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TMO Towers
Joined December 2007
The foldable iPhone made it four days before Apple had to set up a replacement program for cracked screens. macobserver.com/news/apple-c…
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The hinge fails, makes a cracking sound, and then you get identical damage patterns across multiple units. That's not bad luck, that's a design flaw that shipped. macobserver.com/news/iphone-…
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Apple finally adds touch to the MacBook Pro and immediately makes you pay $500 more for it while ditching the notch everyone already got used to. macobserver.com/news/first-t…
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The iPad mini just jumped from $499 to $699 and Apple's betting you'll pay 40% more because they finally put the screen technology from 2021 in it. macobserver.com/news/apple-a…
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Three hours and 20 folds into owning a $2,199 foldable iPhone, it snapped in half and Apple told him he must have dropped it. macobserver.com/news/apple-d…
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The foldable iPhone has two batteries and you replace them by running electricity through the adhesive until it lets go. This is either genius or a nightmare waiting to happen. macobserver.com/news/iphone-…
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After thirteen years of insisting touch on a laptop is ergonomically terrible, Apple's about to ship a touchscreen MacBook Pro and pretend they never said otherwise. macobserver.com/news/oled-ma…
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Titanium hinge and IP68 rating couldn't stop dust from permanently jamming a $1,999 phone that's been on sale for less than a week. macobserver.com/news/iphone-…
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The iPhone Duo lasted exactly zero hours in the wild before someone got root access and put an anime girl on the home screen. macobserver.com/news/hackers…
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Apple hid a working iPod inside its 404 error page and you have to deliberately break the URL to find it. Turns out the company *can* still do whimsy when they want to. macobserver.com/news/apple-h…
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Apple finally added AI to iWork and instead of calling it "Apple Intelligence" they went with "Intelligent Assistant" like it's a different product entirely. macobserver.com/news/apple-b…
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Launch day delivery is Thursday but your phone's already in transit and Apple's system still says "preparing to ship" — classic case of the tracking page being the last to know. macobserver.com/news/early-i…
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They shipped a folding iPhone without Face ID because it was too thick for the sensors, so now they're testing a prototype that hides Face ID *under* the display instead. macobserver.com/news/apple-i…
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Pre-orders sold out in 30 minutes so they're scrambling to build 44% more units, but the real test is whether factories can actually bend that many screens without breaking them. macobserver.com/news/apple-s…
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The $2000 iPhone Duo hinge survived 32,000 folds just fine. The screen crease got worse every single night. Turns out the moving parts aren't the problem with foldables. macobserver.com/news/how-the…
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The folding iPhone spins and tips over on MagSafe stands because Apple put the charging coil on one half, and third-party chargers skipped the anti-rotation magnet that would've saved it. macobserver.com/news/unfolde…
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Pre-orders are backed up into next year but sure, come try your luck at the store on Friday with the handful of units they're willing to put on the shelves. macobserver.com/news/iphone-…
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Samsung will supply 66% of all foldable displays next year because they locked up both the Galaxy Fold8 and the foldable iPhone. Apple's first foldable is a Samsung screen monopoly story before it's anything else. macobserver.com/news/foldabl…
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The iPhone Duo ships flat in the box instead of folded, which means Apple's betting you'll never close it again once you open it. macobserver.com/news/watch-t…
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Musk's net worth is $908 billion and he's spending $10.5 billion to give 72 million kids one share each, which works out to about 1.1% of his wealth. That's the equivalent of someone worth $100k donating $1,100. macobserver.com/news/elon-mu…
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