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  • Super Mario Run demo stations installed in Apple Stores for pre-release play

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    Mark this day on your calendars.

    Then come back in a few years, look back and remember this is the day Nintendo turned around after realizing just how much money there is in mobile (especially iOS).

    They should have partnered with Apple years ago on mobile by bringing all their franchise games over.
    Lol wrong. When will you people get that smartphone games cannot possibly replicate true handheld and console gaming?
    perkedelboltsfan17

  • Impending iOS update to help diagnose additional iPhone battery shutdowns

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    As far as I can tell the 6 had dud batteries too. Seen a lot of replacements of those; mine was at 80.2% with 250 odd cycles after one year, and I ended up replacing it at the 16 month mark. 
    GeorgeBMac

  • Reported 2016 MacBook Pro graphics issues likely caused by third-party software [u]

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    mobius said:
    Other reports claim it may be related to File Vault 2. Couple that with your own mention of the Photos app, I'm not sure there's a strong enough case to be made (yet) to say it's "likely third party software" at fault.

    It does seem troubling that such an issue could strike these new models so soon after release, and especially after similar graphics problems had impacted some MBP 2011-13 models.

    One wonders just how much emphasis goes on Q and A these days. Perhaps they need to spend a bit more time and money on that. Otherwise it's going to cause damage to Apple's reputation at a time when patience is already wearing thin with many pro users.
    The GPU issues in the older MBP's were of an entirely different category. There are three different styles of GPU involved here as well, AMD's Radeons, Intel's Iris with eDRAM, and Intel HD Graphics. Blaming this on hardware is more than a stretch. 
    irelandneo-techjas99indyfx

  • HMD Global aims to reclaim Nokia's lost cellphone glories, will fight Apple and Samsung

    thewhitefalconthewhitefalcon
    "Consumers may be carrying different smartphones now, but are they really in love and loyal to those brands?"

    Yes, next question. 
    sockrolidcornchip

  • Cook talks Apple's social activism in interview promoting World AIDS Day plans

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    anantksundaram said:
    SpamSandwich said:


    "....And corporations are just a bunch of people."

    Not true, Mr. Cook. Yes, corporations are populated by a bunch of people, but corporations are not "just a bunch of people." Rather, corporations most fundamentally a nexus of contracts.

    In fact, the nexus-of-contracts conception is the basis for the most widely prevalent view of the corporation under US law and governance. 
    Yes, corporations are legal entities, but there are no decisions that are made by corporations without the input and influence of people. So, both Tim Cook and Mitt Romney are right... "Corporations are made of people."
    That's a very different statement from "corporations are people." After all, if they are, they would also have 2nd, 5th and 14th amendment rights (1st amendment rights under Citizens United notwithstanding.). And many others. Would you want Goldman Sachs to be able to have a well-regulated militia? Or a company under indictment to be able to say that it has a right against self-incrimination when confronted? Or all manner of citizenship rights?
    Don't most big companies have private security? 
    tallest skil