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  • Apple and Goldman Sachs to part ways on Apple Card, no successor named

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    22july2013 said:
    For those of us outside the USA who have been waiting for 4+ years for this service, with no hint of it arriving in our countries, we kinda hope the service will die in the USA. Apple needs to think worldwide, and not provide services to Americans only. How many other Apple services are available in the US only?
    Why do you think Apple would be capable of rolling out such a complex financial offering worldwide all at once? Every single product Apple brings to market is rolled out in the U.S. first. Then, when the bugs are worked out and the product is a success, it gets spread wider. Apple Card is not currently a success, thus this story. 


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  • Apple and Goldman Sachs to part ways on Apple Card, no successor named

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    I completely understand G.S. not wanting every bill to be due on the 1st of the month. Imagine you're a retailer and all your customers come in on the 1st, leaving you with no customers days 2-30.  It's unreasonable of Apple to have G.S. have to handle an onslaught of bills just one day of the month and not be willing to spread them out.  As an Apple Card customer, I'd be fine having mine not be on the 1st, but Apple has never bothered to ask. 
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  • Second macOS Sonoma 14.2 developer beta seeded for testing

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    Running it now. Update was very fast, and it's working well.
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  • Macs can now detect water in USB-C ports and spot warranty fraud

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    danox said:
    the public (driver) will always lie in an accident.
    Not always. I had an Apple Genius claim one of the moisture detectors in one of my iPhones was triggered, and said I must have gotten the iPhone wet. I definitely didn't. It's been 7-8 years now so I have no reason or incentive to lie. Those detectors really could be triggered falsely.  My understanding is that having a phone near steam, such as comes from cooking or a hot shower, is all was needed to turn them from white to pink.  I also heard that living somewhere with persistent high humidity could trigger the ones that got the most airflow. I have no way of knowing either of these for sure; just that my phone did not get wet but one (and only one) of mine was triggered, but just having one was enough for me to be accused by the Genius. 
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  • EU law requiring easier iPhone battery replacement inches closer to enactment

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    omasou said:
    So happy the EU is getting so involved in technology design /s

    If Apple had been reasonable, none of this would be happening. Apple should have put USB-C in the iPhone years ago.

    Also, if you recall, previous iPhone models could be easily opened by removing two Philips #00 screws on either side of the charging port. Since then Apple has been making its phones harder and harder to open. First they changed those screws to Pentalobe. Then they removed the screws altogether. Then they started gluing the battery in. Then they started serializing the components. It's not only a pain for users to repair, it's a pain for Apple employees to repair.

    Would you buy a car for which you needed special equipment just to pop the hood? And then once you got it open, any part you replaced made the car refuse to run anymore? If not, why are we putting up with phones that have purposely been made like this?
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