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davidmalcolm said:

I suspect that Apple is really regretting not kicking both Truth Social and Twitter off the App Store. 

Tim got played by the right wing goons and now he’s trying to keep them from doing irreparable harm to Apple’s long term future. 

Don’t get me wrong, I like Tim as much as I can like any Billionaire. But it wasn’t the working class who rigged the system so that the only options were a disingenuous lady who couldn’t even say genocide was bad, and a geriatric baby who can’t remember what he said last sentence let alone last week. 

Apple could have been pushing Biden for more reforms that would have benefitted society. They could have been working with their unions. Instead Apple like everyone else kept acting like America could keep eating its own tail and it would never get to the head. 

And honestly now it’s too late for Tim to fight back in any meaningful capacity. The only thing that will give America a chance of avoiding complete collapse in the next three years is a heart attack, stroke or some other surprise illness. Or at least something that looks like one of those. 

America’s debt to GDP is out of control and the politicians want to slash taxes for those who need it the least so they can make… more innovative… restaurant delivery apps? 

The politicians are acting like they can squeeze the working class more to dig themselves out of the debt crisis that they’ve been fostering for decades.

America is being sacrificed on the alter of Reaganomics. 

Tim Cook's primary responsibility is to maximize shareholder's wealth and he should have realized in any way abetting Trump to regain power would endanger shareholder wealth.

As far as Reaganomics, Reagan has nothing to do with Trump. Trump is the anti-Reagan. 

inkling said:

If cameos were good enough for Alfred Hitchcock from 1927 on, I don't know why they wouldn't be OK for Tim Cook. I've heard that for Hitchcock they became such a big deal with fans that to keep them from spoiling their watching, he placed them near the start.

You’re really comparing Tim Cook to Alfred Hitchcock?

Alex_V said:

beowulfschmidt said:

It's not so hard to understand when one finds out that the government buys that data from companies to make an end run around Constitutional restrictions on acquiring that data themselves, which requires judges and warrants.

Do you have any evidence for that? I’ve never heard of anything of the sort, except that probably the Chinese state’s has user data from domestic companies, and maybe Russia too. The point is that Google, Facebook have more data on us than KGB or the East German Stasi had on their citizens, and it’s not a problem. I just don’t get it. 

I’m not familiar with the buying private data part but in the first half of the 90s I worked for the FDIC which is one of the agencies in the US that regulates both national and state banks. The FDIC had a right to go into any bank it insured at anytime and access records as part of its “Safety and Soundness” mission. No judges or warrants necessary. Now the FDIC is not part of the executive branch so it couldn’t prosecute anyone. It is a separate corporation owned by the federal government. However the FDIC had a policy of automatically making referrals to the FBI if they found something suspicious. I remember once during a training class I attended in DC an FBI agent came in and thanked us for helping them get around the constitutional requirement for a warrant. The rest of the class seemed to appreciate this but it bothered me.

He does realize that the AI will have to run on some type of device? It isn’t just going to run on the air.

Why can’t the iPhone just give the user the ability to send out a query on all the search engines at once and then sort the best results for the user?