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macrumors and its ilk are filled with fans whose mental stability is linked to their image as apple's chosen people, for example these guys are in near-physical pain over not getting their watch on launch day: quote:I got mine on launch day, but I think it's ridiculous that someone who ordered 10 min after the start of a preorder that was 2 weeks before release day has no idea when a watch will be arriving and no one seems to know. I was in the T-mobile iPhone 6+ debacle and remember the anguish. quote:This is the worst email ever. Did you just want to remind me that I ordered a watch? Wait, you mean I need to update my iPhone? Whoa! Thanks for that. I was wondering if I needed to do that? I guess that will keep me busy during the two week waiting period. quote:If you really want a kick in the teeth. this guy is sure stebe would never have given beyonce a watch: quote:I can go along with this statement. Apple has made mistakes before (even with launches), but this debacle does take the cake by a mile. this guy is planning a shrine to his apple watch: quote:I'm just curious to see how people are treating the watch. Personally, I think the watch will definitely be my "most personal device" and I think it will be the most important device I use instead of the iPhone, but I feel like putting it simply on my bedside table is lame post your favorite apple histrionics, whether it's calling for angela ahrendts resignation
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# ? May 16, 2024 01:07 |
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didnt read op
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:14 |
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read and enjoyed the op personally
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:16 |
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Salt Fish posted:read and enjoyed the op personally i find it unlikely that u can read
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:23 |
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where's the one about the person deflecting all Apple Watch criticism with "you're lucky you lived to even see it get released"
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:24 |
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I am going to make this as short as possible. I am from Alabama, USA. I was born in January 1986. Obviously computers weren't much then and I don't remember seeing any macs until I was in grade school in the computer lab playing Oregon Trail on floppy disks. In my time, windows was the shiznit. 95, 98, even God awful ME was the big deal. I tore apart computers my mom could barely afford and it taught me skills that I use today managing Windows environments with Exchange, AD, etc. My older brother started down the mac path long before I did and when I first saw the iPhone I said I want to see what Microsoft does. I was 21 at the time. After about 6 months of no one doing anything close to iPhone I got one. I loved it and decided I was wrong about Apple. Then I got an older model Macbook Air and didnt like it and I have stuck with Windows PCs until last July. I bought the newest MacBook Pro. LOVE IT! LOVE MY iPhone! Love my iPad mini (mainly for my son) I have owned a few iPads but quickly sell them because I use my mac or iPhone mostly. Today I own iPhone 6, Macbook Pro 2014, and iPad mini. My wife owns iPhone 5s. I got up at 2 am to order an Apple Watch and sold the Pebble my wife got me in January (my birthday) the next day. Apple is getting better everyday because they have the resources to do whatever they want. The sad fact is that it does not include getting watches to people that woke up early to order their newest gadget. No offense to everyone else in the world but Apple is an AMERICAN design and American people should have it FIRST. The fact that British people have theirs and ordered after me is a SLAP in the face. I know I cannot change the corporate machine that is now Apple. All they care about will be share holders and there is nothing I can do to change that. I will keep my watch order active until the 8th. After that I AM DONE with Apple. I hope someone out there knows how to start a company that can make high grade products and deliver with effective communication. Done with rant for today.
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:29 |
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im an white male american AAPL shareholder and it owns
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:32 |
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I'm the inevitable "apple is constraining supply to raise demand" comment
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:34 |
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qirex posted:I'm the inevitable "apple is constraining supply to raise demand" comment a bunch of people IRL was saying that and it was getting me mad so i just laughed and agreed with a "bro thats like marketing 101"
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:37 |
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but oh man i had the sperg rage
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:38 |
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what apple is probably doing is making a moderate number of watches so that they don't make 20 million of them then only sell 10 or end up with piles of pink and blue bands nobody wants
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:48 |
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move over homemade prostate milker, i have a new most personal device
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:52 |
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apple watches are literal chains of slavery to capitalism
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:53 |
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ultramiraculous posted:macrumors and its ilk are filled with fans whose mental stability is linked to their image as apple's chosen people, for example what if we took this concept and applied it to bitcoins or redditors?
