spice-boy

I bought one the ceramic watches last year and glad I did.  I had a feeling Apple would pull it sooner or later keeping it a bit elusive. 

The only service I use of Apple's is iCloud, this does not interest me otherwise. 

fordee said:

Please stop trying to justify this as a political hit job on big tech, it's not.

The timing, especially when they are not ready to argue the case, suggests that it is...

When would the timing be better, when Google controls twice as much? 

Rayz2016 said:

This just demonstrates the sheer desperation of the current administration. They need a win before November 3rd, or at the very least, a distraction from the body count. 

And in their desperation, they’re now saying is that a company is only allowed a certain level of success before it gets penalised. How very un-Republican. 

This case will fail because it has no foundation, and I say this as someone who thinks Google search is an ad-infested mess. 

Please stop trying to justify this as a political hit job on big tech, it's not. What it is in reality is anti-trust laws functioning as intended. The concentration of wealth in this country has created an unhealthy threat to all our livelihoods and future of our capitalist democracy. A few players own everything, there is no future or room for competition, innovation, new industries or choice. Apple is next on the chopping block, they are too big, overbearing in their policies with developers as the cash cow App Store has shown. Stop thinking of monopolies in the 20th century format ie: company x sell 90% of all the gadgets so its a monopoly. Apple does not have to be the biggest seller of  phone, personal devices, desktops, music sales etc to have the biggest control and profits because it is by far dominant collectively. Apple's story from underdog to tech titan was enabled more by tax law loopholes, creative bookkeeping. Put aside your admiration for moment and take a bystander look at the company and it's polices regarding competition, it's purchasing of small upstarts to which maybe to incorporate the technology or to snuff it out. A smarter move than merging with a competitor the way big corporations did in the 20th century on to be crushed under its own weight. 

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dipdog3 said:

New York used to be decently safe, what happened?

Yes, crime in NYC is a brand new thing...

Under Giuliani and Bloomberg things were relatively smooth. De Blasio is a psychopath.

De Blasio is an idiot and aloof, terrible mayor for many reasons but you can’t deny that up until a few months ago all crime had continued to decrease. The lowest murder rate on record was 2018, 5 years after Bloomberg left office. All crimes outside of shootings and murders have still continued to decrease. 

I guess the fact NYC is still in the midst of this global pandemic, stores large and small are shutting down, a big section of the population is unemployed, not money is coming to citizens here or anywhere else in the nation and you wonder why people are taking risks to make a dollar to survive? Poverty breeds crime but I guess you have never been poor and can't imagine what desperate people will do to eat. 

People aren't "making a dollar", they are stealing someone else's. Big difference.

If the mayor was that concerned about his middle class citizens he'd do what other mayors are doing, opening things up. The laws of what business owners can and can't do with their own business is a crime within itself.

Not so street I see, making a dollar or "getting paid" is a term for petty theft. Keep you eye focused on the petty thieves while your healthcare is cancelled, your Covid-19 survival payments stop coming and pay no attention to those at the top who trying to ruin your life.