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posted by cmn32480 on Friday October 30 2015, @10:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the half-eaten-fruit-strikes-again dept.

Apple Doesn't Want You Weighing Things With Your iPhone Just Yet

Can you turn an iPhone 6S into a working digital scale? The answer, apparently, is yes, but Apple doesn't want you to right now.

In an interesting post on Medium, developer Ryan McLeod explains how he and his friends built a digital scale app for the new iPhones by taking advantage of Apple's new pressure sensitivity feature, 3D Touch. The company only uses 3D Touch for a few functions — adjusting how quickly you scrub through music and video, for example, or quickly accessing app shortcuts from the home screen — but McLeod says he was inspired by all the "creative workarounds" on the App Store to hijack it for something else.

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Apple Sales, Profit Surge On iPhone Strength

Apple logged another healthy rise in sales and profits for its most recent quarter on the strength of record iPhone sales and strong results for Macs.

The company's revenue rose 22 percent from a year earlier to $51.5 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 26. Sales of iPhones reached a fourth-quarter record, and the company said it sold more Macs than ever. Sixty-two percent of revenue came from outside the U.S., and revenue in China nearly doubled.

The company's profit grew even more strongly than sales, up 31 percent to $11.1 billion, or $1.96 per share. For the full year, Apple made $53.4 billion.

Both sales and profit beat the consensus forecast of analyst polled by Thomson Reuters.

What will Apple do with its mounting pile of cash?


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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 30 2015, @06:08PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday October 30 2015, @06:08PM (#256583) Journal

    two ain't a few!
     
    Wrong you couple fanboy!
     
      few: [reference.com]
     
      adjective, fewer, fewest.
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    not many but more than one

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