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Apple claims the iPhone 5 battery lasts longer than the iPhone 4S despite a larger display and power-hungry 4G LTE connection.

Now that the first iPhone 5 reviews are up, there are finally a good number of iPhone 5 battery life reviews to highlight how long we can expect the iPhone 5 to last.

The following iPhone 5 battery life reviews should answer the burning question, ” Will the iPhone 5 battery last all day?”

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iPhone 5 Battery Life Claims

 

iPhone 5 Battery Life Reviews

The iPhone 5 battery.

 

Apple doesn’t share the rating for the iPhone 5 battery, but it’s clear that the iPhone 5 battery takes up a large part of the thin and light device. Apple’s battery life claims are usually close to real world use.

The iPhone 5 should last as long as the iPhone 4S for talking, and longer than the iPhone 4S when it comes to browsing the web.

  • Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G
  • Standby time: Up to 225 hours
  • Internet use: Up to 8 hours on 3G
  • up to 8 hours on LTE
  • up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
  • Video playback: Up to 10 hours
  • Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

Here’s how Apple tests the iPhone 5 battery to come up with the battery life ratings.

iPhone 5 battery life is of particular note because there is no way to replace the battery when it runs down. We expect iPhone 5 battery cases, but most users will want to use the iPhone 5 without a battery pack case.

iPhone 5 battery life is also important because spareLightning to USB cables are scarce.

iPhone 5 Battery Life Reviews

Based on the early iPhone 5 reviews, battery life looks promising, though we are looking forward to seeing more iPhone 5 units in the wild before proclaiming Apple’s battery claims on the mark.

Tim Stevens at Engadget

On our standard battery rundown test, in which we loop a video with LTE and WiFi enabled and social accounts pinging at regular intervals, the iPhone 5 managed a hugely impressive 11 hours and 15 minutes. That’s just 10 minutes shy of the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx.

Jim Dalrymple at The Loop

I use my iPhone 5 to make phone calls, iMessage, text, Web browsing, email, Twitter and generally keep up-to-date with what’s going on around the world. I unplugged my phone from the charger at 10:00 am, used it all day doing the things described above and then waited for it to run out of battery.

It wasn’t until about 7:00 am the next morning that it finally died. I didn’t watch any movies or intensive things like that, but I had Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on. Basically this was real-world usage testing for me. It was a normal day.

 

iPhone 5 battery life

The thinner iPhone 5 boasts long battery life.

 

John Gruber at Daring Fireball

Battery life seems good, exactly on par with my 4S.

David Pogue at The New York Times

In practical terms, you encounter fewer days when the battery dies by dinnertime — a frequent occurrence with 4G phones.

Walt MossBerg at All Things D

The iPhone 5’s battery lasted between 9 and 12 hours every day, in mixed use. For most people, the phone would last the day without recharging.

MG Siegler at Techcrunch

While it’s hard to judge against a year-old iPhone 4S, the battery seems to be a bit better than it was a year ago (though there were some iOS issues as well). Apple claims 8 hours of 3G and LTE usage, and that seems about right.

Luke Peters at T3

In our testing, real-world battery life doesn’t seem to have changed much since the iPhone 4S, which could be seen as a good thing considering the iPhone 5 is a more advanced product, but you’ll still need to charge it every night to give you enough juice for the next day.

You can watch a couple of films on a flight or listen to hours and hours of music on one charge, but talking and 3G surfing take a heavier toll, and 4G connectivity could be even more of a drain.

Overall it looks like the iPhone 5 will last a full day of use for most users. Heavy users may need to plug-in, especially if they rely on 4G LTE throughout the day. For these users, an iPhone 5 MophieJuice Pack is high on the wishlist.

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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:01:00 -0700 Samsung Expects To Sue Apple Over The iPhone 5 http://bravapos.posterous.com/samsung-expects-to-sue-apple-over-the-iphone http://bravapos.posterous.com/samsung-expects-to-sue-apple-over-the-iphone

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it anticipates accusing Apple of patent infringement over the iPhone 5, in a U.S. court case separate from the one that grabbed worldwide attention last month.

