, Windows 10 had a reputation for not working properly. I don't remember it being in Insider builds but it definitely was in the launch build 1507
    1 point
  48. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    5 years on and search still sucks, albeit it is getting better, but still far behind Spotlight which came out in 2005.
    1 point
  49. Intel is planning to announce "something big" on September 2

    Big like 10nm? lol
    1 point