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neilm said:

Good thing Apple has never hired anyone from a competitor or supplier, and then tried to entice that person's erstwhile colleagues to follow.

/s
(In case your sarcasm detectors aren't yet fired up this Monday morning.)

It would help if you took the effort to actually read the article. This guy allegedly not only created his company while still working at Apple (that would be OK), but did so while utilizing Apple's time and resources. That is a breach of his employment obligations.

bonobob said:

tundraboy said:

It's not as if Apple is immune from a competitor imitating their unpatentable technology and making tons of money from it.  Cough, Microsoft Windows, cough.

Apple’s biggest sherlock of all time is when they copied their windowed gui from, cough, Xerox PARC

That analogy is flawed. Apple paid Xerox to look around for ideas.

Plus Xerox’s GUI was running on a huge mainframe. Apple had to design the Mac from the ground up to work on 128 K machine. It was an engineering feat at the time.

blackfrog said:

Left AT&T for T-Mobile in Jan, because time after time, since 1998, AT&T treated me badly. 

But now, despite living in T-Mobile's best coverage zone, calls break up, and sometime drop. 

Looking into alternatives now. Back to AT&T I suppose.

T-Mobile, you've got the right attitude, but without decent service, you've got nothing. 

With all due respect, I live in Michigan. I've been with T-Mobile eight years. I've dropped calls maybe five times. Three of the times was because of a dead zone whereby ATT subscribers lost coverage.

Further, my coverage has improved over the last few years.

i know people have different experiences, but it is hard to believe you live in one of the better coverage areas and drop calls frequently when I hardly ever drop calls and don't live in one of the best coverage areas.

maybe it is the people you are talking to dropping calls.

1983 said:

The increase in SSD performance should be noticeable but the rest - CPU and graphics 20-25% I don't think will be. How come HP can release an ultralight laptop that's a few mm's thinner than the Macbook with a lot more power and Apple can't or won't...afraid to impact rMBP sales maybe?

I'm a Mac guy, but my Office uses HP and Dells. The HP and Dells start having problems within a year. So, personally I could care less what HP does because the quality is not there. 

spliff monkey said:

RickeyP21 said:

Poor Apple. "Only" making $45 million per year for playing someone else's content. However do you stay in business with your over priced laptops and $800 iPhone sales. I know, why don't you screw over music fans everywhere and force them to pay your over priced fees instead of using better products like Spotify!

Free was never the model. Radio Stations, restaurants and bars all pay royalties.




Not not entire true. Traditional radio stations generally do not pay royalties. It depends on what type of media they play. They were exempt under the copyright act. Streaming ones do.  Streaming ones aren't because they weren't around when the original act was passed.