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applesauce007 said:

seanismorris said:

There’s enough meat to this story to make it seem credible.  The company is definitely not a patent troll.

If everything turns out to be true, it’s not a good look, and it’s more than just a disagreement on patent validity...

It’s full blown IP theft, which I despise.

I think Corephotonics has no case if the Apple patents are valid.
The iPhone 7 came out years ago, so why didn't they sue?  Because they knew that they had no case.
Many of the cell phone cameras have similar technologies but once key features are patented and the patent are valid, that's it.
You can't sue a company for using their own valid patented technologies instead of yours.

gmgravytrain said:

There's no way Apple can ever sell many iPhones in India. Apple doesn't sell $100 smartphones. A used iPhone 4s could be too expensive for most Indian consumers. That's just the way it is. I'm sure Apple must realize this and is merely going through the motions so as not to insult India. India should have allowed Apple to sell refurbished iPhones to consumers but pride seems to be more important than common sense. Both Apple and Indian consumers lose out. Android smartphones have about 98% market share in India. Just unbelievable. That fact alone practically obliterates any chance of Apple gaining global smartphone market share percentage. The Android smartphone manufacturers are laughing hard at Apple in India.

Kuyangkoh said:

avon b7 said:

lkrupp said:

It really boils down to two, Apple and Samsung. The others are totally irrelevant, including Google’s Pixel which isn't even a blip on the sales rankings. So it wouldn’t surprise me to see some bureaucrat decide that government subsidies are needed to keep ‘competition’ alive, or to force iPhone clones into being. 

Well, really it doesn't.

BBK, Honor, Xiaomi and Huawei are far from irrevelant. 

If Apple and Samsung have 99.5% of the profits, where does these far from irrelevant others have? .5% basically?? So how can they survive if they only have .5% of the profits?? I must be out of this world thinking 🤔 

AnotherBrick said:

Over the last few Mac OS updates I have gotten a message about my Canon printer and the fact that it has a 32 bit driver. No link, no name about what you should download, just that the driver will soon cease to work. 

Go to Canon website, find the update drivers, then put in the printer model. It’s a printer/scanner, about 4 years old.  The model is a MG 7520, so select Mac drivers and look for a newer one. Then look at the one already installed. Other than a few digit difference after the decimal point, it’s the same number. Download and install anyway. Next point upgrade for the iMac get the same notification that the driver soon won’t work. 

Do do an online search to see if it’s KNOWN that this printer will not be supported on the new OS. The 7520 series is supposed to be Mojave compatible, per Canons website. 

AppleExposed said:

GeorgeBMac said:

AppleInsider said:

Apple received low marks for customer satisfaction, issue resolution and empathy of store staff to customers and their problems, with 60 percent of respondents calling employees of authorized shops "arrogant," the report said.

"The entire process seemed very transactional and non-personal, which isn't expected from a brand like Apple in the rest of the world," said Tapuriah.

Arrogant:   That has been my impression in at least half of my visits to my local Apple Store.   The "I am right and you are wrong" mentality is very strong -- even when asked why their "facts" differ from those of another Apple employee from the same store!   During one drawn out issue of a defective phone being replaced I received 4 different answer from each of 4 different employees -- and each of them insisted that they and only they were correct.   That's arrogance.  

In fact, in my last visit to that store I thanked the employee for not talking down to me.  That's how common I have found it to be.  (Again, roughly half the time)

(But that is only in the one store that I frequent -- and I have never, ever experienced any arrogance during any online interaction (support or sales).   Not even a shred of arrogance -- quite the opposite actually).

Transactional & Impersonal:   I seldom find this.   But when I do, it is only after being handed off to somebody charged with taking my money after I have decided to buy a product or service.   But, other than that, it is almost always the exact opposite:  Very warm and personal.  

I met an Apple hater from India and he was one of the most arrogant stupid mother**ckers I had ever met. He claimed the Secure Enclave did not secure user data and laughed every time I explained how computer chips worked. I think he thought I was talking about potato chips because he found my knowledge on the subject so funny yet he knew ZERO about chips. Literally nothing about them.

So I can't blame those Apple employees if that's the attitude in India. Plus look up any scammer video on YouTube these people are complete sh**. I'm starting not to like Indians. Has nothing to do with Apple and all to do with attitude.

They also have this weird thing when you beat them in an argument they start making random noises. It's like when a kid says "LALALALA!"