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  • Apple reaping massive illegal profits from Apple Pay fees on card issuers, lawsuit claims

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    red oak said:
    Filed in Northern California.   Good chance Visa is one of the “financial institutions” 

    What utter bullshit.   Typical, money-grabbing slime lawyer 
    "Hagens Berman, the law firm that successfully obtained a $450 million settlement from Apple over ebook price fixing, is representing the class, which is comprised of U.S. credit unions and financial institutions that have cards enabled for use in Apple Pay."

    They already dinged Apple for 450M.. why not try again? B)

    Honestly these CC companies have a lot of balls crying when they kill small businesses with their transaction fees. I see more and more small businesses that are cash only, or in the case of gas stations you pay a few more cents a gallon if you choose to pay with a credit or debit card rather than cash.

    Credit card companies charge between approximately 1.3% and 3.5% of each credit card transaction in processing fees. The exact amount depends on the payment network (e.g., Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express), the type of credit card, and the merchant category code (MCC) of the business.




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  • Compared: Rumored 47mm Apple Watch Series 8 size versus Series 7

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    mattinoz said:
    bluefire1 said:
    If the AW gets much larger, we can rename it the iPhoneTiny.
    They'd have to decouple it from the iPhone before they could do that. 
    This is exactly what I dream of. It doesn't seem they're going to go any smaller with the iPhones and I pessimistically think they're not going to keep the mini going (so I'll hold on to my 12 mini, which really isn't mini enough, but it's the best I can get). So I'm just hoping for the day the watch grows even more capable and is offered completely independent of an iPhone plan. I want just my iPad for work and watch for my personal device. Probably will never happen, but a guy can dream.
    All you younger folks wanting smaller screen phones and smaller watch faces B)   Eventually your eyes will not agree no matter what you say or like about a smaller size. Personally I am not as huge person ( 6ft 1in 215lbs ) but the iPhone mini feels like a toy in my hands I could never go back to a phone that small whether I could see or not.

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  • Apple retailer Simply Mac is shutting down

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    bcs said:
    I left an IPad Air 4 at Simply Mac on May 21.  Because it took no charge the associate recommended replacement.  Now, on June 28 I am still without  an IPad.  MANY phone calls on my part resulted in my learning that I was not the only one this happened to, and that it was unknown when this would be resolved.  It seems to me that Apple would have a responsibility to take care of customers immediately and then solve their problem with Simply Mac.  

    What problem does Apple have with Simply Mac? If I were you I would get my device back and either get it too an Apple store, or mail it in for service after speaking with Apple and making them aware of the situation. If it's still under he original applecare warranty or you have applecare+ you should have no worries. Simply Mac is liquidating and hasn't paid employees properly... I wouldn't ask them to do anything else except return your device immediately so it can be replaced and you can move on with your life.
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  • Everything new coming to Apple TV in tvOS 16

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    mike1 said:
    CheeseFreeze said:
    My prediction:

    1. Apple will keep focusing having the TV app on as many major smart TV’s as possible to ensure mass access to their services.

    2. Apple will sunset the Apple TV hardware 


    I doubt it. While they will work to include on as many TVs and other devices as possible, they will not discontinue their own hardware. It is the only way they can deliver the best possible user experience. TV hardware is typically under powered and they tend to give up software support after a couple of years.
    This is why I bought my first Appletv 2 years ago.. Smart Tv software and user experience are terrible compared to a dedicated streamer.. varying degrees of clunky slowness and overall bugginess depending on the OS. I have used ATV and ATV 4k 1st gens exclusively for years now in my home. B)

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  • US lawmakers call for universal charging standard - but not necessarily for USB-C

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    genovelle said:
    crowley said:
    hammeroftruth said:
    gas can approach $7/gallon when there is no real believable explanation why. 
    Not sure if serious.
    He is serious. If costs increases were the reason, profits for oil companies would be consistent, not soaring to astronomically high rates. Prices would follow the prices for barrels of oil, which they are not, and there would not suddenly be consistent pricing across multiple independent locations in a region. 

    This in fact smells a bit rotten. Who benefits from high prices, Gas in particular? Who benefits from consumers being angry about prices. Coincidentally, the same people who received 2 trillion dollars in tax cuts recently are the same people who ultimately control the bill of the prices. Especially in the gas sector. 

    I wonder what their motivation is for maintaining the pain on US consumers besides the profit margins?
    Why are car dealers charging in some cases 30K over sticker value for new vehicles?  A buddy of mine was offered almost 10K than what he paid for his less than year old vehicle?  Pure greed... same goes for BIG oil getting there's back from almost 1.5 years of the people being locked down barely driving and not traveling. Pure greed simply because they can.

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