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  • Norwegian banks ally to say that Apple Pay should be opened up

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    This is Apple's product, not the world's. Apple, like any other company, can determine what features they want on THEIR PRODUCTS without being told what they have to include by politicians. Apple can't tell Norway how to run their country why should Norway be able to tell Apple how to design a product?
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  • How Apple & Big Tech gutted New York's right to repair bill

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    badmonk said:
    I find it curious that the farm equipment companies got a pass here as there is a greater need for farmers to get their repairs done in an affordable fashion than millennials and their iPhones.  They are running low margin high risk businesses and the capital outlay of their equipment is astronomical.

    So this speaks even more to the corruption of the process than BigTechs involvement.

    Also I suspect that durability and repairability are inversely related.  Of course screens and batteries may be the exception. If Apple products are unabused they have been the most reliable products I have ever owned and usually I have passed them down to others giving them extended lives before ending up in a landfill.

    It’s the cheap electronics with short half lives that are creating the bulk of unnecessary waste.

    And there are real privacy concerns in opening up anyone to conduct repairs in order to save a few dollars.  Our devices have become our personal dairies.

    I wonder what Hunter Biden thinks about right to repair.
    It depends on which farmers you’re talking about. There’s a ton of money subsidizing farmers while most people get nothing. I’m against right to repair because I already have a right to repair the products I buy. RTR only affects repair companies. If I need to find repair parts I usually can. RTR advocates want the original company to provide parts and tools, which Apple has started to do, to private repair companies and to be honest, I really don’t care to support them. I’ll support Apple authorized service centers but not the repair stands at the malls. 
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  • Apple and Google abuse market dominance, says Japan antitrust regulator

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    Market dominance. All this means is that people actually want to buy a product from this company. Fair Trade? That's a joke. It simply means companies and countries who can't make things want a piece of the pie from companies and countries that can. Sounds a bit like socialism doesn't it. Of course none of these capitalistic countries would admit they need help surviving so they try forcing a great company to let a weak country and companies get something for nothing. 
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  • UnitedHealthcare offers cash for your Apple Watch health data

    rob53rob53
    I'm not trying to make this political but everything is political right now. United HealthCare partners with AARP, which isn't exactly that great of a program for older people. I found an article that discusses their ties adding OptumRx to the trifecta. "Sadly, the AARP has become little more than a marketing scam for its big corporate financial sponsors — UnitedHealth and its wholly-owned OptumRx pharmacy business. Doing so has become quite lucrative: Research shows that in 2017, AARP received $627 million from UnitedHealth." I'm sure many AI commenters, at least older ones, constantly get AARP and United HealthCare junk mail so it doesn't surprise me that this rewards plan is another trojan horse plan grabbing personal information to be sold to the highest bidder.

    Do I trust United HealthCare? Absolutely not. I also got out of AARP years ago once I saw how much garbage they sent me. Are these companies symptomatic of all healthcare? Probably, but I hope not.
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  • Mozilla is also developing a non-WebKit browser for iOS

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    JP234 said:
    Does anyone still use FireFox?
    I do on occasion, especially on a Windows PC. As for Apple being forced to allow non-WebKit browsers I think the various corrupt government entities are pandering to lobbying money too much. This would/will be like running macOS on a Windows PC without any Microsoft software involved. If I remember Microsoft's EULA, that's not allowed. Of course, who cares about anything other than going after Apple.
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