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  • Bumble warns Apple privacy push could hurt business in IPO filing

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    tommikele said:
    flydog said:
    How Bumble manages to lose $100 million a year on an app is anyone's guess, but being able to track people appears to be the least of their problems. 
    No, it is not "anyone's guess." It is extremely easy and quite understandable when you are building a national/international business, especially one that is essentially a marketing operation with no hard product. I am surprised you don't seem to understand startup costs, expansion costs and marketing costs how that can drive losses for young growth operation. That's the message your remarks sends.

    I could be wrong, but I can not find anywhere in the article where it says Bumble lost $100 MM. The reason I can't find it is because it doesn't say that and they didn't lose $100 MM. It doesn't mention any amount of financial losses.

    From what I read, the article is about the effects Apple's new privacy policies could have on their business prospects moving forward.
    The $116 million loss is not mentioned in the article, but, unsurprisingly, it is mentioned in the IPO filing.
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  • Apple now blocking new installs of sideloaded iOS apps on M1 Macs

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    paraeeker said:
    If an M1 Mac can’t run iPad apps, but an iPad can run iPhone apps, that’s Apple being capricious. 

    Arbitrary rules disenfranchise the paying customer. 

    Inadvisable, IMO.

    Not all iPhone apps can be run on an iPad without sideloading.  E.g. try installing Whatsapp on an iPad, downloaded from the App Store.
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  • Atlanta Apple Store shooting arrest, COVID fund theft in the Apple Crime Blotter

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    The Toronto Star reports the government suspects "some or all of" the official, his wife, their two children, and an associate of perpetuating the fraud.

    I'm not sure if it's the same author every time, but I keep seeing "perpetuating" here on Apple Insider when what is really meant is "perpetrating".  I'll leave it to the author(s) to look up what each word actually means (there's a really nice dictionary included with every Mac and iDevice that they can use).
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  • Wristcam is a $299 Apple Watch band with a camera

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    Dick Tracy was no doubt their first customer. 
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  • Lower air quality in China may be the effect of an iPhone 12 production increase

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    Useless click bait article.  There is nothing about the types of pollution, what part of the production cycle causes it, nor why iPhone manufacture would result in such high levels that it can be used to determine production rates. 
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