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dysamoria said:

No one GAVE me any Apple product. I spent lots of my own long-term stashed money (being reserved for the next Mac Pro) to buy an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and Smart Keyboard, so I can try to work on music and art projects from the comfort of a recliner/couch/bed instead of only at a desk or laptop. The pencil & keyboard are probably not going to arrive till February some time :-p

oh, a friend gifted me a $25 iTunes card for my 40th birthday. Korg ended up with the money. Then I spent more of my own money on more Korg apps.

xmas means nothing to me and I have no social group to celebrate even the solstice with. It's just another day, but with annoying traffic, annoying music at stores, and then inconvenience of closed stores and facilities. The annoyance is just a pretext to watching/hearing everyone go crazy over the new year holiday, which is just a reminder to me of how irrelevant and meaningless my life has been over the last ten years (and will remain as I age to death in a place I hate and cannot leave).

serendip said:

I wonder if the compromise is to make everyone absolutely secure but then un-secure the devices of the ones the governments have warrants for. AFTER the warrant is served.. any new data (messages, etc) is made available to law enforcement. It would be similar to wire taps in old tech. The government can tap a phone line with proper authorization but it can't get previous conversations before the tap went into effect. No volume data collection for no reason except.. "just in case we can go back and find stuff". Privacy is not guaranteed for those the government has warrants for.. it isn't now and in my opinion it should never be. If the government has reason to suspect someone and has gone through the right channels to conduct surveillance on you then (explained to judge and got a warrant) then it has the right to look through your windows, go through your garbage and track your car. What it doesn't have the right to do is track your car and save all your trash in a warehouse without a warrant so that if anything ever happens they can get a warrant and look back at your history. Leaving a door open for all to enter is just plain stupid... no matter how secure you think the door is.

scottw2 said:

sdw2001 said:

So sick of hearing these analysts.  They are simply getting attention and/or driving the market.  That's the way this works...it's like the move Wall Street.  

I think Tim Cook and Apple management shares the blame as they did nothing to counter the analysts' negativity. On August 24, Apple stock briefly dropped below $92 before Tim Cook sent an email to Crammer saying , essentially, "China is fine". Apple closed the day at $103. He could have done the same thing, saying something to the tune of "please don't look into our supply chain. The iPhone is doing fine". However, he elected not to do so and allow these analysts to control the narrative.

ksec said:

They will need a decent Mac Mini upgrade. Much more polishing on OSX El Capitan to even let Enterprise Consider it. Windows 10 on PC is still a much better choice at the moment.