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netrox said:

It's time for Apple to increase the cost of AppleCare. It's just not acceptable from a business viewpoint. And it's not acceptable that so many customers abuse their devices, costing repairs.

Apple makes tens of billions of dollars a quarter and has more money than it knows what to do with. No they do not need to increase the price of Apple Care.

GeorgeBMac said:

So, Google is now (or will soon):

-- Tracking people's heart rate & exercise from their FitBit

-- Tracking their browsing & click history via Chrome

--  Searching their emails via GMail

--  Watching what they type on Google Docs

--  Scanning their photos via Android

--  Tracking their health history after obtaining full, unrestricted patient data from one of the U.S.'s largest healthcare organizations.

--  Tracking where people go via Google Maps

T H A N K    Y O U     A P P L E ! ! !

... I am grateful!

Let’s not forget this:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90385310/apple-suspends-siri-grading-program-that-lets-contractor-listen-in-on-recordings

GeorgeBMac said:

Why Austin?
Why Texas?

Texas is good for business and Austin is like a liberal California city just in Texas.

The idea that one person could say we’re going to prioritize thin and light over everything else and the rest of the company goes ‘OK whatever you say’ is nonsense. Phil Schiller loves being able to get up on stage and say this is the thinnest and lightest X we’ve ever made. Heck the iPad Air marketing was all about all the power in a device thinner than a #2 pencil. And this goes back to the Jobs era. When the MacBook Air was first released Jobs announced it on stage by pulling it out of a manila envelope and spent a good part of his presentation talking about how much thinner it was than a Sony laptop (that was one of the thinnest around at the time). And on Apple’s website they referred to it as ‘Thinnovation’. This was under Steve Jobs.

Seems to me this is all about the tiny fee Apple collects when Apple Pay is used. Or that these other companies want some sort of access that allows them more transaction data than Apple Pay provides. In either case it has nothing to do with innovation or competition and it’s certainly not for the customers benefit.