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  • Judge backs AliveCor patent suit that seeks US Apple Watch ban

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    mikethemartian said:
    mike1 said:
    "...all its cases center on a claim that Apple copied the company's Apple Watch ECG ideas."

    Can't patent or control ideas. Be curious as to exactly what they have patented.


    Apple just patented a dual monitor stand that someone in their garage could have cooked up on the weekends.
    Before you criticize a patent, find out what is being patented. Design, the materials, recycling process, the manufacturing, ….

    common sense should tell you that something cooked up in a garage over a weekend is highly unlikely to be patentable. At minimum, such would fail the “obviousness” criterion. 

    Intelligent people know the limits of their knowledge. If scientists and engineers who are make their living improving stuff and lawyers who write up the patents for those improvements successfully patent that improvement, you should probably assume it’s you who doesn’t know what their talking about rather than them. 
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  • iPadOS 16 makes significant changes to how an iPad operates, but it isn't enough

    larryjwlarryjw
    Missing from the iPad is programming applications. The problem is any user who bought the iPad for consumption has a machine incapable of developing programs on.

    By programming I mean running programs like R, or a database like PostgreSQL. Such programs are really not that much different from Word, Excel, KeyNote, 
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  • Under pressure from Apple Pay Later, PayPal improves its buy now pay later offerings

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    cpsro said:
    Pay Later is weekly over 6 weeks--barely better than a month and hardly worth talking about--which doesn't compare to 6-24 months.
    Well, if you get paid weekly or bi-weekly, this gives buyers to ability to pay out of income rather than savings. This is still a useful feature.

    I always pay out of income when I can, though I can afford to pay upfront for everything I purchase. I just make sense. And when the payments are automatically applied, buyers should never have to pay interest. 

    Compare this process with, say, buying appliances, or furniture. There, the stores offer no payments for a year -- while the interest builds up over that time. It's a loan with a high interest rate -- and the buyer gets screwed royally. You never want to pay interest, period; that's money directly out of your pocket. 
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  • UK antitrust agency will investigate Apple & Google over gaming and mobile browsers

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    Funny how the real problems with the tech industry is amplification of misinformation and lies. 

    But, not to my surprise, lobbying by wealthy corporations operating as multiple fake industry groups claiming to just want to help the little guy, gets the politicians to do their bidding.

    It would be far better for us if we ate our vegetables rather than elect them. 
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  • Apple is financing all the lending for the Apple Pay Later service

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    This maybe Apple’s attempt to deal with the changing financial environment. 

    India put into place regulations which prevented a functional subscription model.

    There is crypto. There is FedNow. There is coming Central Bank Digital Cash. And similar from other countries.

    It makes sense for Apple to split out a separate entity to deal with changing landscape. 
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