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JohnyTuga said:

I believe that Apple would have a lot to gain if they buy TikTok

Apple wont touch social media or user generated content in general with a ten foot pole.

You have to go ALL the way back to 1994's short lived eWorld for an example.

Even Apple Maps business reviews are outsourced to Yelp.

Social media companies have armies of people making sure you don't see cats in blenders and human decap tiations and even worse

Its not in Apple's DNA

I don't have any use for AI and hope its presence as a feature doesn't infect everything the way "content" has infected maps and "smart features" has infected photos. I want my apps and OS minimal, functional and linear and I want my privacy maximized. But hey that's just me.

I don't need another screen in my life, but I do need a lamp and a projector. Love.

"Blah blah blah nvidia AI". They're toast.

lowededwookie said:

Even art galleries rotate pieces to remain fresh and vibrant.

That means pieces once popular may not remain so and thus get pulled out.

The developer is just lazy and expectant of people stumbling on their title and giving them money. The problem is that most users would look at when it was last updated and decide not to download.

I know I do.

Better analogy - Imagine there was only one officially sanctioned art gallery in the entire world. And the art they sold could only be installed on a certain type of wall sold and controlled by the art gallery - unless the government intervened at great expense to the public. And this art gallery threatened to pull works from sale unless the artist updated their painting every seven years to be compatible with an arbitrary built-in obsolescence of the old walls. The moral of the story is... analogies are stupid. The artist and Apple are at cross-purposes and both have valid points. But Apple has the power and the artist is "being difficult".

Funny story, I wasn't going to order an iphone 7 until it was available to be shipped the same day. By the time I could do that, I didn't care about getting a 7 any more.

Bring on the 8.

canukstorm said:

Good thing Henry Ford didn't listen to what loyal horse & carriage owners wanted.

Oh stop. Apple's current lineup looks like carriages which is the whole point.