Tag: wsj
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Apple’s Anxiety-Inducing MacBook Pro Keyboard Situation Update
Remember how Apple released a MacBook Air last year that might have had a more reliable update to their butterfly keyboard mechanism? Joanna Stern wrote about how it wasn’t fixed for the Wall Street Journal and put the nail in that coffin. Here’s one I missed, Casey Johnston also had an update on our long…
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Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm
That’s the headline to Joanna Stern’s latest column about Apple’s keyboard ongoing nightmare. It’s a hilarious column to read, Stern had her colleagues make some custom tech to remove or add letters from the article to match her brand new MacBook Air’s broken keyboard, and the video has a great conclusion. Don’t worry, there are…
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The Deal With The iPhone XR
That iPhone XR came out and it has almost the exact trade-offs we discussed before. The XR is like the XS and XS Max in many ways, except the XR is missing the 2nd telephoto camera system of the X and previous Plus-sized devices which can be useful for composing shots or getting superior “portrait mode” photos…
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60,000 People Probably Losing Their Jobs as Toys ‘R’ Us Shuts Down
Paul Ziobro and Lillian Rizzo: Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. told employees Wednesday the struggling big-box retailer will sell or close all its U.S. stores, a collapse that threatens up to 33,000 American jobs in the coming months. […] Outside the U.S., the chain has another roughly 800 stores. Altogether, court papers show Toys “R” Us…
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The HomePod Situation
Apple’s competitor to other standalone high-end speakers came out on Friday. It’s the HomePod. Apple boasts about its higher quality sound that adapt to the room you are in, reviewers agree. Nilay Patel wrote this in his review: All of this means the HomePod sounds noticeably richer and fuller than almost every other speaker we’ve…