mike eggleston

wizard69 said:

Frankly Apple is using some of he same idiotic excuses, that only the extremely gullible accept, that they use to fight right to repair.    In the end Apples motivations are planned obsolescence and getting a cut of every commercial app that runs on its devices.    It can be likened to Ford demanding 30% from every gas station when you fill up your tank.   It isn't something most Americans would feel comfortable with and frankly is against the law.   I just don't see Apple having a leg to stand on especially if one looks deep into existing law and what has traditionally been accepted business practice.

This is an honest question, because it certainly seems like it. Did you get your talking points from Epic's hilariously bad opening statements? They used that same bullshit remark of the gas station, and it is just plainly wrong. Apple owns their store. They can have the criteria put in place for others to sell their goods at their store. If Epic somehow convinces this judge that they are in the right, it would have huge ramifications for businesses outside of technology. For instance, Target could force Walmart to allow for Target to open a mini-store and sell their competing goods, all while Walmart would have to swallow the costs. This is exactly what Epic is proposing, and all it does is benefit themselves. 

slprescott said:

This article uses the term “opt in” for Google’s inclusion of users without their consent. That’s misuse of the term; opt-in means the end user has the OPTION of whether to participate.

I believe that AI used that term not because they feel it is accurate; as much as it is what Google states it is, even though it clearly is not. A lot of my company that I work for uses almost Google everything, and it gets tiring the number of times that I have to keep on stating that they are taking our data and harvesting it. Their rationale is that it is "better than Apple; who steals everything from you" (which, for the record, I know is not the case) or my personal favorite "Why should I care, it isn't like I have anything to hide"...

The extension was able to be installed on my Mac with minimal issue; but it doesn't seem to be usable.

Here is the direct link to it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj

This whole iteration of a report just seems like going backwards. I know that most people aren't fans of the Touch Bar, but I think it does serve a purpose and is far more useful than what people think. And for those people who lament the "loss" of their beloved function keys, are really a small number of people. Hell, I do development for a living, connecting to multiple machines via SSH and I don't use the function keys ever. The only time that I ever use it is when I am refreshing a SQL query in DBeaver. I know I am one person in a crowd of millions of people, but I just don't see Apple moving backwards. If they were going to do that, they would have done it when they revealed the M1.

Personally, I love my @me.com address. It is nice and short (only 7 characters for the username). I also have one for my name using both @me and @icloud. I might have an .Mac account as well, just not 100% sure about that... 😜