Have you even looked at the articles you referenced yourself? Do they even exist?
He seems drunk with his spelling, but it did happen. Though it was "Obama" not Obama. Apple complained to the administration and they lifted the import ban, and it was only a temporary ban in the first place.
Actually it was one of the ITC commissioners who complained. And rumor has it the other 5 who voted for the decision actually agreed with him, but wanted Obama to step in and finally change the rules on standard essential patent trolls like Samsung.
Thank you for showing off the Slashdot Way. Bash Apple when they don't include a marginally useful feature, and then when they include it, bash them for being late to the party with a marginally useful feature.
RTFA ass-hole:
“I was in the Balkans covering the refugee crisis in September when I dropped my phone. Because I desperately needed it for work I got it fixed at a local shop, as there are no Apple stores in Macedonia. They repaired the screen and home button, and it worked perfectly.”
Well, dude in Macedonia should have checked into the apple.com/mk site (or googled for "apple macedonia"), click on "Support", click on the link "Apple Authorized Service Providers" under "Contact" down at the bottom of the page, and search from there (there only seems to be one in all of Macedonia anyways - it's about a hundred miles across). IOW just like you do in any other place on Earth where you can buy Apple products.
Even if it's a genuine Apple fingerprint sensor, the phone still bricks itself. The sensor has a code, and if it changes your phone becomes a paperweight unless Apple waves its magic wand over it.
In other words, fail to pay Apple for the repair and your expensive phone commits suicide.
A weird engineer who couldn't find engineering software to do real work on his Mac SE in 1989? We're taking the kind of person who goes out of his way to be offbeat.
And I thought we were talking about Binge Shitter, a person known to make up stuff as he goes.
There's a reason why there isn't an edit button.
A very good one too:
You don't get to post an inflammatory comment, and then change it after the fact, making your esteemed opponent appear like an asshole for replying in kind. And similar other variations, where people change what they said, and not just fixing typos.
If (and I still don't think it's a good idea) implementing an edit button, at least make it only possible to submit an edit until someone either replied or voted on the comment.
This is 2016. I'm sure there must be a way to also make a button to show previous versions of the post, And for people to then make posts pointing out deceptive edits.
But none of those "premium" brands commanded 50% of the market.
At some point the $100 cell phone will be good enough, and then Apple is in big trouble.
Why? If the $100 phone is good enough, it's buyers will stick with it and not buy any other phone until it falls apart. The iPhone buyers OTOH will keep buying a new iPhone every 2 years just like they did before.
IOW your scenario will spell doom for anyone but Apple.
With Woz, we'd get actual great Apple products, they just wont appeal to Apple's core audience who dont care about reliability, modability and usability and just want to be told they're awesome for buying Apple.
Hrrm. What was the last half-way decent product by Woz again? That remote control in the 80s? Heck, if Apple followed Woz or you on how to build a car, The Homer would look better.
Apple could pull the rug out from under Google anytime by making any other search engine the iOS default.
It has been leaked that Google pays $1bn for the privilege. What hasn't been quite liked is whether that was total up to some date, or per year, or whatever.
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Maybe they shouldn't have shot him before they had the password?
Holy shit batman, that's like suing McDonalds because you spilled hot coffee on yourself.
Actually, it's like suing the water supply company because you spilled hot coffee on yourself.
Have you even looked at the articles you referenced yourself? Do they even exist?
He seems drunk with his spelling, but it did happen. Though it was "Obama" not Obama. Apple complained to the administration and they lifted the import ban, and it was only a temporary ban in the first place.
Actually it was one of the ITC commissioners who complained. And rumor has it the other 5 who voted for the decision actually agreed with him, but wanted Obama to step in and finally change the rules on standard essential patent trolls like Samsung.
The official North Korean "Red Star OS" is a Mac clone Linux distro. There are YouTube videos of it in action.
Yeah, just like Linus T., Kimmy-Boy actually uses Linux on his Mac.
He prefers Macs--now we know he is evil.
You didn't see 24, ehh? We knew he was evil when we saw him with the DELL monitor, but now we know he's actually good.
Thank you for showing off the Slashdot Way. Bash Apple when they don't include a marginally useful feature, and then when they include it, bash them for being late to the party with a marginally useful feature.
