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chasm said:

Developers will just get less money from the sales of digital goods and services, so they will raise prices accordingly.

This is a factor that the taxers ignore. The current administration wants to raise corporate tax rates to pay for it’s multi-trillion dollar infrastructure project. What’s so hard to understand that those tax increases will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices? That’s the problem with the ‘tax the rich’ argument sold to the masses. The masses wind up paying for it anyway. Taxes will, in effect, will be raised on the middle class as they always are, just through the back door of the corporate tax rate.

mike_galloway said:

The law of unintended consequences -  not putting a charger in every product is likely to increase the number of cheap and maybe poor quality products. Although other companies substandard products are not really Apples problem.

Bullsht.

QuickBooks is mentioned as not being M1 ready. So many still think QuickBooks and Quicken are owned by the same company, Intuit. Intuit sold off Quicken to a private equity group several years ago. Quicken's new owners have taken the ball and run with it. The Mac version is vastly improved and is fully M1 compatible as of a couple of updates ago. 

Meanwhile Intuit, who never gave a crap about Macs and who even decided to cease development of Quicken for Mac when their then CEO (Bill Campbell) sat on Apple’s board. Jobs had to use his powers of persuasion to stop it. That Intuit is now dragging its feet on making QuickBooks M1 compatible should come as no surprise to Mac users.

sflocal said:

Anything coming out of the Western (or Eastern) district of Texas should be immediately suspected as fraudulent.  It's a patent-troll's paradise and the judge that got caught "shopping" his services to patent-trolls should be removed.

Judicial hellhole is the proper terminology I believe. The Illinois county I live in has been called a judicial hellhole for decades because of spectacularly onerous jury awards for personal injury cases. In one case the defense was able to prove the plaintiff was lying through her teeth about how she was injured but the jury still awarded her money ‘for her trouble’. She should have been charged with perjury.

georgie01 said:

Unsurprising, but also surprising. 5G isn’t even of particular significance right now. I keep 5G off on my iPhone 12 Pro to save battery because there is currently no gain from using 5G.

I know technologies are developed well before they become useful, but I feel like this charade is getting old. LTE never lived up to the potential in the US but they pushed into 5G. And 5G isn’t generally reaching LTE+ potential speeds (except for mmWave). Maybe 6G will live up to the promises of LTE+

5G has been seriously overhyped to the point of ridiculousness. All of the so-called advanced features of 5G are literally years away from being useful. Right now the ONLY feature of 5G being advertised ad nauseam is its supposed speed but that is being called into question too. The main reason carriers have jumped on the bandwagon is that they get to charge more for 5G service and the public buys into it.

And again, today, right now, what advantage is 5G to cellphone users? Not tomorrow, not next year, today. Why should I pay extra for 5G service at this point?