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  • Cyber Monday streaming deals slash Disney Plus, Max, Hulu, Paramount Plus to as low as $0....

    saareksaarek
    As usual no deals on the no advert versions.
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  • How Tim Cook gets Trump to help Apple

    saareksaarek
    macgui said:
    I am tired of the capitulation to T**** (the loser). He’s a criminal. That half of America voted for a criminal makes no difference3 in his criminal state.

    When a corporation bows to a politician, it is called fascism, or state-capitalism.
    when a political leader determines the winner of an economic sector, it’s fascism.


    He was voted in because dems had useless candidates, again. He won by default.
    I am tired of the capitulation to T**** (the loser). He’s a criminal. That half of America voted for a criminal makes no difference3 in his criminal state.

    When a corporation bows to a politician, it is called fascism, or state-capitalism.
    when a political leader determines the winner of an economic sector, it’s fascism.


    He was voted in because dems had useless candidates, again. He won by default.
    Harris had four months to mount a campaign, raise money and introduce herself and her excellent running mate to the American people.  She had a huge uphill battle against a sea of lies told so often that people believed them and the media became exhausted debunking them.  
    This. It wasn't a sea of lies, it was a tsunami of lies. He won because too many Dems stayed home. Too many Undecideds were selfish.

    Main stream media, the news those not addicted to the FAUX News entertainment show watch, was silent on Trump's constant bald face lies. Fact checking was left to online sources that most older people never see. All they wanted to talk about was Biden's performance at the debate. But not one word about Trump's increasingly bizarre performance and memory lapses. 

    And too many stupid people blindly believed his and RNC's lies targeting their hate and discontent without any basis in truth. They weren't open-minded enough to see his actual character or lack of it. They actually believe life will be better under his rule. His cabinet recommendations don't bother them at all. "Soybeans? That was a one off. Couldn't possibly happen again." Sure.

    A huge cloud is headed our way. We had a chance to prepare and ignored it. There is no silver lining for anyone but the 1%, and xenophobes who don't care what it costs, as long has he gets "them" the cause of all their troubles.

    Democracy is being stabbed to death and as with Kitty Genovese too many are just ignoring it. And other "patriots" are cheering it on. Trump is escaping justice at every turn and he just gets bolder. His cult members apparently love a good grift.
    Look, I’m a total outsider seeing as I’m a Brit and don’t live in the states.

    Using the logic of the Left, the Democrats just lost to an old, corrupt, crass, dishonest, convicted felon.

    At what point do the Left accept that perhaps they didn’t offer a compelling narrative for the country.

    Pointing out other peoples flaws without reflecting how you are better isn’t going to win an election.


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  • How Tim Cook gets Trump to help Apple

    saareksaarek
    It never ceases to amaze me that so many people would prefer Tim Cook to publicly shun Trump and refuse to work with him.

    Gruber over on Daring Fireball was practically soiling himself in rage over Tim Cook congratulating Trump.

    Just because Tim Cook is gay, people on the left seem to assume that he must be left leaning and woke to the core. They forget that he has plenty of centre right attributes that kind of matter in business. For all they know he might be a Republican voter!

    People just need to move on. It makes good business sense to deal with Trump, end of discussion.
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  • iPad is still Apple's second biggest device despite long term decline

    saareksaarek
    The biggest issue, as I see it, is that for most people the iPad remains a secondary device behind their iPhone and their “real” computer and therefore an optional expense. 

    Even those that do not own a traditional PC will probably be able to achieve the vast majority of their needs on their iPhone.

    That doesn’t make the iPad a bad product, it’s simply not a must have for most people.
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  • Hack upgrades Mac Studio internal SSD for less than half of Apple's prices

    saareksaarek
    You’ll have to bear in mind that Apple pays no where near retail prices. 

    So, when they say that you can upgrade the storage for less than half what Apple charges they’re absolutely correct. 

    At the same time Apple must have a 300-400% mark up on the storage, same for the Ram.

    This is the bit that I hate about Apple, the pure avarice and greed at the expense of their users. 

    In the past Apple memory upgrades were always a rip off, but they were partly held in check by the fact that users could upgrade themselves or get a third party to do it. Now though, Apple knows they have you by the short and curlies and they fuck you over as hard as they can.

    Apple deserves to make a healthy profit from their work and investment. They used to have envious looks from the likes of Dell, with margins of 35-40%. Tim Cook must be practically orgasming over the 100%+ markup they have to be on today.
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