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j2fusion said:

The only difference is with the in-app purchase, the developer earns money directly from the user and with add tracking it would be indirectly through the sales of advertising.

The real difference is Apple does not get a cut from ad revenue in the latter case. Let's not pretend this is about privacy...   

rezwits said:

f all of your "Memory/System Morsels" are on the "HD" aka SSD aka NAND drive, easily readable at anytime there will only be one answer/solution =  ENCRYPTION at ALL TIMES...  good bye Spectre good bye Meltdown... using these new encryption methods Apple is working on.  Yep the future is now!

Merely encrypting all memory blocks (with a single key for the entire system) won't prevent Spectre/Meltdown style attacks at all, as those attacks don't directly access the memory, but rather have the CPU perform work on memory they don't own and then use cached vs cache miss timing to guess the values. Now, if each process/sand boxed unit has its own key...

truthintech said:
Actual hourly wage was $18.00 per hour.  Not commenting on good or bad of wage, but on annual basis was closer to 40K if worked full time and now is over 50K for full time. 

If you are going to put that into perspective, then you should also mention that's $40K-50K/yr wage in silicon valley, while the tech workers they are shuttling around are easily making $120-$150K/yr. Whether that's fair or not, realize how much the non-techies are being priced out of living in the place they work.

cali said:

I think Apple has enough money to buy an island they can operate from or go foreign like Ireland or some really poor 3rd world country and boost their economy instead.

Good luck convincing Apple engineers to move to said country or building the manufacturing capabilities to make the product. 

And of course, when Samsung do copy Apple's IP, what can Apple do then?

So missing the Q1 consensus & lower Q2 guidance than last year are all positive news? Apple is far from being in trouble, but is there even a pretense of impartiality in the headline?