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lorin schultz said: So the CRTC is jumping on the consumer side of the bandwagon and the Competition Bureau made sure Apple wasn't screwing anyone, and yet there is still no rule that prevents carriers from taking control of our equipment. St…
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This was only ever an attempt by our big 3 carriers to distract from their own sky high prices. Our big 3 have amongst the highest rates in the world and the highest margins in the world. They file a complaint with the bureau and presto the public c…
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anantksundaram said: tulkas said: boredumb said: Conversely, when I purchased my 7plus a few days ago in Santa Barbara, CA, I not only didn't get anything free, they wouldn't even let me use ApplePay to purchase it! I feel sligh…
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boredumb said: Conversely, when I purchased my 7plus a few days ago in Santa Barbara, CA, I not only didn't get anything free, they wouldn't even let me use ApplePay to purchase it! I feel slighted... Exactly. When I bought my sim-free 7…
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7:39 PM EST, still not fully resolved. Just picked up my iP7+ and trying to update all my apps in iTunes so I can sync and backup before restoring to new phone. It has been a very painful 1.5 hours trying to get the updates to complete. Some downloa…
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Apple dropped the ball here. Blaming users for a known defect and charging them to fix the defect is going to bite them in the ass. No drops and no abuse required. That is fiction. Yes, a drop could be a catalyst for the problem to show up, but th…
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misa said: Added my main card to Apple Pay. Now I can finally go outside without any cards *cough*wait-a-sec* So just as a warning, as I also jumped on the AMEX Apple Pay originally. The POS systems will sometimes reject and request insertin…
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EsquireCats said: I'm glad that working with Amex has seemingly been a win-win scenario for Apple and Amex. This has effectively forced stagnant banks into moving to the much more secure and private token system. (The bank's only reason not t…
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foggyhill wrote: » Man, someone who has no basis in logic or fact for his argument saying something is irrelevant! Unbelievable! You have some chutzpah buddy. Build your argument on facts or dessist calling someone else's argument irrelevant; si…
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Quote: Originally Posted by foggyhill How is it irrevelant? Their gateway to payment is INTERAC, so you think there was not ALREADY an agreement within that organistion which they founded, develloped (put their money out to build) and lets fa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by foggyhill The "cartel" existed before, its called Interac and it's been around for at least 10 years, probably 25 years. That means that once this goes through, Canada will instantaneously become the country were …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maury Markowitz Well it's about time! I suspect CIBC/PCF will be forced to follow suit shortly. When one does, they all will. That was pretty much the purpose of the banks forming a cartel whose sole purpose wa…
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Wife: "see, I told you it was over faster than you said"
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cy_starkman wrote: » so it's time to make a BT connected water bottle with that measures usage times and volume. or perhaps hmmm.. perhaps something much more dainty https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582920317/hidrateme-smart-water-bottle
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy 6 digits will now be the minimum required if you have TouchID and iOS 9+. Up to now a four-digit passcode was acceptable but you could of course use more as you have. Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan I'm sure some Jobs sycophants are upset over iOS getting anything close to a file system. Nah. They'll remember that Jobs tried to buy Dropbox and recognize that this is just an extension of that game pla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy You don't seem nearly as bothered by Facebook doing just what you erroneously thought Google was doing. You "guess they could update their docs"? That's it? Then why sound so up in arms over Google then? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Since you mention them it does look like Facebook, at least based on their Advertising Policies page updated in April, does allow much of what Google doesn't in the way of sensitive data use and collection…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy So your belief they do is more of a gut feeling than anything? Fair enough. Impossible to prove otherwise I suppose. Based more on their past behavior, what they've been caught doing before and how they m…
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gatorguy wrote: » Google says they don't allow "sensitive" data to even be collected, much less used for ad targeting. What made you believe they did? That's great that they say they don't allow that data to be collected. That doesn't mean they…