 

With that second case not due for trial until 2014, however, Samsung's plan is unlikely to affect the availability of Apple's new smartphone. The iPhone 5 was set to go on sale Friday in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the U.S. and next week in 22 more countries.

 

Once Samsung adds the iPhone 5 to the U.S. case, and perhaps to other cases elsewhere, it can begin seeking sales bans on the phone. But neither Samsung nor Apple has succeeded in getting a meaningful ban on the other since their global patent battle began in April last year. The two have filed about 50 lawsuits in nine countries accusing each other of patent infringements on smartphones and tablet computers.

 

In the highest-profile ruling yet, a jury in U.S. Federal Court in San Jose, Calif., last month found that Samsung infringed on six Apple patents and Apple infringed on none of Samsung's. It ordered Samsung to pay $1 billion in damages, but the judge hasn't set the final damage amount. Samsung said it would appeal the verdict.

 

The case set for trial in 2014 was filed in the same court by the two companies in February, with a new roster of patent claims—eight each by Samsung and Apple. Earlier this month, Apple amended its complaint to add four Samsung products that had gone on sale in the U.S. since February. They include the current flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III.

 

Samsung's statement about the iPhone 5 indicates it will follow suit.

 

"Based on information currently available, Samsung expects the iPhone 5 will infringe the asserted Samsung patents-in-suit in the same way as the other accused iPhone models," the company's attorneys told the court in filing. They added that Samsung would decide whether to amend "as soon as it has had a reasonable opportunity to analyze the device."

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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:55:00 -0700 5 Major Changes in iOS 6 http://bravapos.posterous.com/5-major-changes-in-ios-6 http://bravapos.posterous.com/5-major-changes-in-ios-6

(CNN) -- After downloading the latest iPhone, iPod touch and iPad operating system, iOS 6, the fun part is excitedly poking around and hunting for what's new. Find subtle design changes, like the phone's key pad, or set up new features, like Facebook integration. You might even use Siri again for the first time in a while to test its improved sports and restaurant knowledge.

If you have an iPhone 3GS, 4 or 4S, a fourth generation iPod touch, or an iPad 2 or the new iPad, you can upgrade to iOS 6. Go to your settings screen, tap General and then Software Update. Keep in mind that some features are limited to the most recent models.

Here are the biggest changes to look for in the new iOS, good and bad and inbetween.

Maps

Apple gave Google's maps data the old heave-ho and redesigned the maps app from the ground up, helped in part by the company's recent acquisitions of mapping companies such as C3. The resulting app is undeniably attractive and well-designed. It's also an unfortunate downgrade from the previous version and the biggest disappointment of the new operating system.

The app is missing some of the most useful features from the former iOS Maps app: Google's transit directions and street view images. Some countries have also lost traffic information.

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It's not all take and no give. Apple has added one very much needed feature: turn-by-turn directions. Previously, iPhone users had to download apps like Waze to effectively use their phones for directions while on the road (hitting "Next" on the old directions each time you turned a corner was dangerous and tricky). Turn-by-turn is not supported on the iPhone 4 and earlier, the first iPad or any iPad without cellular, or the iPod touch.

A not-useful-but-still-super-cool new feature is Flyover, which is available for a select number of areas and cities. This 3D aerial view is a kick to tap and swipe around, circling skyscrapers and cruising down streets like a bird. But unless you actually are a bird, the feature won't be of much practical use for navigation. Flyover is only available on the iPhone 4S and later, iPad 2 and later, and the iPod touch.

(If you're outside the U.S., check out this breakdown of what countries are gaining and losing maps features from The Understatement.)

