Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
Apple has determined that some Apple Watch Series 3 models have an issue causing “edge stripes” to appear on the display after time.
In an internal memo distributed to Genius Bars and Apple Authorized Service Providers, Apple said the issue is to be treated like any other Apple Watch repair. Since the issue appears to be a manufacturing defect, the repair should be free under Apple’s standard one-year limited warranty policy.
iPhone X pre-orders are in, and reviews are out. There’s drama surrounding both.
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A local MS-DOS (FAT32) volume, whether a whole disk or a partition, will not appear in the Finder (“mount”) if it is larger than 128 GB.
Ernie Smith takes a look back at an email client that defined the medium for many.
As spotted by Ryan Christoffel at MacStories, Apple has quietly announced limited SiriKit support on the upcoming HomePod:
With the intelligence of Siri, users control HomePod through natural voice interaction and can conveniently access iOS apps that support SiriKit Messaging, Lists, and Notes. Siri recognizes SiriKit requests made on HomePod and sends those requests to the user’s iOS device for processing. To prepare your app, make sure that your SiriKit integration is up to date and that you’ve adopted all of the appropriate intents.
I love my Late 2015 iMac with 5K Retina display, but editing 4K footage in Final Cut Pro X or fixing audio in iZotope RX gives it a run for its money. An iMac Pro would make these tasks much faster.
Robert Digitale, for The Press Democrat:
The Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard, the tech pioneers who in 1938 formed an electronics company in a Palo Alto garage with $538 in cash.
More than 100 boxes of the two men’s writings, correspondence, speeches and other items were contained in one of two modular buildings that burned to the ground at the Fountaingrove headquarters of Keysight Technologies. Keysight, the world’s largest electronics measurement company, traces its roots to HP and acquired the archives in 2014 when its business was split from Agilent Technologies — itself an HP spinoff.
I’m glad I ordered AppleCare+ on my iPhone X after seeing this page on Apple.com:
That’s just screen replacement costs. If there’s other accidental damage, including a broken back, the X is very expensive to repair:
The iPhone X is an expensive phone with expensive parts, so I understand this price increase, but we all should buy AppleCare+. And probably a case.
I, like many of you, ordered an iPhone X earlier today. Here are some notes on my experience.
Pre-orders roll around at 2 AM in my time zone. I set an alarm for 1:50 AM and another for 1:52. I even set HomeKit to turn on my lamp at 1:51, but that silently failed.
I successfully ordered an AT&T 256 GB iPhone X in Silver from Apple. I have an in-store pickup scheduled for 8 AM on launch day, November 3. The order process went very smoothly for me. I tapped the Silver iPhone, added AppleCare+, gave the App Store my AT&T phone number and paid with Apple Pay.
Nicole Nguyen at BuzzFeed’s profile is pretty great. This part jumped out at me, naturally:
Ahrendts also made a number of refinements to in-store service. Going to the Apple Store “shouldn’t be like going the dentist,” she said. You can now get a text message when someone at the Genius Bar is available, instead of having to wait around. That bar has also been, in some locations, refashioned into an airy “Grove” with additional seating. Updating the Genius area may be the most visible operations work Ahrendts is doing. Getting a broken iPhone, Mac, or iPad serviced remains a frustrating experience for many.
I wrote about the Pippin several years ago, but recently was sent one by a reader. It’s really incredible to have such a weird piece of Apple history in my collection, and I hope you enjoy learning some more about it:
This week on Query, Ren and I prepare for the iPhone X launch.
As a quick note, moving forward, we’ll be releasing Query on a fortnightly schedule. See you on November 8th!