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Twelve years later, Apple is still trying to erase mac.com email addresses
My first Apple email address was @itools.com, it moved over to @Mac, @me, and iCloud. Which email address is a constant source of spam? Answer iCloud.com. When Apple changed to giving or demanding every person buying a new iOS or Mac OS product sign up for an iCloud account it created a nightmare for me and I'm sure early adopters of earlier Apple email accounts. I got my itools.com email account while watching S Jobs introducing it live. I immediately signed up and got an account using my first name@Itools.com. I kept my firstname@ all the way through iCloud but unfortunately newbies to the platform mostly from the explosion of iPhone sales are not that smart and constantly use my iCloud email address for their shopping sites, and just about everything else. What have I received from strangers who stubbornly thought my email was theirs? A full detailed tax return, a death report from a morgue, photos of soon to be brides in dressing rooms asking my opinion on her gown, legal documents for a restaurant in Australia, hugely personal messages from strangers, and one women insisted I stole her account. The @me account Is almost as bad but it's the iCloud account which is the bane of my existence. I have spoken to experts at Apple about how to block, remove or shut down iCloud and the Me email addresses but they told me it was impossible. Few people outside of Apple nerds remember @Mac.com so I use it for that reason and it's and easy to tell someone name@mac.com when they ask for my email.
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Apple reportedly in negotiations to expand New York City office location
Let me break that down for you. Those large businesses re-thinking their NYC strategy were not here 20 years ago. We didn't have big chain stores or national chain restaurants, even Mc Donalds had only a handful of stores here back then. All that change with the WTC attacks and the election of Bloomberg who made NYC a lot more attractive to corporations after his campaign to sanitize our city. Along with all that terrible corporate crap came American tourists who for the first time in my lifetime felt NY wanted them there. Times Sq became Disney land now that all the adult entertainment had been removed, our latest tourists magnet and source of their sympathy became "9-11-land" or ground zero a lame term for a tragedy which created the longest war in American history.thrang said:The fact is many businesses have, or are in the process of, re-evaluating the benefit of being in a larger city. I work for a large (150k employee) multinational firm headquartered in NYC (actually they own several building outright, or lease multiple floors in about 15 locations in Manhattan) The process for virtual PC access for at least half the workforce is already underway. Space utilization will be cut significantly. My wife works in a smaller NYC-based firm, but all 30 people are remote and the ownership has all but stated this will be permanent.
My son works with hundreds of businesses in NYC for auditing purposes, and all are now remote (understandably) - but more than half will remain that way going forward.
There are countless stories about the realities of this. Whether its rioting (real or perceived), COVID or whatever combination of factors (certainly city leadership has been atrocious), when people not only start to evaluate alternatives, but actually put them into practice, mindsets change.
So once commercial real estate begins to drop, supporting businesses (those that have even survived the prolonged shutdown), will also begin to close... residential real estate will also be impacted commensurately... efforts to tax even more will only drive higher income people out even faster (as will the natural relocation of businesses regardless)... and the net loss to the city (and many other) may very well be deep and long lasting.
For many, there is no personal benefit being in a big city. Compared to surrounding suburbia, they are intensely crowded, relatively dirty, lack sky and greens, are more expensive to shop or dine, and waste tremendous time and personal energy to commute to and from (my wife and I save 10 hours A WEEK each not commuting)
Yes, entertainment, museums, etc are in the cities. In the larger picture, so what. If they still can survive, one can always visit the three or four times a year you might partake in the arts. That has no bearing on working or living there.
We love our so called dirt, our crowed neighborhoods, we don't fear our neighbors as most Americans do, we don't all have an arsenal of guys like those suburbanites who always think someone is out to get them. People are what has made NYC one of the greatest cities in the world not shopping at A&F, Victoria's Secret which can be found in any depressing suburban mall. So please don't bother to visit us when this pandemic is over, I for one enjoyed only seeing fellow New Yorkers these past several months than people from the most mediocre parts of this coun
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Apple reportedly in negotiations to expand New York City office location
Dude I have lived in NYC for 40 years, I assume you don't. There were a few nights when windows were smashed in big expensive luxury stores, it was predictable. Those shops kept the wood panels in place since they having already been closed months earlier due to the pandemic, not because those of few bad nights. The kind of people that always take advantage of situations like these acted as expected.SpamSandwich said:
Please. Everyone has seen the non-politically biased video of stores being looted, luxury car thefts and buildings now being completely boarded up in the downtown area. The rioting isn’t “non-stop” but it has led to an unprecedented number of people and businesses fleeing the city and the state.ndnyc said:As someone who’s lived in NYC for over 20 years, I can tell you whatever news source is telling you it’s a riot zone, has failed you. High achievers will always gravitate toward population centers NYC. And NYC has structural advantages that make it better able to survive and more quickly recover than perhaps any other city. Apple knows this even if people who don’t live here don’t.
Regarding "feeing the city" the pandemic gave some people that final push to leave and I bet they were contemplating it before the pandemic hit. My client's who are all wealthy headed to one of their country homes or to places like Hawaii, they did not sell their Manhattan property I can assure you. The same kind of people that fled NYC soon after the WTC attacks are leaving now as well. NYC is not a factory town which everyone abandons when the one employers shuts down. This city has endurance, New Yorkers love their city, those leaving now should probably never lived here anyway. -
Tim Cook responds to reader's Apple Watch ECG experience
Does expect the Apple Watch to tell anything while you are having a heart attack, just ask a good friend of mine.
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Facebook says Apple's 30% App Store fee hurts small businesses during COVID-19
You have zero idea to what a small independent business has to deal with. Corporations as Apple have pretty much a free pass to decide the rules, rates and policies and if you are using their services to sell your product you can do nothing but click "agree" and put up with it. Apple is so powerful that vendors are trapped and have to pay whatever precentage Apple wants. App developers are not a major movie studio with some bargaining power, a bunch of lawyers and a PR team. Keep defending Apple as it expands its monopoly power and see what eventually happens to the tech industry.magman1979 said:Yup, it's time for the all the other scum-bag, dick wad CEO's to start jumping on the bandwagon of Apple is EVIL, after all, they need to support their brother's in arms, or maybe wallets...
BTW, ArsTechnica just CRUSHED Epic in this article:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/as-epic-attacks-apple-and-google-it-ignores-the-same-problems-on-consoles/
Yeah, they totally have issue with paying the fees, uh huh...