Teasingly, there is a public transit icon when you try to search for directions, but it quickly whisks you away to a list of transit routing apps you can download in the app store, most only for one transit system or another. Google's transit directions pulled in data from multiple services -- you could take a city bus to an unrelated train system traveling across state lines. Downloading all the transit apps still wouldn't be as useful as the Google version.

Luckily, you can still access Google Maps from Safari to get the transit feature. Google has not yet announced an official Google Maps iOS app, but many suspect it will, just as it did for YouTube after Apple removed the video-service's baked-in app.

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Siri

After the voice-activated Siri feature was announced last year for the iPhone 4S, it seemed everyone with the latest iPhone was walking around asking their device questions and making requests. A survey by Park Associates released in March found while 87% of iPhone 4S owners were using the tool at least once a month, most were using Siri mostly for a few basic tasks, primarily making phone calls and sending texts.

A new batch of features may broaden their horizons. The most useful addition is Facebook and Twitter integration. You can dictate 140 characters to share on Twitter or an update for your Facebook timeline. Apple has teamed up with some outside companies to improve results. Rotten Tomatoes improves movie reviews, Open Table beefs up restaurant results and makes it easy to make a reservation using Siri. Sports nuts will dig the Yahoo-fueled scores.

Other new features include being able to launch apps and get local-focused search results.

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Photos

The camera is one of the iPhone and iPod touch's killer features (less so on the iPad, if only because holding up a giant rectangle to take a snapshot is cumbersome). New camera features are always one of the more fun updates, and this round has two notable new tools. (Last iOS update we gained the ability to edit photos directly in the Camera Roll and an overlay grid.)

First up is the ability to shoot panoramic photos, which are instantly stitched together and saved to your camera roll. There are plenty of apps that already do this exact thing, but having it built into the camera app makes the process easier. In limited testing, it also appears to be incredibly fast when processing the final image, and does a nice job of seamlessly sticking the whole affair together. Panoramic photos go up to 280-degrees and the final image can be as large as 28-megapixels. The feature only works on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and fifth-generation iPod touch.

Shared photo streams are the other major new feature. It is almost awesome, but only for friends also in the Apple eco-system. You can now share specific photos -- say only photos of your cat or baby or cat and baby hanging out -- with one or a group of friends. Your friends can then like and comment on the photos, which are viewable in the Photos app (on phones running iOS 6), in iPhoto on a Mac or on an Apple TV. Private Photo Streams can only be viewed by people with an iCloud account. It is possible to publish a photo stream as a public site for anyone to see, but it does now allow commenting or likes.

Reviews are in for iPhone 5

Mail

The Mail app has always been simple but effective. With iOS 6, Apple is starting to add a few extra bells and whistles, and one key feature that was mysteriously missing.

Finally, you can add a photo or video directly from within an email. Previously, you had to start your email from the Photos app or paste an image in. It was always an odd omission.

There is a new VIP option for those important emails you can't dare miss. Click on any sender's name and select Add To VIP, and in the future all emails from that address will appear in the special VIP folder. The VIP folder will show up in the Mail app no matter what, even if you don't plan on using it. It's also possible to flag important email.

Passbook

This new iOS 6 feature has potential, but it will require some time to see how it takes off. Passbook is like a little purse for your random tickets, coupons, loyalty cards and passes from other apps. Getting on a United Airlines plane? First you'll have to install the United Airlines app, then you can bring up your boarding pass in Passbook and the attendant can scan your screen.

In helpful twist, Passbook reminds you of dates and times, and can offer other push notifications such as the balance on a Starbucks account. Passbook is not available on the iPad.

There are other goodies in iOS 6, like the Do Not Disturb feature, new sharing options, a "Remind me Later" message for ignored calls, new Safari offline reading tool and the ability to set a song as your alarm sound.

Timing is everything for iPhone 5 accessory makers. 

