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Apple Watch With Custom Red Sport Band, Folding UK Plug Spotted in New Photos
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If Apple release that folding plug, I will personally have the babies of everyone involved in it's developement.
Joni is also a nickname. It's short for Joan (her middle name)
The vast majority of English speakers will look at Jony and Joni and say them as intended (Johnny and Joanie respectively).
The vast majority of English speakers will look at Jony and Joni and say them as intended (Johnny and Joanie respectively).
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No way. It should be exclusive and only available to wealthy, important people who are in the spotlight. It should be something for the common man to lust after.
And yet here we are commenting on a sterling piece of marketing which I'd give my marketing staff loads of Brownie points for.
On a totally unrelated subject, what's your area of expertise, DaveTheExpert?
Sizes of plugs? It goes back to the time when electricity was invented. The US had a huge supply of copper from mines as far as south America. Europe, not so much. So the US could afford to go with safer 110 Volts at destination (resulting in twice the copper thickness for transmission wires) and Europe went with 220 Volts resulting in half that thickness for transmission wires. So safety being a concern at 220 Volts that heavy-duty snap-in style connector plug is necessary because 220 Volts *will* fry (not only you but) any improper insulation (distance) between the plug pins. The flimsy US connector was fine for 110 Volts.
Regarding PAL/NTSC: Europe was/is metric-centric. The electric clock was one of the first major applications of the electric motor. The US thought it would make sense to make the clock motor (windings) at 60Hz (60 seconds etc) and Europe stuck to 50Hz. Little did they realize that, by using differing standards, they were setting the stage for PAL and NTSC; NTSC is generally used in countries with a utility frequency of 60 Hz and PAL in countries with 50 Hz, although there are now many exceptions. This has to do with alternating current in artificial light (tv studios) meets fps in video cameras (phasing) and maybe even cathode ray tube display operation. PAL also came after NTSC and it set standards to improve color handling and other improvements were added - (res was 20% greater than NTSC, conversion was easier etc.)
That's the gist of it. It began with Solomon R Guggenheim's dad Meyer in the mid 1800's and his fascination with metals and eventually mining and processing. He started out pushing a pram around Philadelphia collecting bits of scrap copper etc. Then he bought up mines, started smelting and when electricity hit - ka-ching!
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I have never accidentally worn a watch band incorrectly before... Apple promotes themselves as being focused on simplicity, yet they've made the first watch that someone could accidentally wear incorrectly????
I wouldn't have ever thought something so simple could be made that complicated.
How odd....
isn't Joni long for Joan?
that aside, I think more people would see Jony and think it rhymes with pony.
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I think you have that backwards, right?
double voltage requires 1/2 the amperage to equal the same wattage.. Amps kill.. not volts. (as in, tasers are like 50,000 volts or so)
We took the name Jonathan and looked at it in a different way. We used new materials to craft a Y where nobody else thought there should be one. We didn't just stop at Jonny though, we took out the duplication, to make the lightest, thinnest abbreviation for my name there's ever been.
(cue Samsung fans pointing out that they employ someone called Jon, and that's shorter).
Sorry, I wasn't clear - I just meant all my Apple charger plugs.
Why should they be dangerous anyway? I assume they contain the normal safety features (see that thread a while back about how super-safe UK plugs are).
Still the best and safest plug in the world buddy.
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We'll take your input under careful consideration. Can you close the door on your way out, thank you.
Nice video, I never complained about British plugs but why american plugs don't have a mandatory ground. Even many wires which comes with appliances have no quality control. (e.g. compare you Macbook Charger cable before the brick to you toaster cable).