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  • Apple takes over more NYC office space from Macy's

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    The 11 Penn Plaza offices are less than a mile away from Apple's prestigious Fifth Avenue store. 
    Which is not really close in Manhattan, but it's further than that. Walking, 32st St to 58th St is 26 blocks, and 20 blocks = 1 mile, so from 11 Penn to 58th street is a bit over 1.3 miles, then it's a couple of tenths over to the Apple Store, so call it 1.5 miles. It's even further if you drive it because you can't go directly.



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  • Apple HR exodus continues with recruitment exec departure

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    Well, they're HR people. It's not like they'll be missed or did anything useful.
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  • Masimo CEO steps down, but not because of Apple Watch dispute

    anonymouseanonymouse
    Are we really certain that Apple didn't covertly engineer this coup? 
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  • J.D. Vance shouldn't open his mouth about Apple if he doesn't have a clue

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    gatorguy said:
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    gatorguy said:
    Apple has another reason to distrust what Vance and Trump say about the Heritage Foundation, source of Project 2025. JD Vance penned the forward for it's President book, being kept  back from sale until after the election. 

    Vance predicts that "Roberts’s book will pave the way for a new age of conservatism in which the right goes on the “offensive.", with one excerpt from JD Vance's forward here:

    “Roberts (Heritage Foundation President) understands economics and supports basic free market principles, but he doesn’t make an idol out of decades old theories. He argues persuasively that the modern financial corporation was almost entirely foreign to the founders of our nation. The closest eighteenth-century analogue to the modern Apple or Google is the British East India company, a monstrous hybrid of public and private power that would have made its subjects completely unable to access an American sense of liberty. The idea that our founders meant to make their citizens subjects to this kind of hybrid power is a historical and preposterous, yet too many modern ‘conservatives’ make such an idol out of the market that they ignore this. A private company that can censor speech, influence elections, and work seamlessly with intelligence services and other federal bureaucrats deserves the scrutiny of the Right, not its support.”

    IMO, It's impossible to take Trump at his word that he's never even read the Project 2025 recommendations and would never use them as a blueprint for his administration anyway, considering his running mate's very intimate relationship with the organization. Perhaps that's the reason for Vance being on the ticket despite some Republican leaders confusion why when there were far better selections available. 

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    Any links to the guardians should be immediately disregarded. It’s left-wing hackery and always has been.
    If I recall correctly, you believe ALL media should be disregarded, so I've not a clue where you get your reliably factual news.
    That's the problem, the MAGA cult doesn't get factual news, and even if they did, they've been brainwashed to disregard facts. That's how cults work. Just because this is on a larger scale than Jonestown doesn't make it any different. 
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  • Spotify says Apple is blocking volume controls for connected devices

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    ITGUYINSD said:
    Not Spotify again whining 
    You mean not Apple playing dictator again?  taking away access to functions that were allowed, and for no good reason, is just Apple being a bully.  
    Could the fact that Spotify has more subscribers than Apple Music have something to do with it?
    It didn't work properly and there's an API for doing this a different way that does work properly. Spotify is just too cheap and lazy to update their software to do it the right way. So, yes, this is definitely Spotify whining and much ado about nothing.

    But, I guess you missed all this,

    Consequently, Spotify has reportedly asked Apple to allow it to control the volume when using Spotify Connect to send music to HomePods. However, Apple has said that it requires Spotify's app to add integration with HomePods. 

    In 2019, Spotify complained to the EU that Apple was denying it access to the HomePod. Spotify has also refused Apple's help in adding AirPlay 2 support, which as recently as 2023 it still says is coming. 
    This is what happens when you spoil a child, they think they are entitled to everything, now, with no effort on their part, and throw a tantrum when they don't get it.
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