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mac_dog said:

Been paying for Apple+ for a while. Just purchased a new iPhone 12 Pro Max. It’s only 2 weeks until the trial expires. Paramount/Apple should just give it away to all their existing customers. 

Yeah when mine runs out I'm getting a bundle, will pay the same (slightly less) than I am now, w/ ATV+ included. 

Will grocers be required to bid out their in-house bakery space or in-house pharmaceutical clones? Or can they still pre-load them?

There is such a disconnect here.

MS got into monopoly trouble not for merely including IE with Windows, but for using their dominance in the OS space to force desired behavior from partners -- specifically denying OEM computer makers needed Windows licenses unless they promised to stop including Netscape with their computers. That was the anti-competitive behavior. Apple has not done the equivalent of that.

GeorgeBMac said:

There are two main approaches to "healthcare":

The one we are most familiar with is actually "DiseaseManagement" -- where you go to the doctor with a complaint or your doctor finds a problem and, in most cases, he prescribes a pill.  The pill typically does nothing to resolve the problem.   But it does suppress the symptoms of the problem (so in the medical mind, they fixed the problem).  (Blood pressure pills are a prime example)

The other approach is actual healthcare where health is promoted and maintained.   Dean Ornish may be the best proponent of that approach as he advocates a healthy lifestyle that includes a healthy diet, daily exercise, stress reduction along with human love and connection.  He has shown that that lifestyle can not only prevent but even reverse heart disease, many cancers, Type 2 diabetes and is currently running a study that may show that it can prevent and reverse Alzheimers.  His program is no longer alternative medicine or anything far out as Medicare and many insurance programs now pay for it because it has been proven to work.

I think this is right on. I have some personal experiences with it. Years ago I had a sedentary lifestyle and when my cholesterol and sugar crept up my GP at the time simply prescribed me a drug. I took the drug because he was my doctor. Then I did some more reading of my own and discovered that an active lifestyle that put my body to work would actually do the same thing -- as it has evolved to do. Working muscles absorb and use insulin, which prevents becoming insulin resistant which prevents diabetes. My numbers went down and I don't take the prescription, instead maintaining the physical activity. I even really enjoy it! 

I love science, I love technology and we have amazing medicine and surgical procedures. But the first step should be to try to avoid needing them for as long as possible. Most Americans have forgotten how to do this.

Yup. Patents are supposed to protect specific implementations, not ideas. 2 cameras is an abstract idea. (As are most software patents, IMO; mostly bogus by nature since the specific hand-written code is the unique implementation.)

Beats said:

I don’t know what 50 features he’s talking about but I faintly remember someone saying Dark Sky had a cool crowdsourcing feature. I don’t remember what it was or what it did. I don’t have time to look either. 

Yeah in DS you can report actual weather conditions up.

Dark Sky is nice (not perfect), but it will close the loop on the oddity that the Apple Weather app and Apple's Dark Sky use different data sources and provide different reports. The Weather app already now has a currently-raining chart similar to Dark Sky's, so it's definitely incorporating stuff.