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The A-Bit-More-Explanation Edition Monday, November 2, 2020

Why It Matters Which Charger You Use For Your Phone, by David Nield, Wired

So can you just plug any charger into your phone to juice it up, especially now that the vast majority of handsets support the same wireless charging and USB-C standards? The short answer is yes, but the long answer involves a bit more explanation.

iPhone 12 Missing SMS Texts Bug Plagues New Owners, by Nehal Malik, iPhone In Canada

Anyone who has used iOS devices for a while will be quite familiar with the problem: when you’re part of a group chat in the stock iMessage app, you won’t receive some texts sent by other members, and some of the texts you send will not be delivered, and will have to be sent again from scratch.

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Apple Watch Series 6 One Month Later: Here's How It Holds Up, by Kate Kozuch, Tom's Guide

So, overall, the Apple Watch 6's best overall upgrade (for me) is its longer battery life, taking away the work of managing your remaining juice, and that means the folks who will get the most bang for their buck are likely those who are tired of making sure they don't hit empty.

Apple's ECG Monitoring App Available In S. Korea, by Yonhap, The Korea Herald

Apple said local consumers who have Apple Watch Series 4 or later can use its ECG app through software updates after it recently secured an approval from South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.

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Apple TV Plus One Year Later: Still On Trial, by Julia Alexander, The Verge

So, is Apple TV Plus a complete dud? It certainly hasn’t seen the success that Disney Plus has, but Apple doesn’t need the biggest streaming service in the world. It just needs to have enough new content, consistently, to make people feel all right spending $5 a month — or, as Apple would likely prefer, buying a bundle plan. It’s fitting that Apple TV Plus’ first year was mostly free, giving curious passersby the opportunity to see if Apple could pull it off. It was a trial period for Apple, too.

The Apple TV+ Website, by Benjamin Mayo

However, the award for the worst experience belongs to the Apple TV+ website found at tv.apple.com. Since the service launched on November 1st 2019, the website has always been incredibly barebones. It is a single flat list of Apple TV+ shows and movies, there’s no Channels or iTunes Store content here, arranged in a seemingly random order with no way to filter by content type, genre or release date. At launch, this was just about passable because the service had only 8 titles. A year on, it is simply embarrassing.

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I have genres and playlists in my mind.

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