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  • Apple sued over 'stage light' MacBook Pro display issue

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    Actually this happened to several MBP‘S of mine. Cost 895 to fix when an extra $0.01 of cable would have prevented the problem. They did a free replacement on the 13” but refused to do it on the 15” with the same issue. When you are the one paying 895 most of you would be screaming that Apple should fix it. 
    hammeroftruthelijahg

  • Apple threatens to close Epic Games developer account on Aug. 28

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    tyler82 said:
    Apple is on the wrong side of this battle. 
    I agree with you but think Epic is the wrong company to fight it was it seems they charge devs a percentage of the sales themselves. There needs to be a way to install apps on the phone / pad without going through the AppStore if you don’t want to. Those who only want to use the AppStore are free to do so but those who want to get it from another source can too much like you can with your Mac. Apple could even put up a nice little warning about the dangers of 3rd party apps etc. 
    DAalseth

  • The 'Apple Car' may be able to detect, warn drivers of cracked windows

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    darkvader said:
    Oh, hey, a thing I absolutely DO NOT WANT ON MY CAR. 

    What are they going to do with the info?  Light up an idiot light that I can't turn off?  Shut the car down until I get the windshield replaced? 

    Unless the crack is bad enough that it's disrupting my visibility, I DO NOT NEED OR WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT.  Seriously, I don't care.  If a crack is actually a problem, I will know about it immediately. 
    Give this guy a job at Apple! Or is this Cook’s idea of a big risk? “Let’s detect cracks in a windshield. Without us telling them that they would never know! We will get stories on AI about AppleCrack saving lives ... 
    libertyandfree

  • Compared: Apple's AirPods Pro vs Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus

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    With apologies to the 21 previous comments I haven’t read, but the biggest question remains unanswered - what do they sound like? Isn’t that what is most important?
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Tim Cook's leadership style has 'reshaped how Apple staff work and think'

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    tmay said:
    bulk001 said:
    So I went and read the whole article on the WSJ. The big takeaways for me are:

    Tim Cook is not about radical innovation but claiming an area like the iPhone and then building increasingly larger moats around it to gain more ground like adding the watch and BT headphones, services etc. 

    Unlike Jobs, he is much more risk adverse as he fears a failure will tarnish the brand so what appears like evolution to some is revolution for him. Jobs had some spectacular failures, including being fired from the company he founded. That is a different world than what Cook came from and following Jobs’ advice he took his own road. 

    How this all plays out in the long run will be interesting to see but I do have a lot more respect for him as a person and leader. Now that the company has been remade in his image I wonder if there is room for people to work through the fragile stages of creating something new when you are immediately expected to have all the answers when the CEO demands them. They talk about the HomePod development - basically the guy who had ideas about it shelved them after Cook did his impatient questioning schtick and then when he heard about Amazon and Googles devices suddenly wanted one
    and the guy had to go back and ramp it all up. 

    Worth reading the whole article though as it fills in some important details. 
    This is a flawed analysis.

    Tim only appears to be more risk adverse, simply because he has the luxury of not having to deliver any innovation until it is ready. In the meantime, Apple generally delivers evolutionary, and very well executed, products, hence why Apple is often chastised for "being late to the party".
    So what you are saying is you agree he hasn’t taken any risks (regardless of the reason) Which is called being risk adverse. The article makes a good case for him being concerned about risks going wrong affecting the brand (and probably the stock price) If you read the WSJ article, Cook seems to admit that he sees his role differently in a quote from Colin Powell he apparently uses about leaders vs managers. 
    elijahg