ronn

Let's hope TSMC keeps its promise to hire 3000+ additional workers. A Win-Win situation if all goes to plan.

Not a good look for Apple and the property owners since the back of the mall has several barriers and barriers were installed in front of the store after the crash. Will be interesting to see the negotiations and requirements between the mall owners and Apple for the Hingham location. Read elsewhere (can't find now) that the property owners did not want barriers/bollards around store fronts. Apple has several locations with barriers in the form of bollards, planters, fencing, etc.

A recently retired Mass state rep tried for years to mandate protective barriers

In each legislative term since 2013, Carolyn Dykema, a Holliston state representative who left the State Legislature in January, filed a bill that would mandate that barriers be placed between certain parking spaces and retail businesses. Each of her five tries died before reaching a floor vote.

“When you start paying attention, it’s really quite shocking the number of crashes and the frequency of them,” Dykema said when reached by phone on Tuesday.

thrang said:

ronn said:

Dis Sum Bishop! 

He was either targeted by persons witnessing his large purchase or others know that he "regularly makes large purchases" at the Apple store. Won't speculate on his character/intelligence or pull nonsensical political statements out of my nether regions regarding NYC.   

Nothing pulled from nether regions. Look at the news articles of Bragg reducing  52% of felonies to misdemeanors, and saying misdemeanors won't be brought to trial UNLESS accompanied by a felony charge....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-da-bragg-downgrades-over-half-felonies-misdemeanors

Pulled from the very taint of "news" in America, Fox. They don't link to the DA's report for a very good reason: selective statistics. The previous year they mentioned, 2019, 39% of felonies were downgraded by DA Bragg's predecessor. They then cite NYC's increased crime rates when DA Bragg is only the Manhattan DA; there are four other boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island; two of those boros, the Bronx & Brooklyn, are hotspots for increased crime despite those DAs favoring robust prosecutions compared to DA Bragg; and crime was increasing prior to The Pandemic, which has been an incubator for crime.

So NYC remains the safest large city in America. And folks from other places should compare their crime rates before tossing their rocks from within a glass house.

jace88 said:

lkrupp said:

This is hilarious. I harken back a number of years ago to some poor bastard who lost his job over in Europe because he used a word in a speech that means “ungenerous and stingy”. Look it up in a thesaurus. He was vilified and canceled. Then the backlash ensued about how the word was a common one and had nothing to do with a racial slur and that ignorant, uneducated race baiters had reacted too quickly. But the poor guy still was pilloried, gutted, and his head placed on a pike in the town square.

If I typed the word here AppleInsider would likely ban me for life, right?

For the life of me I can't figure out what this word is even after Googling it.

I'm not aware of an incident in Europe, just this one in D.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly#David_Howard_incident

On January 15, 1999, David Howard, an aide to the mayor of Washington, D.C., Anthony A. Williams, used "niggardly" in reference to a budget.[7] This apparently upset one of his black colleagues, who misinterpreted it as a racial slur and lodged a complaint.

Of course it's all about context, learning and agendas. Lots of details are left out of discussions of an incident that happened a generation ago.

JP234 said:

ronn said:

JP234 said:

ronn said:

Using common sense and decency. Why is that bad on Apple's end? 

It's only bad if you don't consider censorship to be "common sense and decency."
I don't listen to that $41+ either. But censoring what people want to hear on one platform is a waste of effort. There are legions of other music services. This and all other negative influences in our lives (deviant sex, drugs, profanity, alcohol, tobacco, religious fundamentalism, social media disinformation) cannot be mitigated on the supply side. As long as there is a demand for something, there will be someone to supply it. That goes for explicit lyrics as well. And if you've ever watched Apple TV+, you've been exposed to all of those I mentioned, so the music censorship is just a red herring to draw your attention. Apparently it worked.

So Apple is censoring itself? What nonsense. They don't want to be associated with anything negative and took the step of changing the music that listeners think is repeatedly using a slur. A simple matter and for them, the right thing to do.

"They don't want to be associated with anything negative…"

So you don't have Apple TV+ do you? Every single word Apple is censoring on Apple Music can be heard thousands of times on their TV programming. Every sin you can imagine is also represented, in graphic detail. Violence? You got it, and plenty of it! Adultery and sexual deviance? Check! Go ahead, think of something you consider offensive and I'll name an Apple TV+ show depicting it! That's selective pandering. But it's true, you won't find postive views on racism on Apple TV+. Leave that to FoxNews, Breitbart and Twitter (among many, many others).

Did you hit your head? This is about an ad that was edited to make sure there is no confusion about a word misheard. It's not about Apple censoring squat.