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Tim Cook is concerned that slow erosion of privacy is a big danger
If you aren’t happy with the restrictions placed upon you to fly in a private company’s airliner then take general aviation.DAalseth said:He’s absolutely right. More and more I hear people saying that “they know everything about us anyway so why worry about” Google, Facebook, the police, etc., etc. It’s very disconcerting. And I’m afraid that I’m not as optimistic as TC is though. I was shocked how easily people accepted pat downs, x-rays, and searches in order to fly on an airliner. “But it’s for safety” was the BS they used and everyone ate it up and asked for seconds. All it takes is for someone in authority to say the words “safety” or “protect the children” and people seem eager to give up their personal freedoms, and human rights. That’s how they are attacking things like encryption.
I find it very depressing.
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EU law will force Apple to blow open its entire hardware and software stack
The 1956 Consent Decree IBM was placed under for 40 years required them to help their competitors.Joer293 said:This is almost identical to what occurred to Microsoft Windows decades ago when they were the dominant monopoly. Regulation forced Microsoft to do all of this. They fought it hard, played all the same tricks all your comments are saying apple and Google will attempt. History repeats itself.I’m honestly surprised Microsoft hasn’t been calling foul for decades where apple and Google get away with all the things M$ got in trouble for.Skip to the lessons learned. M$ sacrificed windows OS and Office quality to satisfy regulations. By way of moving software development en mass to developers a country that did not use the product. This Quality disaster opened up the market for a new comer (Apple) to fill the void. If history repeats. Apple and Google sacrifice and open up a market to ????
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Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over high fake user count
I was planning on buying the Cybertruck when it came out, not because I care about driving an electric vehicle but only because I want a vehicle that the paint doesn’t need to be maintained. But he is starting to come off to me as a flake and it makes me start to wonder if this is how Tesla is run.
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Customer trapped in Apple & FedEx blame game over lost Apple Watch
As long as he has proof that he followed the instructions such as having a receipt/tracking number for his RMA he can just dispute the charge with the bank. The bank will then investigate the charge. If Apple and Fed Ex can’t find the package it is their problem.flydog said:
Dispute what? This was a warranty repair four months after the purchase. Read the article next time.mikethemartian said:You can always dispute the charge with the bank that underwrites the credit card.
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Apple's Self Repair Program was never going to be what repair advocates wanted
Personally if I can’t fix it myself I just dispose of it properly and purchase a brand new replacement. I went through an ordeal getting a Samsung TV repaired using authorized service centers about 10 years ago and it was a disaster. After the third time I had spent more money of just the value of my time than the brand new product was worth. The original TV direct from the factory was actually pretty good but the authorized service centers just made what was initially a minor problem far worse.lkrupp said:Apple's Self Repair Program was never going to be what repair advocates wanted
No shit, Sherlock. For the repair advocates to get what they want would require a complete, from the ground up, redesign of the iPhone and nothing less. The really grinding thing is that the right-to-repair advocates are such a tiny minority to kowtow to. How many people, if their 4KHDTV, 4KBD Player, AVR, HD Projector, etc, are going to dive in and try to repair it? No, you take it to a shop, usually the place you bought it from, for repair or replacement.
