svanstrom

The issue is presented in a simplified form here.

First of all it wouldn’t be one building replacing another building; there would be changes to the surrounding open park area.

Secondly, replacing a food business with a business selling tech hardware could easily be argued to further limit the availability of space for people to just relax and enjoy the open park area.

The truth is that I favor the plan, but tbh it’s only because it’s Apple… It’s all due to me liking the brand and style; and I’m not sure if that should be enough to like these plans. 

rob53 said:

It's her phone. She can do anything she wants with it. How can this be evidence tampering when the 5th amendment protects you? I don't condone illegal things but she has every right to protect her personal things. When a criminal wipes their fingerprints from a crime scene is that tampering with evidence?

I'm sure this will be used by government officials to demand that Apple disable this privacy and security feature. 

It’s her phone, but in the custody of the police, that are using it as evidence in an ongoing investigation; which in layman’s terms can best be described as it being the Police’s phone.

You can’t just demand that the police stop using your stuff as evidence, or demand access to it to wipe your fingerprints off it.

Deleting data currently being used by the police as evidence in an ongoing investigation is a no-no.

Isn’t that like saying that the iPhone gps caught a car speeding while the more advanced police radar couldn’t do that when the car later on was parked…?

Never would have guessed that I’d go from long term Apple fanboy to phasing out Apple products due to them sucking up to China and Russia. Crazy times. 

cincytee said:

From a historical perspective, the mainland's attitude and official position are completely understandable, but I've always thought that talks about peaceful reunification would actually be far easier if they started from the acknowledgement that there are, in effect, two independent countries in play here. Is anyone remotely surprised that telling Taiwan that it's just a rebellious province that needs to come in from the cold hasn't been very helpful?

From a historical perspective… we're essentially talking about a country that at most could be said to be 70 years old (based on the Kuomintang fleeing to Taipei in 1949). (Even being generous modern day China must be said to be no more than 108 years old; which is if one were to pinpoint it to the Xinhai revolution back in 1911-ish.)

Modern day China's claims to regions isn't even based on their traditional lands as much as them wanting all lands that any previous dynasty controlled.

For instance there's Tibet, which historically speaking has been an area inhabited not by Han people, but by Tibetans, Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, Sherpa, and Lhoba… But being a smaller weaker region they've either been controlled by the Han or the Mongols.

As far as Taiwan… that's essentially a region that the "new China" (in this meaning essentially referring to the Chinese Communist Party) failed to occupy and control as they came to power. Meaning that the modern day China/the Chinese Communist Party never has ruled over Taiwan; as Taiwan is the last remnants of the Republic of China (which basically started with the Xinhai revolution, and ended when the communists took control).

So… is it really reasonable to accept the current mainland Chinese political rulers "historical" claims to all the regions that they say currently belong to them?

Fritzw57 said:

Sounds like someone’s palm isn’t getting greased to me... and Denmark isn’t exactly awash in high tech either. 

Just my $0.02

Sorry, that withdrawal got denied when you started flexing your extensive knowledge of what’s happening in Sweden by talking about Denmark.

Back to geography school you go…

"Oh, so your nice phone has new functionality that you like?! Well, we just innovated how to block that until you pay us to get it back."
    – The 'Do No Evil'-people.

exceptionhandler said:

We’ll see... they’ll get to be 15-20 lbs non overweight.  My wife already has put largish “bling” pendants on them and they don’t mind.

Just fair warning… I had one of those small address tubes on a collar that was meant to be quick release (meant to open if it's caught on something, so that they cat doesn't get strangled); and the tube did get caught on something, and the collar didn't release. I was lucky that it happened at home, and while I was at home; otherwise it would have been fatal. Ever since them I've been very very careful when it comes to collars.

georgie01 said:

roake said:

Are the executives all millennials or something?

I don’t get how they feel entitled to be exempted from the rules.

“There is never in a million years a way that I am paying Apple a third of our revenues,” seems to translate to, “There is never in a million years a way that I am letting Apple Pay us all the money we would earn from having the App available for iOS.”

The sense of entitlement is embarrassing for Basecamp. ‘Hey Apple, we demand you let us use your development tools and app distribution which provides security and quality for users of your platform and which has made many developers a ton of money, but I don’t want to pay you for it because I deserve to use your services for free’.

It reminds me of a certain political group which seems to have no meaningful understanding of where money comes from, who think the government just ’has’ it. They do not realise that the people who are actually creating opportunities for themselves and others to make the money need incentives to do that.

Exactly. Incentives like future staff with an education, good health, easily can travel to work, can focus on doing a good job because good childcare being available. You know, a good functioning society providing the stability needed for creative ideas to grow into great businesses.

canukstorm said:

jaswanthtutorials said:

Apple AirPods Max is Expensive. Its costs around 60k in India 

I've never seen so much controversy around the price of an Apple product since the $349 HomePod.  Many other brands have been making $500+ headphones for a lot longer than Apple and I don't recall anyone taking issue with that.  And some of those models from competing brands are less feature-rich than the APM.  But for some reason all hell breaks loose when Apple makes a $549 pair of headphones.

The criticism is valid, but not in the form that it took…

Apple has taken/created a very weird "niche" market with their products; the products are both luxuriously priced, and mainstream targeting average people. It's pretty much a market that shouldn't be able to exist; and without context makes as much sense as doing a startup selling luxury jewellery specifically to people that can't afford food.

Apple should have been outcompeted ages ago.

The outcry about OE headphones priced like these is simply because the target market would have to be absolutely crazy to waste this much money on headphones; it's a price range that they've never ever have even considered before. It makes as much sense as going straight from a cheap rust bucket to a Ferrari for grocery shopping and getting your kids to school.

People should have just seen these headphones, shaken their heads and muttered a few things about "rich people"; and then have moved on with their lives.

But… it's Apple.

It's Apple, and it's a product priced at a range that's been normalised by iPhones; and it's a product that comparatively speaking shows a great deal of status at a fairly low cost, while providing a continuing (new) functionality.

People should have been outraged at Apple for being disrespectful to their target market by creating products that are clearly priced so that the target market actually can't afford them.

Yet, because it's Apple the criticism has taken this weird form of people fundamentally accepting the situation; and are simply upset with the novelty of headphones existing in this price range.

And… since it's Apple… give it a couple of months for the mainstream to have tried these, and Apple have somehow just f*cking managed to normalise that everyone should spend up to a months rent on a pair of OE headphones.

(I can't decide if I should be impressed, or head out into the streets protesting the destructive evils of capitalism.)