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racerhomie3 said:

Fatman said:

They need to open an office in NYC! Tremendous talent out East and no earth quakes, fires, mudslides.

City of AOC . No thanks. I thought she said NYC has enough jobs.

Heh, I hear Wisconsin might have some space.

rfrmac said:

What do all these people do?  Seems the bigger Apple gets, the less innovative the company is becoming.

Most of the work required to run a company.  Grunt work.  ← That's not derogatory.  There are millions of small things that actually make a company run.  Most of it not sexy, all of it important.  

darren mccoy said:

It would be less offensive if the bump was more central, maybe where the Apple logo is on the back.

It does look better more centrally located, but I doubt Apple would do that since it would make the iPhone look far too similar to the Mate Pro 20.  Some would probably say it would only be fair since others copy Apple all the time.   Pretty sure Apple wouldn't think of it that way though.  

Even though it looks better centrally located, it's still an ugly design imo.  Apple should do something else.  Considering these are still just rumors, chances are they will. 

maestro64 said:

This tells me the data was meaningless, there was too much for them to deal with just to find the few bad guys. If this was truly affective they would not have abandon it like this. It sounds like they were collecting data just for sake of collecting and some bright people thought they could develop an algorithm to find the bad people . I also suspect the people they are interested in have shifted what they are doing. like not using technology.

This tells me they've improved the program, made it more effective, and found additional uses for it.  They're going to "cancel" it publicly and continue it's use with even less oversight.  I'm more inclined to believe the dog and pony show of "this doesn't work" is more feint than fact.  Cynical and conspiratorial?  Maybe.  Wrong?¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

"In terms of average revenue per user, Facebook reported $6.42 for the first quarter of 2019, up 16 percent year-over-year. It also reported daily active users of 1.56 billion, up 8 percent year over year." - from 9to5Mac article

Until this is negatively affected, FB is going to be FB and continue FB'ing. They will weather any storm because their users typically don't care about the things that matter to the tech nerd crowd. They are well on their way to building a WeChat type of environment where almost every aspect of a users digital life can be accessed and managed through their software... without leaving... ever.  FB allows the masses to live their best life, be it real or imagined.  This fine, as large as it may be, will be viewed as the cost of doing business as long as the revenue per user and daily active user numbers remain positive.