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  • Apple supplier Foxconn replaces 60,000 workers with robots

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    antonpablo said:
    Fast food chains will be doing the same cause of $15/hr minimum wage.
    Nah. Australia raised their minimum wage a big amount, and despite all the furor, it raised the price of a Big Mac about $0.45. The gloom-and-doomers are full of it. You can pay a lot of workers a lot of hours before you get to the cost of robotics for a burger job.
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  • Dead Apple employee identified as 25-year-old software engineer, report says [u]

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    trk said:
    The chinese put a suicide net around their apple facility to prevent employees from leaping to their deaths. Maybe the cupertino facility needs to figure out how to keep guns away from their employees.
    If you're going to sign up to post, at least get your facts right. NOT an "apple facility", a Foxconn facility, manufacturing things for many different tech companies.
    netmage

  • Apple's mysterious WWDC 2016 announcement: What does it mean?

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    sog35 said:
    The big news?

    iOS Light.

    A brand new OS made for $100-$300 phones built by other hardware makers. This version of iOS will have less features but will be able to run smoothly on less advanced hardware. Just like current iOS has some features left off for older iPhones. 

    This will allow iOS and Apple to penetrate the sub $300 market and triple the amount of iOS users worldwide. It will allow iOS to compete with Android in marketshare across the globe. Since iOS Light will not be full featured like the normal iOS, canibalization should be minimized.

    Don't forget Steve Jobs licensed MacOS many times in the past.


    ..."compete with Android in marketshare"? Who could possibly care? "This year we're announcing we've made even less on iphone than ever." (smattering of applause from Gatorguy and Sog).

    Jobs licensed the OS twice, briefly, and always regretted doing it at all.
    nolamacguy[Deleted User]

  • FBI can't unlock anything newer than Apple's iPhone 5c, Comey reveals

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    rob53 said:
    I'd like to know if the Israeli company can actually crack anything newer than a 5s. Apple has a presence in Israel and should use pressure to get the Israeli government to force talks between Apple and that company so Apple knows of any vulnerabilities they can find. I'm sure the Israeli's want secure phones as much as US citizens want them.
    It seems to me that Apple can get all the information they need by going to the same company, give them a 6S and write them a check for $15,000. They either can crack it or they can't, question is answered in a couple of weeks.
    radarthekat

  • German court finds Apple in infringement of OpenTV streaming patents

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    radarthekat said:
    dreyfus2 said:
      Anything you license or sell you must offer to all without discrimination.  ....   Point is, by whatever factors pricing is determined, those must be applied fairly to all.  That's just part of anti-trust law.  So Apple will get a price it can afford if it needs to license the patents by virtue of the fact others, with far less financial wherewithal, have been able to license those patents and still remain viable businesses.  
    No such provision of the law regarding licensing patents. You can completely discriminate 'til your heart's content. 
    singularity