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in Canada you basically have to get on a retention plan, or you know someone in business sales at the telco who can put you on a fake corporate plan, or grab one of the specials that come out before Christmas. It's fairly reasonable if you can wrangle that. The "in-market" plans they list online are for bozos who don't know what's up.
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or you lie about what province you live in to get a rate from one of the places they have to compete, then port your number back
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THC posted:in Canada you basically have to get on a retention plan, or you know someone in business sales at the telco who can put you on a fake corporate plan, or grab one of the specials that come out before Christmas. It's fairly reasonable if you can wrangle that. The "in-market" plans they list online are for bozos who don't know what's up. dude I think it may be racist to refer to the entire Canadian population that way
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Lambert posted:In the US and Canada, they still have multi-year cell contracts. You don't just get a SIM at a local grocery store for 2€ and then select the month-by-month plan you prefer. In the US contracts are mostly gone because those phone subsidies for smartphones got big and were considered financial liabilities and started dragging stock prices down. Given how low interest rates were versus the cost of collecting on that $400 when someone stops paying the bill/they got scammed into giving their upgrade away to someone on Craigslist for $50, it was cheaper to outsource the financing to banks and eat the cost of interest. When someone stops paying for their phone, it's now the bank's problem, not the carrier's.
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iirc also the ftc ended the per-carrier locks which effectively killed the subsidized handsets
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nah, carriers only had that as another angle to be consumer-hostile. Verizon was never allowed to lock their LTE devices because a clause they agreed to when they did a spectrum buy was that they had to let any device use it. They got some ruckus raised when they started locking devices out of the box but would unlock on demand, since they had effectively become the primary target of cellphone store robberies.
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indigi posted:post brexit or gtfo 
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Kobayashi posted:Angela "Town Squares" Ahrendts is leaving Apple john fireball is implying she got fired quote:Doesn’t sound like someone who was getting ready to leave Apple. And it’s rather conspicuous that Ahrendts doesn’t have anything else lined up yet. Ahrendts lasted a lot longer than John Browett, but in Apple’s executive culture, five years is not a long run.
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Casual Encountess posted:are there any qi charging pads that look like a grown up would use them? i’ve been looking at stands because that seems waaaay more useful than a pad on my nightstand but everything is ugly and/or doesn’t list the actual charging power. wait for airpower to come out and then buy the partner an iphone or sever imo
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:john fireball is implying she got fired wouldn’t the very public lack of training for repair people at Apple’s stores fall under her purview? it’s not John “Tell stores to hold off on minor repairs to pad out the profit margins” Browett level of penny pinching dumbassery, but meanwhile she’s trying to do that stupid Apple Store town hall thing... Doc Block fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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poty posted:wait for airpower to come out and then buy the partner an iphone or sever imo might as well wait for godot
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poty posted:wait for airpower to come out and then buy the partner an iphone or sever imo *cremnob voice* THE REAL AIRPOWER IS THE F-35 AM I RIGHT? BUY LOCKHEED MARTIN STOCK, KIDS!
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Buy the Gripen instead, it's much cheaper (so you can get it very early) and perfect for pretty much any mission. Air-to-ground as well as air-to-air.
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infernal machines posted:might as well wait for godot its coming out do you even ming chi kuo bro
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infernal machines posted:might as well wait for godot the game engine?
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Lambert posted:Buy the Gripen instead, it's much cheaper (so you can get it very early) and perfect for pretty much any mission. Air-to-ground as well as air-to-air. we had a referendum in switzerland about buying some and told them to gently caress off back to sweden because theyre too expensive for the value they bring (being parked in the hangar all day). would be fun to have a vote about buying some f35s
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Casual Encountess posted:are there any qi charging pads that look like a grown up would use them? i’ve been looking at stands because that seems waaaay more useful than a pad on my nightstand but everything is ugly and/or doesn’t list the actual charging power. Check ikea.
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poty posted:wait for airpower to come out and then buy the partner an iphone or sever imo New Mac Pro is gonna have a huge internal battery that promises “all day use” and can only be recharged inductively
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im glad they got rid of the retail boss as her announcements in keynotes were always pointless and/or dumb. also coming from burberry i blame her partially for the prices going up
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poty posted:im glad they got rid of the retail boss as her announcements in keynotes were always pointless and/or dumb. also coming from burberry i blame her partially for the prices going up yeah she always had this socially inept segment about Apple coliseums or whatever in the gently caress. no, I’m not calling your shop thoughtspace because of your powerpoint, sod off Angela
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the new community, where people from all walks of life can come together in the communal space of the apple store and bond over their shared love of the apple brand
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cinci zoo sniper posted:yeah she always had this socially inept segment about Apple coliseums or whatever in the gently caress. no, I’m not calling your shop thoughtspace because of your powerpoint, sod off Angela she probably used keynote
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qirex posted:she probably used keynote yeah i was driving my point with that but im not a pretentious englishman to say “slide deck”
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cinci zoo sniper posted:yeah i was driving my point with that but im not a pretentious englishman to say “slide deck” call it a viewgraph and see if anyone under 70 knows what you mean
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like i understand computer touchers don’t have taste and they need an elite holster for their daily carry but like, why does everything have to be 3 shades of black and ugly as poo poo
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:call it a viewgraph and see if anyone under 70 knows what you mean If you call it an "overhead projector", people under 70 will know what you mean.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:yeah i was driving my point with that but im not a pretentious englishman to say “slide deck” foils
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JawnV6 posted:foils
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Casual Encountess posted:like i understand computer touchers don’t have taste and they need an elite holster for their daily carry but like, why does everything have to be 3 shades of black and ugly as poo poo turn on your monitor
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so what did business people do before powerpoints/keynotes anyways? slide carousels?
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powerpoint was created for printed slide decks because the thousands of middle managers at 1990s microsoft needed them to pretend to work all day while they were busy brownnosing and sabotaging their coworkers
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hobbesmaster posted:so what did business people do before powerpoints/keynotes anyways? slide carousels? 
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Microsoft Pretendtowork
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FMguru posted:transparencies text me
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quote:On the latest episode of The Talk Show, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber discusses Apple TV and HomePod pricing and whether Apple is charging too much for some of its products. https://twitter.com/elkmovie/status/1092817973885259777
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