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AppleExposed said:

red oak said:

I will always hate Microsoft for all the time I spent trying to troubleshoot my Windows PCs in the 1990s.  The funny thing is,  I was an investor and big advocate at the time 

You and I had the same past. I used to think computers were supposed to be defragmented and cleaned up weekly. I used to think my Windows machine was better than a Mac because I built it with superior specs. I had never used a Mac. I switched to a Mac and was blown away. I'll always remember that feeling. I felt like I had stepped into a time machine 10 years later. Now I hate Windows for all the hours(days)I spent maintaining their garbage.

Now nothing pisses me off more than some idiot who thinks the same as I did and has never used a Mac.

And I still hate the fact that where I am working now, still forces its employees to use only Windows 10 and not allowing macOS despite almost all its services/applications are web-based and has no issue (whatever that runs on Chrome or FireFox instead of proprietary Internet Explorer) to run on macOS. I would be more than happy if they offer a fixed amount of what they are paying for a standard-issued Windows laptop and upgrade to a MBP (out of my own pocket) anytime. At least I don't have to waste precious time waiting for patching and updates (sometimes as long as 4 hours) only to eat into my personal time to get backlogged work done. I haven't even get started on those hours where excel hung, outlook hung, intermittent issues which requires a reboot to fix, and more...

macplusplus said:

“As the PC business grew into an increasingly valuable segment, IBM attempted to develop its own, more sophisticated OS and hardware platforms with PS/2 OS/2. It continued work with Microsoft to do this, but as soon as Microsoft felt it could do better on its own, Gates' Microsoft dumped IBM and launched its own plans for Windows.”

Exactly right. It was OS/2 and I was with IBM during that era of OS/2 via Windows 95 or was it Windows NT.

Goldman Sachs...When will Apple Card comes to International markets?

Any supermarket takes a fixed rental of shelf space and a % cut of all sales proceedings. Why is 'App Store' being bashed (class actions after class actions) so badly nowadays, esp in the US?

If one day this ecosystem is to collapse, it will be mainly thanks to all these 'nuisance' of not willing to pay for this and that, and the regulators trying to poke here and there just for a show. Why can't these developers just go to Android and Google Play Store instead. It's supposedly free there isn't it? But then, wonder if they can make any decent profit there.

Excellent news and I will jump onto it when available.

The ability to mask the real email address is not a new technology. Namecheap.com's WhoisGuard feature is the same approach which masks real email address with random generated email address and it changes every 7 days (at max setting).

Nonetheless, it is really great that Apple is offering this feature with its 'Sign In with Apple' service offering.