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  • Apple uses platform dominance to 'lock out' competition, says Elizabeth Warren

    cintoscintos
    rant all she wants, just ask Mr. Wall Street: Apple is not a dominant company, but on its way to bankruptcy. Google's Android holds a massive monopoly on handsets sold in the world.
    latifbp

  • Updated ambient light, proximity sensors in 'iPhone 7' prohibit use of legacy cases

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    sockrolid said:
    Off-topic, but I'm starting to think that Apple might drop the numbering scheme this year.
    If the 2016 iPhone is just called "iPhone" it will solve two awkward naming problems:

    1. The 2016 iPhones are supposedly not completely refreshed designs.  More like thinner iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.
    So calling them "7" and "7 Plus" would feel wrong.  Because we have been conditioned to expect the next-higher-numbered
    iPhones to have all-new designs.  In a way, the 2016 models will be like faster, thinner versions of the 6S and 6S Plus.
    And there's no way Apple will call them "iPhone 6SS" and "iPhone 6SS Plus."

    2. The 2017 iPhones are rumored to be totally redesigned.  If Apple calls this year's iPhones "7" and "7 Plus" then
    they can't call the radically different 2017 models "7S" and "7S Plus."  They would need to call them "8" and "8 Plus,"
    but only a year after the "7" and "7 Plus.". Sure, Apple could just call the 2017 models "iPhone" and "iPhone Plus,"
    but I think that would be a year too late.

    It just feels most natural to drop the "tick year" numbers and "tock year" S naming scheme this year.
    This year's iPhone: "the new iPhone."  Next year's iPhone: "the all-new iPhone."
    I concur. The iPhone SE is the first non-numbered entry. Apple does not use numbers of the Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, Macbook and Macbook Air. Yes, there is something like 5.3 in the details, but not as advertised. Look for iPhone, iPhone SE and iPhone Pro. With a new processor, likely with significant performance increases, why all the "no significant changes" brewHa???
    lolliver

  • Apple refuses to back GOP convention because of Trump politics

    cintoscintos
    Abstention is not picking sides. At all. For Apple, it is not the situation of a simple statement of support or disfavor - what is being considered here is millions of $$$ in expenses that they have no obligation to make.
    baconstangr2d2spliff monkey

  • DOJ urges Supreme Court to return Apple vs. Samsung patent case to lower court

    cintoscintos
    Add to the disconnect between the US Government and Apple. Companies who make a majority of their profits overseas, like Apple, are chastised by the Feds for holding profits offshore - "hey, they get such great benefits being a US Corporation - like Intellectual Property protection". Ha.
    EsquireCats said:
    If anything this saga demonstrates that Samsung's business model is effective: find the leading product in the market, copy it shamelessly and the legal response from the intellectual property holder will be drawn out and ineffective - especially due to the court's requirement that patent claims are thinned to only a handful of patents per case. This effectively gives companies like Samsung a free pass to abuse other patents that are not currently being litigated against, as well as a small number of targets to minimise any awarded damages. Any actual protection against such thievery is imaginary.
    calipatchythepiratelatifbpbadmonkjony0

  • Apple mulls permanent expansion of Fifth Avenue store, feels 'entitled' to cut-rate FAO Schwarz lea

    cintoscintos
    OK, perhaps Apple is not "entitled" to consideration on the rental, despite the hightened "value" of the old FAO space being primarily driven by the presence of the iconic Apple tourist magnet. Perhaps Boston Properties would have a slightly different approach if Apple felt they needed more space and abandoned their interest in the old GM block entirely, and bought out the Tiffany building instead....
    stompy