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Posts by Bill Fresher
447 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2007
Apple appears to be charging Brits £309 to replace AirPods Max batteries, while Americans need only stump up $79
Voyager suffers a power wobble as boffins start the final countdown for Spitzer
5.1 update sends Apple's Watch 4 bling spinning into an Infinite Loop of reboot cycles
I have a lot of meetings in my job and having something that notifies me of calendar events by buzzing my wrist is genuinely useful + passing through emails/messages from my VIP list so I can discreetly see if there's something I might need to find time to respond to. Also, paying for something with watch is super easy and convenient, be it a coffee, a sandwich, a pint, or the tube ride home.
But I completely get why many people wouldn't get much value out of one.
Apple in XS new sensation: Latest iPhone carries XS-sive price tag
Motorola Z2 Force: This one's for the butterfingered Android lovers
Netflix silent about ridicule as it discusses punters' viewing habits
Apple exits music player biz by killing iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle
Spend your paper £5 notes NOW: No longer legal tender after today
Apple’s premium TV plans – the hobby doomed to stay that way
Re: Apple TV poor in the UK
I have the latest Apple TV and I think it's terrible.
It's missing various UK TV channels, no Amazon Prime video, the remote control touch interface is a pain to use, and the Now TV app keeps crashing when trying to view the live Entertainment or Movies.
I got a Roku 3 in the end and it has all the channels I need, the apps never crash, and the remote is well built and easy to use.
Uber: Please don't give our London drivers English tests. You can work out the reason why
The Life and Times of Lester Haines
London's contactless ticket payment system for sale in £15m deal
"TfL is the body responsible for London’s buses, trains, and underground, reckons its system now accounts for one in 10 of the UK’s contactless payments."
"Contactless payments used for 1bn UK purchases in 2015"
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/26/contactless-cards-purchases-spending
So 100 million contactless journeys a year, but 65,000 * 365 is only 24 million.
El Reg nips down to the Hewlett You Inn?
Silent Nork satellite tumbling in orbit
Dutch cops train anti-drone eagle squadron
Apple backs down from barring widow her dead husband's passwords
El Reg mulls entering Robot Wars arena
Sketch dev pulls out of Mac App Store, cites slow reviews, tech limitations
The mac app store is rubbish.
I bought an app for £1.49 from there which didn't work. I contacted Apple for a refund and they said to contact the developer - problem is the developer's link is also broken!!
I reported the broken app March 2015. Since then a number of other users have also posted app not working reviews and last month people were still getting caught out. As of today it's still there.
Where's the quality control?
Black Friday
Black Friday
I would get the odd email from places I'd shopped online and I didn't mind.
In fact sometimes there'd be something I'd decide to buy.
But f-ing Black Friday shows up and I've had two emails a day for days before and days after.
So now I've hit the unsubscribe link on all these Black Friday spammers and they've forever lost my casual custom.
Idiots?