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wood1208 said:

Are they puppet of Franch or European union ?

No, they're a leftist organization that has been active for years. They're not particularly anti-Apple. I guess most of their members are actually Apple-users.

applesauce007 said:

I say close the stores and make them buy in London with British pounds.

And that would accomplish what exactly? Alienate Apple-fans across Europe? Demonstrate Apple's unwillingness to be a decent company, which it mostly is? Apple's not a lowly scumbag company and will never stoop to such ridiculous behavior.

sflocal said:

dtownwarrior said:

Hey France, why don’t you all pay us back for all of the soldiers lost liberating your country.

Soldiers?  How's about France paying us back for basically rebuilding their entire country?

Actually, General De Gaulle did that, using the country's gold reserve. Not mentioning the fact that French nuclear and radar intelligence is instrumental to American weapons (and hence victory). You can't pick-and-choose elements from history. Going further, without French help, there is no America (there is a small statue, on Ellis Island if I'm not mistaken, that reminds New York and America of that small detail). The French are grateful to American soldiers for their courage and help, they're grateful to American business for participating in the rebuilding of Western economy (with tremendous profit for America). That is no reason for Europeans in general to not behave exactly like America, which is demand companies respecting the law. As I remember it, America did not hesitate a decade ago when a French major nuclear company broke American law, and leveled multi-billion dollars fines at it (eventually, causing the transfer of taxpayer-funded strategic military intelligence over to America, which some French people still think should have been vetoed at the highest level, as America would have done - but the USA apparently have more balls than the French do). The point is: Attac is doing what they think they should do, and they might be wrong about it. France is not Attac, and Apple might be right or wrong in the law's eye, and right or wrong in morality's eye, with of which are not mutually exclusive. Therefore, just let things unfold. Ranting on Ai won't change anything ^^

radarthekat said:

"accelerate the path to cars being appliances that solve people's problems."

Then go back to Apple and build this...

The car of the future is already here.  It's called a Smartphone.  Think about it.  If you were to clear the slate, look at the modern world and ask yourself, how would I design a transportation system given existing and soon-to-come technologies, like autonomous driving, real-time availability scheduling. Route optimization, etc, no way you'd conclude there should be a car, or two, in every garage.  You'd create a technology/software infrastructure to allow individuals to call up the transportation they need (car, truck, van, etc) on-demand.  And it would show up wherever they are, or wherever they are going to be, when it's needed.  You'd be able to schedule transportation in advance, like the airport shuttles of yesteryear that you'd schedule a week in advance. Über pretty much killed that business, I expect.  

Or schedule recurring transportation, such as to take the kids to soccer practice and back.  In this case the transportation technology system might suggest a shared van service, that knows the schedules for local after school sports practice and offers up and constructs pick-up and drop-off routes based upon participation; a regular route to gather up the kids and deliver them.  Accommodation for security will be considered when children are being transported without accompanying parents, such as real-time tracking and a constant open line of communication, both audio and video streaming from the vehicle to parent's smartphones. 

Indeed. That's how they were represented in Quantic Dream's Nomad Soul ( a video game with David Bowie, yes sir) back in '99.

Accelerators? Maybe the new iPhone is swallowable? Blue or red iPill?

rob53 said:

Same issues with Ultraviolet. I wouldn't complain if they included an iTunes redemption code bug they don't always do that. Too many artists just have to have their own way regardless of what customers want. 

Oh, come on. 

I dislike the individual in question, and good riddance. However, I find it ludicrous that Ai readers may consider it perfectly OK when Apple removes support from Workflow for the competition's offerings (e.g., Google), or kicks products out of the App Store because they were bought over by the competition, but go "artists have to have their own way, scandalousness!" when people do it to Apple.

jkichline said:

When you're giving away devices and an OS for negative profit whilst stealing personal information and giving it to the government, you're sure to dominate marketshare. Sadly, you're not going to dominate profits not have any cash to do anything else.

MacPro said:

There are more bicycles on the world's roads than Roll Royces, does this actually matter to Roll Royce?

Apparently, Android now makes more profit in their App Store than Apple.

And BMW bought Rolls-Royce, and Volkswagen bought Lamborghini because luxury cars are expensive to make, and mass market allows much more volume. Besides the iPhone is not a Rolls, it's a Mercedes. It targets people who are affluent, not billionaires.