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Apple Pricing

By on Thursday, February 7, 2013

The 128GB iPad is now available on the Apple Store. And don’t you say “640K 64GB ought to be enough for anybody.” In any case, that’s not what I want to talk about.

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Much has been said about the 128GB iPad but what’s interesting is Apple’s pricing. Every additional $100 get you twice as much memory as the previous model.

This pricing applies not just to iPads but also iPhone and iPods. Some would say you pay more for less with Apple products. But if we just look at the pricing between the models, you pay less for more. Is that good pricing strategy? Yes, it is!

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Samsung LCD TV Repairs

By on Saturday, February 2, 2013

Around two weeks ago, the display of the TV started becoming washed out and eventually became negative. I did some research and learned it could be the expensive inverter board. I called Samsung service and they scheduled a visit. They diagnosed the problem as the timing control (TCON) board. That was a huge relief to me. But the board still had to be ordered so they scheduled another visit. Today, the technician arrived with a new board and quickly installed it. Voila, TV fixed. And Jeanne was glad she finally got her big screen back and not settling on the 7.9″ iPad mini. Sometimes bigger is better.

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LTE Day

By on Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Today, iOS 6.1 was released. Aside from a bunch of hoohum fixes, it brought along the activation of Long Term Evolution (LTE). I truly hope Smart and Globe would simply just bump up everyone’s data connection up to LTE if you have a data plan and a compatible devices. Globe has indicated that it will do so. But Smart so far has only offered it free till March 30.

UPDATE: Smart will be offering it as an add-on (with corresponding add-on charges) to existing data plan subscribers. Sad sad sad.

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