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- The Morning After: Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro battery recall - Engadget
- Google Hardware quits the tablet business, again - Ars Technica
- Samsung's 'iPhone-only' display lines are idling, and Apple may compensate with iPad OLED orders - Phone Arena
| The Morning After: Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro battery recall - Engadget Posted: 21 Jun 2019 03:51 AM PDT Sponsored Links Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Feeling alright after last night's Neon Genesis Evangelion binge? Let's catch up with the news. Google is getting out of the tablet business, and Apple might need to take a look at your 15-inch MacBook Pro. Also there's a robotic fish that runs on 'blood,' and a Raspberry Pi causes computer security problems for NASA. Google has made its last tablet Google is no longer planning to make any tablet hardware going forward and will put all its resources behind laptops. In a statement received by Engadget, a Google spokesperson said that "for Google's first-party hardware efforts, we'll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and will continue to support Pixel Slate." Google's spokesperson added that the company will continue working with third-party hardware makers on Chrome OS for both laptops and tablets. EA tells UK parliament loot boxes are 'quite ethical' Regarding loot boxes, EA has come up with a novel explanation for why the controversial game mechanic should be considered perfectly legal. Appearing before the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, EA's vice president of legal and government affairs, Kerry Hopkins, insisted that loot boxes aren't akin to gambling but are instead "surprise mechanics" like Kinder Eggs, the popular chocolate candy with toys inside. Apple recalls older MacBook Pros for risk of overheating According to the company, the laptops contain a battery that may overheat and pose a safety risk. The recall "primarily" affects 15-inch MacBook Pros sold between September 2015 and February 2017, and they can be identified by their product serial number. Netflix's latest experiment is like a rumble-pak for its shows Netflix's Hack Day is back. This year, one of the biggest experiments from the in-house event, Project Rumble Pak, syncs haptic feedback effects to key moments in videos -- you could feel every explosion and punch. That is, as long as you're watching on a mobile device. 'Stranger Things' final trailer sets the stage for season three Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, Max and the rest of our friends are, of course, back and taller than ever. Unfortunately, it appears that last season's quest to defeat The Mind Flayer by closing an interdimensional gate wasn't as successful as everyone hoped. Watch the Final Trailer for season three right here. A rogue Raspberry Pi helped hackers access NASA JPL systems NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) suffers from multiple cybersecurity weaknesses despite the advances it has achieved in space technology. A breach in 2018 came when a Raspberry Pi device was targeted by hackers. They were able to grab 500MB of data and gain access to several major missions, including NASA's network of spacecraft comms. 'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite' is available to play now Ready to play not-Pokémon Go? Niantic's latest game has rolled out on Android and iOS for players in the US and the UK. But wait, there's more...
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| Google Hardware quits the tablet business, again - Ars Technica Posted: 21 Jun 2019 03:45 AM PDT 
Google and tablets just don't mix. The company tried over and over again to make Android tablets work, peaking with the 2013 Nexus 7 and ending with the Pixel C in 2015. After a three-year hiatus from the market, Google took a second swing at tablets with Chrome OS and the Pixel Slate. Four months later, we heard Google Hardware's laptop and tablet division was in trouble. Seven months later—in other words, right now—Google's Chrome OS tablets are dead. Following a report from Computerworld claiming Google cancelled two tablets and was quitting the tablet business, Google Hardware SVP Rick Osterloh confirmed the news on Twitter:
Osterloh later clarified that only tablets would be canceled and that Google is "committed to our many other hardware categories." The Pixel Slate was not well received for a number of reasons. First, the device was too expensive and too slow. The entry-level Intel Celeron-equipped model, priced at $599 (with 4GB of RAM) and $699 (with 8GB), was a complete disaster. It was so slow and so thoroughly panned in reviews that it was never made readily available by Google, and it was eventually cancelled altogether. That made the first readily-available Pixel Slate the $799 Intel Core M3 model, which was already the price of an iPad Pro but without the iPad Pro's high-end performance. From there, the Pixel Slate price rocketed up to $999 and $1,599 for the faster, more iPad-competitive models.The second big problem was Chrome OS, which, while it had been around on laptops forever, was just getting off the ground as a reworked tablet OS. It was not really ready for the Pixel Slate launch, with a buggy split-screen implementation, poor performance, and a weird UI that used a full-screen mode in tablet form but allowed normal window operation in laptop mode. There were a host of other quirks and issues, but the bottom line was that Google was charging a premium price for hardware and software that felt more "beta" than "premium." The Computerworld report that triggered Osterloh's statement says Google cancelled two products, both lacking a keyboard and having a smaller body than the 12.3-inch Pixel Slate. Osterloh promises Google is still focused on the software part of tablet support, even if it isn't investing in hardware. (Just ask Android tablet users how Google tablet support has worked out for them over the years, though.) Saying the team is "focused on building laptops" should mean a new Pixelbook is on the way—the last version released in 2017. That's potentially exciting news assuming you're still willing to invest in a Google product at this point. |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2019 07:11 AM PDT  In today's edition of crazy news, Samsung is apparently gunning to be compensated for OLED panels it didn't make. Remember when Apple signed a contract for a 100 million screen panels at about $70 apiece, making iPhone displays the most expensive part in them by far? Those were the days when Apple hoped its "revolutionary" Face ID technology will be gobbled up by iOS users worldwide, and it jacked up the price of the first handset that had it - the iPhone X - to unseen heights. Fast forward to 2019, and not only the iPhone X didn't do as well on the market as predicted, but also the subsequent iPhones with OLED displays aren't selling as well as hoped for various reasons. That leaves Apple's main OLED display supplier - Samsung - in the wind, and in the red, as it built factories and production lines specifically for the expected tens of millions of iPhones that Apple never sold. Korean media is informing us today that Samsung is restless about the issue, and is demanding compensation for all those multi-million screen panel contracts that have left its dedicated equipment languishing at 50% capacity for years on end now. The two companies have reportedly met numerous times to find a common ground on the matter. It's a symbiotic relationship, though, and the industry insiders tip that it is rare for a screen maker to demand punishing fines for softish demand but rather prefer to work something out with the phone designers. In Apple's case, the solution reports are contradictory. Apple's iPads and Macs may switch to OLED displaysOn one hand, there is a claim that Apple has already paid Samsung hundreds of millions of dollars to make up for the lost business that brought Samsung Display's earnings drastically down - from $4.9 billion in 2017 to $2.3 billion last year. On the other, Apple has reportedly offered to order OLED panels for other products than the iPhone, including iPads and Macs, as a means to ramp up production, says one unnamed "industry official": We know that Apple has offered multiple options to Samsung Display, including conditions for adopting OLEDs for other products such as tablets and notebooks. Of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive, as Apple may have simply pre-paid for those rumored future orders. This is why we wanted to ask you whether you think that Samsung can demand compensation from Apple for built but underutilized "Apple-only" OLED production lines. |
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