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dewme said:

Just checked Apple’s leadership team profiles on https://www.apple.com/leadership/. Did I miss something? I don’t see Mark Gurman’s profile anywhere on that site. Where does he sit in Apple’s leadership team that decides the execution of Apple’s product strategy?

Word is that Gurman, and other Bloomberg writers, get paid a bonus for articles that move a company's stock price. He and others there have a financial incentive to make provocative statements (remember the now entirely debunked Big Hack article that Bloomberg never retracted?) to try and affect the stock price. By couching them as hypotheticals they avoid the hits their credibility ought to take.

The bottom line is that anything published by Bloomberg must be taken with a very large grain of salt.

So, the first report was true, Apple pays only for good processors ... but incomplete ... because Apple only buys finished processors.

The higher prices for ad free content may backfire. It's getting to the point, if we aren't there already, that it may pay to only have one streaming subscription at a time. It's not like any streaming service has enough desirable content to occupy one for an entire year, and it will be better to subscribe, watch what you want, unsubscribe, subscribe to a new service, watch what you want, unsubscribe, repeat... Eventually you make your way back around to the first service and begin the cycle again.

ctt_zh said:

22july2013 said:

I presume the EU will mandate this next.

In Europe most people don't use iMessage and use an app like WhatsApp, so they already enjoy end-to-end encryption regardless of the device. Otherwise the EU mandating it would be an excellent idea! Seriously, I'm sure the EU will mandate interoperability using the forthcoming Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol in order to ensure end-to-end encryption between different messaging apps... that would make more sense than focussing on RCS.

Yeah, that'll be the day when governments start mandating E2E encryption, hahaha.

gatorguy said:

This means that with MLS built into Google Messages, you’ll be able to chat with others securely, E2EE, no matter what messaging app they use including iMessage. 

I guess this was hyperbole? Really, no matter what messaging app they use? Even if the app doesn't support it? I mean, there are still a lot of obsolete Android devices (you know, anything older than 6 mo.) out there that won't ever support it.