These security measures don’t actually deter the theft itself. The opportunity cost is simply too big, even if only one in 5 people are intimidated enough by the threats to unlock their phone, that still makes it worthwhile to steal iPhones.

They’ve been in business for a couple of years already so they have their stable niche, but yeah the target audience for these devices is rather small.

IIRC they sell a couple hundred thousand phones a year which is a very small operation compared to big makers that can move that volume on a single model within their lineups of dozens of yearly releases.

Afaik you need to set up a separate storefront on AliExpress catering to international buyers, but there’s no such requirements for Taobao even on the “international” website. It’s just set up as a convenience for people browsing the site from overseas, and also provides support for foreign currency payments, but other than that it’s up to the seller to manage everything.

One of my biggest gripes with using old iPhones and iPads as offline media devices is that Apple is extremely stingy with storage space so most likely these old phones only have 16/32GB of storage, making them a pain in the ass to curate a media library in them.

If only they had expandable storage. But they don’t even support mounting SD cards directly from an external adapter, you have to import the media in bulk, making them useless.

I still suspect Apple had plans made for adding FaceID to the MacBook Pro redesign but they couldn’t work out the sensors in time, but the design was already done. Then the notch has already become a design element so now they’re stuck adding it to all new laptops to maintain software parity between models.

I understand where they are coming from with all those countries (to restrict parallel imports into Russia) but Turkey not being in the list kinda makes the entire exercise pointless since that’s the country most engaged with the practice right now.

Can’t they just issue sanctions based on a TFLOPS or memory bandwidth ceiling instead of playing whack a mole with dozens of model numbers of the same chips?

They will have to start banning AMD and Intel models eventually too.

This is good for vanlifers who can’t fit a TV inside their vans, parents of small kids who don’t own iPads, and… that’s it? 🤔

Can you even use this as a standalone second controller for the PS5?

Apple has horrible (i.e. nonexistent) support for non integer scaling, and the way they “solved” antialiasing for OLED panels is by not supporting subpixel rendering at all, macOS still uses grayscale antialiasing, which means it doesn’t take into account the subpixel positions of the panels and instead just antialiases based on brightness levels.

You can force Windows to use greyscale rendering on all text by using MacType.

The Switch is a 7 year old device that’s up for a completely new replacement within a year, but I do agree that Nintendo’s refusal to ever lower prices is making the comparison a bit absurd at this point.

While the Hall Effect sensors inside one of those sticks can last forever, the stick has many other components that Valve might not have regarded to be as reliable as their current stick options, such as the controller board, or the materials used in the stick itself.