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:54 |
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On Twitter and Facebook, in my email, and through IMs, I keep hearing a similar refrain: Why am I so sad? Why am I feeling such a strong reaction to the death of someone I’ve never met? Many of us feel tremendous sadness in light of Steve Jobs’s death. I can’t speak for my friends about why they feel so affected by his passing, but I imagine their reasons for tearing up mirror my own. Welcome in my home I can’t tell you the name of either one of RIM’s CEOs. Though I know his name, I honestly couldn’t pick Google CEO Larry Page out of a lineup, and I don’t know that I’ve ever heard his speaking voice, either. But I know just what Steve Jobs looked like, and just how he sounded. Not every CEO can—or should—show off his company’s products. But watching Steve deliver a keynote or host an Apple Event, I wasn’t struck solely by his much-lauded showmanship. Part of what made a Jobs-helmed event so exciting to watch was his very real, very tangible passion for the products he was unveiling. Steve didn’t just run Apple—he loved it, and you could see that love, that pride, beaming from his face. You hear people talk about television actors as the people we don’t know who we let into our homes, since they show up in our dens each night. Every Apple event, Steve showed up in my home too, wherever my Mac was. I would read the liveblog first, then watch the video as soon as Apple made it available. I’ve watched countless interviews with the man, too. So part of the reason I think his death hits me hard is because I really do feel like I knew him—even if he didn’t know me. What he built Another part of it is the intimacy we feel with Apple products. We know intellectually that Steve didn’t singlehandedly build the iPad, design the MacBook Pro, or invent the iPhone, but those products clearly bear the stamp of his genius. And I don’t merely use my iPhone; I love it. The same goes for my Mac and my iPad. Even though it’s not literally true, using Apple’s brilliantly-designed products feels like using technology that Steve Jobs personally touched, personally signed off on, personally built for my benefit. Steve—quite rightly—gets credit, along with Steve Wozniak, for inventing the modern home computer. And so while Apple’s not directly responsible for the Internet, there’s little chance the world would feel connected in the ways it does today if not for their vision. I can work for a San Francisco company from my home in New Jersey—heck, I can video chat with my nieces and nephews in Israel from my home in New Jersey—because of the Internet, and I believe that the Internet exists the way it does because of Steve’s influence. So in part, I’m sad that Steve’s gone because—again, without ever knowing me—his influence on my life was deeply personal. And I’m sad because, regardless of how many products Apple already secretly has in the pipeline, Steve will no longer directly weigh in on the company’s future. Apple will certainly continue to succeed under CEO Tim Cook, but the notion that we’ll now be robbed of Steve Jobs’s continued decision making on the minutiae of Apple products is tremendously disappointing. Who he was I’ve written previously about Steve’s influence; his impact went far beyond technology. Logically, of course, I wouldn’t be writing for Macworld today if Steve hadn’t created the company. But Steve actually motivated my working for Macworld much more explicitly. It was this passage in his oft-cited Stanford commencement address that pushed me to leave one career for one that I was more passionate about: I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. I’ve yet to watch an interview with Steve Jobs that felt anything but inspirational; I’ve long loved this answer he gave at the D8 conference one year about his management style. His answer—that the best ideas should matter, not company hierarchy—wasn’t a new or revolutionary idea, but the obvious sincerity in his words was moving to me. Like all of us, Steve wasn’t without his flaws. But what I’ll miss most of all is his passion. He was an undeniably smart man, and his words were as inspirational as his accomplishments. I’m saddest of all because we won’t get to experience more of either.
