HA! No One's Buying iPhones!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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where would we be without tech news i'd probably still be in the bathroom
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and you'd probably still be at your computer but we'd both be doing
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something else reports are flying that microsoft will
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be releasing an xbox one without an optical drive
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sometime next year the move does kind of make sense considering that console
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games are one of the last widespread uses of optical disks and the rising
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tide of digital distribution is not to be prevented no matter how many
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walls you build out of sand with your hands and try to keep the tide from
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coming in it was a Channel Super Fun don't worry about it plus the console is
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expected to be on the cheaper end of things as it is reportedly going to set
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consumers back less than 200 apiece
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at that price don't expect the fancier hardware that you'd get on the xbox one
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x though as the disc list version is reportedly an update of the original
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xbox one microsoft is also offering a
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trade-in program allowing users to swap
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physical copies of games they already own for digital ones but it would be
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nice if they could just let us keep our old gta discs to use as coasters i mean
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what are they going to do with them make like cyber punky glasses or coasters
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apple has historically not been shy about reporting its iphone sales figures
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several times a year but it looks like they are no longer doing this for the
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time being and this combined with reports that apple has recently slowed
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production of the new iphone 10r 10s and 10s max looks like the company might be
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facing disappointing sales for its current flagships especially as apple
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was quick to scale back production of the iphone 8 once it realized that the
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higher spec iphone 10 would end up being far more popular indeed apple hasn't had
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great luck with its devices targeted at a slightly lower market segment as the
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more affordable iphone 10r appears to be the hardest hit of the three new devices
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with apple scaling back production by up to one third of its original plan apple
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it's time to face the facts and release an Android-powered iphone it's gonna
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sell like hotcakes which i'm told
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sell really well yeah i actually only found out recently hot cakes are
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pancakes that's what they are so i don't know why we don't just say they sell like
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pancakes yeah me too are you the type of person
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that primarily watches netflix from your bed on your smartphone well you might be
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able to save a few bucks on your netflix bill in the near future as the streaming
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giant is rolling out a mobile-only subscription plan that only costs about
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half of a standard subscription under the new plan users will be limited to
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watching on only one phone or tablet at a time in standard def and right now
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it's only available in certain countries in asia with the malaysian newspaper the
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star reporting that the mobile exclusive subscription only costs about four us
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dollars a month which is quite a bit better less less more you know what forget it
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which is quite a bit less than even the one screen basic tier and now it's time
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for cracker snaps seasonal that's cool brought to you by
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the massdrop nuforce edc in-ear monitors they have a single six-millimeter
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dynamic driver on each side with both channels closely matched for accurate
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sounds you can wear them anywhere and they feature a lightweight plastic
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housing built to stand up to regular use they come with two removable braided
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cables and you can pick them up on mouse drop right now but not yet after the
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video for only 59.99 at the link below
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you've probably seen the on-demand movie rentals on youtube and then quickly
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scrolled on but now the company is experimenting with free ad-supported
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rentals as well currently only about a hundred movies are being offered
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including such um up-to-date
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offerings as the original terminator and
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legally blonde and those are even the ones you should
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care about so it's unclear how big the collection will get but this could be an
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interesting way for advertisers to get on the platform while avoiding having
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their ads run against videos that they find questionable and a way to you know
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catch up on fantastic movies like kingpin i actually don't know if
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kingpin's in there but i suspect it's the kind of movie they
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would have that's a stinker man
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i was way over here i thought it was fine it took a while for it to give me
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but man can't get enough of online comments well google thinks you can't
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because it appears that they will be adding the ability for users to add
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comments in search results currently the feature is restricted to
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live sporting events but in the future there could be no limit to where we can
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strike up a flamewar wow speaking of flames the fix pubg campaign
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which was run by the developers of the game has come to an end and while a
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number of bugs appear to have actually been fixed based on user feedback the
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game's review score has taken a big dip on steam recently as many gamers are
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saying that the fixes introduced other bugs and an excessive amount of paid
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content pubg pub g it's k you're kind of like
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fortnite but with character you know like a junker car that
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you know it's kind of like that other car that goes faster and you know every
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time but only starts when you kind of hit it
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and speaking of cars it looks like tesla has finally made their cars harder to
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steal following high-profile reports of so-called relay theft where thieves
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would wirelessly grab the signal from the key fob and relay it to the car
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allowing bad guys to drive off with it after which they would usually turn off
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the car's gps tracker to conceal their movements from police well tesla now
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requires a code now requires a code to disable gps
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tracking which should make stolen vehicles much easier to recover i mean
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they're still gonna get stolen but the car chases they'll be so much more fun
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you know bronco style now that's it for today's tech news so
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join us again on wednesday when we will be you know
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here yeah doing this with you and nowhere
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else are you you're staying here
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okay all right forever wrap it up let's go guys
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i don't want to stay here it smells