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Editorial: How AirPods and Shortcuts shifted Apple's Siri story and blunted Amazon's Alexa...
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April Fools: get ready for the worst jokes in the tech industry
andrewj5790 said:sfolax said:"April Fools" then continues to post links to his own previous articles. DED, you need to relax a little and stop being so defensive on everything.
Look at his first "Truth"
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/24/editorial-bloomberg-spins-apples-event-as-a-desperate-blind-stab-for-cheap-ipads-in-education
Second to last paragraph:
"But of all the things Apple can outline in its education event, "new low-cost iPads" are the least likely to appear. Apple's historical move against cheap commodity has been to release a new leap in functional technology that makes its products more valuable at the same price point. The most obvious step is suggested by the calligraphy of the event's invite, which looks as if drawn by an Apple Pencil."
So what did Apple do? Release a new low cost iPad.
In fact even AI did an article about the lower price for students - https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/27/apple-offers-new-ipad-to-schools-and-education-customers-at-discounted-299
I can pull out many other examples where his arguments fell flat. Unfortunately No. One. Else. Is. Calling. Out. The. Hypocrisy.
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Editorial: Reporting about the MacBook Pro is failing at a faster rate than the butterfly ...
I laughed so hard reading this. I'm sure DED gets paid by the word hence everything is as long and windy as possible. lol.
"MacBook users have clearly been inconvenienced by keyboard issues for those repair programs to exist, and AppleInsider has long maintained that Apple must address keyboard issues buyers have experienced, and continue to improve upon its polarizing keyboard design."
So there is a keyboard problem?
"Some publications even appear to have been working to create a mythology that recent MacBook keyboards were almost maliciously broken by design, with the only solution being an entirely new keyboard that magically never has any problems-- something they can claim Apple is withholding from its users due to some bizarre imagined mix of incompetence, sloth, and arrogance."
What other laptops today have sticky keys? Or is this something magical that only Apple can do?
"There isn't data showing the MacBook keyboard is "broken.""
Besides the newly introduced keyboard program?
Thanks again for the laughs DED! Please keep these articles coming! -
Apple plasters privacy ad on billboard near Las Vegas Convention Center ahead of CES
ericthehalfbee said:That is a brilliant ad, and a great play on the Vegas slogan. No doubt this is going to piss off a lot of people.
There are many people that take photos while doing naughty things, only to have it pop up on the Apple TV screen saver at home a few seconds later. -
After Cambridge Analytica scandal, publishers see Apple News as a solid alternative to bei...
Stopped reading at the first sentence, factually wrong as can always expect from a DED piece.
The data was not obtained without permission
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/18/facebook_confirms_cambridge_analytica_stole_its_data_its_a_plot_claims_former_director/“Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,” the statement reads.
The kicker’s in the last bit of that. Unless users had their Facebook privacy settings locked down the app slurped not only the 270,000 consenting users but all their friends as well - over 50 million people according to Christopher Wylie, a former researcher director at CA, who had a copy of the data set.
Facebook is peeved that the data was collected under an academic license and then sold commercially.
If they had a commercial license, nothing would have been said about this.
Lastly, why don't you care about this as well - https://www.rt.com/usa/421808-obama-facebook-mine-data/
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Editorial: Bloomberg spins Apple's Event as a desperate, blind stab for cheap iPads in edu...
This "Editorial" is quite defensive over rumoured devices that haven't even been announced yet. Can't you just wait until they announced and then start defending?
Also, these are just electronic devices. Imagine going back 10 years and reading the equivalent of these articles about Blackberries. How embarrassing for the writers.
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Editorial: At WWDC19, Apple charts the future of private, premium tech - alone
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Editorial: Why is privacy-minded Apple putting its new TV app on smart TVs notorious for s...
corrections said:gatorguy said:Latko said:
The whole "you're being sold" conversation as it concerns Apple specifically (and Google too) is in general a FUD campaign.
There really are companies out there selling the real you, personal details and all: Credit bureaus who sell more than a credit rating, insurance brokerages who sell claims histories and specifics of home, auto, boat, or whatever else you have of insurable value, state licensing agencies who sell driving records and ownership registrations among other stuff, even the principle CC licensing agencies like Visa and Mastercard who sell personal purchase histories. Oh and don't forget your bank, brokerage and pharmacy and until at least the past few weeks your cell carrier. EVERYONE seems to be in on it.
Worries about an ad placement seem kind of petty don't they?
Companies that collect data, the way Google collects your Google Home mic recordings, Nest videos, and other data, routinely lose it, hand it over to police--in ways that innocent users have lost their jobs over--and mistakenly leave it open for hackers to access.
You keep blatantly lying about Google and pretend that Apple is doing the exact same things. There must be a reason why you spend so much time fabricating totally false claims about Google. Can you lay out for us your business model, who you are, who you work for, and who pays you to sit on AppleInsider posting totally false information all of the time? Because it seems to be your full-time job.
Google is the default search provider on Apple devices, so how's that helping the Apple privacy stance? -
Weezer headlines WWDC 19's Thursday night Bash
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Editorial: The big loser in the Apple - Qualcomm settlement isn't Intel, it's Android