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  • Apple claps back at 'secret' app ad purchase claims, says supports more than 100 apps

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    "You're building your growth based on what you think a customer is worth, and if a customer is worth 30% less, your margin is gone," one person said, according to Forbes.

    Add 30% to the retail price, and voilá your margin is back. 
    MacProwatto_cobra

  • The new MacBook Pro: Why did Apple backtrack on everything?

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    Captain Obvious here. Reading these comments, it is perfectly clear—if it ever wasn’t, that you cannot please all of the people all of the time. There is no conceivable product that Apple could have produced that would make everyone happy.
    thtwilliamlondonTRAG

  • Snap sued for misrepresenting impact of Apple privacy changes

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    chaicka said:
    lkrupp said:
    And all of this happened because a minority operating system (iOS) started protecting users from unauthorized data collection. I guess maybe iOS users  really are more affluent and likely to spend money than  users of the majority mobile platform. 
    Perhaps users on iOS are bigger spenders than competition platforms due to their trust in iOS security?

    If those developers and consumers who are so against it and succeed in breaking the App Store model, that majority of iOS users’ trust may be broken along and destroy the entire platform’s success so far.

    Unlikely to happen so long as consumers perceive that Apple is a champion of privacy with a business model founded upon that principle, and its competitors are the opposite and have business models founded upon the trading and exchange of consumer personal data. 
    watto_cobra

  • Wikipedia now accepts Apple Pay donations

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    Wikipedia has an article on the “reliability of Wikipedia.” There have been numerous studies on this question.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

    I find Wikipedia to be an excellent starting point for knowledge on a topic. It encourages wide reading through its links. Topics are now better organised into subject areas. I will often give references to Wikipedia in my teaching. Wikipedia is an incredible resource, it is comprehensive, and dwarfs all other encyclopaedias, plus it is being translated into many languages. Of course, it is a work-in-progress. I'm eternally grateful to all those editors who volunteer their time, knowledge, and effort.
    jas99StrangeDayswilliamlondonDogpersonjony0

  • Apple hires former Tesla engineer to bolster its self-driving car project

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    byronl said:
    danox said: Baller, Palm and Intel said the same about previous projects, only a few insiders at Apple know for sure what Apple is actually working on, and most probably only know a small piece at that.

    are you actually equating tesla to palm and balmer? tesla is the apple of the automotive world, nokia and palm are vw, ford, gm, etc. android is the chinese automakers. check out my comment above

    And Blackberry was the Tesla of the ’phone world. ;-)
    I do believe that it is possible to come up with ‘automobile 2.0.’ Not only possible, but a matter of great urgency. I don't think Tesla is it, it’s more like ‘automobile 1.5.’ Whether Apple will pull it off is another matter… 
    fastasleep