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Apple Card (and Apple Savings) have been nothing but a success for me as a consumer.  I hope that however it shakes out, the experience continues to outperform the competition.

As Apple aptly demonstrates, if you create a quality product people will beat a path to your door and throw money at you.

Unfortunately most news sites could use a course in Jim Lehrer's rules of journalism.  Nobody in his right mind is going to pay good money for opinion-presented-as-fact such as "this is about Facebook and Instagram profiting from news publishers as it pays them nothing and drives the industry out of business".

Um folks, it's not an "App Store" fee, it's a platform fee.  It just happens to be convenient to collect in the App Store.  Alternate app stores don't change Apple's cut, they just make it more inconvenient for everyone to do the accounting for it.

In 2019 via the BBC:

In response to a question about how much the company earns from repair services, Apple said: "For each year since 2009, the costs of providing repair services has exceeded the revenue generated by repairs."

Given that, it seems optimistic to think that independent repair shops could do better.  They have every right to try, but Apple has no obligation to make their business model profitable. 

"The Godfather of AI"?

Minsky was wiring up neural networks when this guy was still riding his tricycle.

(ok, *Google's* godfather, fine - but I can still see the original headline...