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lkrupp said:

spice-boy said:

lkrupp said:

Who gets to do "after hours trading"? Certainly not the individual investor, right? If certain investors get to buy and sell securities over the weekend why is the stock market "closed" on Saturday and Sunday. I don't get this.

I guess all your "hard earned" money made from owning stock in Apple will be gone soon. Maybe another huge tax break for the 1% would make it right? 

It's times like these when the communists crawl out of the woodwork promising a chicken in every pot even though they know they can't deliver on that promise. "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work" is an old Russian saying. Time to send the rich to reeducation camps and confiscate their wealth. Oh wait, that's Bernie's plan. My bad.

tyler82 said:

How will I be able to see the next incrementally mediocre iPhone upgrade????

maybe buy an android phone?

sirozha said:

With all due respect, iCloud is nothing like Azure or AWS. 

Azure and AWS are not only storage services but mostly cloud compute services. You can run your entire data center in AWS or Azure. Can you run anything in iCloud? 

For crying out loud, iCloud can't even implement folder sharing among family members. That's just embarrassing, provided that Dropbox was able to do this 10 years ago. 


Apple had MobileMe with cloud storage before Dropbox was founded, and now, over 15 years later, we still can't share folders! I upgraded all my Macs from Mojave to Catalina a couple weeks ago in order to be able to share folders among family members. Guess what I found out? This feature, which was promised during WWDC 2019, was not implemented in Catalina and was delayed until "Spring 2020". Seriously, Apple? Another disaster project from hell, just like Car Play, Apple Maps, and Siri. 

iCloud does very very little compared to even Dropbox. Don't brig up Azure or AWS in the same article with iCloud because those services are lightyears ahead of iCloud. 

When one speaks of Apples services, iCloud should be used as an example of how NOT to do services. Apple did well with Apple Pay and perhaps Apple Card (I wouldn't know anything about Apple Card, as I am not planning to have it). Apple TV+, Apple Maps, CarPlay, Siri, and iCloud, are serious flops on Apple's part. Yes, Apple Maps is still a disaster just like it was in 2012. CarPlay is so inferior to Android Auto that it's not even close. Even when running Google Maps on CarPlay, you can't get anywhere near in functionality of what Android Auto can do, and that's mostly because of how inferior Siri is to Google Assistant. Apple Maps is so bad that you can't use it to navigate to any POI reliably. It simply lacks the intelligence of Google Assistant + Google Search + Google Maps running in Android Auto. For that reason, I keep a cheap Android phone permanently connected to my car's head unit in order to use Android Auto. All my other phones are iPhones. 

rotateleftbyte said:

- Card
- TV+
- News+
- Arcade

- Music

I'll pass on all of the above.

In fact I pass on pretty well all things that require subscriptions (from apple or not). I know that I'm not alone there.

When you retire, you are on a much reduced income. This madcap drive to make everything subscription is indeed targetted at Millenials/Gen ?? who bitch a lot about not being able to save any money. Coincidence?

Those of us who are retired are generally asset rich, cash poor, have great credit histories but are generally ignored by marketeers unless it is to sell us funeral plans.

Apple has a lot (As in huge) number of people who have been customers for years even decades but most of what they are doing is targetting the under 30's who are both asset and cash poor (or so we are led to belived). Strange that.

But I'm not sure what would interest us in the way of services. But I do know that I'll carry on not buying 'stuff' that I can't afford from my cash in hand.

Just my useless $0.02 worth. YMMV.