lowededwookie

So technically there ISN'T an alternative to a company that scams your data and offers you a feed full of crud you don't want in order to keep you on the platform so they can scam more data off you. Because from that list that's exactly how ALL those "alternatives" operate.

I'm still waiting on Apple News to come to New Zealand. But we've just got Visual Voicemail so maybe there's hope. However, given that the news media in NZ is in a state of disrepair we NEED Apple News now more than ever because Stuff, NZ Herald, and even TVNZ all seem to be on shakey ground.

So Apple can't just walk in and disrupt an industry? I mean I can't think of any industry where Apple has done that other than desktop computers, laptops, cellphones, tablets, smart watches. Other than that what industry has Apple just marched into and disrupted? (queue obligatory Monty Python references)

The EU seems to forget that some apps are bound by censorship laws that even the EU enforce. What might be okay for one country is not okay for another.

How is that making a better experience when developers have to spend more time researching international law than actual development?

That being said, I’m all for the sentiment because content and apps might be available to others but not me. But to fix this problem you’d essentially have to ditch the governments of every country and rule from a single entity and the only entity at the moment that could do that is the UN. Good luck pushing that idea.

How is Apple overvalued? Of ALL computer and software manufacturers Apple is the only company producing exciting hardware. Intel is loosing the plot with its pathetic small speed updates and yet the PC world laps them up. AMD is let’s face it dead in the water and has done nothing truly exciting since they started to take on Intel at their own game.

It’s for this reason I knew in 2006, when Apple went Intel because PPC was too slow in giving Apple what it wanted, that Apple would ditch Intel for their own chips. I was laughed at and yet here we are at the M4, fours years into Apple’s transition.

I mean, to be fair, Intel did keep its promise last year that by 2023 they’d have a chip capable of beating the M1… around the same time Apple released the M3.

If stock performance was based on products shipped then surely it means Apple is incredibly UNDERvalued.

But Buffet is right, the economy will tank. How can it not? The way it’s all set up it’s all on a knife’s edge. Currencies aren’t based on tangible products anymore and haven’t been for decades. It’s all smoke and mirrors and is essentially the greatest Ponzi scheme history has ever seen. It HAS to collapse. I’m not so sure having huge cash reserves will be a benefit though. If the economy crashes and the dollar has no value then surely you’ll just be sitting on a huge pile of worthless paper.