knowitall

Mr Magoo said:

Worrying though as from one small seed grows. This has the potential to spread and if it does then this will impact so many people. If banned then for sure Apple will find a long list of class action filings against it, For a large majority of us what good is a laptop you cannot travel overseas with. Lets hope this is a one off an Apple can resolve with VA or is VA headline grabbing? Itn also mean the VA commercial cargo flights will ban shipping.

hexclock said:

knowitall said:

gatorguy said:

TBH I would love for this to be an FCC mandated feature for ALL smartphones, at least in the case of a regional or national emergency. Hurricanes, state/region wide power outages, "other" national issue. 

No need for that, each iPhone contains a frequency synthesizer, that can be tuned to the free and open  walky-talky radio frequencies.  
This ‘project’ could be completed in a few days (including the app).

Is the frequency synthesizer accessible via an API? I imagine an app would already exist if it were. Guess I answered my own question. 

gatorguy said:

TBH I would love for this to be an FCC mandated feature for ALL smartphones, at least in the case of a regional or national emergency. Hurricanes, state/region wide power outages, "other" national issue. 

lkrupp said:

knowitall said:

lkrupp said:

rotateleftbyte said:

an awful lot of people want Apple to fail and fail big time. If Apple filed for Chapter 11, they would be partying for the next year.

These are the people that hate Apple and everything they stand for.

Bloomberg and the rest love to put Apple down because of the anger caused by the articles results in millions of clicks and Ad impressions which means money and money pays the hacks that write the tripe in the first place. And round the circle goes.

Those on Wall St that short Tech Stocks love it for obvious reasons. APPL drops in price and they make money.

OTOH, Apple gets a lot of free publicity from all this negativity and the backlash to it.

The day Steve Jobs died the C|net article about his death was deluged with hatred and glee over his death. Some were even trying to organize a party to meet at his grave and piss on it. Fortunately he is buried in an unmarked grave in a Palo Alto cemetery so no one knows where it is. That’s what the Internet is, was, and will always be. And C|net did nothing about it. But criticize a liberal ideology and you’re banned.

I hope this isn't true.

I read the posts with my own eyes and contacted c|net to take them down. They declined. Free speech and all that.

lkrupp said:

rotateleftbyte said:

an awful lot of people want Apple to fail and fail big time. If Apple filed for Chapter 11, they would be partying for the next year.

These are the people that hate Apple and everything they stand for.

Bloomberg and the rest love to put Apple down because of the anger caused by the articles results in millions of clicks and Ad impressions which means money and money pays the hacks that write the tripe in the first place. And round the circle goes.

Those on Wall St that short Tech Stocks love it for obvious reasons. APPL drops in price and they make money.

OTOH, Apple gets a lot of free publicity from all this negativity and the backlash to it.

The day Steve Jobs died the C|net article about his death was deluged with hatred and glee over his death. Some were even trying to organize a party to meet at his grave and piss on it. Fortunately he is buried in an unmarked grave in a Palo Alto cemetery so no one knows where it is. That’s what the Internet is, was, and will always be. And C|net did nothing about it. But criticize a liberal ideology and you’re banned.