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rob53 said:

mknelson said:

rob53 said:

Of course this is political but why are we spending taxpayer money on this when there are so many other issues concerning illegal corporate and personal activities that continue to go unchecked. IRS was decimated and rich people got away with murder yet nothing is done. I'm tired of all the attacks on Apple for really insignificant things.

Nothing? The IRS budget is being increased* in that Inflation Reduction Act (I know that and I'm in Canada).
*and that increase is causing shrill screams and made up stories about 80+K auditors from Fox and others on the right.

gilly33 said:

Oh wow Apple shouldn’t favor their own services. I guess Walmart, Target et al, shouldn’t compete with and favor their own brands vs. other brands. Oh and sell them cheaper. That’s unfair business practices. What a shocker. 

This is a little different. Apple was fine with Tile, even sold Tile, but now that Airtags are out Apple seems to be making life harder for Tile and other tracker companies to work on iOS.

"IRS was decimated" is what I said. Check the news over the past 5 years. Yes, the IRA was just signed but that doesn't mean anything has been done yet and I'm not sure it will actually happen until next year. The IRS won't be up to full strength for at least a few years. As for living in Canada, good for you but that has nothing to do with what has happened or is happening. None of this actually affects you.

Decimated? They have 70,000 employees and are adding 80,000 more.  They will be the biggest agency by far.  They are giving the IRS 87 *BILLION* dollars more.  As for “the rich” and corporations, that’s a red hearing.  Put simply, that’s not where the money is.  Over 90% of audits are on the middle class.  And corporations aren’t going to pay a dime more.  We will. 

That’s because Apple stores are a friggin free for all.  Employees and customers everywhere….doing everything at the same time.  There is no “Genius Bar” anymore.  You check in, then sit down like you’re waiting at the dentist.  Then, a random employee comes up, looks at your device, and whisks it away to the back to fix it. He or she comes back…usually with a fixed device, and you can’t imagine what they did back there.   Then the same person is taking returns, going to the back to retrieve your new device, and checking out people buying things like iPhone cases. It’s a mess and has been since it started.  I miss the actual check out and Genius Bar counter.  

dope_ahmine said:

rob53 said:

Capabilities of a windows PC means nothing for a Mac user.

Unless you’re a gamer

Being tied to windows and/or being a hard-core gamer would be the only reasons to choose it over the Mac.  Apple stopped trying to really compete in the market, if they ever did 

scstrrf said:

As an Apple Card user I like the product, but my interest rate only recently went down from 23.99% to 21.99%. 

Questionable at best, even if such usurious rates are standard practice in USA. 

It’s not questionable at all. You just don’t like it. That is a standard credit card interest rate. They often run promotions where it’s 0% for a certain time.

I find it hard to believe Apple will release a version 3.0 of the M(X) MacBook Pro before shipping an M-series Mac Pro.