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Squeezy Farm posted:what if we took this concept and applied it to bitcoins or redditors? that would be android-tier imo
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:54 |
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MacBook Air 2/3 - apparently you can wind back the naming convention by adding "Air" + number onto stuff, saving us all form an iPad 7 or whatever they are at. yeah, should have had a bi-yearly "S" cycle like with the iPhone. and this doesn't seem to upset people. the only question is will they name the Macbook Air Next the 2 or the 3 since we've technically had one MBA before this one. i guess we're looking at the MacBook Air with Retina display, if anything. or maybe they will call it the Book features: just magsafe and thunderbolt, thunderbolt to USB adapter available or included as well also an audio jack of course FaceTimeID (see next section!) FaceTimeID - this is the Mac equivalent of TouchID. it uses a new FaceTime camera, call it FaceSense, that uses the PrimeSense technology apple bought years ago, and talks to a special apple co-processor in the Air 2/3 with Retina. it looks at your face, stores it in a secure enclave on the logic board, then can recognize you not from just a webcam image, but from a 3D construction using the infrared lasers from the sensor. Apple Maps - apple maps will get a huge improvement, also involving PrimeSense. this probably won't be announced yet, but fleets of cars equipped with PrimeSense or other point-cloud building sensors will roam the streets getting the most detailed 3D models for street level stuff ever. apple will not make this data available so you can make a first person shooter where you shoot up your neighbourhood, though. sorry about that. iPad Pro - the Pro will be the first iPad to support a Lightning to Thunderbolt connection, especially beneficial to Macbook Air 2/3 owners since they can forgo the adapter they'll otherwise need with the old iPads. there will be a stylus and it will have many Wacom-like features out of the box, including wired screen mirroring/extending with OS X and whatnot. "force touch" will be present to handle both sensitivity to pressure when using painting applications, as well as things in the OS itself. however, this will probably get a much better treatment/reveal at WWDC because it will need iOS 9 and a lot of APIs and poo poo to devs can make use of it. Photos.app - this will be launched or launched in Beta right at/after the event and be good. ok i hope you enjoyed it , go apple
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# ? Apr 28, 2015 23:59 |
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I tried on the Rose Gold with White Sport Band Edition watch yesterday. I am not getting a gold one. I just wanted to try on one of the gold ones. It was so beautiful. I actually started to think to myself "I could do this, I could pay $12,000 for an apple watch"
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 00:10 |
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Smythe posted:On Twitter and Facebook, in my email, and through IMs, I keep hearing a similar refrain: Why am I so sad? Why am I feeling such a strong reaction to the death of someone I’ve never met?
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 00:12 |
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https://www.facebook.com/ILoveSteveJ
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Dirk Pitt posted:I tried on the Rose Gold with White Sport Band Edition watch yesterday. I am not getting a gold one. I just wanted to try on one of the gold ones. It was so beautiful. I actually started to think to myself "I could do this, I could pay $12,000 for an apple watch" lol
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 00:14 |
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ultramiraculous posted:this guy is planning a shrine to his apple watch: that guy's gonna gently caress his watch
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 00:23 |
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Steve Jobs should be fired for this clusterfuck of a launch.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 00:35 |
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Also I've spent the last 20 minutes looking for it which either makes me an idiot or the thread has just been straight up deleted but my absolute favorite Apple fan weirdness was some loving maniac from the iPhone 3GS days who kept his phone in some kind of velvet sack to protect it, but something was wrong with it so he eventually wound up at the Genius Bar. The Genius, unaware of the flavor of autism this man was afflicted with, puts his iPhone face down on the counter and the dude just flips his poo poo. Allegedly talked to the manager and everything, if I recall correctly his post was concluded with something along the lines of how he was working his way up the Apple support phone tree to have his 3GS replaced because of the micro-abrasions from being set face down by the Genius.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 00:39 |
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lol
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 01:03 |
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Yeah! Lets make fun of creepy entitled apple users! That's not hypocritical at all.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 01:29 |
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dope thread my man macrumors is full of tards
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 01:43 |
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Larry Parrish posted:Yeah! Lets make fun of creepy entitled apple users! That's not hypocritical at all. I kind of assumed the point of this thread was to collapse into an ouroboros of yospos helldumping, tbh
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PleasingFungus posted:I kind of assumed the point of this thread was to collapse into an ouroboros of yospos helldumping, tbh same but hope
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 02:28 |
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i went to the rear end in a top hat store () the other day after lunch and i touched the watches. there was nothing weird going on as far as i could tell. just a bunch of people in a store l@@king at the new poo poo tand leaving when they realize they dont want the thing
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 02:29 |
