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viclauyyc said:

Why sue Apple except for money grab?

Apple was streaming the concert online, the whole idea is so people don’t need to go to the concert. 

Why not sue the bus company because they give people ride to the concert. Or sue Coca-cola as they provide drink?

Part of it is certainly the "deep pockets" principle where plaintiffs will sue parties with the greatest ability to pay damages.

The tricky bit will be to show that Apple (along with the promoter, artist, venue, etc.) is liable, since Apple was streaming the event and could conceivably have paused it at any time for "technical difficulties."

williamlondon said:

narwhal said:

They were smart to bail from Apple, and California employment laws prevent Apple from doing much about it.

Why? And what do California's labor laws have to do with it?

If they had equity in Nuvia then they may have enjoyed a huge buyout payday – probably vastly larger than the regular salary + bonus they'd have received if they'd stayed with Apple. That's likely the primary motivation to form Nuvia in the first place. It's potentially a second payday for staff who were originally part of PA Semi when it was acquired by Apple in 2008.

As I understand it, California law voids non-compete clauses (which Apple and many other companies attempt to use regardless of enforceability) in employment contracts. Anti-poaching arrangements are also illegal.

In addition to its historical significance, it seems like it was not just the only large public theater/auditorium on the De Anza College campus but one of the few (maybe the only one?) in Cupertino, so it is a loss for Apple, the city and the region. At least it is being replaced by a creative arts building for the college, though presumably with a much smaller theater/auditorium space. It's also a shame that Apple doesn't seem to do large, in-person public events anymore.

Apple doesn't seem to be a great steward of its historical legacy. I believe Steve Jobs shut down Apple's own history museum and the collection was given to Stanford, where it is not on display (though Stanford does have some interesting historical exhibits.)  (Probably Jobs was more interested in the future than the past - a past where he had been sidelined before leaving the company; he also closed Apple's library and fired the staff, infamously claiming that Apple engineers should already know everything in it.) The Computer History Museum probably has some Apple artifacts and coverage, and the Apple's visitor center does have some information about the company, but it's too bad that there isn't an Apple-focused museum near the mother ship, cooperating with the company for preservation of history and artifacts as well as scholarship and education.

Locking Instagram inside the Facebook App Store might have some benefits.

Perhaps alternate app stores will be more successful on iOS than they have been on Android.

Absolutely terrible.

Kwikiwi said:

data breeches 

Users might need to put on their security breeches.
 

Looking forward to Steam on Xbox.

I wanted to like my Keychron keyboard but it was just painful to type on. I don't know whether it was the Gateron red switches (though I usually prefer linear and have tried them on other keyboards?), or something related to the key shape or key pitch, but overall it felt awkward and seemed to hurt my hands. The keys and spacebar were also unpleasantly loud and hollow sounding. It's nice looking, but it turned me off on Keychron in general. Hopefully the Q3 HE is much better with its Gateron magnetic switches, but for that price you could get a Topre keyboard.

I wish Apple would get back into the business of making premium "mechanical" keyboards.

Surprised this feature isn't mentioned at: https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/