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  • Epic seeks 'coalition' of Apple critics as fight over App Store policies intensifies

    What a pathetic, desperate, malicious company. 

    They fucked themselves completely from their own doing, with a failed campaign that only led to self sabotage. Not only did they knowingly break the terms of their agreement, they had a 62 page lawsuit ready to go along with a twisted version of Apple's classic 1984 ad as icing on the cake. Now, they're begging the courts to stop Apple from revoking all their access (which is well within Apple's rights and their only logical course of action). 

    Again, pathetic company. 
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  • Apple abruptly closes flagship Montreal Apple Store over COVID-19

    I pass by this store every day. There's always a pretty big lineup to get inside, and they have this whole thing setup with tents and temperature checks. More than any retail I've seen. 
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  • Apple Park employees told to shelter in place as San Francisco enacts coronavirus lockdown...

    ITGUYINSD said:
    If you take the time to look at the 2018-2019 flu season statistics, you'd see that in CA, we had 30-50 flu-related deaths PER WEEK!  Why didn't we "lockdown" then?  Is the media blowing this out of proportion?  I saw during the 2018-2019 flu season that in the US, 80,000 people died!  Did we shutter businesses, stop travel, and basically turn everyones life upside down?  Did financial markets collapse?  

    It's amazing that in past years, all the flu-related deaths we had, and nothing changed in our day-to-day lives except taking precautions and washing your hands.

    Yet now, the numbers are much lower with COVID-19 and look what we're doing.  I'm trying to make sense of it.


    I'll bite.

     There are several reasons this virus is far worse than the flu and is bringing entire countries to a complete collapse -

     1. The hospitalization rate for COVID19 is 10-15% with roughly 5% requiring ICU; seasonal flu is 0.05%. Furthermore, the death rate for the flu is 0.1%, COVID19 is over thirty times worse at 3.4%. And in some places, like Italy, DOUBLE that.

     2. Seasonal flu related deaths are usually not from the flu itself but other secondary causes such as secondary bacterial pneumonia. COVID19 on the other hand is also called SARS-CoV-2 which stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome where the lungs start filling up with fluid from inflammation - it is far more dangerous and far more difficult to treat.

     3. We have a vaccine for the flu which reduces the severity of its spread and impact every year. We have no vaccine for COVID19.

     4. The basic reproduction number of the flu (average number of people who get it from one sick person) is 1.3. This virus is 3 with some fluctuation meaning that it is much more contagious.

     5. Seasonal flu is an epidemic, coronavirus is a pandemic - it rapidly spreads around the whole world, causing a devastating impact.

     6. We have studied flu for decades so we know much more about it and how to treat and mitigate it compared to COVID19.

     You're welcome.
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  • Editorial: Apple's Q319 earnings destroy a mountain of fake data and false reporting

    Kif Leswing of CNBC similarly stated that "Apple reiterated to me today that the vast majority of MacBook customers are happy and haven't had issues with the keyboard," but felt compelled to remark that "but to me, anecdotally, it feels like it's happening to everyone." "Everyone", meaning attention-whoring Youtubers and clickbait headlines. Anecdotally, not a single person I know has had KB issues with their 2016+ Macbooks.
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  • Apple's 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard expected to shift to scissor mechanism

    ireland said:
    Let’s see the arguments now from apologists who say there’s nothing wrong with the butterfly design. Turns out key-travel and reliability matter to people. Sadly, Apple will use this as yet one more justification for price increase.
    There is nothing wrong with the butterfly design. I've had multiple butterfly KBs with zero issues, as have many other people I know. There isn't a shred of real evidence that they're less reliable. Do you have any? Anecdotally, it seems that way because the clickbait industry has pounced on this, and one blog/youtube video about a KB issue gets shared millions of times. Apple claims there is not a higher percentage coming in for repairs compared to the scissor models, and I believe them. They may very well switch mechanisms for this machine, but could be due to more of a PR thing, since "butterfly keyboard" is now connected with negatives, based on this massive exaggeration and clickbait industry. I'm faster with the butterfly design, and I find typing is more comfortable and requires less effort. 

    And no, the price "increase" will e due to a fact that this will be a completely different machine. Just like how there's a price "increase" between the 8 and the X, or the XR and the XS. If you don't like the pricing, Apple sells other laptop models.

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