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foregoneconclusion said:

AlwaysWinter said:

Their defense is that they would refuse authoritarian attempts but we’ve seen two instances so far where Apple couldn’t refuse. With iCloud in China and with FaceTime in Saudi Arabia. Setting the past aside what’s to say that the political or financial climate for Apple won’t change and make it harder to say no than it is now? There may come a time when they want to say no but can’t. 

The problem with hypotheticals is that they can be applied to anything and anyone. That's why lawsuits based on hypotheticals get thrown out of court, like Yahoo! suing the government over subpoenas for data. Yahoo! imagined all kinds of scenarios where handing over the data could be abused, but the court said "where's the proof the government is actually doing any of that with the data" and the case was thrown out. 

Actually the Supreme Court just ruled on a so called Hypotheticals. Calif had a law which required non-profits to turn over all the contact information of all their donors. The stated reason for the law was the government could look for laws being broken such as money laundering. Well the argument against this was it could be abused in any number of ways and Calif argued if you are not doing any wrong you should not have an issue. Issue like this are not clear cut and everyone should be worried about their privacy and their freedoms.

First, I have to say what a great idea putting the filter in a piece of usable furniture verse adding another object in our already crowded homes.

I have to agree filters like this are not as affective as people would like to believe. Yes HEPA fitters do what they claim, but they work best when you can seal the space and create enough positive pressure to force air out of the space to keep impurities out.

For people with allergies the best solution is remove all carpeting and have hardwoods and tile floors and minimize the amount of textile  upholstered furniture. Then clean the hardwoods all the time. 

90% of my house is hardwood or tile floors, we generally dusty mop them weekly and we still get dust floating about. Recently we got a robot vacuum and it runs the floors 3 times a week and dust showing up on flat surfaces each week has gone way down. We have forced air VHAC so we have air moving about most of the time and it has high efficient HEPA filter on it. Just cleaning the floors does way more since your movement across the floor stirs it all up.

StrangeDays said:

Will grocers be required to bid out their in-house bakery space or in-house pharmaceutical clones? Or can they still pre-load them?

There is such a disconnect here.

MS got into monopoly trouble not for merely including IE with Windows, but for using their dominance in the OS space to force desired behavior from partners -- specifically denying OEM computer makers needed Windows licenses unless they promised to stop including Netscape with their computers. That was the anti-competitive behavior. Apple has not done the equivalent of that.

No they will not since these new rules only apply to companies with a Market Cap of $600 bill. This law most likely will fail on this rule alone since in the US laws must be applies equally, you can not favor or disfavor any one or company over another.

You can not say Apple is throttling your phone performance at the same time as causing your battery life to be shorten. Throttling should increasing battery life.

 These people need decide whether their performance has gone in the hole or the battery life.

I personally think these people have older phones which were fast in their day and then they see their friends new phones running the latest iOS and they get phone envy then think the iOS caused the phone to slow down or they just noticed the 3 yr old battery is not what it use be. I seen old battery work okay one week then the next week they do not what you hold a charge.

The question I have before they started the study did they study these people’s sleep habits before they made those changes. Also how long did they study the people. Lastly it takes months to change your sleep habits just because you started doing something different before going to bed you will not see an immediate affect. You have to do the same thing for weeks before you will begin to see any noticeable change,