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Editorial: If you can't see a market for the new iPod touch, you aren't looking very hard
Trying to be everything to more people by diversifying. For every person saying "no one wants a cheap warmed over ipod" there is someone saying "I just want something that runs current iOS and isn't a thousand bucks".
If you want to kill your company then do one thing that is easily imitated (no matter how poorly) and hope for the best. Besides, cheap devices for kids get kids used to the Apple ecosystem. Hook em young, like big tobacco did.
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Kwikset Premis Contemporary HomeKit smart lock now available after CES debut
I sure hope Kwikpick, er Kiwkset, tech is better than their mechanical locking mechanism. There is a reason the KW1 lock is what every locksmith learns on, it's by far the simplest lock to pick.
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Citigroup bailed on Apple Card because of worries about profits
Sounds like "fun with words" to me. I use my CC for "basic necessities" because I use my CC for literally everything but my mortgage payment. Then I pay it off in full at the end of the month.lkrupp said:
A recent article states that 25% of Americans are using credit cards for basic necessities. On other words going into debt just to stay alive. In my book that’s called living beyond your means.Metriacanthosaurus said:
Christ those two are just insufferable. WAHHH FAIRNESSS WAHHH.1st said:"Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced new legislation Thursday to cap credit card interest rates at 15%, a move that they said will help protect consumers from the "greed" of the credit card and banking industries."
They should cap interest rates of those dollar mart or similar outfit ads for "20 dollar for 1000l payday loan instead. Barking on the wrong tree IMHO.
The problem with their whole act is there are tons of pathetic people who actually think like this.
How about: Personal Responsibility. GASP! Don't fucking use a credit card and not pay it off assholes!
In no way is that living beyond my means or anything else. It's me getting cashback or miles or whatever card I am on at the time in return for not needing cash on hand. And it's more secure than a debit card if someone skims it. So just looking at a stat about what percent of people are using cards for basic necessities doesn't tell the entire story.
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Apple plays consumer safety card in 'Right to Repair' fight
You couldn't be more wrong. Which part or tool do you need for this years BMW? I can buy it right now and have it in your mailbox by Friday night. Name your part and your address and I'll get it right over.flydog said:
Your analogy is a poor one. First, there is a right to exercise free speech, bear arms, and vote, but there is no “right to repair or modify.”elijahg said:Yeah, no one is going to buy that. If you harm yourself through a phone repair, it's entirely your fault. People have a right to fix and modify their own car, and if they're dumb enough to make a modification that causes them harm that's their own stupid fault. Also unlike with a phone, the risk of their mistake harming or even killing another person is much higher, and yet it's still allowed.
Second, your ability to repair or modify a car is limited by the availability of parts and tools just like it is with Apple products. For example, try buying transmission parts or tools for any BMW manufactured in the past 15 years.
And finally, Apple already permits third parties to repair most Macs and iOS devices.
This is nothing but a a bunch of clowns who decided to lobby for laws to force business to modify their products so those same clowns could repair them.
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AT&T CEO says faster 5G networks will cost more and be capped
AT&T customers say their dollars will go to competitors faster and be capped.
