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    Apple to cancel credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs

    Ditto. I've had the savings account option active on my account since last April, with my Apple Card cashback savings automatically depositing into it. My bigger question: what will happen to existing accounts?
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    watchOS 10 is great – but it’s ruined the Apple Watch Fitness app

    For me, the biggest frustration with watchOS 10 was removing the customizable Dock -- which was also how I accessed the Fitness app. I prefer to not have many complications on my watch face, as it was too easy to accidentally launch those apps with an unintended tap. The Dock was the perfect way...
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    Are older AirPods still worth it? Price vs performance with last-gen AirPods and AirPods Pro

    I actually prefer the older Airpods (specifically Airpods 2, but 1's are still great in a pinch) for a couple of reasons: Rubber-tipped earpods like the Pros have alwasy felt uncomfortable to me I find it more convenient to double-tap the airpod to skip ahead and/or play/pause than feel around...
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    Apple TV is getting VPN apps with tvOS 17, and it could be a game-changer

    Although the article is skeptical of Apple allowing these VPN apps to be used to bypass region-locked sports games, part of me is wondering if this is actually Apple being petty. They were in the bidding for NFL Sunday Ticket, but with Google winning that contract this could be a way for them to...
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    Can Apple tell if a screen has been replaced on an iPhone?

    Having spent day after day behind the Genius Bar doing little more than fixing broken iPhone screens (and/or swapping out dangerously frayed lightning cables for iOS devices still under warranty), I can emphatically answer "YES". Most of the time we could tell because the screen actually felt...
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    We're giving away an Apple Watch!

    "Boop" "Georgia and Serenity (and Ren?) are amazing." ;)
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    Star Wars Retina iPad wallpapers

    LOL, 2 1/2? ...care to elaborate on the "half"?
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    iMessages via iChat

    Thanks for the support, everybody. Sure, like Alli said, this has been "discussed" before -- that is, if you count posting a story about it on the main site (including the mention about the sent/received code being found in the Lion version of iChat). In fact, doing another search on the the...
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    iMessages via iChat

    I had assumed (hoped) that it had been; after all, I do remember a TiPB blog post about this very subject. Sadly, searching for the keywords "iMessages" and "iChat" didn't pull up anything. But I do apologize if my poor forum-searching skills were to blame, haha. I don't post in these forums...
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    iMessages via iChat

    When they first announced iMessages in iOS5, I immediately began hoping that they would expand this to OSX. After all, this messaging platform will work across all iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc). It would be a natural thing for it to also work on Macs. I currently use both...
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    turn off iOS Facebook Chat?

    I used to hate Facebook Chat, but recently it has become one of the preferred methods of communication with many of my friends. As a result, I found myself reluctantly using it on an almost daily basis. Unfortunately, the Facebook app on iPhone seems to persistently show me as online even when...
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    TiPb iPad 2 give away!

    I keep coming back to TiPB because of its laser-like focus on everything iOS. No other site gives me this level of constant, up-to-date information on this slice of technology. Plus, it's close relationship with the rest of the SmartphoneExperts family means I can find honest and balanced...
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    TiPb iPad 2 give away!

    I sat out the first iPad (although I did look longingly at them every time I passed an Apple Store). But the iPad 2 pretty much hits all of my holdout concerns. I'm a believer now, Steve!! =)
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    unanswered 3G questions

    I'm a bit surprised that, with the release date so close, there was no mention of what sort of data plans would be available for the new iPad 2. Sure, we have AT&T's current plans to judge by... but this will be Verizon's first "full" iPad offering (the bundle with a MiFi doesn't really count)...
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    best deejay app?

    Hmm... upon further research, it looks like the second app I mentioned does NOT support pitch shift. This is why I'm hesitant to buy anything yet, because a lot of the app descriptions are either misleading or incomplete. I do wish Apple would implement a return/refund window the way Android...