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I can afford Air Pods and have never thought of them as cool but that is just my own choice. I just don't like sticking things into my ears. Over the ear headphones? yes but never anything in my ears. Again, that is a personal choice.
That said, what exactly are the requirements for something to be 'cool'?

To paraphrase a saying 'coolness is in the eye of the beholder.'

igforbes said:

dtownwarrior said:

Lawyers will ruin America

The sad fact is that if people did what they were supposed to do, every lawyer would be out of a job. 

If you did what you were supposed to do, you would never venture outside your house without a lawyer at your side who will tell you what of the millions of federal, state and county laws that you are breaking with every step.
The USA is being strangled by its own laws.

NYC362 said:

I certainly understand the cause for a lawsuit, but I cannot see how Apple, whose sole involvement was streaming the concert, could be held responsible for anything to do with the tragic incident that cost so many lives. 

Lawyers are just looking for the deepest pockets. 

Rule 1 for US Lawyers : Sue everyone no matter how involved they are or not and see what sticks.

Apple's first move will be to dismiss the case against them.

sflocal said:

scout6900 said:

Late to the party.  

You mean like Apple was to the cell phone party?

There is nothing wrong with being late to the party if what you are bringing is a game changer. That's what Apple is known for. Not being a leader but taking tech and improving it and making what was often rough and ready... usable.

photography guy said:

I trust (with a reasonable amount of skepticism) Apple's intentions, in terms of using personal data (stripped of identifiers) to improve their products and services. I EXPECT Facebook/Meta, whatever, will steal as much data as possible, track our movements in our own homes, record every conversation, parse EVERYTHING, use machine learning and AI for the sole purpose of building a more robust, detailed digital profile of us than it already has and sell that our digital identities to anyone who wants to buy it. That's literally their business model.

Also, "Facebook" was a weird, somewhat whimsical name that has made a home in our public consciousness. "Meta" has the ominous feel of an omniscient corporation in a William Gibson or Neal Stephenson novel.

Zuck Inc is in direct competition with Google for 'our lives'. By that I mean all the data about us, our families, friends and everything. Where we go, who we meet... no make that pass in the street is all fair game. I happened to meet someone last Saturday whom I had not seen since 1976. By some freak of chance we were seated in the same row at a Rugby match. That meeting could have been the way that Fecalbook connects our lives except that I had left my phone in my car which was 30+ miles away. That is the 'meta' world that Zuck envisages. It is not the world that I want anything to do with.
I blocked facebook at my home firewall more than 10 years ago. Long may that remain.

Apple is their (Facebook and Google) biggest enemy when it comes to the collation of personal data. We are all fair game to those two companies. Welcome to their version of 'Brave new World' (provided it has not been banned at a library near you).