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Apple pulls all customer reviews from online Apple Store
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My wife religiously reads through Amazon reviews on popular products. She's looking for something with a lot of reviews and she'll read through until she has a general consensus of what the product offers. We bought out Roboroc S5 based on the reviews. Hell we even bought cat food and litter based on the reviews and in all cases the product lived up to exactly what that consensus of reviews claimed.
There are ways of combatting fake reviews. You can filter via "verified purchase" and run 3rd party tools like Fakespot.
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Google buying FitBit for $2.1 billion to advance fight against Apple Watch
I think @lkrupp is right here. Apple announced intentions to acquire Shazam and the deity that are EU Regulators had to approve. I like Shazam as much as anyone but if they went under Soundhound is an icon away. I think people love to scrutinize Apple's acquisitions a bit more than other companies.dewme said:
If Apple had bought FitBit they would be buying market share in a market they already dominate, which would definitely raise some eyebrows. FitBit selling out to Google simply changes ownership of the company.lkrupp said:And none of this will trigger charges of anti-trust or lack of customer choice. Imagine, though, the gnashing of teeth if Apple had tried to buy FitBit.
But yeah, on a macro scale the absolute dominance of so many markets by a relatively small handful of companies is something to keep an eye on. For Google the FitBit acquisition is probably a move to gain additional touch points for the proliferation of their core business, i.e., advertising, than it is a desire to get into the wearables market to serve a broader range of customer needs. It's really more about addition another layer of telemetry and instrumentation to their product line: which Google publicly identifies with the "customer" moniker, but whom are in fact more accurately defined as "Ad Sinks," the components needed to complete the circuit for the "Ad Sources" who are Google's real customers. Yeah, "customer" sounds much nicer than "ad sink" but with Google they are one and the same.
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Apple iPhone sales estimates 'aren't any good' says leading analyst
If these Analysts are so great at predictions why are they working for someone else?ArloTimetraveler said:How analysts make their predictions. A step by step explanation.
1) Get out their crystal ball
2) Hold on the right hand either their rabbit's foot or crystal (whichever analytical philosophy they follow)
3) Then they guess their ass off.
I don't want to be seen as a close-minded individual. They may do a web search to get some more information from websites.
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Google buying FitBit for $2.1 billion to advance fight against Apple Watch
Feel sorry for Fitbit owners. Googles about to screw up your platform.
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Apple's Tile-like tracking device named 'AirTag' in iOS 13.2
Bonus points for using the term subcutaneous. If Apple does deliver a small product I'm going to joke with my Dr about having it inserted into my abdomen. I wonder what she'll say.MacPro said:
Joking aside, if Apple ever comes out with a subcutaneous version I'd be all for that! After all, Apple now is heavily into the medical side of things, why not?Soli said:
Have them inserted in your children.randominternetperson said:
Good question. I doubt the "subscription" part though.gutengel said:I wonder how expensive these tiles will be; I bet it'll be a subscription of sorts.
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