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  • EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

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    mknelson said:
    jdgaz said:
    Now I completely understand why England left the EU. 
    The con by Nigel Farage and his buddies? In the UK today Brexit is widely considered to be a failure. Even Nigel has said that.
    If Brexit is a failure it’s not because it is a failure, it would be because people who didn’t want it made it a failure. If the country had just embraced it and gone along with it, whether they wanted it or not, it would have been quite a success and the UK would be reaping the benefits already and the EU would be less powerful. But the stupid games of globalist politicians and their manipulation of the public has made it a lot worse.

    Still workable though, but the public can’t keep rejecting it.
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  • Apple is working to reinvent the seatbelt for the Apple Car

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    AppleZulu said:

    In reality this is never true. A parent who 'opts' to voluntarily eject through the windshield in an auto accident is a devastating loss to the family involved, changing the trajectory of life for everyone else. A passenger who 'opts' to voluntarily flop around in the back seat in a rollover accident, severing their spine in the process, projects the immense costs of their flippant decision on everyone else in the family and/or to others beyond, through taxes and insurance costs required to support that person if they survive. So no, choosing to get in a car and ride around without using available safety restraints is not an independent, libertarian personal choice. It is the externalization of an immense potential cost in trade for accommodating a perceived mild discomfort or impish offense taken at 'being told what to do.'
    The actual reality is that the history of humanity makes it clear that the approach of forced compliance will only succeed for a time.

    America’s approach was unique, and it was wildly successful. Whatever complaints people have about it today, life has never been more plentiful and abundant for a wider selection of people.  People want things to be even better, and that’s great!

    Except that forced compliance eventually results in the same thing, every time. Those trying to force compliance become an elite group and are pushed more and more toward a heavy-handedness “for the people’s good”. And eventually the people rebel. Those pushing this today are pushing hard because they see the masses starting to wake up.

    So while you see something harmless like forcing seatbelt compliance, keep in mind that America became great on the heels of personal liberty and responsibility. There are drawbacks, part of personal responsibility is seeing your failures. But the alternative is worse no matter how well meaning forced compliance may be. 
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  • Final Cut Pro and Logic for iPad are now available

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    I’d support these apps 100% if Apple didn’t decide to do a subscription. A company of Apple’s size to use subscription payments for an app is absurd. Unlike mobile phone service, internet service, iCloud, etc., software has no required development cost after release. To say users should be forced to fund ‘ongoing development and updates’ is a manipulative stretch that only makes sense for very small companies who don’t want to go out of business after two years because they can’t sell their software past the first major release or two. Even then, it’s still customer manipulation. 

    Apple’s reach is so large and their pockets are so full that a subscription is ridiculous.
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  • Full-featured Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro coming to iPad in May

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    That is amazing news that I’d never support. An app subscription from Apple?!

    I’ve always felt that subscription-only apps are cheap manipulation, but I did sort of understand it from desperate developers who are wanting to stay in business for longer.

    When a company like Apple does this that’s basically the beginning of the end of personal ownership in computing. And this won’t stop with software.
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  • How Apple & Big Tech gutted New York's right to repair bill

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    beowulfschmidt said:
    "Corporations are people" is probably one of the most harmful decisions SCOTUS has ever made.
    Except that corporations are 100% run by people, and decisions are made by people. They aren’t run by people who are capable of temporarily suspending their personhood to assume a personless role as company worker.
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