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Apple's rumored buy of Peloton ignores giant factors weighing against it
Apple doesn't need Peloton for software; Apple is capable of creating fitness-related software and anything it creates would be fully and tightly integrated with the Apple ecosystem.Apple is also not in a need of hardware design talent. Apple could certainly design any exercise equipment they want to add to its fitness-related endeavors and have it manufactured by a third-party, bringing its scale and manufacturing engineering prowess to the effort in order to minimize costs and maximize quality and durability.Apple does not need Peloton's 3 million loyal customers. Apple has 1 billion + loyal customers who would extend trust of the Apple brand to any product the company decides to create.And finally, Apple does not need the damage to its reputation of taking on a product that is involved in injury-related legal issues. Not worth the potential hit to its reputation. Not worth putting its huge cash assets in front of those with claims against Peloton.There's really nothing here to advocate for such an acquisition.
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2024: Apple's 40 year old Macintosh survives another year
If Apple Mac were a person I’d recommend he (she?) move to The Philippines, where age is respected and the weather is warm. Lol
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US Apple Watch import ban is on hold, for now
If one customer decides to buy a cheaper Apple Watch because the one they wanted was banned, that could be considered irreparable harm. Because something was taken away that isn't going to be given back. I suppose some folks might imagine such a strong phrase must necessarily imply 'great harm' but irreparable has nothing to do with the amount of harm.MplsP said:I’m curious how Apple could claim irreparable harm when it sells other watches without the technology.
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If you want blue iMessage bubbles that much, buy an iPhone
Perfect example of Parkinson's Law of Trivialitydewme said:If these kiddies are pooping their jammies about green bubbles, how are they possibly going to handle actual, real, meaningful, consequential, life-altering problems, many of which our generation is blithely leaving them as a legacy to our self-centered and burn-it-down-to-the-ground attitudes around things like the environment, energy, pollution, authoritarianism, inequity, poverty, crumbling infrastructure, corrosive social media, social injustice, corruption, mass shootings, and nuclear weapons proliferation? You know, just a few of the things that may be "slightly" more concerning than blue bubbles versus green bubbles (BB vs. GB).
Perhaps the process of overcoming the horror of green bubble stigma will serve as a first step in toughening up those jellylike spines so they can move on to cleaning up the real mess that we've left for them. Sorry kids, we did it, you're screwed. Hopefully they will someday look back on the BB vs. GB days with a certain amount of fondness, longing, and desire to declare the worst of life's problems meaningless and easy-to-ignore once again. Maybe they'll even forgive us?
Okay, so let's all marshal our collective energy and resources to ensure that someday everyone, everywhere, and without exception ... will have their text messages surrounded by lovely blue bubbles. Life will be good when all text bubbles are blue, unless you have a blue color vision deficiency, in which case you'll be totally hosed and have to find something else to be aggrieved about.Parkinson's Law of Triviality states that, "the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." In other words, if you try to build a simple thing such as a public bike shed, there will be endless town hall discussions wherein people argue over trivial details such as the color of the door. But if you want to build a nuclear power plant — a project so vast and complicated that most people can't understand it — people will defer to expert opinion. -- C. Northcote Parkinson, 1957, Parkinson's Law.
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If you want blue iMessage bubbles that much, buy an iPhone
Tell it to WhatsApp. You must have an account with WhatsApp to send messages to WhatsApp users, and then you must know the number they use with WhatsApp, which might not be their main number they share with their bank or other businesses. Many people out here in SE Asia have two phones and a total of four SIMs. It's cheap to buy data and texting load so they keep multiple numbers. Anyway, your bank doesn't want to have to have a separate account on each of many available messaging services in order to get in touch with you via text. They just want a number to reach you and to know an SMS will go to that number and be able to be read. So how are you going to tell iOS you want to use WhatsApp as your everything messaging service if WhatsApp doesn't accept messages from outside its service?RayshardT said:
People who want to use messages can continue to use Messages. What I'm saying is, for people who want to consolidate all their messaging into one place (and don't want to use the iMessage protocol) they don't have that option. Also, if you use Message, as soon as you lose internet connectivity or text someone who doesn't use iMessage, you're falling back to a less secure protocol (SMS/MMS). My argument is not about security, it's about user choice.hmlongco said:
So how would it help to be able to switch the default messages app that handles SMS/MMS, other than now forcing people who use Messages and who send you messages to use a less secure protocol? At least Apple's upcoming support of RCS will fix some of those security problems.RayshardT said:The point that Messages is the default and can't be changed is a valid argument for being anticompetitive in the iOS messaging ecosystem because it's makes it such that you can't fully switch to a different messaging app. A different messaging app that can process SMS/MMS should be able to be the one stop shop for such data but Apple forcing users to use Messages which does nothing to make the SMS/MMS experience better. Even though SMS/MMS is an outdated technology, other apps could provide better user experiences. For example, in Google Messages on Android, emoji reactions on SMS are intercepted and displayed in a more friendly way. Another example would that another SMS/MMS app would inform the user to send a video via link instead of MMS to preserve quality.
