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cali said:

apple ][ said:

Serves 'em right!

I bet that a lot of Apple employees are Bernie supporters who have contributed to the campaign and they support higher taxation!

Now pay up what you owe! Put your money where your mouth is!

Apple only contributes nearly 20% of the city's tax revenue? It should clearly be much higher!

Down with the rich! Down with greedy corporations! The rich are evil! And Apple has plenty of money! It's absolutely disgusting that any company should make that much money.

Let's dismantle Apple and nationalize it! Power to the people! Crackhead lives matter!

You're a trump supporter.

No, he just forgot to close the /sarc tag. It's hard to tell with plain text.

ahx1 said:

sog35 said:

yes this guy. This is the guy that Tim cook is allowing to heap crap on the Apple name.

I'm getting sick of Tim Cook being such a push over and allowing small fry to crap on Apple's brand. Weird that when Steve Jobs was CEO hardly anyone in media/politics/Wall Street crapped on Apple. Yet now Apple is more powerful and richer than ever it gets crapped on all the time.

wtf are you talking about!? Crap on the brand? How is this Tim's fault? LOLOLOLOL man some of you in the comments here crack me up!

Clearly, sog35 has gone nonlinear regarding Tim Cook and anything even remotely related to him, or might possibly be construed to be related. It's like he was dumped before the prom or something.

Either that, or he's taken up trolling to another level altogether.

sog35 said:

IF APPLE IS SO CONCERNED ABOUT PRIVACY WHY IS GOOGLE STILL THE DEFAULT SEARCH ON SAFARI?

Contractual obligation?

I haven't used Google as my default search engine for a couple of years.

It's not like it's hard to change the default search engine invoked in your browser. Not even Safari.

Your borderline-unhinged obsession with Apple's privacy policies begins to come across as a shady data raper getting bent out of shape because it's getting to be too hard to strip information from people's online activities.

Seriously, either switch to decaf, or get some counseling. It's got to be bad for your health.

Rayz2016 said:

sog35 said:

You know why Siri sucks?  Because of Tim Cooks ridiculous stance on privacy.  Without being able to data mine you, Siri is clueless and dumb.

Cook needs to stop his pious and extreme stance on privacy.  Its hurting Apples cloud advancement, Siri, advertising platform, and Apple pay (wont share data with merchants)

Isn't your apostrophe key working?

There's a worldwide apostrophe shortage, given that so many people use the character merely as a warning that an "s" is about to follow.

manfrommars said:

Siri is awful.  It's amazing how slowly this tech has developed. 

Slowly? You have no idea.

Machine speech recognition dates back to the early '50s, and didn't really get much serious focused work until the late '60s.

One of my first freelance jobs after college was researching the state of the art for a local business around 1976, when it was really rough around the edges. The closest they could have come to what they wanted to do would have exceeded the company's yearly operating budget.

It wasn't, and isn't, trivially simple. But we'll probably see it in full flower before, oh, commercial fusion power or true machine intelligence, so there's that to look forward to.