crowley

I don't add "in my opinion" to everything I say because everything I say is my opinion.  I'm not wasting keystrokes on clarifying to pedants what they should already be able to discern.

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  • EU will order Ireland to collect over $1B in back taxes from Apple - report

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    Man, lots of unaffected little people getting butthurt and irate by damage to Apple, a multi billion dollar mega corporation, and making shit up about laws they don't understand.  

    The law was clear, Ireland and Apple violated, and now they have to backpay.  It's really that simple.  They got off lightly; the system is rigged in these cases so that the punishment is always less than the crime, Ireland and Apple's effective tax rate is still appallingly low.

    The EU is sticking around, no matter how many crazy alt-right yanks claim otherwise, and for the most part its laws are good ones.

    Good outcome.  The amount seems a little low, but I haven't done the math and I have no inclination to do so, so I'll trust it.
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  • Proposed bill would ban US states from mandating backdoors in encryption

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    Cotti said:
    Introducing backdoors to secure messenger apps would undermine democracy since you'd never be sure whether you're being spied on; ultimately, it would lead to an orwellian dystopia.
    You never know whether you're being spied on when having all sorts of other kinds of communication. How do you survive in the real world with this kind of paranoia?

  • Apple uses platform dominance to 'lock out' competition, says Elizabeth Warren

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    I like Apples hardware, I like apples software and I like Apple services, but it is a little annoying that they're all prejudiced towards each other, both in price and functionality, whereby Apple's software gets preferential treatment on the hardware, and Apples services get a preferential pricing scheme.  It'd be easier to praise Apples individual products if they operated on a more even play field; even when that field is an Apple platform.

    I'm not sure that I think Apple shouldn't be allowed to do such things on their own platforms and stores, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.