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  • Epic's Tim Sweeney ludicrously calls Apple's 'Find My' a privacy hazard for thieves

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    I live minutes away from Epic Games headquarters, which is in Cary, North Carolina. There's even an Epic employee who lives at the end of my street. I can tell you there is absolutely a reason why Tim Sweeney is known as the "dick of the Triangle". One of his recent stunts actually ruined the retail revitalization plans of Cary's largest mall. He swooped in and bought the entire property for $95 million and shut down the entire mall for his new headquarters. The town, its planners, and all the retail partners involved were blindsided by this. When the kids at the nearby Cary High School lament that they have one less hangout spot and one less food court to go to, yet pine to play Fortnite on their iPhones again, one can point out to them that the "dick of the Triangle" was responsible for both situations.

    stompybadmonklotoneswilliamlondonkillroywatto_cobrajony0

  • Apple stock overtakes Microsoft on increased AI expectations

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    DAalseth said:
    Every time there is a big innovation people try to put it in everything. Then after a few years they realize that most of those applications were stupid*. This will be the way with AI. Right now they want it in everything, while we the customers just want a Siri that can understand linked questions and a spelling checker that won’t recommend ‘banana’ when I type ‘mountai’. I am actually glad to hear that most of the Apple Intelligence features will be rolled out separately over the next year. That way I can hunt them down and kill them one at a time. 

    *This is how we ended up with asbestos modelling clay, and radium in makeup. 
    I have always appreciated your insightful comments over these last few years.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple's 21.5-inch Intel iMac is officially retired

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    About G-D time! When Apple peddles old cruft like this to educational institutions, it makes generic windoze boxes and e-waste, er…chrome books, come out looking good in comparison. It doesn’t matter if this old gear was price-competitive, it was still 5 year old tech with a tiny amount of storage and memory. 
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  • Senate lawmakers introduce bill targeting Apple App Store, Google Play

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    rob53 said:

    The politicians are listening (being bought by) to loudmouth, greedy developers. I wish they would listen to users instead. If they did, we’d want a closed, secure, easy to purchase App Store. 
    They are also acting on behalf of Microsoft, who has been in the background trying to manipulate the situation the whole time, yet somehow a $2+ trillion market cap tech company not subject to any of this round of “regulation” or even minimal scrutiny.
    rob53robaballamakillroywatto_cobra

  • Apple to restore mask requirement at Apple Stores

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    hexclock said:
    M68000 said:
    iOS_Guy80 said:
    The correct decision. Or they could ask to see your Covid vaccination certificate in your Apple wallet with no need to wear a mask in the store.
    Well, unfortunately there are reports that the CDC is saying that fully vaccinated people can transmit the virus.   Hopefully the combination of current and future vaccines pending proper testing, combined with herd immunity, will bring the pandemic to an end.
    The cdc is relying on a research paper from India that failed peer review. Also, the paper looked at the Astra Zeneca vaccine, which is not used in the US. 
    In addition,  CDC is going to stop using PCR tests because they generate too many false positives. 
    I am calling bulls#lt on that “report”. That website (justthenews.com) is a conspiratorial, pro-Trump pseudo-journalistic outfit of less than dubious quality. It is found to be loaded with conspiracy theories & propaganda and has failed numerous fact checks. They have published misinformation during the corona virus outbreak and have been cited many times for doing so. Therefore their anti-CDC screed is invalid.

    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-the-news/
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