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Rumors about 2018 iPhones continued to mount this week, but there was plenty of ammunition for other headlines — such as Apple's plans for selling third-party video subscriptions.
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Everything you need to know:
- You may soon be able to pay for streaming video plans through Apple's "TV" app for iPhones, iPads, and the Apple TV > >
- 2019 iPhones could be equipped with triple-lens cameras > >
- Through smaller bezels, this year's 6.5-inch iPhone may only be as big as the iPhone 8 Plus > >
- Apple is scrapping its $1 billion Irish data center > >
- We could soon get...an Apple Pay credit card? > >
- The iMac is 20 years old > >
- iOS 11.4 may defeat more police searches > >
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Cable cutting is all the eage, now. For good reason. We left DirecTV after 22 years over simple economics. What drives me nuts is that so much SOP disappeared because in the course of reinventing the wheel, the non-TV geeks never learned it has to be round.
We use Playstation VUE as our primary source. The only offering that understands what DVRs did for time-shifting. We watch nothing streamed live but sports. Vue gives us automatic recording for every program for a month. No extra charge. But, even a simple item - available with sat or cable - a button press to check present time is missing. And I’m not asking Siri if it requires using Apple’s incredibly imprecise crap remote.
Yes, we also have minimal SLING because of channels Sony apparently thinks no one wants to subscribe to. In any package. But, the overall availability on Vue is pretty basic and can be expanded. Cripes! Apple could just turn Jony Ive loose on Vue’s archaic interface, sort a few loose ends, and start printing money.
Or they could trundle into the usual Silicon Valley ego trip; roll out some nerd’s reinvention of the wheel - forgetting the round bit - and take 2 years of “upgrades” to get to simple, useful, smooth and quick.