jdgarvin50

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• Vote with your wallet. I just moved half a dozen prescriptions away from CVS. Not that I won't eventually test the CurrentC app in 2015 with Walmart, but if members of MCX aren't fined for "misbehavior" then many of them might defect on their own.

  in MCX defends CurrentC against Apple Pay controversy, says sensitive customer data is saved in the clo Comment by jdgarvin50 October 2014
• Thanks for the laugh! Keep calling the stock numerologists and their followers out, it's good for everyone concerned. It keeps us focused.

  in Apple stock closes at all time high as company aims for future growth Comment by jdgarvin50 October 2014
• I vote with my wallet! A Best Buy employee recently steered us to the Samsung BD Players when my wife and I were looking recently. When I explained why I wouldn't buy Samsung, he seemed to understand about the SEP issues and Samsung's potential dang…

  in Apple's failure to pay for favorable media coverage flies in the face of Samsung's payola Comment by jdgarvin50 February 2014
• The 'analytics' reporting from the '90's always made me feel uneasy. Their logic was self-consistent, but just didn't "feel right." Now we see that these firms are basically protection rackets acting on behalf of their paying constituents. Great%u20…

  in The curious case of IDC, Gartner & Strategy Analytics' PC, phone & tablet data on Apple Comment by jdgarvin50 November 2013
• Quote: "Only our company and a handful of others [Apple, Google and Amazon] are poised to write the future," he continued. "We're going to think big, we're going to bet big." Not stating the obvious makes it nothing but spin, but in his position, m…

  in In last company meeting, Ballmer calls Apple 'fashionable,' says Microsoft about 'doing more' Comment by jdgarvin50 October 2013
• It's funny; I keep reading that Amazon has used the wholesale model to sell ebooks at or below cost. If Amazon were an offshore chip manufacturer using such predatory pricing to "dump" chips in the U. S. market, you can be the DOJ would be siding …

  in Apple and DOJ present closing arguments in e-books antitrust trial Comment by jdgarvin50 June 2013
• I see from the first photo he's been practicing his 'urban glow' in front of a mirror.

  in Rapper's performance at Microsoft Store event cut short after destruction of several PCs Comment by jdgarvin50 October 2012
• Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 So I take it Google will now withdraw the suits Motorola attacked Apple with. F**king hypocrites. NAH! Sounds more like Google is buying Motorola in a mutually beneficial deal alright, but one that also pr…

  in Google CEO: 'Anticompetitive' Apple, Microsoft forced Motorola deal Comment by jdgarvin50 August 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by jdgarvin50 " ... similar to an earlier decision by the company to brand the IEEE 1394 technology as "FireWire." That's the cart before the horse there, my friend. Research confirms my recollection that Apple was usi…

  in Apple, not Intel, filed for Thunderbolt trademark Comment by jdgarvin50 May 2011
• " ... similar to an earlier decision by the company to brand the IEEE 1394 technology as "FireWire." That's the cart before the horse there, my friend. Research confirms my recollection that Apple was using FireWire on their computers years befor…

  in Apple, not Intel, filed for Thunderbolt trademark Comment by jdgarvin50 May 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by alandail why are parents giving their kids a password that is tied to a credit card? You can't sue another company for your having such poor parenting skills. My kids have to come to me to make an app store purchase …

  in Apple hit with class-action suit over iPhone in-app game currency purchases Comment by jdgarvin50 April 2011