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How the Apple-Goldman Sachs relationship became an unhappy marriage
Early on I had a few issues but it’s been mostly smooth sailing since with Apple Card. I mostly use it for Apple products and Apple Pay online. I use my Chase cards for most things.When I’m Japan I also use it to load onto my virtual Suica card in Apple Pay since Suica doesn’t work with Visa.I wonder if one of the Utah based industrial banks (where a lot of big customers put their specialty concierge financing arms) would work for this?
im pretty sure The other big consumer card companies with rewards cards get a share of the interchange fees. I wonder why GS agreed to a deal not to. (Chase, C1, Citi etc).Apple Card was sure easy to share with my kids in Apple Pay so they could load their Suica virtual cards easily on our last trip to Japan.
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Fatal helicopter crash likely caused by dropped iPad
The headline is 100% correct. Nothing in the headline implies that it was a failure of an Apple product. The headline couldn’t have been simpler and more correct.AppleZulu said:This is irresponsible reporting. The headline and lede make it seem like this was somehow a failure on the part of the iPad itself. It was not.
Read on, and you'll understand that the issue was that, once dropped, the iPad became a wedged-in obstruction to flight control mechanisms. The same would've been the case if the dropped item had been a Microsoft Surface, or a paper notebook in a rigid binder. There is no fault in the hardware design or software operation of the iPad itself.I’m as Rah Rah for Apple as the next guy but this sort of comment is funny and ridiculous at the same time. Of course it could have been a MS Surface or a book or binder. And the headline would have been “Fatal Helicopter Crash Likely Caused by Dropped Book”. No one would think that the content or color of the book would have been related to the crash. Why would you think a software error on a dropped iPad was the cause here? It plainly states that the fact the iPad was dropped was a cause.
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Apple is letting Tesla skip millions of dollars in App Store fees
So, I do t have a Tesla. So can’t see for myself. But is this feature one that you buy through in-app purchase? If not then no, Apple is not overlooking fees.(I know others have brought this up).
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Mac Pro M2 review - Maybe a true modular Mac will come in a few more years
The previous Intel Mac Pro used the “shredder” design that the new AS Mac Pro does. Not sure why you're bringing ancient devices into this.atonaldenim said:Great review Mike. I’d be curious to see where the top 28-core Xeon in the Mac Pro 7,1 would land on the benchmark charts. A lot of people are just showing benchmarks against other Apple Silicon Macs, but comparing the new Mac Pro against the previous Mac Pro is definitely the most relevant metric for someone thinking of upgrading!
Also, you said they used the same cheese grater design, but I’d have to differ. The old tower design was the cheese grater, the new design is the shredder!
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Zuckerberg's Apple Vision Pro hot take just gave him a Ballmer iPhone moment
Meta may have sold “millions” of a Quest headsets but they certainly aren’t mostly being used in the Metaverse (by Meta) as by all accounts that has very very low uptake and use. And by many a counts Meta had
moved on to AI and not really doing much with the Metaverse now as their main focus.No one wants to interact with people through a headset. I’m not sure what problem VP solves either (for the average guy — lots of vertical markets and nerd uses and entertainment sessions for the rich, currently) but the VP at least has a way forward for being useful.I’d guess that most of those Quest are sitting there on peoples’ shelves or being used for gaming (I assume that is possible — that it is not only for the Metaverse — I’ve never been interested enough to look).
