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entropys said:

Nice promotion and all, but I would have thought passengers on a cruise ship would already have phones. 

Also: only less than a quarter of the people have been tested? Priorities people!

ihatescreennames said:

While all this stuff sounds interesting I’m concerned that whatever tech is used will be obsolete down the road. For example, when Apple drops UWB from iPhones to adopt its successor will I have a house full of less useful outlets and switches (that “need” to be replaced at $60-100 apiece)? That doesn’t sound great. 

gatorguy said:

cy_starkman said:

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stantheman said:

The Google Boys had one profitable idea: search. All of their other ideas generated $172 million in quarterly revenue at a cost of $2+ billion. If Google were unable to track the online activity of ordinary citizens and sell ads using their personal data, that one idea may not be profitable, either.

Which is why Apple should have killed them with iAd.

that was never possible. Apple would never have approved all the spam, malware, scams, hate, violence, child grooming, porn and use of morally questionable keyword linking required to have taken Google’s biggest customers from them.

LOL.... Hate much? Such weird claims. 

Welcome to the internet. Google didn't design it, Apple can't control it, and Microsoft cannot hold the door key. We are the problem not some faceless company. Look in the mirror instead. Dealing with hate and morally questionable practices begins with you and yours. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I hope Apple plans to quarantine its products for at least nine days as that is how long the virus can survive on a surface.

sirozha said:

davewrite said:

sirozha said:

 Apple doesn’t want to invest a couple hundred billion dollars in building real robots that can assemble iPhones. 

so replacing people's jobs with robots is the great solution ?
Apple providing jobs is why you don't want to buy Apple products or invest in aapl ?

Workers travel across the country to work at Foxconn. The wages there are way higher than what they could get at other jobs. Some according to reports earn 10 times their parents incomes.

(I belief in diversifying manufacturing and supply. But too often people's criticism of Apple's China operations is xenophobic racism masquerading as 'concern'. )

It’s not the responsibility of Apple or its shareholders to provide jobs to the poor Chinese citizens. It’s the responsibility of the Chinese government. 

Using the same logic, the slave owners justified slavery in the US, saying that their slaves have much better lives than they would have had in Africa had they not been captured and sold into slavery. I’m not kidding. The founding fathers who created this wonderful republic and wrote these wonderful documents like the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, etc. were all slave owners who thought of themselves as the most ethical human beings and for sure did not believe that them using slave labor was anything unethical. That includes people like George Washington. 

So, keep things in perspective. What Apple is doing today is not much different from
what slave owners did when they manufactured tobacco, cotton, and other crops with slave labor. 

Apple’s logistical savvy depends on 21st century equivalent of slavery.