matrix077

7omr said:

Japhey said:

mobird said:

I canceled before the 30 day trial period was up. I agree that it felt unfinished. Apple tried to launch to many services at one time.

They only launched one service, News+. The others were only announced. But I also cancelled my trial before the month was up, thinking I would have till the end of month to sample it, like almost every other subscription out there. But no. It ended the day I canceled which was pretty annoying. 

I also cancelled before the 30 day period was up. I found it impossible to get directly to the mags I wanted to read. I get the managed selection of articles in the Free app, but at least they are news. I don’t get the value of a curated collection of articles from random mags. I’m not surprised the revenue is massively lower than forecast. Looks nice on the surface, but it is junk. Took the money I would have spent and found deals on both NYT and WaPo for less combined. Hate the NYT navigation also, but at least it’s actual news. 

freerange said:

I’m currently traveling in China and Apple News is not available even using VPN connected to a US server. I’ve been traveling to China for 20 years and lived here for 6 and internet access just keeps getting worse and worse! In this case however it is actually Apple that is restricting access as I can still access the NYT and WP, which are blocked by the Chinese. Speaking with my Chinese friends here, many are not even aware of the Hong Kong demonstrations, or the issues they are demonstrating against. Nothing like keeping 1.3 Billion people in the dark. Trump has so many good friends like himself! You know the ones, the ones in leadership positions that suppress those “enemies of the people”!

ElCapitan said:

matrix077 said:

Coincidentally I just deleted 25 or so adware from my MBA by the help of malwarebytes.com. It has never run cooler or quieter than now.

To answer Lorin Schultz above, just don’t install suspect apps, apps that the process of installation looks suspicious. And don’t install Safari extension that you’re not sure of. If possible get the apps from Mac App Store as much as possible. 

How on earth did you manage to get 25 or so malware on your Mac? – Or was it just something Malwarebytes reported, so it could sell you the Premium version? 

robbyx said:

matrix077 said:

ttollerton said:

This really is a rather dramatic and head scratching conflict.  At virtually every media event, Cook almost breaks into tears as he dramatically professes Apple’s core values around the right to privacy.  He goes so far as to fight the US government to access someone’s personal device.  

And yet, in China, a communist nation that oppresses individual rights, including privacy, Cook is more than willing to sway to the will of the oppressive government.  

I like Apple products, but I don’t want to hear about Apple’s values.   If they’re not universally applied, they’re not values.  They’re sales tactics.

So you propose Apple to get out of China market? How does that benefit Chinese consumers?

Who cares if it benefits the Chinese consumer?  Why does that even matter?  If you have values and principles, you live them. You don’t bend them to make a buck.  Like @ttollerton said, values are absolute.  If you don’t apply them universally, they aren’t values.