Article by: Heather Kelly, CNN.com

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:07:00 -0700 Tablet Wars! New Kindle Fire Approaching, iPad Mini Waiting in Wings http://bravapos.posterous.com/tablet-wars-new-kindle-fire-approaching-ipad http://bravapos.posterous.com/tablet-wars-new-kindle-fire-approaching-ipad

Amazon is kindling a new Fire, Apple is cooking up a mini iPad, and the tablet wars are set to blaze. So which one is right for you?

Amazon.com is expected to unveil a new Kindle Fire on Thursday as it seeks to take a bigger bite of the tablet computer market and boost sales of digital goods like e-books and movies. The announcement at a former airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., will feature CEO Jeff Bezos, who announced the first $199 Kindle Fire in New York less than a year ago.

In the nine months since it began selling in November, the Kindle Fire has captured 22 percent of tablet sales in the U.S., the company claimed last week. Amazon.com didn't divulge actual sales figures, but analyst Anthony DiClemente with Barclays Capital estimates that Amazon sold 7 million tablets combined from November through the end of June.

Its sales amounted to just 5 percent of the global market in the second quarter, however, far smaller than the 68 percent market share for Apple's iPad, and behind the 10 percent share for Samsung's Galaxy Tab, he said.

Apple sold 17 million iPads in the April-June period alone, and more than 84 million since its debut in 2010. To capitalize on that growth, and keep the competition at bay, the company is widely expected to release a new version of the iPad in October -- a smaller one, likely carrying a somewhat smaller price tag.

The new "iPad Mini" is expected to help Apple fend off cheaper tablets with smaller screens, notably the new Kindle Fire. An entry-level iPad 3 (or "the new iPad," as Apple insists on calling it) with 16GB of storage space and lacking a 3G wireless connection sells for $499. Models rapidly run as high as $829.

The Kindle Fire is half the price of Apple's cheapest iPad -- the older iPad 2, which starts at $399. It also has a smaller screen, lacks a camera and only connects to the Internet over Wi-Fi.

A newer model might resolve some of these shortcomings. Amazon is also expected to offer a new lineup of Kindle e-readers, which have screens that render images and text in black and white and sell for as little as $79.

But Amazon isn’t the only competitor.

In July, Google began shipping its $199 Nexus 7, a tablet that is about the same size as Kindle Fire but boasts a better quad-core processor, compared to the dual-core brain in the Kindle Fire, a camera and an updated version of the Android operating system.

And on the high-end, Microsoft will start selling its Surface tablet / hybrid gizmo in October, though the Windows giant has yet to announce a shipping day or price tag. The Surface has a screen that is 10.6 inches diagonally; a clever keyboard integrated smoothly into the case; and runs on the Windows 8 operating system. 

Prices are expected to be more in line with the iPad.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. Article Courtesy of Foxnews.com

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:57:00 -0700 1 Million Leaked Apple IDs Stolen From Florida Publisher, Report Says http://bravapos.posterous.com/1-million-leaked-apple-ids-stolen-from-florid http://bravapos.posterous.com/1-million-leaked-apple-ids-stolen-from-florid

t’s a tale worthy of Mission: Impossible. And it may be a tall tale after all.

A list posted anonymously online containing the personal information of millions of Apple users was stolen not from under the noses of the FBI itself but from a Florida software company, NBC News reported on Monday.

A hacker group affiliated with Anonymous had posted a link to the database earlier this week. A note claimed the data was stolen in the still of the night from the laptop of an FBI agent in a Tennessee branch office -- and questioning why the FBI was tracking Apple users and gathering such information at all. Paul DeHart, CEO of Blue Toad publishing company, told NBC News that software technicians within his company had confirmed the real source of the data: Blue Toad’s computers.

"[We're at the] 100 percent confidence level, it's our data," DeHart said. "As soon as we found out we were involved and victimized, we approached the appropriate law enforcement officials, and we began to take steps to come forward, clear the record and take responsibility for this.”

 

'[We're at the] 100 percent confidence level, it's our data.'

