Apple AirPods : in addition to being expensive, iFixit assigned the score of 0/10 ! – Area Digital

Available for a short time on the market, the AirPods in the Apple group are coming to pass through the hands of iFixit, who just awarded the worst score : 0/10 !

Published December 21, 2016 – 11:02 by François Giraud

The AirPods Apple are de-boned by iFixit which gives them the worst note

AirPods have been unveiled by Apple during the keynote special held by the group at the beginning of September for the presentation of the iPhone 7, and which appear, therefore, to the price of 179 euros on the website of the american giant. Headphones that connect without any cable to the smartphone, but who do not have the slightest wire connection between them. They can also be sold by the unit, for the price of 69 dollars, which appears expensive, according to many sources. the iFixit is quick to reverse engineer, and just awarded the low score of 0/10 !

iFixit assigns a very low score of 0/10 for the AirPods Apple

iFixit hastened to reverse-engineer new products, High-Tech that come out on the market and what are the AirPods from Apple that come in to be dismantled, not without some difficulty. The report from iFixit is scathing, the headphones from Apple are not recyclable and repairable. As usual, iFixit assigns a grade of reparability the hardware de-boned. The headphones from Apple are not up to the expectations, as was the case for the iPhone 7, also de-boned and had received a score of 7/10 after 26 stages of disassembly.

It appeared that the AirPods are very difficult to be dismantled, that it is almost impossible to change the battery and they are poorly manufactured. The teams at iFixit have been forced to use a knife blade to be able to open the headphones. Simple to take in hand according to Apple, iFixit notes that they are not repairable by the firm of Cupertino. A lot of glue would have been used which makes the headphones almost indémontables without damaging them. Same topo for the battery that could not be removed by a professional. Of course the headphones of the Apple are of quality to the sound level and their use with the presence of the chip W1, but iFixit, whose role is to reverse engineer the new products put on the market, has all the same to assign the worst rating, 0/10.

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Morocco – western Sahara : Paris “takes note” of the decision … – ASD – All About Algeria

The free trade agreement concluded in 2012 between the european Union and Morocco is not applicable to the western Sahara, decided-in this Wednesday, 21 December, the Court of justice of the european Union. But unlike the court of the EU, the Court ruled against the annulment of the agreement. (Credit : Farouk Battiche / NewPress ©)

Paris has reacted to the verdict given on Wednesday 21 December by the Court of justice of the european Union on the western Sahara and the agricultural agreement between Europe and Morocco.

” France takes note of the decision rendered today by the Court of justice of the european Union on the agricultural agreement between the european Union and Morocco, setting aside the original judgment of the general court of the european Union of 10 December 2015, ” responded the spokesman of the Quai d’orsay. “France had supported the appeal brought by the council in view of this cancellation,” he recalled.

” We consider the autonomy plan presented by Morocco in 2007 as a serious and credible towards a negotiated solution “, he added.

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EDF/CNP ASSURANCES : S&P puts note of the TEN under review … – Zonebourse.com

S&P announced place the note of the RTE, which manages the French power grid, under review (CreditWatch) with involvement negative pending details on his assignment by EDF. Last week, the electrician announced that it had reached an agreement with CNP Assurances and CDC for their yield of 49.9% of the share capital of its subsidiary RTE. The project is to create a joint venture in which EDF would retain 50.1% of the shares.

In a first step, EDF will transfer, before the end of the year, all of the securities of TEN of the new joint venture, partially finances the operation by external debt. It is on this point that Standard & Poor’s is particularly cautious, stating that it is not known for the moment, the level of debt that the company will have to assume. Even though TEN is already under the weight of debt deemed very high by the rating agency.

After the creation of the joint venture, EDF will transfer 49.9% to the Caisse des Dépôts and CNP Assurances. The realization of this second step is scheduled for the first semester of the year 2017, after approval of the competent authorities in the field of control of concentrations.

A silly rename his Wifi hotspot “Galaxy Note 7″ in aircraft : flight … – Phonandroid

We do not think that anyone would dare, and yet it happened. While the Galaxy Note 7 Samsung is prohibited in aircraft because of its risk of explosions, some idiot has seen fit to rename his Wifi hotspot “Galaxy Note 7″ in a plane. Consequences : the flight was delayed, then cancelled, just as the holiday passengers. We say thanks ?

In the gender champion of stupidity, we found the top of the top. In the United States, a man has simply done one of the worst jokes imaginable at this time. But before you tell the story, it puts you in the context.

If you’ve been following the news high-tech, you are not without knowing that the Galaxy Note 7 has been withdrawn from the market due to problems causing explosions of the smartphone. Even before its withdrawal from the market, many airlines had banned the presence of the smartphone in the aircraft.

Now, the smartphone is on the black list in all the companies of the world. therefore, It is impossible to travel by plane with a Galaxy Note 7, the risks of explosions being too big. And in a plane, if it explodes, it is the crash insured.

Since then, Samsung has asked the buyers of the Galaxy Note 7, return it for a refund. But 90% of the units have been recovered, a few diehards have made the choice to keep it despite the risks. But the smartphone is still prohibited in the aircraft.

with the approach of Christmas, in the United States, it is the stampede in the airport. Domestic flights are very many, families are finding for to celebrate the event as it should be. But this year, everything did not happen quite as planned for everyone.

While they were preparing to go on an airplane to probably join their families at the other end of the Member-States, travellers have been denied access to the volume: In a first time, the flight was announced as delayed and then completely canceled.

because, a small malignant who made the joke the more silly as possible : he renamed his Wifi hotspot ” Galaxy Note 7 “. Ah Ah ! Very funny. Obviously, the authorities have taken panic since the presence of a Galaxy Note 7 in a plane could have had dramatic consequences if the aircraft had taken off.

Still, the small evil one at the origin of the bad joke had to pass a dirty quarter of an hour with the american authorities. Hoping for him that his name was not known to the other passengers.

Galaxy Note 7 : they have decided to keep it despite the risks and we explain why

Opinions on the internet: “In France, there were rather to punish” – BFMTV.COM

Dominique Desjeux, anthropologist, and sociologist, author of The consumer (editions PUF):

“We spotted for 10-15 years in what is called a suspicion of institutions. We saw him climb up a trust more in peers and in the judgment of the institutions.

A second reason would be related to the fact that there is no society without a rating, there is no society without social control, but what we can note is that in France we note, rather, to punish. So note, this is neither well nor not well, it is the meaning that one gives to this note: is to encourage or to punish”.

S&P confirmed the “A-” rating of the debt of EDF – Boursier.com

(Boursier.com) — The agency Standard & Poor’s has not changed the investment grade credit rating ofEDF, despite of the objectives of 2017 enough below what the market was projecting so far. The agency relied on a level of EBITDA of 15 to 15.5 MdsE next year, so that the energy company has conceded that he would not be the range at 13.7 to 14.3 MdsE. Even if we consider that this is a negative development for the group, we believe that it is manageable compared to the current rating, writes S&P, who note the long-term debt “A-” with a “stable” outlook. The analyst in charge of the case considers that the lag is not due to poor operational performance of the company, but the judgments of plants th at are not programmed, in the framework of the programme of audit undertaken by the ASN. The first results of the inspections are positive and some of the reactors are already income producing, says the agency.

For S&P, the most crucial element for EDF is to achieve to reduce its adjusted debt to under three years. To do this, the group will rely on the disposals, and the capital increase of 4 MdsE, the dividend in shares, the plan of reduction of costs and improvement of the working capital fund.

Anthony Bondain — ©2016, Fellow.com