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AppleInsider said:

Patent troll alert!

How do you know a company is in desperate trouble? Well, take a look at Nokia, AMD and Qualcomm. After they began losing business, they switched from a focus on serving customers to one oriented around "enforcing patents."

ericthehalfbee said:

Besides thieves who download music/movies, who else uses BT?

Lukesky1444 said:

Huawei apologists are  acting like robo callers.  bigging up Huawei tech as if they invented 5G on their  own R&D effort when in fact they are reliant on ARM, Google, Wifi Alliance, SD Association just like everybody else.  Brazenly they also did a lot of IP theft to get to the top. Now that the jig us up, everyone can point put that the Emperor has no clothes  after all.

Huawei windows drivers acting like malware broke the camel’s back, so to speak. I mean why would a driver file inject code to allow privileged access/backdoor to the Windows process? This  malware-like behavior is how it got detected by the newer Wiindows Defender version 1809. 
“Microsoft’s researchers  then continued to look at the driver and found another flawed capability: it could map any page of physical memory into a user process. with both read and write permissions. With this, the user process can modify the kernel or anything else, and as such it, too, represents a gaping flaw.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/how-microsoft-found-a-huawei-driver-that-opened-systems-up-to-attack/

tbehunin said:

I'm definitely pro-privacy, but this one seems a little different. Given a scenario where there was a US warrant for data extraction, the data center resides in the US, and the company in question (e.g. Google) would normally comply with the court order and hand over the data in in question, I'm struggling to understand how it would be any different when the data center is not in the US. If the data center and it's data is owned by Google, I don't think it matters where the data is physically located, right? Maybe I'm just a fuddy duddy...

ljm828312 said:

I’m not trying to sound like a Debbie downer, but I agree, you can get unlocked iPhone 7’s for that price and not activate them for cellular, just use wi-fi for whatever your personal/business needs are or use them for just your music applications.
all this is, is them just getting rid of their old inventory by combining A-10 from products that either didn’t sell or were refurbished and placing them into these iPod touches that again weren’t popular sellers anymore due to the iPhone, depending on what phone model you bought.
Apple should have just reintroduced these as products for either school or business purposes and only made the 128gb model version available.
32gb of storage is to small and 256 is to much storage for a product that got last refreshed in 2015. 128gb is ideal for those 2 markets.
It would be more than enough if parents bought 1 for their kids for music or home mobile wi-if gaming.
But hey Apple has gotta make up for this product not being a popular seller somehow. Even though it will sell, just not in the masses as the iPhone or iPad.
Because this is where this product is slotted in with.
I’m hoping im wrong and I i hope it does well.
And I hope that Apple releases the figures of the product sold when it comes time for their quarterly earnings, but they will either do 1 of 2 things...
1. Not tell us because it didn’t sell as well,
2. Group the iPod touch in with the iPhone & iPad because they know that it didn’t do well so they added it in with the other 2. 

Spanading_returns said:

I’m getting pretty sick of there type of whining. If “competitors” want a fair playing field they already have it. In short develop your own phone, ecosystem then maybe they can compete. After all I don’t see the EU going after Google to open up Google pay which is a competitor. It’s not like the banks have a monopoly now is it.... oh wait. 

dysamoria said:

“...a built-in battery...”

So, the controller is more disposable electronic trash, that has to be repurchased if you wear out the battery before you’re done with the PlayStation... or is it easily serviced to replace it with some standard battery?

Herbivore2 said:

Apple has sourced their digital cameras for the iPhone from Sony for a number of years. It's time to drop Sony as a component supplier. 

Perhaps Sony is upset with Apple turning to LG Innotek for the iPhone camera. The image sensor, however, is still a Sony product. 

Not much can be done about Nokia as they don't build any iPhone component(s).

3 million is a blip compared to Apple's profits, but the infringement suit would seem pretty lame and without merit unless Apple did steal implementation process from Sony and/or Nokia. It's doubtful that this would be the case and I would expect Apple to prevail. 

mattkelly1983 said:

Our Australian Banks crying Poor again, and are some of the most profitable in the world. 

I too signed up with ANZ so I can take advantage of Apple Pay. I hope the ACCC doesn't fall for this one, but track record to date would suggest otherwise...

cali said:

The iPhoney manufacturers sued Apple?