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It's embarrassing for him whether it is true or not. Just keep your trap shut as #1 as there is no need to brag or even discuss it publicly unless a medical doctor has confirmed your self-diagnosis.

I seriously doubt the $30,000 surgical monitors are as good as the Apple Pro Displays as 1/6th the cost. I have worked for some medical/dental practices for the last dozen or so years and they all are fleeced regularly for any number of reasons. The first being they are an easy mark. The next is consolidation has limited the number of vendors though even when there were more the prices were +/- a few percent. New entrants with hardware an essentially crippled because they do not have API access to the software to integrate with the patient management tools. All of the third party instruments have to do extra steps to work. In the case of in mouth dental x-ray devices the choices are $7500 and $10,000 made by the same company that sells the patient management software. The latter integrates perfectly, but the former requires additional steps. One office tried one and stuck it out until it failed but never again. From that point forward it was products made by the same company. 

There are other things like "certified" computers to use with the patient management software. They typically cost about double and are the same Dell's anyone can buy with a massive amount of markup. Doctors/Dentists no nothing about IT other than it has to work and the vendor scare tactics work well.

JP234 said:

Is anyone surprised that people who can work for a psychopathic a-hole are a-holes themselves? The boss a-hole has already crapped out and flushed anyone who isn't his brand of a-holery, and not just in Tesla. He should wind up just like his hero, Nikola Tesla, a con man/hustler with one good idea and a lifetime of bad decisions leaving him alone, friendless, staggering drunk on his own Kool-Aid.

Can you provide us a list of your accomplishments? I will say 100% certainty you have done little to nothing that is even noteworthy whereas Musk, whom you describe psychopathic a-hole, will remembered as one of the greatest leaders in history:

• Tesla: Against all odds he created a successful car company and brought EV's to the masses. No other car company has been able to come close to what he has done and they are established manufacturers with everything to make a car in place. They chose to get passed by a newcomer. I still do not have much hope for Ford or GM and Toyota has mostly sat the quest for EV's out. I am not sure how anyone will catch Teslain the near term as he is years ahead and not letting off of the gas.
• SpaceX: First privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to put a commercial satellite in orbit. First private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft. First private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Has rockets that return to their takeoff spot. Prior to SpaceX Lockheed Martin and Boeing sat on fat, competition free contracts with NASA delivering the status quo, with no hope of every doing what Musk did.
• Starlink: Created a company delivering Internet to numerous area and countries that stood zero change of getting high speed service. The market leader prior to Starlink was Hughes Net which pales in comparison to Starlink even though it is early stage.
• PayPal: Cofounder.
• Add in battery production, work on solar and probably some stuff I cannot think of.

Note that this is more than one good idea. That is four game-changing companies he founded, co-founded or leads. As close to Steve Jobs as anyone has been in a long time. No question his behavior is questionable, but he has gotten results. If you have someone to compare him to please let us all know.

These oppressed people purchased and downloaded the application development kit knowing when they deploy they are going to be charged a fee for doing so. The decision was a part of their business plan whether they knew it or not. No different from the people forming a class action lawsuit against their government for collecting taxes. You know you owe taxes just after you are hired and have to give them your SSN for them to start sending payroll tax. You knew up front so why did you go to work?

I have had it with a nation and world of freeloaders wanting everything for free expect for the fees they charge for their products (in this case apps).

Apple could probably block UK apps and no one would miss them though there probably are one or two that are useful  

"[But the] engineering and depth of engineering in it is mind blowing, you've got more than a 4k experience in each eye," he continued. "And of course, it doesn't come for free."

For reference the human eye has an approximate resolution of 32K.

We are living in a crappy world where innovation can be stolen by the government and then given away. Why create competitive advantages when your competitors can get them for free. Should this happen I hope Apple will allow us to block these other services. I'll accept SMS, but have no interest in getting crap from Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. I do not use these services and anyone who knows me knows my iMessage. Nothing could be worse than getting spam from third party services.

Let's see they...

• Fumbled on the Internet's rise, but recovered with monopolistic moves.
• Tried to go up against the iPod and iPad and failed miserably with a crappy OS.
• Screwed their users with various incompatible music apps.
• Botched Windows Phone repeatably with crappy hardware, with some exceptions, and an ever moving mobile OS that was not backwards compatible.

The only thing that saved them is that Windows and office are the defecto selection in most businesses. There "eat your own dog food" business model failed them multiple times. Thankfully the new CEO got them back on track and opened everything up with significant improvements to their products. Ballmer worked to run them into the ground and was almost successful.

VictorMortimer said:

Apple's 30% is highway robbery.

Once Apple is forced to allow normal software installation on iDevices, I won't care what they charge.  As far as I'm concerned, they can charge 99% on their app store, and I wish they would, it would encourage developers to pull their apps off of it and distribute from their own websites.

But since Apple still doesn't let us install software normally, I'm looking forward to the EU punishing them.

You really have no clue as to how the selling of anything works. With your logic Walmart would not be permitted to apply their overhead costs (taxes, insurance, rent/mortgages, compliance, employees, travel, maintenance, training, etc.) to their items. If Walmart can buy a bike for $50 they should have to sell it for $50, which would at a loss.

Apple will win as the software tools to create an App are not free and $99 is a token amount that assumes they will make money off of the App Store. 

It is safe to assume if Apple added a setting to block 3rd party app stores the vast majority of users would select it. The EU is catering to a bunch of grifters with Spotify being the largest. Were I Apple I would drop the price of Apple Music to $0 and choke Spotify out of business.

"Apple predicts to launch a 7- to 8-inch foldable iPhone in 2026," Min-soo said.

Apple did not predict anything or make any statement related to a foldable phone.

What did happen is Min-soo made this up out of thin air.

The first salvo should be giving away Apple Music for free or for a trivial amount to crush Spotify. The EU's problems is it cannot create any of its own products that people want and they are probably still holding a grudge against Apple for the implosion of Nokia.