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  • Apple Pay likely to get boost from Visa & Mastercard mandating contactless payment termina...

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    palomine said:
    I BET The card companies are demanding contactless payment terminals! I would too if I were them. 
    It took some time to see how this Apple Pay thing turned out but I am sure the banks love the ease and security. ZERO fraud issues and it probably zips through accounting systems.  Why in hell US merchants are so ugly about Apple Pay I will never know. So many places that advertise they have it really don't. I live in one of the top ten cities in the US.   I've tried Macy's, Office Depot, Container Store, you name it.   Lots of times when I try to use it the merchant scowls and has to go get the manager and they futz with something or other and then--while people are waiting behind me-- I end up using the slow chip reader anyway. The chip readers are so slow where I live that writing a check would be about the same.  But then, I live in the @&;!$;&@?! South anyway, what else could I expect.

    Maybe in the US, in other countries contactless terminals were in a long time before ApplePay
    bradipao

  • Why Apple's new GPU efforts are a major disruptive threat to Nvidia

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    StrangeDays said:
    jfanning said:
    StrangeDays said:
    Gaming? Gaming is a very small niche. Fine if you want to be a niche player, but not having Apple will hurt Nvidia the same exact way it hurt Intel. 
    Niche?  Niche for whom?
    Sales. Gaming is niche. 

    US$100 billion in sales is niche?
    singularitygatorguydasanman69

  • Why Apple's new GPU efforts are a major disruptive threat to Nvidia

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    DanielEran said:
    jfanning said:

    "They switch focus"
    Since Nokia (for example) makes the varst majority of its income from their Network division, how is their protection of their intellectual property a switch of focus?
    The network division was all it had left after its phone business collapsed and was sold off to Microsoft. 
    No it wasn't, and you know that.  And again, their network division was still their primary income at that time.  Daniel, Nokia wasn't the right example to use for your rant, you usually try hard to not say something wrong in your episodes, but in this case you have cocked up.  They are still a market leader in their primary industry, they also own a tonne of intellectual property, to which they are able to make a lot of money, why is it wrong for them to do this?

    singularity

  • Why Apple's new GPU efforts are a major disruptive threat to Nvidia

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    AppleInsider said:

    Patent troll alert!

    How do you know a company is in desperate trouble? Well, take a look at Nokia, AMD and Qualcomm. After they began losing business, they switched from a focus on serving customers to one oriented around "enforcing patents."


    So Daniel, are you saying a company is a troll if they decide to protect their intellectual property? 
    singularitygatorguywilliamlondonfrankieboopthesnootdasanman69

  • Apple & others back Google in opposing FBI warrant for overseas emails

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    tbehunin said:
    I'm definitely pro-privacy, but this one seems a little different. Given a scenario where there was a US warrant for data extraction, the data center resides in the US, and the company in question (e.g. Google) would normally comply with the court order and hand over the data in in question, I'm struggling to understand how it would be any different when the data center is not in the US. If the data center and it's data is owned by Google, I don't think it matters where the data is physically located, right? Maybe I'm just a fuddy duddy...

    What part of "the data is not in the US" do you have the issue with?  Would you be ok if a cop from another country just turned up, arrested you and dragged you back to their country without applying the US laws?
    StrangeDaysanomejbdragonlostkiwi