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mobird said:

jbdragon said:

22july2013 said:

I presume some of the special offers Apple offered them are off the table if News+ turns out to be a success and they want in on the party later.

Doesn't matter if it's a success if Apple is taking 50% of your money in the process.

Isn't something better than nothing?

fastasleep said:

LaraCroft836 said:

fastasleep said:

MplsP said:

Seriously? When a new Animoji tops the list of iOS improvements it’s a sign that there really aren’t any improvements to be had.

Yes, this is the final improvement ever to be added in iOS.

you comment made me nod off

Good, hopefully that’ll prevent you from making a second post here. 

mbenz1962 said:

mpw_amherst said:

wood1208 said:

Apple,you are business and while holding privacy Ethics torch, at the end of day you are a business to make money for shareholders and employees.  Stop this die-hard privacy triumph. Most people outside USA(may be some Europeans) don't even care privacy long as you sell your products and services cheap. Sorry, Money talks,walks, and everything else for most people in world...

How many people on Apple products related websites like Apple-insider,9to5Mac,MacRumers,etc come and say give me privacy at any cost ? Most say, Apple products are expensive even thought they like to own.

No idea where you get that idea about Europeans. After all, the EU gave us GDPR

Yeah, I'm not sure that @wood1208 ; has ever been to Europe or possibly even outside of the US. 

billythedragonboy said:

I live outside USA and I do care about privacy! Who told you people live outside USA we don’t care about our privacy?

Good ethics is important for good companies, and for people too!

Exactly.

ablambert said:

wood1208 said:

Apple,you are business and while holding privacy Ethics torch, at the end of day you are a business to make money for shareholders and employees.  Stop this die-hard privacy triumph. Most people outside USA(may be some Europeans) don't even care privacy long as you sell your products and services cheap. Sorry, Money talks,walks, and everything else for most people in world...

How many people on Apple products related websites like Apple-insider,9to5Mac,MacRumers,etc come and say give me privacy at any cost ? Most say, Apple products are expensive even thought they like to own.

We care about privacy very much. 

I find the European stance on privacy to be at times taken to the extreme.  I'll give an example, My daughter who is in the first grade here in Germany brought home a paper for a school field trip to go ice skating.  In the permission slip "packet" was a separate piece of paper from the local TV station who was going to film a five minute segment about the kids ice skating.  You had to give your written consent that your kid could be filmed and that was irrespective of if they would even appear in the final video or not.  If you wanted to have your kid participate, you had to agree or your kid had to stay behind in the classroom. 
GDPR is a huge topic here.  Most companies of a moderate size even before this regulation had a company "officer" in charge of data privacy.  Even rules about the data an employer can collect about it's employees are strict here.  Kids aren't allowed to have smart watches in schools if they have the ability to allow a  "drop in" out of concern for the child's privacy! Most school functions prohibit the taking of pictures even by the parents out of privacy concerns. Imagine being told as a parent you can't take pictures of your own kid at track and filed day out of privacy concerns.
I could literally go on about this issue for pages.  The only thing that is true to some extent is the quote about money talks in respects to product (handset) prices.  Curiously, as much as the Europeans are concerned about privacy, they buy Andriod devices because of the price and don't seem to be sufficiently convinced to spend more to get devices that are designed with privacy in mind from the beginning.  I attribute this to the fact that the general population is just not so tech-savvy as to realize that there are devices available that better align with their ideals on privacy.  

ksec said:

There isn't any IP for PCI-E 5.0 yet, so the chance of it coming up in this year Mac Pro is Zero. 

Possible for 2020, but that is if Intel support it, so far nothing on its roadmap shows they have any urgency. Compare to AMD which is quick support PCI-E 4.0 and I expect them to be first with 5.0 as well. Likely in Zen 3 with DDR5 and PCI-e 5.0

lmac said:

“Space gray is so important to our Pro customers.” Really, Tim? I can list a dozen things more important to pro customers than the color of the box.