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  • White House says Trump doesn't want to harm Apple and iPhone prices won't rise

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    y2an said:
    “Ordered”? There is no such power. 
    Try telling that to "Rule by Decree" King Donald.

    Oppose his wishes, and he'll threaten you or deport you or sue you. Or, in the case of the courts, simply ignore you.
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  • Texas passes App Store age verification law, despite Tim Cook's concerns

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    diman80 said: An Apple ID already contains enough private information, so no additional data needs to be shared. 
    That's incorrect. An Apple ID could be created with an email address and by adding a credit card number (or even just a prepaid card number) for payment. That doesn't include age, a drivers license number or PII, a birth certificate, a passport, or other information.

    And that's information that must be uploaded and stored in order to have proof of age.

    Worse, we don't have any sort of standardized API associating "proof of age" such that we can simply ask "is this user old enough" w/o giving away more information than we should.
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  • Tantalizing details of Jony Ive's AI device leak after OpenAI meeting

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    Ive desperately wants to do yet another video VoiceOver where he discusses the device's "space age alu-min-imum frame"...
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  • Apple Pay increasing in popularity online as shoppers seek speed & security

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    "That privacy-first approach has become a selling point...."

    More security-first than privacy-first, from my perspective. Every site I share a credit card number with multiplies the chances my card number and information will be stolen in a data breach.

    And by using Apple Pay, I also decrease the chances of my purchase data being shared and cross-matched by my credit card number.
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  • Adobe hikes Creative Cloud prices with a rebrand no one asked for

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    I actually have the Adobe "Photography" Plan that just bumped up from $9.99/mo to $15.52/mo. ($19.95 listed on site).

    Or had, rather, since I just cancelled it. I no longer use it enough to justify the cost, and have been using Pixelmator Pro for the odd work that I needed done.

    Switching to a new program isn't easy... but it's getting easier, and I'm getting tired of Adobe's incessant price increases.

    I'm currently going through the painful process of trying to delete the apps from my machine.

    Apparently Adobe didn't hear about the "one click cancel/delete" law...
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