georgie01

This seems like a lawsuit reaching for something that doesn’t exist ... unless I’m missing something, it is one of the weakest I’ve seen in a long time.

maestro64 said:

I said this before when this topic keeps coming up. Before you freak out about radio waves from phone, keep in mind every day just walking outside your are bombarded with radio waves from DC to light and you are hit with all levels of intensity. Just living every day you are at risk of being hit with radiation. There are lots of sources of radiation which will not go away.

I’m not saying radio waves from phones are bad, but science is not on anyone’s side since no conclusive studies have been presented either way. There have been plenty of things even in recent history which ‘common sense’ have said are fine which end up not being fine because we learned new things. 

Naturally occurring radio waves are fine in proper doses, but that doesn’t automatically mean that ‘artificially’ produced radio waves are benign, especially at relatively close proximity.

maestro64 said:

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As the saying going as long as you are using other people's money they get to decide how you spend that money. You can not take other people's money and then ignore them. 

... If investors/venture capitalist think they will not have a front and only seat at the show, they will not bring their resources to new companies looking to get off the ground and grow. It is going to be very hard to have startups who can not be focus those who give them money and all about everything else for everyone else.

This is an important post.

I don’t like companies focusing on benefitting shareholders who are in it solely to make money, but good intentions don’t automatically solve problems. We need to always consider reality rather then just assume our well-meaning intentions will make the world better. Contrary to popular belief, people are not basically ‘good’. People are ultimately self serving, and we as a culture are getting worse and worse (so obviously seen in things like ‘someone feels a particular way and so let’s all defy science and common sense to affirm that person’s feelings’).

It seems to me that taking away shareholder incentive will take away shareholder investment which will harm startups and businesses needing money.

Hardly an area of great concern for most users, but something that is worthwhile for Apple to know so they can take action to improve it.

Years ago when the merger was on the table I was totally against it—I switched to T-Mobile from Sprint because Sprint had astoundingly deceptive customer policies and T-Mobile had astoundingly good ones.

Back when I used Sprint they not only refused to unlock paid off iPhone 4s’s (they still won’t...!), they constantly and deliberately lied and misled their customers who were trying to get them unlocked—there were forums after forums with Sprint representatives saying the same lies, with customers reporting the same deceptive tactics while talking to customer service (I had the exact same experiences). I’ve never seen such blatant dishonesty from a company in my life.

I didn’t want T-Mobile to be anything like Sprint. I became less bothered about the merger when I heard that John Legere would lead the company, but it still makes me feel unsettled. T-Mobile has completely shaken up the industry for the better, lower prices, more data, actual device payments instead of an inflated monthly contract, etc.