- Paul DeHart, CEO of Blue Toad publishing company

 

In an open letter published Monday on the company's website, DeHart offered more details, and an apology to users for the breach of security.

"BlueToad believes the risk that the stolen data can be used to harm app users is very low. But that certainly doesn’t lessen our resolve to ensure that all data is protected and kept from those who seek to illegally obtain it."

Blue Toad builds custom apps for thousands of different publishers and serves 100 million page views each month, according to NBC News. And as an app publisher, the company would be in a position to have such a database of device IDs, Apple said.

"As an app developer, BlueToad would have access to a user's device information such as UDID, device name and type," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Mullter told NBC News. "Developers do not have access to users' account information, passwords or credit card information, unless a user specifically elects to provide that information to the developer."

Apple last week denied giving the FBI any information, telling AllThingsD that the source of the data simply couldn’t be the FBI.

“The FBI has not requested this information from Apple, nor have we provided it to the FBI or any organization,” Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said. The NBC report confirms that earlier statement, as well as an FBI statement labelling the Anonymous claims false.

“The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs was exposed," a spokeswoman told FoxNews.com. "At this time, there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data.”


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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:49:00 -0700 YouTube Releases New iPhone Application http://bravapos.posterous.com/youtube-releases-new-iphone-application http://bravapos.posterous.com/youtube-releases-new-iphone-application

(CNN) -- The retro, rounded TV icon was one of the first to grace the iPhone's screen when the device was released in 2007. Now, for the first time, new iPhones will no longer include the YouTube app by default. But YouTube has already whipped up a replacement.

On Tuesday, YouTube released its own app for the iPhone. The release comes just one month after Apple publicly confirmed it would no longer include the popular video-site's app on the upcoming version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6.

Being a pre-installed, native app on iPhones and iPads has given YouTube instant access to a fast-growing segment of users -- YouTube gets 1 billion mobile views each day across all platforms, and mobile now makes up 25% of all YouTube views.

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But the deal with Apple has not been without its drawbacks. Because the app was built by Apple and baked into the iOS mobile operating system, YouTube had limited control over what it could change and control in the app. Perhaps most importantly, it couldn't show videos with ads because Apple didn't allow it.

This new app gives control back to YouTube, but at a cost. To avoid hemorrhaging iPhone users who upgrade to iOS 6, or who buy a new phone with the new operating system pre-installed, the company must convince iPhone owners to stick with YouTube either by downloading the new app or visiting the mobile version of YouTube.com.

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When the news of Apple dropping the YouTube app came out in August, it was seen as the latest sign of strife between Apple and Google, which owns YouTube. In June, Apple announced it would no longer use Google Maps to power the iPhone and iPad's Maps app, and Apple has been taking on makers of Android-powered smartphones in courts around the world over patent disputes. The removal of YouTube was considered the latest attempt by Apple to extricate itself from Google's products and services.

YouTube is playing down the adversarial plot line.

"Apple and us have been working very closely on this one," Andrey Doronichev, YouTube's lead mobile product manager, told CNN. "[This] was the right thing to do from both companies' standpoint. User experience is so much better."

The news wasn't a complete surprise to YouTube -- Doronichev said his team spent "months" working on the app, which means they began before the split became public.

Doronichev gave us a tour of the app, which is available for free in the App Store as of Tuesday. The app can be downloaded on iPhones running iOS 4.3 or later.

Visually, the new interface is vast improvement over the old version, which had begun to look dated after years of minimal updates. The design has been overhauled and now looks much more like the Android YouTube app, with a hidden navigation panel on the left and a number of new discovery and sharing options.

Thanks to the unblocking of videos with ads, the new app has access to "tens of thousands" of videos that weren't available in the old app, such as official music videos.

The search tool has features familiar to users of other Google iOS apps, including auto-suggestions and voice searches. The app is more than just a repackaged take on the mobile site, and has features not possible on that HTML 5 version of YouTube, including overlays that can be used to show close captioned videos.

