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jungmark said:

I don't think Apple should pick sides no matter how disastrous a Trump presidency would be. 

With Citizens United & Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court basically ruled that corporations are people and are able to support political entities as citizens will and protect their "personal beliefs"as people will.

In as much as this is now the legal stance in the US, i believe what Apple is doing is precisely what they are doing. Socially conservative corporations started the sea change, now socially liberal ones should flex their personhood.

YouTube as akin to a metal scrap yard.

The majority of their business is legit & necessary.
But when the homeless guy comes with a shopping cart full of stolen aluminum, they buy it without a second thought, for pennies on the going rate. Then sell it off at their normal market rate.

The problem? 
The penalties for a scrap yard buying stolen aluminum/cooper/etc are prohibitively high, so as to deter the purchase.
Youtube has obviously decided their current way of dealing with stolen (infringing) work is the more profitable way, as the penalties are insignificant.

coolfactor said:

Headline says $1 per month.
Article say $1 per week.

And yes, $49 is not a split-minute decision. All of these costs add up, particularly for small businesses and sole proprietors. I currently pay $300-$400 per month just to keep my small business "in business". Adding $50 here and there is not something I'm willing to do without careful consideration.

and, as usual, AppleInsider simply quotes itself in the article, rather than having actual useful links to the product.

https://squareup.com/shop/reader-contactless-chip-60-week

$1 a week


To the idea of $49 being "inexpensive":
in the US, fraud liability is on the retailer if they do not use EMV chip. so that $49 also removes that liability.

I just find Jimmy Iovine to be a dud of a person.
He seems to fit in to the current attention-span deficit culture while maintaining the behind-the-scenes oligarchy common in the tv/music/film industries.
Rather than Thinking Different(ly), he seems to epitomize the entrenched stereotype.

volcan said:

razorpit said:

 People who have the money (and even some that don't) will pay it just to be the "kool" kid on the street as they drive off to the coffee shop in their Tesla.

People who drive Teslas don't have locks like that on their front door. They have super high end locks made in Europe, Israel, or perhaps Baldwin made in USA. You aren't going to find a Schlage lock on the front door of a million dollar home.

I pass dozens of "million dollar homes" on my way to work, and i know many have Schlage locks, even directly from Home Depot or Lowes.

Frankly, many homes in that price range in the north east US megalopolis are rather cookie-cutter & use nothing but standard equipment.

High end locks do make me laugh a bit though - if you want to get in a place, the type of lock on the door is relatively meaningless.