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More power to them. Why should they do things to increase their expenses and decrease their return to investors! I congratulate them on avoiding taxes as any sane and lawful citizen or company should do. If the senators and others are concerned, te…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee I think you're missing the point. People have stated recently they doubt Intel would fab processors for Apple. But clearly they were thinking of becoming a partner with Apple …
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The difference is that when government makes abusive decisions, there is little accountability. By the way, who makes the decision of what is "for the greater good?" Governments? In my experience, governments rarely make decisions base…
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I was raised in France in the mid fifties to mid sixties returning to the US to complete my college work. Moving from Brownsville Texas to France was like walking back in time 100 years. What I found there was a great culture -- but a population wo…
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Had a few problems with CardDav and CalDav caused by multiple local hosts that could only be corrected with Terminal commands. But it now works and connects with the onboard server as designed. This happened after a fresh install of Mountain Lion.…
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When reviewing the settings for messages, it appears that the iPhone with iOS version 5.1.1 defaults to iMessage if possible and only uses SMS when iMessage is unavailable. So iMessage is the preferred messaging system with 5.1.1. I'd just l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton There's a breed of anti-Apple folks out there like tool who believe Apple is just better at marketing somebody else's innovations in shiny aluminum boxes, and therefore, are not deserving of all the att…
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Quote: Originally Posted by morgajx I think Apple and companies like then have a brass neck trying to avoid taxation. They have more money than they know what to do with yet helping the US and its citizens is not on the agenda. As long as the wal…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio But, the thing is, a company has absolutely no obligation to act in the best interest of society. The only incentive is to act in their own best interest. In some cases, this is beneficial to society (e.g. job c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio The big problem here is that, if the US government did this, it would actually create more incentive for companies to move operations away from the US. Think about it: move operations to a country with very lo…
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No individual, company owner or company owes the government anything out of patriotic duty. Businesses exit to innovate and market products and services that people want badly enough to pay for them. If businesses are allowed to do what they do b…
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We gave up on Quickbooks Pro and Quicken in our small business about 10 years ago and switched to MYOB. It was clear then, and made more clear every year that they dabble with Mac software development. We don't see this developer ever developing sof…
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Quote: Originally Posted by peppermonkey Err...we didn't think MS was evil because they were ripping off everyones ideas, we thought they were evil because of the ways they used their monopoly to kill off all competition. Which isn't the same as …
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The iPad and iPhone clearly created new categories that revolutionized the form factors and functions of the laptop and mobile phone. But once the innovator shows the way, the whole world creates look alikes with little protection for the creator. …
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Apple is on a roll and nothing will stop them from providing what people really want. Samsung just can't figure out how to stop the juggernaut by competing based on innovation. Apple was plugging away for years while everybody ignored Mac users. …