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  • Tim Cook rails against bad privacy regulation & sideloading in keynote speech

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    Tim Cook tells users how to live their lives and limits what they can view in apps?  That’s news to me.  Please give specific examples.  

    Because I don’t know of a single website (including violence and porn) that can’t be accessed by Safari.  And there are no limitations on Apple’s other apps either. 
    watto_cobrajony0

  • Former supply chain buyer's fraud and kickbacks cost Apple $10M

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    It’s hard to understand how this happens in a company like Apple which must have all kinds of controls.  Even the kickbacks should have been implied because kickbacks aren’t “free” to a company — they result in being charged more.  And Apple supposedly controls product costs quite rigidly. (Although they spend ungodly amounts of money on facilities and other things.)

    Many decades ago, I got a job at a large media company because my predecessor got caught taking kickbacks.  And they were able to catch him even though this was before much computerization because the way the acquisition process worked was that first we’d have to do a purchase request, which had to have three competitive quotes and it had to be signed by one’s boss as well as their boss (and sometimes even more up the line, depending upon the level of spending). 

    Then it had to be approved by the purchasing department, which had their own chain of approval.  Once approved, only then did you complete a purchase order, which they re-approved and sent out.  Once you received the order, you signed off on a copy of the P.O. and then the company got paid.  

    Anything that was going to be capitalized went through a similar but more rigid process as those were expensed to different budgets. 

    They also had a policy of never again doing business with any company that  paid a kickback. 
    viclauyyckillroywatto_cobra

  • Apple is 'ungodly well-managed,' says Berkshire Hathaway vice chair

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    jschussler said:
    And yet somehow, 20 years later, iTunes/Apple Music still a bug-ridden, poorly designed app you can't avoid if you have Apple devices.
    There are some things about the app I don’t like, but bugs?  I’ve never detected a bug in iTunes.  It’s always just worked.  

    On the other hand, since I finally upgraded to the latest version of MacOS, I had to upgrade from Office 2011 to Microsoft 365.   And it’s a piece of crap.  I don’t understand how an app gets worse after 12 years.  
    watto_cobra

  • Apple, Broadcom win new damages trial in $1.1B Caltech patent case

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    joekewe said:
    sbdude said:

    That said, all universities in one form or another are a business pure and simple; their educational aims these days are questionable at best.
    I agree with your comment when applied to FOR-profit universities, but NON-profit universities are not designed to be businesses.  Yes, they charge tuition and have huge budgets, but they are not intended to generate profits.  Most are focused on their "educational aims" while generating enough income to stay afloat.
    That’s not quite accurate, IMO.   Most “known” colleges (aside from the ones that advertise on TV) are non-profits and yet tuition has skyrocketed at many multiples of the inflation rate.  

    Many of these schools are more interested in increasing the size of their endowment and many have highly paid, top heavy administrations filled with people who don’t teach. That’s especially true at most of the Ivy Leagues.   And many are more concerned with expanding the facilities than education.  

    My first year at college cost $1300 in tuition.  That’s $10,000 in today’s dollars.  But that school today charges over $50,000 and it certainly doesn’t come to mind as one of the great educational institutions of our country.  

    The big ripoff were schools that closed during the pandemic, but didn’t reduce tuition - trying to claim that an assignment sent via email or a Zoom lecture (when the professors even bothered to do so) was the same as in person instruction on a fully functional campus.   My granddaughter dropped out of college for a year because it certainly wasn’t worth spending something like $70,000 for half-hearted remote learning. 
    prairiewalker

  • Apple files a lawsuit to stop upcoming indie 'Apple Man' film

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    JWSC said:
    foregoneconclusion said:
    Trademark law requires you to actively protect your trademark. This is just another example of that. Regardless of the outcome, it serves the purpose of showing Apple is serious about its trademark. I would guess that this particular example is due to Apple being in the tv/film business now. 
    True. Regardless of whether they win or lose, the lawsuit will put Apple on record as attempting to protect their trademark, which could come in handy in future lawsuits that may be more applicable. Nevertheless, actions like this tarnish their reputation in the public eye. One can only hope that Apple weighed the costs and benefits carefully before making this decision.
    A film is not a trademark and if the film has nothing to do with computers or phones, there’s no confusion (as long as the film doesn’t use anything that looks like Apple’s Apple logo) and IMO (I’m not a lawyer, but I have a great deal of professional experience with rights management) Apple has absolutely no case. If we’re getting the full story, this is ridiculous overreach by Apple’s lawyers. 

    The film will probably disappear quickly.  But if this lawsuit gets publicized, Apple will look bad for a long time and at a time when Apple and other tech companies are considered to be too powerful, it’s an especially stupid move by Apple, IMO. 
    muthuk_vanalingam