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If guarantees are in the contract, they're in the contract. If they're not, nothing will happen. I'm confident Apple would not try to avoid a clear contractual provision, if there is one. It is a little weird that the story has leaked. Perhaps another term in the contract makes interpretation more complicated than it would appear based on what little we know, if in fact we can be said to know anything at all. 

SpamSandwich said:

Re: “Bad” Robocalls... they don’t think their political ads are “bad,” so naturally they will exclude their own interests and continue to harass voters in that way.

I get about 500 calls from "the Social Security Administration" or "your financial institution" for every one from a politician, even though I live in Iowa, so I'm more than happy to take the bill with that exception if that's what's on offer. 

1. Is the keyboard a problem? Lots of people think so, and Apple has apologized and offered remedies for three generations now. 

2. Does the media pay disproportionate attention to Apple's problems? They probably pay more attention to Apple's problems than to those of other companies, but Apple is by many measures the most successful consumer electronics company ever.*

3. Does the media pay disproportionate attention to Apple's problems? They probably do, but a disproportionate share of reviewers and journalists as well as other opinion leaders use Apple products. 

Numbers 2 and 3 are good problems to have, and they naturally result in more media attention to problems like 1. 

* Also, the tu quoque defense is not a good look, and anyway I'm not fully convinced that Samsung's foldgate or exploding batteries got much less attention than Apple's problems. Exploding batteries are *still* the only product problem that results in a warning every time you get on a plane. 

lkrupp said:

And I only got $10 for my Apple II+. I had to give away my Apple IIe and my Apple IIgs was sold as part of a box full of miscellaneous tech stuff at an auction. Where did I go wrong?

Same here, same here, except I skipped the IIe. Early bird gets the worm, apparently.

22july2013 said:

Notsofast said:

22july2013 said:

One thing I'm always puzzled about is how Apple knows the correct amount to compensate its game publishers if they aren't tracking what users do. (Same for News, Music, etc.)

It's because you assume that anyone needs to know what INDIVIDUALS are doing, versus the aggregate use. Apple clearly knows from it's servers how many people are clicking on a news article or magazine or game, etc., but they don't collect that Joe Blow read that article.

I am sad to tell you that you are wrong. Here's the actual words from Apple during their introduction to Apple News+ "And that means we don't know what you read."  (scroll to 20:46). But people like you just assume how it works without actually knowing. You said "Apple clearly knows how many people are clicking on a news article or magazine or game" but that's contradicted by what Apple says. I remember when they went into further detail on how this works but I won't go into that here.

I don't think any of us know exactly how Apple manages things, but I'm confident that Notsofast has to be closer to correct about what Apple knows. Apple's servers have to deliver the video/story/magazine/etc. to your phone. The server has to know what to send you in order to send it. The only alternative I can think of would be to send you absolutely everything you might want, so that it's all on your phone when you pick it and no central server has to deliver it, but that's clearly impossible. So Apple has to have aggregate figures on how many times each thing is watched. What they don't do is keep (or market) a log of individual users' choices. In other words, Apple has to have individual-level information to deliver content, but they choose not to keep it.