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9secondkox2 said:

dee_dee said:

s.metcalf said:

The problem with behemoths like Apple is they know few can afford to defend their rights in court so they exploit that to their advantage constantly.  Apple is a bully, just face it.  Pretty much always has been, even (or especially) under Jobs.  Microsoft and Google are still worse though.

Apple has no choice.  They are constantly targeted by patent trolls just because they have so much money.  Apple’s only option is to draw out each fight as long as they can, and make litigation as expensive as possible to give patent trolls second thoughts about contesting a patent.  

Except mason doesn’t troll. 

They have a legit business that rides on this. From products to licensed tech. 

A troll does nothing except sue whenever someone  does anything remotely close to what their patent covers. 

In Masimos case, they are defending patents DIRECTLY infringed by Apple that harm their business materially. 

It’s a legit fight. Apple needs to do the honorable thing and license the tech or go about glucose monitoring in a way that doesn’t infringe. 

s.metcalf said:

The problem with behemoths like Apple is they know few can afford to defend their rights in court so they exploit that to their advantage constantly.  Apple is a bully, just face it.  Pretty much always has been, even (or especially) under Jobs.  Microsoft and Google are still worse though.

ralphie said:

dee_dee said:

ktappe said:

I completely understand G.S. not wanting every bill to be due on the 1st of the month. Imagine you're a retailer and all your customers come in on the 1st, leaving you with no customers days 2-30.  It's unreasonable of Apple to have G.S. have to handle an onslaught of bills just one day of the month and not be willing to spread them out.  As an Apple Card customer, I'd be fine having mine not be on the 1st, but Apple has never bothered to ask. 

Then why did they sign the agreement? Was Apple holding a gun to their head?  Apple Card is designed to help people pay off their debt, having a bill due on the 1st is easy to remember. 

LOL, ever heard of auto-pay?!?

ktappe said:

I completely understand G.S. not wanting every bill to be due on the 1st of the month. Imagine you're a retailer and all your customers come in on the 1st, leaving you with no customers days 2-30.  It's unreasonable of Apple to have G.S. have to handle an onslaught of bills just one day of the month and not be willing to spread them out.  As an Apple Card customer, I'd be fine having mine not be on the 1st, but Apple has never bothered to ask. 

Honkers said:

dee_dee said:

gatorguy said:

dee_dee said:

gatorguy said:

dee_dee said:

nubus said:

After a decade of being tone-deaf... what a surprise! Nice to see Apple become smart about politics. It would have been better if Apple had taken part in the design of the standard, but this is good. Much better than being forced as with USB-C, right-to-repair, and soon AppStore alternatives.

Only approx 20% of Android users have access to RCS, and the standard is a hot mess. Apple must be feeling charitable this holiday season. 

I know some article said it was claimed, but without any source for it. "Someone said", in other words. I'd consider it a suspect estimate.

Last I recall reading, Google Messages has nearly a billion active users now, so they're doing OK. 

Your recollection is not that great. Google themselves said there’s 500 million users, and there’s over 3 billion androids in the world so that’s actually closer to 15%. 

Google is obviously not doing “ok” since they’ve been crying in the press for years now over Apple’s blue bubbles and Android market share in decline. 

My recollection is great. You're basing your entire argument on what they said over a year and a half ago.  Did you purposely avoid more recent announcements, or just didn't want to look for any? Back in May this year Google announced it had risen to 800 million active users. 

So here it is 6 months later, and a billion active users is almost certainly on the low side. Not too shabby for a service that's not yet available in every country. 

RCS users doubled in a year? Oh sure that doesn’t look suspicious at all?!

If it's a built in feature and enough capable Android phones are sold in a year, then why wouldn't it see large user increases?

Apple likely saw even better iMessage uptake because it's a basic feature of the iPhone and they sell so many iPhones.