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Intel uses MacBook Pro to promote its chips after attacking Apple

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April 2021

jimh2 said:

Typical of a company paying for an ad campaign without bothering to vet the results. Intel should demand a refund for services rendered for presenting an ad that is counter to their message.

Unrelated to this are the ads/commercials companies are blowing substantial sums of money for that are out of touch with reality, insulting, or irrelevant. I am confident the CEO’s have never seen the ads they pay for. Even worse for the consumer is we end up paying for the ads. Consider insurance and mobile phones. Switching insurance is a monumental effort that requires giving up a ton of person information in order to possibly save money. Same holds true for mobile phones where a change of providers requires all new equipment.

I can't imagine the stockholders are pleased with this. It gives every impression that neither the CEO or the board at Intel have a freaking clue as what they are doing. They keep messing up the stockholders may get mad enough to ask for their resignations.

Colorado 'right to repair' bill dies despite public testimony

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April 2021

dewme said:

Rayz2016 said:

Fix their own devices without voiding the warranty?

Nope. If you break it, you bought it.

Absolutely. The whole notion of an end user fixing most any of Apple’s current sealed and glued together products themselves without voiding the warranty seems totally bizarre.

I have no doubt that a select few people can absolutely do it with the right equipment, but the vision of some dude armed with a Weller 140 watt soldering gun peeling back the screen on an iPhone 12 to replace an internal component is the stuff of nightmares.

Look at how many products in your homes have that "No user serviceable parts inside" label. The "9-year-old environmentalist" is a real hoot. The people who wrote this thing couldn't get an actual environmental expert (Doctorate or higher) to talk in support of it? This reminds me of a old cartoon I saw years ago:

Man (working on old tube TV): Oh I can fix it myself as I know what to do. (zap)
Man (now in front of golden gates): Uh what happened. St. Peter?!
St. Peter: You couldn't fix yourself because you didn't know what you were doing.

Supreme Court rules in favor of Google in Oracle Java fight

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April 2021

auxio said:

cloudguy said:

Please recall that the original judge to rule on this case was a former programmer - as a hobby - and he called out Oracle's nonsense for what it was...

<a bunch of whataboutism>

It's not nonsense, the problem is that there are no laws to protect technology.

Nonsense. There are plenty of laws to protect technology - they are called patents. You know that thing companies that make nothing are able to sue (and win) against companies that actually did something with idea the come up with independently.

Apple calls Epic Games 'self-serving' in Australia hearing

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March 2021

gerrit said:

Around the world Apple is currently being investigated in 8 different antitrust investigations, has already been found guilty of antitrust violations for their iBooks Store in the US, and in 2019 lost a Supreme Court ruling on how the App Store is run (Apple v. Pepper). Epic may be self-serving, but most developers I know agree that Epic is on the right side of this and are hoping that Epic wins. Self-serving or not, they're on the side of the developers. The big question is really if anti-trust legislation will force Apple to change before the lawsuit is even decided.

Apple v. Pepper only determined the right for people to have bring class action suits and it was a 5-4 in any case.. "Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas and Alito, arguing that the majority's interpretation of Illinois Brick goes against previous principles and long-standing antitrust regulations."

The US Supreme Court can make boneheaded rulings Another 5-4 one was the now infamous Kelo v. City of New London. All these years later then the promised economic development has not materialized and the city is out the property taxes it would have earned over the years.