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When Apple tests apps submitted for the App Store, why don't THEY test the apps to see if they violate policy and user's security?    

But we also need new laws.  No app should ever send any data anywhere without express permission and no app should be permitted to track other apps or look into any cookies except their own.  

Unfortunately, in both parties in Congress, we have a bunch of old men who don't understand anything about technology or security and they certainly don't understand that future wars will be fought online (it's already happening) and not with bombs and bullets.  

lkrupp said:

waltg said:

I love Apple products but, enough is enough with this insane phone pricing!! By the time they lowered the XR, well, too late Apple, I had already purchased another competitor’s phone, and I’m sure I’m not the only one that did so... It is sad, way too much greed and these prices ARE way out of line!

But Apple’s sales and market share have actually increased in the U.S. and elsewhere so I’m not buying your too expensive narrative. I guess you forgot this article is about the Chinese market, huh?

Have they in the last quarter?  I don’t think so. As I’ve posted in the past I believe that the high salaries paid to Apple managers and executives has completely warped their perception of what ordinary people can afford. 

Apple has to make a choice. They can’t be both a luxury producer and a mass market company at the same time without a more diversified product line.  

And the issue isn’t their base prices because those configurations are basically useless.  I think I paid $3200 for my last MBP and I didn’t even get it with all the storage I wanted. But I think I’m done with Apple.  I’m not paying that kind of money again for a machine that can’t be upgraded and that only gets a 3-4 hour battery life.  

Apple has always been arrogant, but I think it’s finally got the better of them.  

The plaintiff is worried about the extra time of 2FA?  How much time has he spent on the lawsuit?  

And here's what I don't get:  the only time I see a 2FA message is when I go into iCloud.   But maybe I didn't turn on 2-factor authentication.   One thing I do agree with:  the user should be able to shut it off.  

Also, someone posted that they didn't know their password because they were using an Apple password stored in Keychain.  But assuming you know your Keychain password, you can access your other passwords.

Having said that, when you change a password in an application, Keychain still keeps your old passwords and displays them in the app.  That's very confusing.  When a password is changed, the old passwords should disappear from the list.  Keychain also seems to store redundant entries, 

lkrupp said:

Apple retail is yet another example of the whole world telling Apple it would fail miserably, much like the whole world told Apple they would surely fail in the smartphone arena. Thankfully for us Apple doesn’t listen to its critics. As for the curmudgeons and naysayers that populate Apple centric tech blogs, well, nobody listens to them, least of all Apple.

Yep.  I've posted these (and others) before, but here's a few brilliant quotes:

5/21/2001  Cliff Edwards  
Commentary: Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work 
“New retail outlets aren't going to fix Apple's sales “
 
12/23/2006 Bill Ray (Mobile)
“Why the Apple phone will fail, and fail badly”
It's the Pippin all over again”
 
1/14/2007 Matthew Lynn
Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move
“…Don't let that fool you into thinking that it matters. The big competitors in the mobile-phone industry such as Nokia Oyjand Motorola Inc.won't be whispering nervously into their clamshells over a new threat to their business…
The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant”
 
3/28/2007 John Dvorak
Apple should pull the plug in the iPhone
Commentary:  Company risks its reputation in competitive business
“… Now compare that effort and overlay the mobile handset business. This is not an emerging business. In fact it's gone so far that it's in the process of consolidation with probably two players dominating everything, Nokia Corp…and Motorola Inc.” 

 And that wouldn't even be so bad if they ever admitted they were wrong, but they almost never do.  

Wall Street is filled with a bunch of ignorant simpletons who think that Apple is only an iPhone company.  If Spinal Tap issued stock, they would buy the stock because their amps go to "11".   

Let's look at reality:  
Net sales was $84.3 billion.  With the exception of the 1st quarter last year, that's the highest first quarter Apple has ever had.
Net income was $19.965 billion.   With the exception of the 1st quarter last year, that's the highest first quarter Apple has ever had.

Net sales were down 5%.  But net income was only down 0.5%.  It should be considered a positive that non-iPhone products are taking a bigger share of Apple's net sales because it leaves Apple somewhat less dependent upon a single product line.  

iPhone net sales were down 14.9%, but the analysts and news media are concentrating on the larger percentage number that Apple is down in China, in spite of the fact that the U.S. is the largest market for Apple.  IMO, the high unit sales in China were always a fluke because the overwhelming majority of the population cannot afford an iPhone.  It should have been quite obvious that with all the Android phones that copied Apple and the fact that most are manufactured in China, it was only a matter of time before there would be lower cost home-grown phones in China.  Duh!

iPhone Net sales $ were down 14.9%.   But iPad sales were up 16.9%, Mac sales were up 8.7%, Services was up 19.1% and the Wearables, Home and Accessories category was up 33.3%.    Services alone, if it were spun off, would be a Fortune 500 company.  

Take fiscal 2018 out of the equation and people would be celebrating Apple's great first quarter record breaking success.  

Having said all that, Apple does need another killer product line.  Phones have reached maturity and with increasing prices and mostly no longer any subsidies (in the U.S.), consumers are not going to upgrade them as often.   Anecdotal, but I'm still using an iPhone 6.   Had I been able to get a new phone for a $200 to $300 buy-in like I used to, I'd have a new model.   I'll probably buy a new model in Fall 2019, when the newest models are released.