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sdw2001 said:

And...welcome to the real world, sweetheart.  This is the rude awakening your entitled generation is experiencing.  In said real world, you work for a private sector employer.  That means you don't get to criticize your boss or company in public without being fired.  That means no one in your company cares about your opinion outside of your area of expertise.  That means unless you can prove a legal violation, you can be eighty-sixed for almost any reason, or no reason at all.  Yours is the generation who thinks if you state your "concerns" about your superiors respectfully, they'll not only be listened to, but acted upon.  It reminds me of the interns who were canned some years ago because they wrote a letter challenging the employer's dress code.  They were flabbergasted that their reasonable, respectful letter telling their bosses how to run their company got them axed. 

Want to be able to speak out?  Either get a public sector job where your freedom of speech is less curtailed (it's true) or start you own business.  

omasou said:

mr lizard said:

omasou said:

Agreed, Apple could do it. They just don't want to. Like I have said before, I think it is related to keeping the phone waterproof.

Nah. Other device manufacturers make waterproof USB-C devices just fine. 

Such as?

The "waterproof" ones I have seen rely on a gasket on one side and the plug to "seal" the port. I do not believe there is a naked waterproof USB C port. But willing to be proved wrong.

sflocal said:

Like Epic with forcing Apple to allow 3rd-party payments, this EU debacle stinks of banks whining to get access to Apple's hardware.

Android has a different model.  Android is just software, so it's up to the phone manufacturer to decide what they can do with NFC capabilities on what is their product.  If Samsung for example wants banks to hook into its NFC system, go right ahead.

Apple owns the entire cycle from software to hardware and thus can maintain the control it feels necessary to keep the data of Apple's customers safe and secure.  I highly doubt the users of ApplePay are raising any kind of stink about it.   It's shameful of the EU to think that Apple should devote resources to keep NFC secure and allow others that have done nothing to use it.  Screw the EU, and screw those banks trying to ride Apple's coattail.

If Samsung decided to do the same with their phones, would the EU be banging on Samsung's door?

sflocal said:

Like Epic with forcing Apple to allow 3rd-party payments, this EU debacle stinks of banks whining to get access to Apple's hardware.

Android has a different model.  Android is just software, so it's up to the phone manufacturer to decide what they can do with NFC capabilities on what is their product.  If Samsung for example wants banks to hook into its NFC system, go right ahead.

Apple owns the entire cycle from software to hardware and thus can maintain the control it feels necessary to keep the data of Apple's customers safe and secure.  I highly doubt the users of ApplePay are raising any kind of stink about it.   It's shameful of the EU to think that Apple should devote resources to keep NFC secure and allow others that have done nothing to use it.  Screw the EU, and screw those banks trying to ride Apple's coattail.

If Samsung decided to do the same with their phones, would the EU be banging on Samsung's door?

patchythepirate said:

Alex_V said:

bobolicious said:

...if Mr. Cook genuinely cared about climate change why would he purchase a ten thousand square foot home, presumably for one person...?

Whataboutism. 

Lol. I can't believe people actually think this is some sort of rebuttal. Embarrassing.

Alex_V said:

patchythepirate said:

Good, I hope it’s true. Anyone that has any sanity left should be opposed to this bill, for many reasons, climate nonsense being just one. Climate is purely a political issue and a way to manipulate economies. Even if you failed grade school science and somehow believe that extremely low levels of gaseous plant fertilizer is somehow bad for the planet, the political efforts to reduce CO2 do nothing. 

The graphic that you shared thoroughly undermines your comment. The scientific conclusions are clear, human-induced climate change will be devastating. 

And pray tell: just how do “they” manipulate economies? Did fossil fuels not forever alter economies? Or, are you a Saudi, desperately worried about the future of your despotic little petro-kingdom?

Huh? How does it undermine my comment??

Why are you putting "they" in quotes?

Fossil fuels alter economies tremendously, they've facilitated the growth of the modern age, brought nations out of poverty, saved countless lives by freeing up resources and manpower to study science, medicine, etc.

Am I a Saudi? Are you high?? Your responses to everything seem incredibly childish.