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normm said:

soldbyroland said:

If there is a God in heaven, she will be picked as Grandma's vice president. Nothing could be more repugnant than these shrill Blues Sisters out on the campaign trail together. Neither of them has ever created anything except hysteria. Yet they are out criticizing the the people who create jobs and opportunity. What a wretched creature she is!!

Warren is one of the top bankruptcy experts in the world, many say the top expert.  She's highly cited in her publications on this subject, working as a professor at Harvard.  She grew up as a Republican, but it was seeing how ordinary people get pushed into bankruptcy by lack of heath care, and tricked out of their savings by financial advisors and "services", that made her enter politics.  She has fought the big banks that screwed up the economy harder than anyone else.  Remember that she was supposed to be in charge of the Consumer Protection Agency which she started, but the bank lobby and Republicans blocked her.  She started from humble beginnings and has accomplished more than most ever will.  It would be nice to have someone who has spent her life working hard to understand economics involved in running things when the world economy is so shaky!

I am the number one Apple fan, but they are not above criticism.  I actually think they would do better by reducing or eliminating their cut of subscription and media-buying charges.  It almost forces sellers to move the buying part off their iDevices, which certainly hurts the user experience.  I think Apple would make more money overall if they made less in ways that hurt the user experience!

Apple does have its problems. But Warren's sycophantic behavior towards Hillary with Hillary's close relationship to Goldman-Sachs is what destroys Warren's credibility altogether. Never mind that Hillary housed top secret information on a personal server. And Warren has done nothing towards repealing meaningful use which is going to wreck the American health care system. Warren has lost all of her credibility. 

Trump's character is flawed. But Hillary is absolutely no better. She's an elitist with the ethical character of a Zika carrying mosquito. Trump is a racist with the ethical character of a malaria carrying mosquito. And all Warren is saying is that when the choice is made, it's better to be bit by the Zika mosquito. And Warren should be supported for this?!?

Apple has no obligation to include Spotify's app on iTunes for different terms than they give anyone else. If Spotify doesn't like it, they can always put their app on Google Play. It's not Apple's fault that Android users don't want to pay for services. 

Apple is absolutely not a monopolist. The iPhone has what? 20% marketshare? If that's Warren's definition of a monopolist, her education means nothing. And I would demand my money back from Harvard if I took one of her classes. 

lkrupp said:

If she gets on the ticket that will almost guarantee the election of Donald Trump. Warren is totally ensconced in the lunatic fringe left. She is their leader and savior.

It doesn't matter. She will likely occupy a prominent position in the Clinton cabinet whether she is the Vice President or not. Her endorsement of Hillary and her anti American positions have disqualified the Democrats in my book. Not sure that I can vote Trump either. But I know that I will not vote for the Dems. 

larrya said:

It does baffle as to why Tim Cook would help to raise money for any participant in a party who's presidential candidate says Apple should be boycotted and that he is going to force Apple to move manufacturing from China to the U.S.  I guess I'm the naive one.

Maybe it's because Elizabeth Warren is saying that Apple has too much monopoly power and that something needs to be done about it. 

Trump wants Apple to manufacture its products in the US. A far cry from threatening action against a monopolist like Warren intends against Apple. 

Apple will do what's in its best interests. Even if it is about sending a message to the democrats that their so-called progressive agenda needs to be realigned. 

Elizabeth Warren has gone off of the deep end. Does she think that Samsung or Huawei are going to play by the same rules? What recourse will Apple have if she has her way and Samsung ascends as the dominant technology player? I guess the US could remove its troops from South Korea and watch the nation arm itself with nuclear weapons to counter the threat from the North leading to the destabilization of east Asia. And what of Huawei and Xiaomi where threats against the Chinese are going to merit an even far more adversarial response from their government?

I'm no fan of Trump, but Hillary's character is no better and very likely worse. And Warren thinks Clinton is actually better than Trump. Trump is racist and a scam artist, but Hillary flouts the law and thinks she is above everyone else. Her law career was more important than seeing actual justice to a 12 year old girl whose rapist literally walked free. And does anyone these days remember the fiasco of her proposed health care policy during Bill's term in office? And the election of Hillary will mean dealing with Warren in a high level cabinet position. At least Bernie is honest and forthcoming. Warren these days has become a hack. 

Why is it that Apple has become the scapegoat for all that ills the American economy? Apple should be promoted as a role model, not vilified because they are successful. Clinton through her mouthpiece Warren and Trump are wrong about Apple. 

The election process is now officially a three ring circus. 

If there were ever a time for a legitimate third party candidate, the time is now. 

Interesting that Google is doing this. Their model must be under greater pressure than would appear at a casual glance. 

They cannot hope to beat Samsung in building a better device. In fact, they will need to source much of the hardware from Samsung. The phone won't be as good. And it will be just another device powered by the same QCOM SoC. It won't sell in China and it won't stop Samsung from continuing its Tizen development. Huawei is also keen on developing its own OS. 

Tizen is actually a very powerful mobile OS that scales well. It's better than Android in many ways. It's only problem is the lack of apps and a developer base. However, if Samsung could partner with Huawei, those two control 30% of the smartphone market. 

The developers would come for a product with that kind of market share. Google absolutely must hedge Android but they are incapable of building their own hardware. 

And their search product is now under grave threat from Amazon. Amazon has greatly lessened the need to perform web based search when conducting Ecommerce by the development of their own app. Tapping the Amazon app is the first thing many people do. They no longer "Google" products. Huge loss of potential revenue for Google. And then there's the Echo which Woz thinks is the next big thing. The Echo is the best voice interface period. Apple will beef up Siri, but Google's effort will fail. 

Google is far too undisciplined. They don't really know what they want to do outside of search. The result is a bunch of half cocked projects from their cloud, fiber and now handset effort. They are losing big time to Facebook's oculus in VR. In fact Samsung's VR is based on Oculus, not on Google's to be released version. 

When Google search fails and it's really only a matter of time, the company will have nothing of substance to take its place as a revenue generator.