And then do it again >3 years later - http://apple.slashdot.org/stor...
So complaining that the "Irish Stew" I ordered turns out to be Tuna Casserole would make me a SJW?
RTFA ass-hole: “I was in the Balkans covering the refugee crisis in September when I dropped my phone. Because I desperately needed it for work I got it fixed at a local shop, as there are no Apple stores in Macedonia. They repaired the screen and home button, and it worked perfectly.”
Well, dude in Macedonia should have checked into the apple.com/mk site (or googled for "apple macedonia"), click on "Support", click on the link "Apple Authorized Service Providers" under "Contact" down at the bottom of the page, and search from there (there only seems to be one in all of Macedonia anyways - it's about a hundred miles across). IOW just like you do in any other place on Earth where you can buy Apple products.
http://dontholditwrong.tumblr....
Even if it's a genuine Apple fingerprint sensor, the phone still bricks itself. The sensor has a code, and if it changes your phone becomes a paperweight unless Apple waves its magic wand over it.
In other words, fail to pay Apple for the repair and your expensive phone commits suicide.
IOW, it isn't bricked a all.
As foxcon will have a very hard time making the ones in the EU and japan like the ones in china.
You are aware that Foxconn already owns factories in Europe for years?
See what I mean? Makes up shit as he goes.
A weird engineer who couldn't find engineering software to do real work on his Mac SE in 1989? We're taking the kind of person who goes out of his way to be offbeat.
And I thought we were talking about Binge Shitter, a person known to make up stuff as he goes.
There's a reason why there isn't an edit button. A very good one too: You don't get to post an inflammatory comment, and then change it after the fact, making your esteemed opponent appear like an asshole for replying in kind. And similar other variations, where people change what they said, and not just fixing typos.
If (and I still don't think it's a good idea) implementing an edit button, at least make it only possible to submit an edit until someone either replied or voted on the comment.
This is 2016. I'm sure there must be a way to also make a button to show previous versions of the post, And for people to then make posts pointing out deceptive edits.
But none of those "premium" brands commanded 50% of the market.
At some point the $100 cell phone will be good enough, and then Apple is in big trouble.
Why? If the $100 phone is good enough, it's buyers will stick with it and not buy any other phone until it falls apart. The iPhone buyers OTOH will keep buying a new iPhone every 2 years just like they did before.
IOW your scenario will spell doom for anyone but Apple.
Article begins with a coder who quits at Goole to do freelance work primarily on iOS apps - but it's Apple losing talent.
The smartphone doesn't have to end. There just need to be enough products with better customer experience at a much lower price.
Bwahaha. So when do you predict that will happen? I mean apart from claiming just that has already happened for years?
With Woz, we'd get actual great Apple products, they just wont appeal to Apple's core audience who dont care about reliability, modability and usability and just want to be told they're awesome for buying Apple.
Hrrm. What was the last half-way decent product by Woz again? That remote control in the 80s? Heck, if Apple followed Woz or you on how to build a car, The Homer would look better.
With just a little more focus and market research, Apple can probably become a company that sells exclusively to the 1%.
Yeah, they probably could - if they took advice from you, or the other experts telling them for years that they are failing.
I don't know what's sadder, the tale of the guy who couldn't get his Mac software to work, or your attempt to make us believe it.
But that isn't a new product. They can only milk the iPhone cow for so long, and that time is coming to an end.
So for when do you predict the end of the smartphone?
Apple could pull the rug out from under Google anytime by making any other search engine the iOS default.
It has been leaked that Google pays $1bn for the privilege. What hasn't been quite liked is whether that was total up to some date, or per year, or whatever.
Overhyped leak - we already knew in 2013 it's per year: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/...
I don't see how that would negatively impact Google honestly.
Google wouldn't pay $1 billion (or more) each year if it didn't affect them.
Go ahead, dump all of your 401K savings in Apple, I dare you.
Go ahead, short AAPL with all your savings. That should make you $20 if you are right.
The sane Steve and the totally insane Steve.
And the sane one is the guy who plays Segway Polo and always carries a knife disguised as a credit card and two watches.