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Fraudbook has done more societal damage (that continues) than any of Apple's actions in China. 

boltsfan17 said:

CBP does have the right to search someone's property if they are entering the country. They don't need a reason. Fourth Amendment protections don't apply at ports of entry. It's like that with pretty much any border services agency in any country. They have the right to search someone's property when you enter a country. 

And when it happens to you, you'll be screaming four shades of holy hell. So much for the country of "don't tread on me."

And sooo many bureaucratic little Eichmanns in the CBP. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

If this were the only shortcoming of the new iPads there would be reason to get upset. As it stands, Apple's walled garden has shut out the iPad Pro from the pro market. iOS is seen as a toy operating system. It makes it impossible to do so many things that pros need to do like manage thousands of files or compile code or manage a network or ...

Oh, this *never* gets boring to hear, even after 8 long years.

What bullshit.

This is not "tax reform" on any level. This is a payday loan that YOU PEOPLE will need to pay back at 110% interest. Apple's effective tax rate is close to zero now and none of that is coming your way: you will not see an iMac Pro now starting at $1599 and $299 iPhones. Oh, and by the way: with the last two big tax cuts in the 80s and Bush, wages went NOWHERE. They did not rise. Hell, you all got a bigger tax cut in 2009 to offset the Great Recession, though most people, especially phony libertarian techie boyz don't believe they got one. Can't wait to for the parsing of paychecks in February to find that average $18.

I look forward to the furrowed brows of Americans in a vain attempt to understand things when they start filing their 2018 taxes next year. You people have been ripped off.

Good times.

To be more accurate, you mean 81% of their *parents* will be buying them iPhones. Teens don't have their own money. 

ElCapitan said:

Dismantling the ecosystem stone by stone. - The legacy of Timmy. 

An eye-rolling comment if there ever was one. Congrats.

@jdw "I want to be wowed by Apple again. I don't want to be strung along playing the waiting game and then get let-down when it finally comes out because it's not so much better than anything else out there."

No, what you want is something entirely custom-made for *you*, which would be fine except you're conflating that with what everybody else wants. Techie boyz consider themselves to be 99% of the market, and therefore, anything that is not to their taste is either boring or a failure, as if what goes inside these updated phone is thoroughly incomparable to what they imagine a phone needs to look like.

You're not going to be satisfied at all.

The comparison to Apple Music is faulty because Apple actually *likes* music and has made it an important component going all the way back the original iPod. News? Not so much.

Apple is a dilettante when it comes to news. It's just not that invested in sticking with it, but rather making great noises every six months or so to give the appearance of treating news like it does music. The original Newsstand was good that failed because Apple didn't care about it too much and it withered on the vine. Then we were all supposed to be wowed by Apple News which is just a big RSS feed whose biggest selling point was "how beautiful it looked." If you have an Apple News channel, you still need to use a browser to upload stories. There is no native app on macOS or iOS. Hell, you can't even *schedule* a story being posted. 

News outlets are right to be wary. Tech companies and news have proven to be oil and water, as you have a generation of young know-nothings who sneer at journalism and print media but insist they have the answer to save both (a topic that is now over a decade old with no end in sight.) And it seems to be eluding people (particularly techie boyz) that journalism is not only hard, but takes resources and goes far beyond mere political punditry. 

Otherwise, I'm fairly indifferent to Apple News. 

Ha, ha, ha, ha. This could have been seen from miles away when it was first announced. 

So says one of the companies that helped wreck the US economy. It's always a good idea to take financial advice from that crowd.