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  • National emergency alert test will affect all U.S. iPhones on Wednesday

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    They were about 2 min early by my phones clock. 


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  • Apple Wallet's Connected Accounts may come to the US

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    I don’t know the details but there have long been intercommunication protocols and APIs in the US for this sort of thing.   My credit unions already let me link external accounts to their online offering so I can get the balances etc of my accounts at other non related credit unions and banks when I log into my main one.  

    Don’t know how it works or how reliable it is but this sort of base functionality already exists. 
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  • EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

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    Speaking out of both sides of his mouth. EU policy doesn’t promote innovation. Just ask Apple.  They innovated and created a vibrant ecosystem and now the EU has said they have to share it with competitors who can’t innovate themselves. 
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  • Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...

    chadbagchadbag
    I’d like to point out that it is not illegal for anyone to write a skit.  Or a TV show.  Or a movie.  There is no law that makes the SAG or the writers union the arbiter on what is legal (or against the law).  

    Writing a skit, TV show, or movie may make you a so-called “scab” or strike breaker or whatever but it is not illegal.  Illegal means it is against the law of the land 
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  • Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...

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    13485 said:
    I'm not sure how promoting their important environmental achievements is considered "virtue signaling" (which is apparently code for "I disagree with whatever that is"). Regardless, you can have the exceedingly dry product pitches that have been the norm since Jobs, or you can have a little creativity mixed in. The skit was OK, and it beats having Tim Cook read the same data in front of the camera.

    We all miss the showmanship of Steve Jobs, and, it must be said, his interaction with the live audience. These canned presentations, very well done though they are, are kind of boring, especially for an incremental product intro. 
    “Virtue signaling” is where you make sure everyone knows what you are doing.  (And use it as a selling point or marketing hook) Instead of letting results speak for themselves.  This is virtue signaling to a degree.  Used to a score points so people will like your product and buy it.  I’m not saying that Apple only does it to score the points.   I’m pretty sure they truly believe in what they are doing.  So it’s not the most egregious form of virtue signaling, where the act itself has been done just to score the points.  
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