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gmgravytrain said:

That name change boosted that company's valuation immensely. Big investors practically went crazy over that name change.

Because Wall Street was happy that Google finally admitted its complicity with the alphabet agencies? What does the name have to do with anything?

Google services will remain and prosper and keep the company's valuation much higher than Apple's valuation.

Except… it’s lower.

dewme said:

In what state is the use of deadly force justified for unarmed thieves stealing an iPhone? 

How about you not steal things, hmm? Is that too hard to comprehend? Did you know that actions have consequences? Have you heard of castle doctrine? I don’t want companies feeling justified in just shooting people, but you have to realize that the threat of physical punishment is a deterrent for this sort of thing.

Why not just repurpose the Mac Pro cylinder to become the new Mac Mini? Get some actual use out of the case and thermal design by giving “low-end” users some upgradability! Without a Xeon and workstation GPU, there’s probably room for a standard 2.5” SSD (or two), as well as the 4 RAM slots.

EDIT: There’s now a PC that steals the Mac Pro design idea, but it’s big enough for full size PCIe cards. The Mac Mini would be PERFECT for taking up the Mac Pro cylinder design!

radarthekat said:

My question would be does the law require equal access to all avenues of access?

Well, every single corner of every single block in my city is currently being torn up to add those bumpy sections. Every single corner. Every single block (that has sidewalk on it). The entire city is being disrupted, as are all my neighboring cities. No one in my city is blind. None. Visually impaired? Sure, technically. But they’re all old. They all live in one of two retirement centers, and they have all manner of shuttle bus access and other support to get where they’re going. Now, in one of my neighboring cities? Sure, blind people of all ages out and about. But do they, even, warrant the tax expenditure (and millions in lost revenue from time lost by disruption) of tearing up perfectly good sidewalk and replacing every corner with things they only need where they’re already going?

This is “least common denominator” behavior and it’s what fucking kills civilization. Apple is to be commended for its efforts to care for everyone in this way and praised for being the industry leader in general. Can you imagine if another company was the one who’d spearheaded the removal of all physical buttons from devices? They wouldn’t have cared one lick for the blind, etc. Touchscreens seem like an impassible wall for impaired usability, but Apple made sure to accommodate users as they’d done before. And they did it without compromising on anyone else.

“Criminals live in houses, and you live in houses, so we need a master key that can unlock every house! Don’t worry, we’ll only use it on the criminals.” – Government on digital privacy