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  • 25,000 Linksys routers are reportedly leaking details of any device that has ever connecte...

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    It's news reports like these that makes me wish that Apple gets back in the router business.  I've owned every brand of consumer router made and they were all garbage.  From hardware instabilities requiring a monthly reboot, to software vulnerabilities, and downright failures every six months.  They were trash.  I own sever multi-unit apartment buildings and provide Internet access to each one as a courtesy.  Having routers fail every few months, or get unstable every few weeks was frustrating.

    A friend recommended I try an Apple Extreme.  Out of desperation I tried one and after a couple months of testing in one unit, it was love from that point forward.  I purchased a bunch of them to replace all the Chinese crap and in 10 years since having them installed, have never had one fail or act strangely.  It broke my heart when I heard Apple was getting out of that business.

    Eventually, I read a report that many of those crap routers (Netgear, Linksys, D-link) were all failing due to the companies going the cheap route and transitioned from quality Japanese capacitors to the crappy, cheap Chinese-made capacitors and just like most things coming out of that country, was complete junk.  Apparently, many of those companies abandoned them and went back to more reliable capacitor from Japan.

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  • YouTube TV hikes monthly fee to $55 to cover Apple App Store fees, Discovery programming

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    Interesting how many different needs people have when it comes to TV.  I cut the cord 18 months ago and just watch Netflix and iTunes.  Been happy since then, and I went from $120/month to about $20/month.
    n2itivguy

  • Apple Card offers simplified and secure Goldman Sachs-backed credit card with daily reward...

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    sirlance99 said:
    rob53 said:
    Finally!!!!

    Getting this to replace my Costco Citibank VISA card. Better rewards program. 

    Will costco allow the MasterCard version or does their Apple Pay use hide the credit card type?
    Really?!?! Because 4% for gas and 3% for dining on the Costco Citi Card is a better reward than 2% and 1% for the Apple Card. That’s not better to me. 
    You're conveniently leaving out the part about having to pay a Membership fee in order to get that Costco card.  It may not necessarily be a fee for the card, but it's still a fee in order to get it.
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  • Highly suspect benchmarks stoke rumors of Apple-designed ARM chips for Mac

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    I firmly believe that Apple has had a MacOS/ARM machine in development for several years.  Just like it did with the IBM->Intel, when the time is right and the performance is at least on par with Intel's offerings, they will introduce that machine.  It only makes sense that it is the next logical step in Apple's eventual divorce from major chip suppliers like Qualcomm and Intel.  Intel has shot itself in the foot way too many times and proven to be a real headache for Apple in having a constant introduction of newer x86 chips.

    My only hope is that there will still be some kind of compatibility with x86 instruction set.  I know I'm part of a minority group, but I do have all my Macs (three of them) running Windows for certain development tools I use.

    Either way, the day Apple jettisons Intel's CPU, that will be the blast heard around the world, and a good time to short Intel.
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  • Apple's control over the App Store now 'completely unsustainable,' says Spotify CEO

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    Ghostal said:

    I agree. Whether it be Amazon, Walmart, Microsoft or Apple, things get problematic when your company has created a marketplace / platform, but is also competing within that marketplace / platform. You can tweak the rules or and your positioning within the marketplace / platform in order to maintain a competitive advantage. This stifles innovation and it often results in crappier experiences for the customer. 


    Nonsense.  Please enlighten us all how "innovation" was blossoming prior to the App Store.  *chirp* *chirp*

    Apple created an ecosystem for its own devices, and developers profited handsomely.  Prior to the App Store, developers had to create, market, sell their software independently and were lucky to get a smidgen of publicity.  With the App Store, they get access to countless iOS users, and don't have to do anything but upload their app and have apple's ecosystem sell it, and manage it for you.

    Quit your whining.  You do a disservice to us real developers that know how hard it was to do this on our own time.  If you don't like it, you're more than welcome to sell your app for Android and have access to even more people... assuming they even pay for anything.
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