@verge Typical of Nilay to frame this against Apple. Altman (a sociopath) & OpenAI (former Apple) employees have engaged in some serious violations & likely, IP theft. Yes, Google & Samsung stole obvious UI IP from Apple at a critical time for foundational tech for Android.
@samkohl I use it everyday to launch and take photos, especially AF lock. I also use it for zooming when holding the phone landscape. I love Camera Control. Very useful. Iโm glad Appleโs keeping it in the iPhone 18 series.
@rohntwts I use it everyday to launch and take photos, especially AF lock. I also use it for zooming when holding the phone landscape. I love Camera Control. Very useful. Iโm glad Appleโs keeping it in the iPhone 18 series.
@saaaanjjjuuu Are you sure itโs not the battery calibrating to the correct percentage after a restart? Sometimes, with 26.X (or earlier), it shows 100% or less for a long time while using the phone and a restart shows the real number (or you wait). Did you restart multiple times in succession?
Your washing machine runs at 57ยฐF. The CDC says bacteria die at 160ยฐF. That's a 103-degree gap between what kills pathogens and what you're actually using on your underwear.
And Procter & Gamble spent the last five years making sure you'd widen it.
They enlisted Ice-T, Stone Cold Steve Austin, the NFL, Walmart, Samsung, NASA, and the World Wildlife Fund to convince America to wash in cold water. Cold water loads went from 48% in 2020 to 57% in 2023. Their Cold Callers campaign alone drove a 39% sales lift for Tide.
The reason is carbon math. 90% of washing machine energy goes to heating water. P&G needs cold water adoption to hit net-zero by 2040. So they built campaigns around "$150 savings a year" and ran them during peak inflation. The sustainability math works. The microbiology doesn't.
P&G's own internal data, published in a peer-reviewed microbiology journal, showed 44.7% of US households now wash over half their loads on cold. The same paper found that enteric bacteria require hot water, bleach, or both to reach acceptable risk levels. Cold water with regular detergent leaves viable pathogens on fabric.
A University of Arizona study found 44% of home washing machines tested positive for fecal bacteria in the drum. Front-loaders are worse: a 2025 Frontiers in Microbiology study measured bacterial loads nearly 1,000x higher in front-loaders than top-loaders. 90% of bathroom towels carry coliform bacteria. One load of underwear can release 100 million E. coli into the wash water. And at 57ยฐF, that bacteria doesn't die. It transfers to the next load.
P&G solved their carbon problem by creating your hygiene problem. The $150 you save on energy is buying you a washing machine that functions as a bacterial trading floor.
@appleinsider@MalcolmOwen Your specifications for MacBook Pro M5 Pro (and Max) connectivity are INACCURATE:
The Pro and Max models have the Apple N1 chip: so WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 6.
@Honorglobal Best guess: you are a bunch of uncreative, shameful copycats and think ramming in a huge silicon carbon battery and a very good camera lens or two, along with some gimmicky AI slop will be enough to overlook how you have again stolen the Apple iPhone design (17 Pro series).