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Dirk Pitt posted:I am going to make this as short as possible. I am from Alabama, USA. I was born in January 1986. Obviously computers weren't much then and I don't remember seeing any macs until I was in grade school in the computer lab playing Oregon Trail on floppy disks. In my time, windows was the shiznit. 95, 98, even God awful ME was the big deal. I tore apart computers my mom could barely afford and it taught me skills that I use today managing Windows environments with Exchange, AD, etc. My older brother started down the mac path long before I did and when I first saw the iPhone I said I want to see what Microsoft does. I was 21 at the time. After about 6 months of no one doing anything close to iPhone I got one. I loved it and decided I was wrong about Apple. Then I got an older model Macbook Air and didnt like it and I have stuck with Windows PCs until last July. I bought the newest MacBook Pro. LOVE IT! LOVE MY iPhone! Love my iPad mini (mainly for my son) I have owned a few iPads but quickly sell them because I use my mac or iPhone mostly. Today I own iPhone 6, Macbook Pro 2014, and iPad mini. My wife owns iPhone 5s. I got up at 2 am to order an Apple Watch and sold the Pebble my wife got me in January (my birthday) the next day. Apple is getting better everyday because they have the resources to do whatever they want. The sad fact is that it does not include getting watches to people that woke up early to order their newest gadget. No offense to everyone else in the world but Apple is an AMERICAN design and American people should have it FIRST. The fact that British people have theirs and ordered after me is a SLAP in the face. I know I cannot change the corporate machine that is now Apple. All they care about will be share holders and there is nothing I can do to change that. I will keep my watch order active until the 8th. After that I AM DONE with Apple. I hope someone out there knows how to start a company that can make high grade products and deliver with effective communication. Done with rant for today. i legit read this until I was far enough in that I realized it was the tragic tale of a cj
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 02:37 |
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I have some thoughts on the Apple Watch and the retail experience when buying/selling one. Disclaimer: I am not an Apple employee. 1. The watch distracts from knowledge of Apple. The Specialist role has been demeaned by the customer watch try-on process. What I mean by this is a Specialist used to be about knowing Apple products inside and out. Not just about the computers, but convincing you why you needed to buy a new copy of Mac OS X. Why buying a Mac is worth it for owning an iPod. What iMovie and iDVD could do. I remember when a Specialist needed to explain to me the differences between Tiger and Leopard, etc. Now they can't even tell you that HFS+ is the file system. All of these detail oriented processes and knowledge-based interactions with Specialists have now become 100% dumbed down. This trend is going to get worse when a Specialist now spends 50% of his or her time simply helping a rich person try on a Watch instead of knowing the details of every product. It would be like a BMW salesperson only knowing about the Z4 instead of the M5. 2. The "try-on" experience is dehumanizing. Where the Specialist role used to be about sharing the experience of Apple, it's now about helping rich people try on jewelry. I watched an interaction at my local store, and the specialist looked like a full on servant/steward when helping an old man put it on. He literally put the Watch around the man's wrist. When did working at Apple become being a peon? Something intangible about that put a nasty taste in my mouth. I had a fleeting thought of Bob Cratchit and Scrooge. Of course Apple has always been expensive, but Specialists were never forced to lose their dignity. 3. Apple is not incentivizing Specialists to care about the Apple Watch. This is happening because despite the Watch needing a purpose to sell, and Specialists needing to convince you why to get one, many of them won't own one themselves. Why? They simply aren't paid enough. And Apple is only giving a 50% discount. How are your Specialists supposed to care about selling something they can't enjoy themselves? It really irks me that Apple simply assumes that a couple of hours of training is all it takes to launch this product that is entirely new in both category and interface and design. Specialists not being able to afford the watch adds to the servant feeling by the way. 4. The joy of launches is gone, because launches are gone. I understand Angela is new, but I cannot support the way the new MacBook and Watch launches were handled. What is the point of opening 500+ stores in the US when you aren't going to launch your products in them? How are your employees supposed to actually enjoy the Apple Watch when they aren't going through the most exciting times of the role? Any Specialist will tell you that the time you enjoy the most is a launch. That has been taken away from them on top of everything else.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 03:33 |
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Hed posted:i legit read this until I was far enough in that I realized it was the tragic tale of a cj it is computer janitor bingo. racist, millennial, administers exchange and windows pcs, sexist, and a splash of libertarianism at the end.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 03:35 |
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how are we this far in and have yet to see if a 38mm Apple Watch fits a hoof?!
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 03:36 |
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being an apple watch owner sure puts you in some good company
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 03:38 |
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io_burn posted:I have some thoughts on the Apple Watch and the retail experience when buying/selling one. Disclaimer: I am not an Apple employee. is he genuinely implying that apple store employees were at a time not completely worthless
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 03:38 |
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PM me if you want to touch each other for a few minutes to try the feature.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 03:49 |
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apple makes the best computing hardware paired with the most advanced operating system in the world to choose anything else requires being a fanboi
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iiiiiiiiiii dont see a moose milkie option on this poll
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