JamesBB

freds143213 said:

JamesBB said:

If you knew what the NSA really has access to, you would wish your data was stored in China or Iran... Hoover and the Stasi's of George Orwell are thriving in the US. Don't be fooled! The great USA may proudly boast about their founding fathers and all their civil liberties... but those rights are gone long ago, while only the most educated noticed...

LOL. Each time you turn on your smart phone phone its tracking your location and everything you do including your contacts etc allowing Apple to resell your info to 3rd parties who pay big bucks for it. Its called data mining

Absolutely, if you are an Android user. As for Apple, i don't know where you got that piece of info. Last time i read their financials, their income was entirely related to hardware sales and subscription services... do you have access to financials that the rest of us don't?

Apple sees it as their primary differentiation that they DON'T have an interest in your personal stuff. That (and a superior sw/hw integration) is how they stand out compared to the Androids of this world...

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jc helpingthe poorand forgoten said:

then you side with the people that say everybody should have another tool, a gun at all time, everywhere and have the right to kill to protect their privacy and rights. 

Every sane person should have a gun, if they so desire. It's their right. And they should definitely use it too, should the situation warrant it.

Those who are fearful of a gunless society, just look at chrime and homicide rates in developed countries with strict gun regulation. USA have 10 times more gun related homicides per capita than Germany...Why? Because of an almighty weapons industry with a huge economical incentive to continue the ongoing civil war...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

Seriously, we cannot continue to pretend that we live in the wild west and allow underaged gunslingers to roam the streets... Let's evolve as a species like the rest of the world.

sflocal said:

I'm ashamed that my government is attempting to play on the ignorance of its citizens to flat-out violate my right to privacy.  I would totally expect it in China, or in Iran, but in my country?  Shameful.

If you knew what the NSA really has access to, you would wish your data was stored in China or Iran... Hoover and the Stasi's of George Orwell are thriving in the US. Don't be fooled! The great USA may proudly boast about their founding fathers and all their civil liberties... but those rights are gone long ago, while only the most educated noticed...

nelmat said:

Apple Music is a mess. counter-intuitive interface, personal playlists of my own music hidden layers deep in a clunky, unresponsive interface. They need to spend a lot of time fixing Apple Music, making it way to use and completely overhaul iTunes. As a long term Apple fanboy, I am disillusioned and fed up of the mess. First subscription I've cancelled, not worth the money until the interface is much improved and my music is given the same priority in the interface as the Apple Music library.

All music services are at a low level of maturity at this stage. I agree with you that there is plenty of room for improvement, but being a previous Spotify and Pandora subscriber, don't see this as an Apple specific issue.

All of them needs to improve to really be worthwhile the subscription fees...

Write an article every time you have problems with your bandwidth and blame it on an Apple product... Keep the negative spin coming.

There is only two days left before Tim Cook starts re-purchasing shares again...