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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by FirmwareBurner on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:02AM (#37915202)
Why did Apple had to be capitalized in the title in this case? It's not in German and it's about the fruit, not the computer company.

Thanks to that I was expecting something about Appel retro Computers.

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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by droopyEyelids on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:26AM (#37915617)
Probably the user submitted it on a Mac that auto "corrected" the capitalization
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by sohkamyung on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:39AM (#37915834)
You have to ask Dang. I submitted the story with "apple" and HN capitalized it. I left it like that to see the comments about capitalization. :-)

P.S. I submitted it on a Win 11 machine running Firefox.

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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by ale42 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:35PM (#37921214)
With a physical keyboard and no autocomplete, I guess ;-)
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by below43 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:55PM (#37934646)
Mechanical keyboard. This is the way.
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by FirmwareBurner on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:29AM (#37915667)
As it should be, they came first. Hope they sue the fruit for infringing the trademark of the old famous computer company.
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by type0 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:49PM (#37924356)
They already do

"Apple growers in Switzerland fighting Apple Inc. in court"

https://www.newser.com/story/336785/swiss-apple-growers-not-...

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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by lainga on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:39PM (#37918628)
Reminds me of gofmt insisting "Id" should always be "ID" and in the process totally dunking on Freud
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by MichaelZuo on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:13PM (#37919205)
It doesn't have a system to correct the 'auto correction' system?
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by zooweemama on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:20AM (#37915511)
same here!
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by hellotheretoday on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:15PM (#37919246)
They’re remaking the newton AND the IIc. With science!
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by drooopy on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:45PM (#37920578)
Hopefully they'll bring back the ones with a replaceable battery and upgradeable storage and ram.
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by tpmx on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:00PM (#37920734)
Because HN applies various adjustments to submitted post titles - without notifying the poster. A more honest approach would be to have a two-phase submission process, where the submittee is allowed to fix any mistakes made by the algo.
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by CharlesW on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:38PM (#37921250)
FYI, you can fix poor automatic changes by choosing “Edit” after submission.
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by tpmx on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:45PM (#37921345)
FYI, that is not how humans work.
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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by CharlesW on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:20PM (#37921742)
I'm a human, and that's how it worked. I was unsatisfied with a poor automatic change, clicked "Edit" because I'm stubborn that way, saw that it worked, and then shared the solution so that other contributors could do the same.

My apologies for any offense.

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Re:Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life by tpmx on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:26PM (#37921809)
It's great that you're both smart and stubborn!

Here are some UX basics in case you really want understand the topic:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-basics-study-guide/

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