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JP234 said:

JinTech said:

Ofer said:

laytech said:

This isn't Apple as they are just getting on the same band wagon, but these pay now pay later schemes are just tools to encourage people to get into debt. I deplore them. 

You can argue why are they so different from credit cards. They are not really but its more debt people will get into. 

 Different from credit cards in that there’s no predatory interest rates involved. But other than that, yeah, I agree with you. Encouraging people to go into debt over purchases is not good (with the exception of large milestone purchases like cars and homes).

I don't think that is the case for everyone. For me, I cannot afford big purchases all at once but I have the option to make several payments, that works. I have bad credit (not from my own choosing) so using the pay later works best for me.

If you can't afford big purchases all at once right now, why not just bank the money for 4 months and then buy it all at once?

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

That Is what will happen if apple is forced allow other app stores. 

They will make a crippled version of their app for the App Store, and them they will make you get the full version from their store. 

AppleZulu said:

lkrupp said:

Sure, why not. I would trust a guy named Bumstead, wouldn’t you? I’m sure Blondie would keep him honest.

But let’s be real. From what we read and see every day it’s clear that the general public doesn’t give a rat’s ass about their privacy, security, data, or personal information. Neither do politicians. Convenience trumps all of that. The owners of these recycled devices couldn’t take the time to wipe them before discarding them… because they didn’t care about their data.

Yes, let's be real. You couldn't be more wrong about this. The previous owners in this case have specifically contracted to have the devices destroyed in order to protect the security of their data. Businesses routinely contract with companies that shred paper, and those shredder companies follow procedures that allow them to assure their customers that the confidential information on that paper will be protected by shredding the paper as well as by proper handling before it's fed into the shredder. The businesses hiring the shredder companies have almost certainly not had someone go through every page to redact information with a sharpie first. That's not because they don't care about their data. It's because it's more cost effective to shred it than to have someone redact each page individually. They're paying money to the disposal company to assure data security by shredding the paper. This is no different than businesses that send Macs to recyclers who assure that those devices will be destroyed in order to protect data security. Apple's activation lock helps assure that the devices are secure until they're scrapped. 

avon b7 said:

I was a big fan of Be as a candidate for a new Mac Operating System. A candidate that would have needed massive investment and lots of engineering to make it serve its purpose as a consumer oriented system. 

Apple went with NeXT and I was a massive fan of Avie and that system also needed a ton of money and other resources thrown at it and was to serve the following 15 years. The original OSX was in no way ready for prime time on release and it wasn't until Tiger and then Snow Leopard that things settled down. 

So 15 years for Haiku to reach beta 4 may be a landmark of sorts but it can't challenge Windows or macOS where it matters. 

More to the point, even Windows and macOS aren't really ready for the next 15 years at this point either. 

The future is IoT and AI. Everything connected to everything with virtualisation of hardware, distributed security, distributed file systems etc. 

I very much doubt that the innards of Haiku have been developed with that in mind and that is what is going to be needed.