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  • Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation

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    I had a promo discount subscription a few years back that I didn't really use much for all the apps. I forgot to cancel ahead of time and contacted Adobe 1 day after they charged my card for the next annual subscription. They would not budge and charged me the full amount! I got to the point of swearing at their India chat support and they just disconnected me. I sincerely hope the FTC fines them HEAVILY for their bad business practices. 
    elijahg602warrenwatto_cobra

  • Mac Pro in danger after fumbled Apple Silicon launch

    TheThumperTheThumper
    anonymouse said:
    TheThumper said:
    anonymouse said:
    dewme said:
    Just checked Apple’s leadership team profiles on https://www.apple.com/leadership/. Did I miss something? I don’t see Mark Gurman’s profile anywhere on that site. Where does he sit in Apple’s leadership team that decides the execution of Apple’s product strategy?
    Word is that Gurman, and other Bloomberg writers, get paid a bonus for articles that move a company's stock price. He and others there have a financial incentive to make provocative statements (remember the now entirely debunked Big Hack article that Bloomberg never retracted?) to try and affect the stock price. By couching them as hypotheticals they avoid the hits their credibility ought to take.

    The bottom line is that anything published by Bloomberg must be taken with a very large grain of salt.
    So in other words, Apple Insider is spreading misinformation. 
    They're reporting on rumors, which is what they do. They marked it as possible, not likely. So, no, your mischaracterization of what Apple Insider is doing doesn't hold water.
    Ah, you’re thinking of Mac OS Rumors. This here is “Apple Insider” - implying that the reporting is from credible inside sources with inside knowledge- not merely rumors or speculation- especially from known stock manipulators. I think my characterization holds water just fine. 
    watto_cobra

  • Mac Pro in danger after fumbled Apple Silicon launch

    TheThumperTheThumper
    anonymouse said:
    dewme said:
    Just checked Apple’s leadership team profiles on https://www.apple.com/leadership/. Did I miss something? I don’t see Mark Gurman’s profile anywhere on that site. Where does he sit in Apple’s leadership team that decides the execution of Apple’s product strategy?
    Word is that Gurman, and other Bloomberg writers, get paid a bonus for articles that move a company's stock price. He and others there have a financial incentive to make provocative statements (remember the now entirely debunked Big Hack article that Bloomberg never retracted?) to try and affect the stock price. By couching them as hypotheticals they avoid the hits their credibility ought to take.

    The bottom line is that anything published by Bloomberg must be taken with a very large grain of salt.
    So in other words, Apple Insider is spreading misinformation. 
    Oferkingofsomewherehot

  • Cook praises 'symbiotic' 30-year relationship with China

    TheThumperTheThumper
    Can't wait to see how "symbiotic" it is when we've enriched the CCP's economy and military enough that they can dominate the world with Communism. Way to go Timmy Boy!
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  • Apple looking to the past, working on how to put a Mac in a keyboard

    TheThumperTheThumper
    So, 1 key breaks and you have to take the whole computer in?
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