sumergo

lkrupp said:

macxpress said:

Why do people have to be stupid and damage someone else's property? Why can't people just leave shit alone that isn't theirs?

Because they essentially encouraged to do so by the constant barrage of class warfare propaganda spread by Democrat socialists. They are told that its unfair that these high paid, highly skilled workers get nice things but are the cause of their pain. They are told that theryt are oppressed by the wealthy who got their wealth on their backs. They are told they are entitled to all the perks of education and work without actually having to do any of it. They are told those highly skilled and highly paid tech workers are living on the Elysium space station while they suffer along with Matt Damon on Earth. Class envy, jealousy, and the sense of entitlement will be the death of democracy and the end of prosperous economy.

tallest skil said:

bloodshotrollin'red said:

couldn't you instead ask the Apple Board to pay us Brits a great deal more tax?

You’re free to give your entire income in taxes if it bothers you so much. You’ve no right to say what someone else pays in tax. You lost your colonies over that; I would think you’d learn a lesson by now.

wizard69 said:

viclauyyc said:

Apple has major interest in the issue, Apple Music, AppleTV, FaceTime and iMessage.

But no matter what, it is a great cause to fight.
Same thing apply to Google, YouTube, Facebook or any other steaming service.

Streaming services are exactly why net nuetrality had to be undone.  The services have a dramatically negatve impact on other users of the internet.   Network management requires the ability to throttle bad players.   

Apple talks about quality of service but does little to assure that its services prevent network congestion.  That is a problem.  

boogerman2000 said:

sumergo said:

My problem with FaceID is that it further degrades our individual privacy and makes us more vulnerable to both over-officious government and predatory marketing.

TouchID is my physical finger on this phone.  FaceID is my face on a potentially global database.  Coming from the UK, one of the most surveilled societies in the western world, I find this worrying.

I'm not interested in being reduced to a target for near-field / face-recognition ads or constant surveilance.

An old fart?  For sure - I actually like being an individual.

Privacy and individuality are largely a thing of the past. "Social" media / tech hv brought on a paradigm so shift so quickly and so thoroughly, most people have yet to comprehend that it's happened.