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AppleInsider said:

This case has always been about consumer choice," said banks spokesman Lance Blockley. "The applicants made this application to seek to ensure they could participate in the future of mobile wallets

All they care about is getting into wallet

AppleInsider said:

President Donald Trump is the proud owner of a new iPhone. America's commander-in-chief is now confirmed to be tweeting from a device he called on supporters to boycott during last year's campaign, citing the tech giant's refusal to cooperate with authorities investigating the San Bernardino shootings.

..."[Trump] has been using his new iPhone [smartphone emoji] for the past couple of weeks here on Twitter. Yes, it is #POTUS45 reading & tweeting!" he writes...

Trump's use of Apple products, namely iPhone, is well documented.... ...That ended ...when Trump addressed...the San Bernardino terror attack.

"First of all Apple should give the security for that phone, okay?" Trump said... "...boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number.... ..I just thought of that."

...FBI agents recovered an iPhone 5c used by suspect Syed Rizwan Farook. A federal judge later ordered Apple to assist in bypassing the phone's passcode lock..."

The Department of Justice purchased a working bypass from a third-party and withdrew its case against Apple... ...the legal battle's outcome would have had implications on the public's right to digital privacy....

...the new hardware [Apple iPhone] is a welcome upgrade over Trump's old device, which was thought to be a Samsung Galaxy S3 [2012], the aging smartphone is no longer capable of running Google's latest Android software, meaning it poses a security threat to end users.

Concerns regarding Trump's smartphone predilections reached Congress in February when two Democratic senators on the Homeland Security Committee asked Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis whether the president was using a potentially unsecured device. Today that question was answered...

I think this is simply a case of Trump acclimating to a group of so-called-experts [FBI, NSA, CIA, Homeland] that needed to respond and make it known what was the most secure, what preserved Americans rights under the Constitution/B of R, etc... As with the FBI they did not have anyone that was comfortable to make such a decision so they hired and/or bought a set of unsupported tools to hack the iPhone. I would think that Samsundg have the damn things spontaneously errupting in to a VERY hot ball of fire was good enough to toss the Samsung, but was the FBI even concerned -- NOT!

Trump has a lot more resources to point him in the right direction, and has taken advantage of it on occasion.

k2kw said:

appex said:

"Apple's 2017 iPad vs. 2016 9.7" iPad Pro: Which model is right for you?"

None! Bring a Mac tablet. It is other world!

iOS is the future.   macOS is the past.   The capabilities of iOS will improve.   macOS will be modified till it runs a superset of iOS.
That's just the facts because their are almost a billion iOS users (plus other flavors based on tvOS and watchOS).

Bit of a logic flaw there IMHO.

Will be quite a while before macOS is the past -- Apple continues to innovate with it. Don't think for a minute that because you are not seeing a jump like System 7 to Sierra that they are done with it.

I guarantee that developing (writing code, designing UI, managing reusable code, etc...) on an iPad pro or otherwise isn't there. Using a MB with a 13" to 15" screen is a challenge even with the big leap made by Swift -- I am sure Apple would not have developed it to be multi-platform and processor agnostic just to see if they could! The more the executables run the same code (@ source level) the better the reusability as well as having an architecture that is consistent across product lines.

As a developer on the Mac since 1984 (as well as other platforms) although you could write code on a Mac and build finished apps (even on a 128K in asm) but it was painful. Even the step up to 13" color was a leap from the 9" on the Mac (128k, 512k, Plus...) but most serious developers used a 2nd monitor (even a third if you could afford it and had desk space). This was by no means limited to just software development; CAD for architecture, engineering, biotechnology, massive DB schema's... the list goes on much longer.

Scientists, PhD candidates, physicians, veterinarians, volumetric data visualization tools all require high throughput if not the ability to do so precisely. You state "The capabilities of iOS will improve" which is almost certainly true. To say that macOS will be modified until it becomes a superset of iOS -- I agree since this is true now. iOS can trace its origins to a subset of macOS with additions to address the touch interface and lack of physical pointing device (i.e., a mouse) and lack of a dedicated physical text input device (i.e., a keyboard). There were other variations but relative to the system as a whole it did not amount to much. The primary changes to the user interface on either (iOS or macOS) would address an issue that was found to solve a problem or extend the capabilities on one of the platforms and then assuming it was something relevant it would be added to the other platforms OS for reciprocity within a relatively short period.

Based on the heritage of iOS I cannot see a place where there is a need (or desire) to cut functionality out of macOS to make it what it already is. What would the goal of this be?

paxman said:

lkrupp said:

This is why Jony Ive runs design at Apple.

   I mean, where would you PUT this monstrosity... ...I REALLY mind losing the Time Machine feature...  

Seems like they could have at least made the antennas white or a lite gray. This thing reminds me of a roadie for Bob Marley after grabbing an electrical cord with short!

evilution said:

Good! Companies should be employing the right person for the job. If you gave the job to someone not as good just because they were black, that'd be racist against whites (is that even a thing?).

You are damn right that "its a thing"! Its called reverse discrimination -- although why it they need to add reverse to the phrase is a mystery (i.e., its plain ole discrimination). It get so tired of this diversity crap (I have a multi-racial family). The thought that there exists a Miss Black America contest is appalling -- you think people would raise hell if a group got together and had a Miss White America contest? Then we have the case of Fisher v. UT where a student was bumped for not having colored skin... Thats what the PCs call Affirmative Action? Time to dump that policy -- it has done nothing to help discrimination since it uses discrimination as its guiding principal.

Employing racist policies (no matter your intentions) to try and balance the mix is racist. You can't use a racist policy to fix what some call a racist policy. It takes time, as Mr. Rodney King in the midst of much chaos "Can we all just get along?".