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lkrupp said:

Once again we are treated to an ‘unverifiable rumor” and we’re off to the races. Tech blogs are ablaze with hate, indignation, recrimination, factual errors, and misinformation. Another day in the la-la land of make-believe and the continuous mantra drum beat of the Evil Apple Empire.

All social media is ablaze with BS. 

The job of an editor is to NOT print everything. Transparency does not mean repeating transparently dubious articles. 

What? All middlemen make money otherwise they wouldn't be in business. Since when is 30% too much? There must always be a markup. In Apple's case, the vender can charge what they want without the middleman telling them. 

It could it be that government employees don't have a clue about how businesses work?

bestkeptsecret said:

brianjo said:

Why doesn't Apple offer multi-user capability on the iPhones/iPads like they do on the Mac? It would make perfect sense to do so.

Isn't it obvious? Why settle for selling one phone/ tablet, when you can sell many to the same family?

Well, it's also obvious that $1000 Grubhub would buy your kid a nice iPhone. 

I don't know if there isn't a better word, far less suspect, than "crippled" to describe restriction on spending money on Fortnite nonsense. 

Apple and the ad agencies are going to have to be much more specific on what and how personal information is being used. General arguments are not going to cut it, at least for me. 

Plenty of tracking is happening as it is. Youtube and Facebook definitely tracks what is see. For example, I've watched Simple White Underbelly interviews recently and now many individual interviews are showing up on Youtube. I'm okay with that, as these interviews are quite informative. That's tracking which I don't find problematic. I'm not seeing ads or other content. 

At the same time, I'm not seeing any e-mails, messages, that are related to any content I've seen through Apple products, such as News+.