Technology

A troubling trend is taking shape here in the land o' smartphones, and lemme tell ya: It's something that really gets my feathers ruffled.

The short version is this: Manufacturers of high-end, expensive devices are treating the phones they sell us as billboards. Despite the fact that we're often paying well over a thousand bucks for these pieces of technology, the companies behind 'em are inserting ads into core parts of their operating systems in an attempt to squeeze even more money out of us — at the cost of our user experience.

We've seen renewed signs of such silliness on a few different fronts lately — and not only within Android: On the Apple side of the mobile-tech garden, in fact, a developer recently pointed out how iOS is rapidly deteriorating into a place for Apple to advertise its pay-to-play services. The goal, he explained, is to push those services — rather aggressively — onto customers who haven't yet signed up for recurring monthly payments.

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Therumor that would not die appears to be turning into a reality, with Apple allegedly intending to introduce some form of Mac powered by an Apple-designed ARM-based A-series processor in 2021.

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Applesilicon development team has pushed A-series processor development hard.Not only do the processors & used inside all Applemobile products & lead the industry in terms of power, energy and performance, but they now deliver more performance than some Macs,reportsclaimed.

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Computerworld contributor Preston Gralla and Executive Editor Ken Mingis answer viewers' questions about the latest Windows 10 release.

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Itback when 5-inch floppy disks roamed the Earth, and a customer service tech sends a software update to a customer known to be a bit more than a little computer-challenged, says a pilot fish in the know. This involves physically mailing a stack of disks to the customer, along with a note saying to call the tech when sheready to install the update.

When the call comes, the tech is prepared to walk her through the installation step by step. After getting the computer booted up and verifying that the user has located disk No. 1, the tech says, &Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive, with the label facing up.&

Customer: &Done.&

Tech: &Type ‘A,& and press the Enter key.&

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