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I guess the more recycled Cobalt Apple uses, the more new Cobalt is available for Musk to use in Tesla cars (and other EV's).  Net savings = zero.

9secondkox2 said:

radarthekat said:

9secondkox2 said:

coolfactor said:

waveparticle said:

proline said:

JP234 said:

Sounds like an ill-timed, but productive visit. Certain elements in the Legislature and right wing media are sure to make hay out of it. But if you ask me, good business ties with China are super important, even in the face of recent geopolitical events. China will to be less inclined to damage their best customer.

Lol. Do you think Russia is less inclined to damage us after we
— gave them Ukraine’s nukes
— gave them the USSR spot on the security council
— shut down our own rocket engine manufacturing and made our rockets dependent on their engines
— made them key partners in the ISS
— let them genocide Chechnya
— let them conquer Georgia and Moldova and Crimea
— gave them Big Macs and iPhones

Of course not. Dictators can’t stop themselves from attacking us. We need to be ready. Apple is making us dependent rather than ready. 

Wow! All Russia's fault. US is the victim. Hate Russia, LOL.

The US is very young compared to Asian countries, particularly China. Unfortunately, because they are the current "world leader", that has gone to their heads, and no other country can be as great. That's the illusion right there. World powers come and go, and have for eons. The US will lose their dominance eventually. And we can only hope that the next world power will be democratic. and more mature and advanced than the current US leadership and population.

True only when it’s allowed to happen. Strangely, our government is now more concerned with gas stoves and air conditioners than they are with innovation, marketplace excellence and military superiority. Recipe for disaster. 

It’s really only a certain segment obsessed with gas stoves.  Hint: it’s the same segment who are banning books.  Maybe you need to take a break from that rhetoric.  It’ll do your heart good.  

There is no rhetoric coming from me. 

Banning books? You mean the books with pornographic content in the libraries of schoolchildren?  And you think that’s bad? Parents across the country are confronting school boards over this. It’s everywhere. That’s not making books illegal. It’s getting them out of inappropriate places where impressionable kids can get into it and back to where adults can choose to read it or not. 

Wow. 

A stove or air conditioner can’t corrupt a child. Adult content can. It doesn’t belong in public schools. 

And the air conditioner thing was reported on today. Coming from the executive branch. Federally. Not a small segment. 

And that’s more attention than our military strength and growth is getting and more than our economy is getting. That’s not rhetoric. It’s the way it is. 

Interested in what your definition of pornography is?  Did you hear about the headmaster of an Arts school in Florida that was fired this week because she introduced Michelangelo's statue of David to  a sixth grade class and 3 parents out of 100 complained?  3% now wield the power.  Nudity isn't porn.

fastasleep said:

ITGUYINSD said:

The article incorrectly infers Outlook for Mac only works with IMAP accounts, which isn't true since it works with Exchange/365 accounts.

No, you just read it wrong. "includes support for Outlook.com accounts, Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, and other email providers that support IMAP" — that's a list of different things.

Oh, like macOS?  Remember back in good ol' days when macOS was lean and stable, but at the same time, feature-poor and not supporting the newest hardware compared to Windows?  Then, Apple starts adding features and brining macOS into the current century and it's bloated and buggy.  Each new version is worse than the last.

Rose-tinted glasses. There have always been myriad bugs in all versions of Mac OS/OS X/macOS. I don't have any major issues right now outside of a few built-in apps.

I didn't read it wrong.  The article states nowhere that Exchange support is included in the free version.  It does list what it does support, and Exchange is not in the list.

You can assume it's included, but again, the article infers it's not.

DAalseth said:

jdw said:

And as to the crazy notion that the entire office suite should be "FREE"...  Oh yeah... LOL.  As if we need Ads to mar the UI!  Not on your life, buddy!.

Have you used Pages/Numbers? No ads there
How about OpenOffice/LibreOffice? No ads there.
Not sure where you got the idea that a free office suite must have ads. 

I won’t hold my breath for a free MS Office suite. It’s too much of a cash cow for MS. This is especially true since they went to Office365 and make everyone pay every month. But your image of free office suites is way off the mark.

Actually, compared to Apple, MS Office suite IS free.  You see, for you home/personal users, you can get 6 licenses of full MS Office for $100.  EACH one includes 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage.  That comes out to roughly $17 per YEAR, per person, for 1TB of cloud storage (and FREE Office Software).  Apple charges $120 per year for ONE USER iCloud (and free Pages/Numbers that practically no one uses).

So, $17 for 1 YEAR of M365+1TB cloud from MS or $120 for 1 YEAR of iCloud plus basic office apps from Apple.

Suddenly Apple looks like a rotten apple and I'll take MS, thank you. 

lkrupp said:

jimh2 said:

We should be paid to use Outlook. All of MS products are bloated to the point 90% of the features are worthless to most users. 

Give the man a cigar. Feature creep is one thing Apple resists and gets raked over the coals for it. It seems every user has some feature they say they can’t live without and demand it be added. And every featured added has the potential to negatively affect the overall operation and performance of the main code.

Oh, like macOS?  Remember back in good ol' days when macOS was lean and stable, but at the same time, feature-poor and not supporting the newest hardware compared to Windows?  Then, Apple starts adding features and brining macOS into the current century and it's bloated and buggy.  Each new version is worse than the last.

Features and compatibility with the latest-and-greatest hardware comes with larger code bases and bugs.

If I were to agree Apple resists "feature creep" it would be Apple Mail, and their "office apps" that never get new features (and accordingly aren't used in companies because of it).

Microsoft has become an eco-system and is a great value.  People here thinking it should be free -- well, there just as happy using Libre Office to reconcile their checkbook (remember those?)