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T-Mobile users angered by iPhone 14 preorder failures
It’s interesting how common to have ordering problems due to high demand. I’d like to know the details.One would have expected these issues would have been worked out by now.But one thing is clear; It’s not really important. There is no emergency.
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Apple Pay processes $6 trillion annually, edges out Mastercard
More disruption is coming summer 2023. The Federal Reserve is coming online with its FedNow.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.htm
I have no idea how FedNow will affect credit card systems like Apple Pay, MasterCard, Visa, if any. But, I'm sure the issues will be addressed as the implementation date approaches.
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Big tech antitrust bill in danger after lobbyist spending spree
I'm not against the idea of anti-trust applied to the tech industry, but I've read this very short anti-trust proposal, and its simply a piece of crap.
Nobody could lobby me to vote in favor of this bill, and you could give me a million dollars and I still wouldn't vote in favor of it.
The political system certainly is broken in many ways, and one way is these morons in Congress have no idea what a good law looks like and don't seem to care. The bill, like their campaigns, is a word salad.
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'Servant' plagiarism trial against Apple will proceed with a full jury
The author of this article might be correct as I have no information about the case proceedings to date.
But, this report explicitly says this court has ruled not to limit discovery as requested by Apple, et al. So, it seems this case is in the discovery phase and the claim that a full jury trial is going to happen is premature. There is a lot yet to do before they get to the point of deciding on going before a jury.The appeals court merely agreed with the plaintiffs that the trial court’s summary judgment with prejudice as a matter of law was incorrect.The plaintiff need for discovery is required to find evidence of plagiarism rather than some overlap of common themes.Some forty years ago I came across a book in the state’s law library which made the claim that there were only 22 (?) different themes in all of literature. An interesting claim. It means if someone thinks they have an original idea — they probably don’t.That’s also the reason why copyright doesn’t require originality of the idea, merely originality of the expression.
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US DOJ prepping antitrust case against Apple
Money talks and government listens. No money, no hear.
Apple has been successful at producing quality goods and expects to be paid for doing it. That does not make them a monopoly.
Sherlocking is a strange idea. It's just some competitor making a product which competes with yours and perhaps doing a better job. Just because it's Apple doesn't make it any different from any other company though they have substantially more resources to throw at such products than most so such companies are at a real disadvantage.
Tile had a great idea -- but you can't protect the idea using IP laws. But, a company like Tile would be underwater and bankrupt if they'd have much of the success of Apple with AirTags. Tile never had to worry about their customers illegally tracking others -- too small a customer based to attract the miscreants doing that. The success of AirTags brought the Feds into the game because how they were sometimes being used. Being big and successful can have significant downsides in this way.
