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macxpress said:

antoniofonseca said:

Perhaps the biggest mistake in Steve's career was this succession process. Unfortunately, it seems, he didn't have time to do anything better.

I think its quite the opposite. Apple is in better hands today than with Steve IMO. You most likely wanted Steve Jobs 2.0 and that's exactly what would have killed Apple. Apple can't sit there and think what would Steve do and survive the rest of the companies life. Tim went in his own direction with Apple, yet still kept to a lot of the values Steve put in place and look where Apple is today. 

As long as Apple avoids the bean counter MBA mentality and the "shareholder value" rat hole they WI do well.  Hold to Steve's belief (my paraphrase) that "don't dwell on making profits. Dwell on solving the customer's problems and delighting the customer, and profits will come."  If Apple can not forget this they'll continue to be successful. 

I'm just glad that Jony I. didn't try and force his way to CEO. 

Well, that strikes a Roomba off the possibilities list for our home we are building.   

Not sure why Simply Mac felt it needed to close stores during the “pandemic”.  Maybe for a month or three but most stores Re-opened around here (ironically SLC area) really quickly.  I took my work MBP into Expercom for warranty repair in summer 2020.  They limited the number of people in the store at once but you could go in and buy or get repairs.  

My wife's Capital One Venture card has a really nice implementation of this.  You can create a virtual card that is tied to a specific merchant anf it is only usable at that merchant.  (It is meant for e-commerce obviously).  It doesn't have a limited length of time (IIRC the expiration date is a couple years in the future) or any of that (which is good).  What it does have is the ability to deactivate and reactivate the number at will.   So almost all the ones I've created get deactivated after use (manual action).  When and if I go back to that site in the future I just reactivate and away I go.  It is also useful for monthly or periodically recurring transactions for memberships or service fees as it is tied to that merchant only.  Those are the only ones that I don't deactivate regularly. 

My Apple Card is used 99% for Apple Pay only so this feature On Apple Card is good but doesn't really affect me. 

I wish Chase would implement the same feature.  I use Chase -- the Capital One is the wife's, though I am an authorized user.  Chase has had to replace multiple cards across multiple accounts in the last 2 years due to leakage and fraudulent use.  

Great feature.