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  • House committee invites Apple CEO Tim Cook, FBI Director James Comey to discuss encryption

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    robroy72 said:

    And to think -- some people want more government in our lives and "caring" for us!
    Yes, insurance companies, the medical-industrial complex, the military-industrial complex, Wall Street investment banks all do such a principled, disciplined, efficient job - often with taxpayer dollar$.  Save the true believer routine for your Sunday morning kneeling.

    SSA and Medicare run with <3% admin cost and suffer less fraud than insurance companies w/15-25% admin budget.  The single largest reason for most nations' healthcare cost being less than ours is they aren't paying a spiff to insurance companies.  We suffer the same waste in subsidies to mediocrities ranging from Lockheed to AstraZeneca.

    But, you can just sit and wait for the kindly fat cats up top to dribble-down your share of pie in the sky.  They - and their coppers - will make you safe.
    palomine

  • US Department of Justice files motion to force Apple to crack terrorist's iPhone

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    When the government - regardless of which herd of useless hacks is in charge - acts like our rights and needs count for anything more than funding Pentagon pimps and corporate weevils, I'll investigate self-restraint.  Until then, the DOJ can stick their concerns where the sun don't shine.
    apple headbrian greenlolliverentropysjbdragon

  • Tim Cook pushes for strong encryption at White House summit

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    Cops pretty much always consider their task, their rights, to supersede the Constitution, the rights of citizens.  The FBI, DOJ, are no different.  Better they spend their time perfecting better methods of policing than asking us to give up constitutional freedoms to make their job easier.
    awilliams87redgeminipatechprod1gylatifbpmetrixlostkiwi

  • What's next for Apple in 2016: New features & apps for Apple TV

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    sog35 said:
    AppleTV 4 is another exhibit #40 that just shows Tim Cook  has no idea how to run an elite company.

    AppleTV4 should have been released YEARS AGO.  They would have crushed Roku/Chromecast/AmazonTV instantly.  Instead they take their sweet old time and allow the competition to make massive inroads. And what do we get for the long wait?  An AppStore.  Friken pathetic.

    Cook is a damn idiot.  He needs to be fired immediatly for being reactive instead of proactive.  This is just another blunder of Cook being behind the market.

    1. Keep selling top end phones with 16 GB. Pathetic. For concerned about short-term profit than long-term customer satisfaction.

    2. Taking too long to bring large screen iPhones

    3. Not updating iPad Mini last year, not updating iPad Air this year

    4. Pathetically weak iMac and MacMini base models

    5. Way too little free iCloud. No bonus iCloud for owning multiple devices.

    6. More concerned about thinness than decent battery life on the 6 and 6s

    7. Horrible user interface for Apple Music

    8. No 4k video for ATV4......even though the 6s shots 4k video. I mean WTF

    9. No traction on ApplePay. Hardly anyone accepts it. 

    10. Homekit is vaporwear at this point. Does Google and Samsung need to show you how its done?

    11. No live TV package. Fucking unacceptable. Even Dish/Sony was able to close a TV package deal.
    You must live in East Overshoe, Texas.  We do our grocery, regular shopping, inside the city limits of the biggest urban area to where we live.  Population of the city is about 60K.  Just about every place we shop takes Apple Pay except, of course, Walmart - which remains only a stop for occasional paper goods.

    As for what gets updated and when - gee, I think you should move back over to a platform like Android or MSoft.  Good luck.  Samsung is about to lose another 20% or so of its value because of no profits.  At least Apple - even when manipulated by hedge funds - is a stock you can make money with.  I set aside a few buck$ for 2016 just to follow the rangebound games the market manipulators play.

    Can't tell you about iPhones.  I use an iPad; but, don't need a cellphone except for potential emergencies - no landline and I might be out in the boonies away from wifi.  Tried a MSoft/Nokia phone for 2 days and returned that crap.  Got an LG/Android for cheap - and it's crap, too, but usable as a cell phone.  If I needed a real smartphone I'd buy an iPhone.  Everyone in my family loves them.

    Worthless comment.
    brometheusnolamacguy