davidlewis54

Re: Avon B7’s comment: why should Apple or any other company ask permission from a government or a body like the EU to create something for public use? Nothing would ever be created or invented because it would be decision making by committee and take it from me because I work in that environment, it is a road to nowhere.  Creation and invention should never be a political decision.  Every big invention has had negative responses in the first instance from governments so there would be no trains, no cars, no radio, no TV: the list is endless.  Political intervention absolutely stifles creativity.  This is made worse by, generally, the party in power being there because of a minority, even if that minority creates the party with the biggest vote.

I’m at a loss to understand the EU position on any of its complaints.  Apple certainly does not have any sort of a monopoly over any aspect of any of its product range.  All tech companies offer different things in different regions.  No tech company has every application or product available in all regions at the same time and sometimes there are years apart, if at all.
Apple is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t.  MS Office, particularly Word is pretty much ubiquitous.  I’d much rather not use it but have to because every other business does.  There never seems to be any complaint about that. 

It’s all nonsense, really.  Just a few folks talking a value up and down and betting with someone else’s money on those rises and falls. A company is only worth its assets less its liabilities.  In Apple’s case that is probably pretty good but in many other cases, it isn’t.  Many Silicon Valley companies, stated to be worth billions actually make losses on trading so are actually worthless, at best.  The whole thing is, of course, too big to fail.  It doesn’t stop hedge funds buying up companies, taking out the assets and shutting the thing down, losing huge numbers of jobs.  Who cares, though?

AI, as it currently is, is not artificial intelligence.  It is just the next level of processing.  Calling it AI is a great sales’ pitch, though.

It’s not forgotten by me!