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  • Apple's 'Find My' helped police track suspects in deadly pursuit

    seanismorrisseanismorris
    It’s fortunate that criminals are stupid, or they’d have figured out that stealing peoples iPhones and iPads is a bad idea by now.
    Anilu_777seanjFlytrapwatto_cobra

  • Where is Apple going next with Services?

    seanismorrisseanismorris
    designr said:
    Curious, with Apple's angle on privacy, if they've ever considered buying DuckDuckGo and pouring enough resources into it to put a dent in Google's primary revenue/profit source.

    Apple Maps was started to avoid being too beholden to Google for a critical service/information capability. They also ditched Samsung on ARM for similar reasons.

    A move like that could be a strategic move.

    The only other thing that immediately comes to mind is for Apple to more seriously pursue the MVNO idea they allegedly considered when launching iPhone.
    The search engine business is hard, just ask Microsoft.  DuckDuckGo’s search results mostly comes from other search engines.  If Apple wanted to reinvent the wheel they’d be decades behind.  They’d need to spend a fortune and still probably wouldn’t be as good.

    Besides, currently Apple does nothing and gets paid. 

    ”Google will reportedly pay Apple $9 billion in 2018 and $12 billion in 2019 to remain as Safari's default search engine, according to Business Insider. The report comes courtesy of Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall.Sep 29, 2018”

    Microsoft Bing apparently generates  $7.5 in annual revenue.
    watto_cobra

  • Where is Apple going next with Services?

    seanismorrisseanismorris
    Apple wants to be more in financial services.  Leasing cars, computers, etc.
    Credit 
    Savings accounts
    Investments
    Insurance (anything Apple sells)
    Healthcare/Insurance 
    Education (institution)

    iCloud hasn’t really impressed except for syncing.  There’s other opportunities there but Apple seems to be staying away from competing with Microsoft.

    Apple may be interesting in competing with Twitch when Apple Arcade is built out.
    dewme

  • Disney returns working iPhone to owner, after two months underwater

    seanismorrisseanismorris
    There’s been a 4x improvement in water resistance between the iPhone 7 and 11, that’s pretty impressive.

    Looks like the real life resistance is even better.
    watto_cobra

  • FCC fines AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile $200M for selling customer location data

    seanismorrisseanismorris
    Shame... T-mobile was such and good company, now they’re sprinting towards the dumpster.
    cornchipecarlseen