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  • Google Chrome to phase out Adobe Flash later this year

    joshajosha
    macseeker said:
    Steve Jobs wins!
    Yes smart Steve was years ahead on trashing Flash.
    Well done Steve, they need lots of years to catch up with your actions of several years back.  :)
    cali

  • Appaloosa unloads all Apple shares as other hedge funds trim position

    joshajosha
    Hedge funds always dump losers, so I suppose it's not that unusual for them to be dumping Apple. Instead, they'll be buying Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. It's not easy for a CEO to ruin a company unless he's trying to do it deliberately. Tim Cook has really soured most of the big investors. Think of how many shares Apple can buy back for $75 a share. It will be interesting to see how many since that's where Apple appears to be headed. I suppose it was inevitable Apple becoming a second-rate investment after joining the Dow. The Dow curse must be in full effect at this point. No investors will be buying Apple unless they surely want to lose their money. I still can't understand how Apple's management missed the signs of a fully saturated smartphone market. It seemed so obvious to practically everyone else.
    I don't feel the reason is iPhone market saturation.
    It's the reason last summer I bought a clear out new 5c at C$400, rather than a new 6 at C$900.
    It replaced my 4.5 yr old iPhone 4.
    The very high US$ has pushed the iPhone price up over 30% in many countries .  :'(

    The new 5se would have been very attractive to me.

    cornchip

  • Google at work on Amazon Echo-like voice device codenamed 'Chirp'

    joshajosha
    redstater said:
    Why on earth would a software company emulate a poorly-selling hardware device when they can come up with a software solution that incorporates hardware that far more people already have? Eh. But that is Google for you ... so few of their ideas actually work.
    The Google spying approaches that do work make them very very rich.
    Google can't stand other spyware taking business from them.   B)

    lostkiwibaconstang

  • Google's new 'Gboard' for iPhone lets you Google while you Google

    joshajosha
    gatorguy said:
    If using GMail. . . 

    I use GMail for one of my accounts yet never have seen even one ad based on anything that might have been in a message, but I've read that they do register keywords for ad targeting. I've just not seen it for myself. Within GMail itself I don't see ANY ads, targeted or otherwise. 
    Google is very smart compared to other Spying Apps. 
    You seldom see obvious evidence of Google's spying,
     but believe me Google grabs all the info they can about you and keep it forever unless you ask them to delete what they have.
    Then later they direct you to their advertisers.

    I pass, there's no need for another search App on my iPhone.
    DuckDuckGo has search priority on all my devices.   <3


    calilolliver

  • Apple's Mac reaches 9.2% share on the web as Windows PC use sinks to new low

    joshajosha
    New data from Net Applications shows that Apple's installed base of Mac users now account for 9.2 percent of the conventional PCs used online, as Microsoft's Windows platform falls to a new low among online users.
    That's a very low percentage for Macs on the Internet, compared to what I see in coffee shops.
    I those shops I see well over 50% Macs;  like about 80% Macs.
    Among my Windows friends most now have at least an iPad and their Windows PC sits doing nothing in the corner.

    That 90% non Mac percentage must be high on business PCs of all types including Linux, sitting on web sites all day.

    jbishop1039cali