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  • Facebook embroiled in yet another privacy scandal, this time involving your phone number

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    I need to use Facebook for professional reasons, however I have a very strict way of using it.  I don't use any Facebook app, I access Facebook only via the browser on my laptops.  To visit Facebook I am using the Facebook container plugin of Firefox (a really great invention), which isolates all Facebook related traffic from the rest of my browsing traffic, making tracking impossible.
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  • Apple in 2019 and the future of PCs

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    k2kw said:


    Arm Based Macs and the merging of OS-MacOs will kill Windows entirely because of the ridiculous cost of the Intel Chips.  
    You confuse cost and price.   An ARM processor might indeed by cheaper to produce but nobody expects that Apple will drop prices when the ARM CPUs are put in a Mac. 
    On the contrary, the backend developers in my company need an Intel developer machine.  As long as AWS, Azure, GCP and others cloud service providers are only using Intel machines in their data centers, we can only develop and deploy our software on Intel machines.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Qualcomm's new X55 5G modem is ridiculously fast - but Apple probably won't use it

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    wood1208 said:
    I don't even get consistent and complete 4G LTE signal so who cares if modem can fly. It all depends on the network you using in place you live and work.
    The reason is that in cities 4G is completely saturated.  That is exactly the reason why you should care about 5G.  The main advantage of 5G is not the higher speed but a serious increase in available bandwidth
    randominternetperson

  • Allstate acquires iPhone repair outfit iCracked, joins 'right to repair' fight against App...

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    I tell you a story what happened in my company.  A year ago, the HDMI port on one of my MacbookPros was broken.  I brought the machine to the official Apple repair center in my neighborhood for a repair.  The dealer repaired the MBP  but made a administrative error with the invoice which I only discovered 6 weeks later when I had to send the quarterly VAT declaration for my company to the tax administration.  While acknowledging he made a mistake,  the dealer refused to correct his error, explaining that 6 weeks was too long for administrative fixes.  This refusal costed my company about 70 Euro. 

    In no way I want to go back to that dealer if a new repair for any Apple device is needed.  The next official repair center is too remote to be practical. The only reasonable thing is to go to an unofficial repair center, which happens to be just around the corner and which has a much better customer support service than the official Apple repair center.

    Giving a customer the choice is never a bad thing
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Editorial: Apple's demand for 50 percent of news and magazine revenue is either bold or ve...

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    This is a foolish idea.  Apple acts as an intermediary who wants 50%. This could make sense if Apple could make the magazine market to grow by a factor of at least 2.2, which won't happen.  Typically content owners want to cut the intermediary out of the value chain, if the intermediate does not bring real added value.  Look at what Netflix is doing for the subscription via the app store.  Other content owners will just follow the path of Netflix.
    muthuk_vanalingamAppleExposed