The most welcome new feature for multi-taskers is in-page playback. You can continuously watch a video in vertical orientation while reading the video description, leaving comments, giving the video a thumbs up or down, and checking out a list of suggested videos. The video even keeps playing when you bring up the navigation menu.

The YouTube team hopes these improvements will push iPhone users to do something they haven't had to do before for YouTube: download the app from Apple's App Store.

The separation with Apple may decrease the number of iPhone users for a time, but it has made a vastly improved YouTube app possible. And because it is now offered through the app store, the company can continue to offer updates and roll out new features at a much faster pace.

The announcement comes just one day before a much-anticipated Apple press conference, at which that company is expected to unveil its latest iPhone.

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:47:00 -0700 GoDaddy Goes Down; Takes Millions of Users With It http://bravapos.posterous.com/godaddy-goes-down-takes-millions-of-users-wit http://bravapos.posterous.com/godaddy-goes-down-takes-millions-of-users-wit

GoDaddy, a Web-hosting and domain-registration company, said services have been restored for most of its customers after widespread outages on Monday.

"At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised," the company said in an announcement on its website.

The outages of hosted sites started around 1 p.m. ET on Monday, but GoDaddy was still in operation then. But by late afternoon, the company closed its website.

Twitter accounts believed associated with hacking group Anonymous claimed responsibility. GoDaddy.com says the web hosting outage was due to internal problems, not an attack by hackers.

GoDaddy, which hosts more than 5 million sites, has been a subject of hackers' ire because it publicly supported federal anti-piracy legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.

Several prominent opponents of the measure argued that the bill would stifle innovation and removed their domains from GoDaddy. "By using/supporting GoDaddy, you are supporting censorship of the Internet," read a message posted Monday by a Twitter account believed to be affiliated with Anonymous.

Kenneth Borg, who works in a Long Beach screen-printing business, told the Associated Press on Monday that FresnoDogPrints.com and two other sites were down. "We run our entire business through websites and e-mails, so everything's down today," Borg said.

"I'm definitely one for upsetting the establishment in some cases, and I understand that if (the hacker is) going after GoDaddy, he may have had many reasons for doing that," Borg said. "But I don't think he realized that he was affecting so many small businesses."

Contributing: Julia Ryan; The Associated Press

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:42:00 -0700 GoDaddy Sites Hacked, Disrupts Millions of Users http://bravapos.posterous.com/godaddy-sites-hacked-disrupts-millions-of-use http://bravapos.posterous.com/godaddy-sites-hacked-disrupts-millions-of-use

GoDaddy, a Web-hosting and domain-registration company, said services have been restored for most of its customers after widespread outages on Monday.

"At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised," the company said in an announcement on its website.

The outages of hosted sites started around 1 p.m. ET on Monday, but GoDaddy was still in operation then. But by late afternoon, the company closed its website.

Twitter accounts believed associated with hacking group Anonymous claimed responsibility. GoDaddy.com says the web hosting outage was due to internal problems, not an attack by hackers.

GoDaddy, which hosts more than 5 million sites, has been a subject of hackers' ire because it publicly supported federal anti-piracy legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.

Several prominent opponents of the measure argued that the bill would stifle innovation and removed their domains from GoDaddy. "By using/supporting GoDaddy, you are supporting censorship of the Internet," read a message posted Monday by a Twitter account believed to be affiliated with Anonymous.

Kenneth Borg, who works in a Long Beach screen-printing business, told the Associated Press on Monday that FresnoDogPrints.com and two other sites were down. "We run our entire business through websites and e-mails, so everything's down today," Borg said.

"I'm definitely one for upsetting the establishment in some cases, and I understand that if (the hacker is) going after GoDaddy, he may have had many reasons for doing that," Borg said. "But I don't think he realized that he was affecting so many small businesses."

Contributing: Julia Ryan; The Associated Press

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