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  • Facebook is fine when punishing others financially, but cries when others do it to them

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    jcs2305 said:
    JP234 said:
    Skeptical said:
    God I hate Facebook and Zuckerbag. Not really a big fan of Apple either. Neither are your friends but Apple is the devil you know. 
    Comparing a company that makes something (the best products and services in the world), with a company that derives 100% of its revenue from mining customers' data to sell to advertisers is a questionable conflation.
    Two large companies that care nothing about you unless they are making money from you, as either the customer or the product? I think it's a perfectly reasonable comparison.

    We need to stop defending Apple as if they are our friends..they aren't. We enjoy their products and the service they offer as part of being a customer, additionally if you are a stock holder you enjoy the dividends as well B) .. that's it.

    Apple’s gear is more compute efficient than the competition.  That means it uses less energy to accomplish the same tasks, and that reduces our dependence on fossil fuels.  Apple directly reduces its own dependence on fossil fuels through its internal use of solar and its push to make its suppliers more energy efficient. 

    Apple does similar work on reducing environmental damage from its operations and those of its suppliers.  

    Apple also produces a hardware/software stack that lives longer in our hands than the competition.  iPhones regularly are passed along two or three times after the initial user has decided to trade up, providing six or more years of useful life; significantly longer than much of its competition. 

    Apple stands up for social issues, funding and directing its technologies toward STEM education for underprivileged and underserved populations.  The company and its management donate to causes and ask their employees to do so as well.  

    I could go on…
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  • Apple reports record-breaking $83B in revenue in supply impacted Q3 2022

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    iPad and Mac significantly supply constrained.  That aspect of the business is only going to improve going forward. The future of Apple, as usual, remains bright. 
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  • Vietnamese Prime Minister met with Tim Cook at Apple Park

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    The Vietnamese people are industrious, level-headed and very capitalistic, even if the government remains unitary and socialist.  By and large property owners and businesses are allowed to operate in a free market with decent protection of property rights, at least from what I observed in the six months I lived there in 2019.  I was also impressed by the country’s infrastructure development.  Overall a decent place for Apple to diversify its supply chain and  manufacturing base in the region. 
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  • Here's what differentiates MLB on Apple TV+ versus regular broadcasts

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    chadbag said:
    Hope it works out for Apple. 

    I personally have stopped watching pro sports.  Almost anything else I have to do is more interesting and useful than pro sports on the boobtube.  Bunch of overpaid boys (or girls depending on the sport) who think they (and their opinion) are vitally important to the well being of the world… 

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    Moving overseas was the impetus for breaking the cycle for me.  I was a football and baseball fan, but living in a different culture (basketball is all the rage here in The Philippines) and being more active in travel and outdoor activities, like climbing volcanoes, caused me to have a new take on spectatorship.  I’ve seen one Super Bowl in the six years I’ve been overseas, and not a single MLB game.  
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  • Third-party apps often eclipse Apple's own on the App Store, study finds

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    crowley said:
    AppleInsider said:
    Apple has highlighted a new report indicating that third-party apps have found App Store success and popularity across the globe, beating out Apple's own apps in most cases.
    "most" cases?  Seems unlikely.
    There’s 60 Apple apps.  You could manually scan the list and compare to competing apps.  I think Notes  over EverNote might be a case where Apple wins, but maybe not.  Maps?  Google wins, hands down IMO.  Mail versus GMail?  GMail wins.  Pretty sure Books loses to Kindle.  Pages loses to Word, KeyNote loses to PowerPoint.  This is in terms of total users on IOS devices, not judging which is actually a better app.  So far, in most cases, I’m thinking a 3rd-party app is winning.  Love to see someone run the whole list of 60 apps. 
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