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I know this is for the security of the platform, and that it's more or less transparent to the end user. But, it feels like something else is dying in the process. I can't quite put my finger on it. 

DAalseth said:

matrix077 said:

Like I said, a big missed opportunity users can’t apply for one right away after the keynote. 

I’ll get one immediately when I can. It ticks all the boxes for me. 

I could not agree more. I'd have one today if I could. Unfortunately who knows when it will come to Canada. ApplePay itself got to England, Australia, and some parts of Europe, before it came to Canada. I'm not holding my breath.

I'm in the same boat, being in Canada. I would hop on this in a minute if it were available here. I wanted to use ApplePay so much, that I went out and got an American Express card as that was the first to support ApplePay in Canada. Took another year or so before MasterCard and Visa became available. I use ApplePay, with Apple Watch (my favorite way to use it) every day. It works brilliantly. Groceries, Tim Hortons, etc. The gas pumps have to accept contactless for it to work, but many of them around here do. 

Speech marks? Is this a new term for quotes? 

It's funny, and Samsung is completely shameless. 

However, it doesn't have anything to do with "class" that Apple doesn't mock Samsung in its ads. It's just classic marketing, when you're ahead of the competition, you never mention the competition. Samsung is behind Apple (on certain metrics, not all) and the advertising paints a picture of Samsung as the scrappy underdog taking on the Apple Goliath. When Apple was the underdog of the PC world, they had absolutely no issue, it certainly wasn't inhibited by their class, running comparison ads against PCs and Windows.

If Samsung weren't running these dumb comparison ads to Apple, we'd wonder what was wrong with their marketing department. 

The logical inconsistencies don't matter that much from the advertising perspective. It's just a gimmick, most people aren't paying attention to whether Samsung sells dongles on their website.

DAalseth said:

I had no idea that Corel, CorelDraw, or WordPerfect still were around. Knew about WinZIP but didn't realize they owned it.

That was exactly my thought. I had no idea Corel still existed. I haven't heard anything about them or anything they've produced in like 20 years.