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I like that all the "unknown" end up in one file. I can select that file and hit the select button and drag two gingers down the sometime 100 messages. Then hit the delete and report as spam. Get rid of all of them without having to read them. Middle finger salute to the politicians and all their fund raisers.

I would guess that Chase will convert the Apple system to be just like any other of their "specialty card offerings" and the unique features we all like will vanish. At which point I will cancel the card. 

Hopefully this is not just a distraction from or an addition to the disinformation at the iPhone 16 presentation in 2024. Also could be the only "big" new thing next month as we see the usual claims of all new device using last years enclosure, etc. But there will be "new" colors.....

And that is the issue.

Is Apple  too big to be held accountable by even DOJ?  

Seems like their customer base is being played for fools and there is no redress for possible wrongs committed. With perhaps a dozen or so exceptions (including the billionaires), no private individual has the resources to use our court system to seek redress.

And that is before mentioning that many folks in power are bought and paid for by special interests.

As a long time customer of Apple and having spent more than many others, I feel powerless and realize the John Wayne comment applies 

"Suck it Up Buttercup" cause an individual like me can do nothing to get Apple's attention.

The issue is veracity or truthfulness which was sadly lacking. Apple employees knew the "AI & Siri" .software was non-operational and should have b been scrubbed from the presentation the day before the dog and pony show. Many folks believed Apple saying the AI was working and thus bought some model of iPhone 16.

One normally does not take risks that jeopardize a companies reputation.

As we now know a full year later there was NO releasable AI or Siri software then or now. There was no magic hat that could have produced a rabbit during the last twelve months and they have admitted it will now be "perhaps" in 2026.

The iPhones we had (iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Pro Max) were working just fine and we would NOT have acquired two iPhone 16 Pro Max units if the feature set diid not have improved Siri and AI per the presentation.

I was working with the source code of a full Manufacturing and Accounting software package back in the 70s and 80s that ran on DEC PDP-11 and Vax and know quite a bit about software development. I started in the computer world in the early 70s and still like to do custom work all these years later. I have used Apple products since 1990 and this false announcement was one of their more memorable screw ups.

We are probably about a month away from the next dog and pony show. During this last year, Apple seems to have moved all other product lines to 16GB of memory for AI they said. The iPhone 17 is rumored to have 12GB while the iPhone 16 was  raised to 8GB. The iPhone 18 most likely will have 16GB of memory and that will be probably announced as the minimum necessary for AI. So the two prior year models will be obsolete and under powered memory wise.

Neat way to really shaft the customer base. But some prior customers may leave and never come back as their trust of Apple's word is gone. Deceptions have a way of coming around and biting a vendor in the back side at the most inconvenient or embarrassing time.