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lkrupp said:

ArchStanton said:

Current Scroll Down of AI headlines Has All Of The Following:
-Apple App Scam
-Apple Sexism
-Apple Sued 
-Apple Wallet Dropped
-Pegasus!
-Apple HomePod Has No Market
-Apple Phones Beat by Xiaomi
-Apple Turns To (oh Bad!)Chinese Manufacturer To make IPhones

Understandable as guess which stories get the clicks and comments? (hint: see above for the likely answer)

Yep, all we ever hear on tech blogs these days is how bad Apple is. It’s on full display in the comments. Occasional story about Apple doing good or praising a product gets zero (0) comments. Publish a negative story and the comments fill up the forum to overflowing with outrage, disappointment, waging tongues, like this thread for example. Apple’s quarterly blowout got almost no response. If Apple had not met expectations the knives would be out, Apple has lost its way, fire Tim Cook, QA has gone to pot, nobody wants Apple products anymore. You know the drill. Guaranteed like death and taxes. And those who defend Apple are labeled fanboys. If you’re not on the “I hate Apple” bandwagon you have no street cred on sites like this one.

And when Apple keeps growing and selling more and more products that crowd scratches their heads in bewilderment. How could suck a sucky company still be in business. Oh, I forgot, only stupid people buy Apple.

I'm always (always) a believer in the saying 'follow the money'. Want to know why something is happening, start by following the money.
IMHO it's no coincidence that the onslaught of negative press stories about Apple started right around the time that the privacy data spigot was fully turned off (became default) to numerous big and little companies.  This info spigot turn off hit a wide swatch of industries. Not even Apple can mess with the $$$ without getting blowback. 

igorsky said:

This is an awesome FU to its iPhone userbase. Yet Apple is expected to go out of it's way to accommodate them.  What a crap company Spotify is.

It's odd if you ask me. Tim Cook says there are over 1 billion active iPhone users. I can't be the only one who knows iPhone users who opt for Spotify. 
And making Airplay work can't be some big engineering feat.
Yet there's a small slice of iPhone users who may want this. The only rationale I can think of is Spotify sees the numbers and thinks there just aren't enough customers to be had within the small slice of iPhone users (small but probably well in the single if not tens of millions). 

killroy said:

All the other tech companys have been doing this for over ten years! So why the blow up When Apple finds a safer way to do it?

Because Apple has actually and demonstrably made real privacy a part of their platform. They have guarded user privacy even sometimes when law enforcement came knocking at the door. This is stark contrast to Android where surveillance of what you do and where you go (among many others including picture scans)  is how they make the lion's share of the profit. Where sharing with law enforcement and "intelligence" community approaches is all but routine. 

I don't per se think this one item from Apple is a bad thing IF Apple puts in their ToS exactly what they re doing and most important unequivocally states anti MEC is all it does, period, stop, nothing else. As another poster said, this could be the tip of a wider wedge. Government will surely keep coming for information on things a million miles below MEC. This will happen, period. If Apple gives in then they might as well start collecting everything you do and where you go etc etc etc and auction it off on the real time electronic exchange for ad data, and increase their revenue by many tens of billions. Why wouldn't they? If they are going to do what the others do then they might as well make the money.

Apple's cash reward availability is quicker and the ability to use the reward is easier than any other credit card I've owned. On that Apple did great.. And the 2% as an across board base reward is top of the mark except speciality cards. The specialty cards can beat that sometimes by 2 or 4 percent. But those cards rarely pay more than 1% for the non specialty purchases. 

Hopefully not many need to transfer the reward cash and then can't wait the ACH completion of 24 to 48 hours. More efficient to, IMHO, to use the reward as an Apple purchase with the corresponding cash in your checking/savings account staying in your account. 

Current Scroll Down of AI headlines Has All Of The Following:
-Apple App Scam
-Apple Sexism
-Apple Sued 
-Apple Wallet Dropped
-Pegasus!
-Apple HomePod Has No Market
-Apple Phones Beat by Xiaomi
-Apple Turns To (oh Bad!)Chinese Manufacturer To make IPhones

Understandable as guess which stories get the clicks and comments? (hint: see above for the likely answer)