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It's an utterly unimportant story compared to all the other gross abuses he commits.
It's interesting only in the fact that he has to lie and change his story about this repeatedly because he can never, ever, admit to a mistake.

In the end, instead of being a forgotten gaffe it's more evidence that nothing Trump says can ever be trusted.

sflocal said:

Typical.  If this happened to Apple, it would be all over the news and congressional committees would would demand Tim Cook to testify in front of the world.  The media and trolls would call it "speak-gate" and get on the loudest podium to demand Cook's head.

But no... Just like Android, people know products like Alexa are garbage and junk, and since they have low expectations from them, they get a free pass.

Hypocrites everywhere.

Well, to be fair, Apple does get extra scrutiny because they are the largest company in the world.
Unlike Amazon, which is the ... <checks notes> ... umm, second largest company in the world.

Where's the "open" part? Not seeing it.

Google has been moving more and more of the Android features out of open source and into their closed libraries. Has that changed, or is this a new definition of "open"?

Almost everywhere I shop now supports it.
Safeway was the biggest holdout until a couple months ago.
Target is the only store missing it that I encounter regularly.

mdriftmeyer said:

The goal of fully baking Swift before it's even ready is the problem. I truly wish they'd have never developed the language. It's a false panacea that will eventually be dumped and people will return to learning more slowly evolved OOA/OOD languages of ObjC/C++ on top of C.

This reinventing the wheel is moronic.

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/tree/master/proposals

Could not disagree more.
I find Swift to be a much better experience than programming in ObjC/C++. 
And surprisingly, my business partner who has 40 years of assembly/C/C++ and is a stickler for low level performance has fallen in love with Swift this year. He's considering porting much of our C++ over to Swift.
Ironically, the C++ integration is one of the lacking areas, or porting wouldn't be so high on the list.