photography guy

It is such a ridiculous, bad faith move to lump Apple in with Google, Facebook, and Amazon when it comes to anti-trust issues. Yes, Apple is a successful company, but that doesn't immediately or inherently make them evil. Simply being at the top of your industry doesn't make you bad. It's what you do with your power, AND what you did to get to the top that needs to be investigated and regulated.
Apple is primarily a hardware company. Their software and services exist to support their hardware. None of Apple's hardware, software, or services have any monopoly status or power. Now, within Apple's ecosystem, they have power, but that ecosystem is a microcosm in a much larger industry. Apple has control over how their software and services interact with their hardware, but that really has no impact outside of their ecosystem.
What power Apple has over their ecosystem they use primarily to support and protect their customers, and frankly, the industry as well.
Google is an internet services company; Facebook is a social media platform; Amazon is a marketplace. Each of these companies absolutely dominate the way we access information on the internet, how we interact with each other, and how we access goods and services. Each of them use this dominant position to exploit users: they monitor our activity, they gather detailed information about us, they push out smaller companies; all in the service of their own profit and power. Each of them plays fast and loose with our data and private information, and they can, because they have no peers or competition; they barely have any government oversight.
So, yes, the governments of the world need to take a close look at these companies and hold them accountable to use their power responsibly, but leave Apple out of these anti-trust investigations. They are NOT the same as Google, Facebook, or Amazon.

I really wish the Apple Pencil would have an eraser on it, like with the Wacom stylus. Now that it can be charged magnetically, it shouldn't be an issue. It's much more intuitive to flip the pencil around to erase something (because that's what we've been doing for, like, a gazillion years) than to select the "eraser" tool. And for painting, the back of the pencil could operate like the back of a standard paintbrush, so you could "etch" into your painting.

spacekid said:

They should include the carbon used to make things like solar panels and batteries. Does not help if more carbon is required than it saves.

Pretty sure Apple takes this into consideration when calculating their carbon footprint.

Kuyangkoh said:

anantksundaram said:

Kuyangkoh said:

Apple then should be required to disclosed all it’s suppliers carbon footprint.....i wonder how it would fair

Moronic post.

They do. Read up.

Are you sure about that Dumbo? Saying is different than doing in third world countries....i grow up in third world so i know how they operate.....

Apple does annual supplier responsibility audits, and they publish their reports on their website. The reports show which suppliers are complying with environmental and workplace requirements, and those that aren't. Those that don't comply are given a time frame to meet the required compliance. If they don't, they are dropped as a supplier.