crowley

I don't add "in my opinion" to everything I say because everything I say is my opinion.  I'm not wasting keystrokes on clarifying to pedants what they should already be able to discern.

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  • It's time for Apple to revisit these iconic products

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    Apple should send their mouse division down the same way as their router group.
    lkrupp

  • EU votes to back Right to Repair proposals

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    lkrupp said:
    avon b7 said:
    lkrupp said:
    avon b7 said:
    Excellent news. Now it's time for 'design for repair'.

    The warranty extension is a great idea but there will be devils in the details for sure, just as there are at the moment. 

    The first industry to get this treatment will probably be the textile industry with requirements for longer lasting garments. 

    Another great move, away from the 'use and wash three times' and throw away. 

    Design for repair? Can’t wait to see an iPhone designed by the EU, can you?
    It wouldn't be designed by the EU. Each manufacturer would simply have to take into account certain aspects that would facilitate repair or enhancement. 
    Really? Not a chance. Like Denmark and dating app alternate payment demands, Apple will come out with a design they say meets the EU’s “Right to Repair” standards. The EU will say no it doesn’t and start fining Apple until it does. How’s that not the government designing a device?
    Regulatory approval != design.

    The FCC does not design iPhones.  The FDA does not design drugs.
    elijahggatorguydarkvaderAlex_Vmuthuk_vanalingamspheric

  • Elon Musk joins Twitter board of directors after becoming its largest shareholder

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    JWSC said: Musk is fed up with arbitrary removal of prominent people for allegedly spreading disinformation according to Twitter's appointed fact checkers.
    Examples?
    Robert Malone, the "inventor of the mRNA vaccine" is one of those that people making such claims love to reference. 

    Unfortunately for them his story is not so simple: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/
    ronnauxio

  • Apple sued for not paying New York Apple Store staff weekly

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    Whatever the outcome, Apple are nickel and diming at the expense of their own employees.  Just pay your low wage workers weekly ffs.
    lkruppronn

  • EU will force Apple & Google to allow third-party app stores, payment services

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    Evan-el said:
    Can’t this be handled with flick of a switch to make everyone happy? Have a setting in Settings > App Store “Allow Sideloading”. Have it switched off by default.  If a user switches it on, they can side load. Everyone wins, and nobody is forced to do something they don’t want to.
    The problem is if it’s possible to turn it on, it will be abused. Not to throw my parents under the bus, but the moment an app says “security update needed…. Go click this switch (to allow side loading) to download the latest version of Flash Player” I’ll loose 5 hours of my life and a lot of patience getting rid of malware ridden apps. 
    Apple can mitigate this by requiring a password to flick the switch, and accompanying it with a warning to be wary of any message that says you should do this, and only confident users should proceed.
    darkvader