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Mike Wuerthele said: bluefire1 said: I want to thank the Moderator for refraining from not allowing comments about this article. It has not gone without moderation. After a bad winter and spring, we are again attempting to move the…

in Apple, other tech firms back Harvard in legal battle over race in admissions Comment by knowitall June 2020

dewme said: Apple is on the right side of this argument as qualified by their statement quoted in the article: "In lieu of "workable race-neutral alternatives," the companies wrote, affirmative action was still the best possible option." Wh…

in Apple, other tech firms back Harvard in legal battle over race in admissions Comment by knowitall June 2020

Once again a sign of the times: Apple (and others) pull out of China!

in China ready to retaliate against Apple after U.S. moves to ban chip shipments to Huawei Comment by knowitall May 2020

Adobe cannot be trusted. Code should never run as root, I do not understand why they do that. Installers should use system facilities to get things updated and placed rightly. When installing Adobe products users should be warned by the Mac installe…

in Adobe patches Acrobat Reader security flaw that could allow root access on Mac Comment by knowitall May 2020

GPU is much better on the iPad, as is OS support.

in Compared: Microsoft's Surface Book 3 versus Apple's iPad Pro Comment by knowitall May 2020

headfull0wine said: When Steve first introduced the iPhone, he compared the pricing with the cost of a phone and and iPod. You can buy a laptop and a tablet for the price of the Surface Book 3, but you’d be carrying 2 devices around. You pay …

in Compared: Microsoft's Surface Book 3 versus Apple's iPad Pro Comment by knowitall May 2020

Certainly, yes.

in Compared: Microsoft's Surface Book 3 versus Apple's iPad Pro Comment by knowitall May 2020

apple ][ said: fastasleep said: So you'd have been happier if we plowed ahead full steam and hit the high ends of the mortality projections? A few million dead would be fine, because the economy? Fuck right off. The projections are ga…

in Wedbush raises Apple price target to $350, says Apple is past the 'eye of the storm' Comment by knowitall May 2020

Ok, brace for the rim of the storm then, most ships sink on that (corona second wave could be more deadly than the first, as was the case for the Spanish flu).

in Wedbush raises Apple price target to $350, says Apple is past the 'eye of the storm' Comment by knowitall May 2020

I noticed a one month extra delay receiving goods from Shenzhen. This was due to the fact that it was send by airmail and passenger flights from China were almost non existand (packages mostly piggyback on passenger flights). Huge piles of packages …

in Dire predictions for Apple's supply chain, retail demand were wrong Comment by knowitall May 2020

‘Business leaders’ are typically psychopaths (politically correct I would have used the phrase: morally challenged), quite deranged and mostly inept. In IT they also often belong to a sect (think of WordPerfect). The last boss I had was Aram from A…

in Apple must expand its COVID tracing technology into large scale testing Comment by knowitall May 2020

GG1 said: knowitall said: nicholfd said: knowitall said: It is even possible to print your own fully functional chips, it won't be with a feature size of 5nm, but more than enough to be as powerful as a computer from…