The fact is that people almost all muslim countries on earth can travel to the USA. The ban is on a handful of countries that are rife with radical terrorists. If we were banning muslim countries we'd have banned the other 43 countries.
idiots
The real idiocy here is that the much lauded Trump Muslim-ban is not on Lebanon, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia whose citizens actually conducted and financed the 911 attacks. Iran? It is actually fun to watch Trump supporters try and explain that one away, it's like watching a severely constipated person holding their breath and pushing really hard while seriously contemplating digging it out with a stick.
At the same time it also gives the US a sample of the best Russia can throw at them..
Hah, keep thinking that..
This isn't (yet) a full on war between the US and Russia, both sides are *not* deploying 'the best' as they'll be needing them in the event that they do directly engage each other.
As an example, at no point (according to a ex-colleague who worked on them) have any of BMEWS systems been run at 'full capability', the point being to try 'steer' Russian tactical planning in specific directions based on observed capabilities. Now, this is not to say that the Russians don't know this, they do, so any overt display of their tactics in regards to this have to be taken with a large pinch of salt.
Ditto re this story, the Russians deploy various EW tactics, the USians bleat 'Nasty Russians, their EW degrades our ability to function..' both countries analysts then sit and try figure out by how much the other lot are taking the piss..
Oh!, the games people play....
I'm pretty sure that to hurt the US the Russkies are not using re-conditioned 1970s vintage Soviet era EW equipment in Syria that they borrowed from a a museum. They must be using at least SOME of their best stuff to mess with one of the best equipped high tech armies on earth even if they are not be using their best stuff to its full capacity. Basically I don't really care whether they have thrown all of their best stuff at the US forces in Syria at full capacity or if they are holding back, for me this is a warning bell. I've always had severe doubts about the vulnerability networked battlefield concept and the idea of replacing the entire USAF an USNAS with remote controlled drones and those doubts are due to EW and hacking. The networked army is nice while it works and when you are using it against the Taliban or the badly trained private armies of dictators using upgraded Soviet era equipment. However, those forces are meant to look good during military parades, they are not meant to perform on a battlefield.They are not the reformed Russian army and they most especially aren't anything like the opponent China would be. When US planners planners structure their networked 21st century army they'd better upgrade their expectations from what Saddam's armies could do to them to considering what countries on the level of Britain/Germany/France could do to disrupt their operations and conduct manoeuvres with these allies bearing that in mind (that's assuming Trump hasn't already ruined relations with these US allies beyond repair). The US forces need to be able to survive a complete breakdown in all of these networked systems and if there is one thing that recommends manned tanks/aircraft/choppers it's that a crew on board the vehicle driving/flying it manually can neither be jammed nor hacked.
I really doubt that the Russians are using their best tech here. They will just be testing how practical electronic warfare is for their soldiers to use. It has to be usable by low skill front line troops.
Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong, it is immaterial. Even if you are right and the Russians are already disrupting US comms, drone control and battlefield networking without even really trying or deploying their best assets it should be a wakeup-call to the Pentagon.
The craft's presence in Syrian skies gives Russia the chance to test its weapons against the best the U.S. has to offer...
At the same time it also gives the US a sample of the best Russia can throw at them and the effect that has on US tactics which have relied on battlefield networking, large numbers of remote controlled drones and the apparent assumption that these communications will never be significantly disrupted or even completely disabled. Let's just hope that this lesson will be better heeded than those learned by the Americans who fought the Japanese in the run-up to WWII. Their reports were filed away or ignored by the Pentagon which ignored the threat because the reports contradicted their preconceptions about the Japanese.
... so all the screaming of bloody murder over Apple doing this deliberately to hurt people who use 3rd party spares was completely unwarranted.
Or maybe a company backed off after the outrage of their actions and this screaming of bloody murder caused them to release a version of software that didn't screw over consumers who daredeth to not contribute to the Cook retirement fund.
Rather than calling it "unwarranted" a far more accurate term would be "effective".
And maybe if Apple was really cracking down on 3rd party parts use they would have [A] done it accoss their entire product line, iPhones, iPads, Macs inclusive instead of limiting it to the iPhone 8, [B] not put a note on their website (like all other phone makers) warning you that usiing non-OEM spares may cause issues and you do it at your own risk and repair any damage at your own cost and [C] people around here would post articles and scream themselves hoarse in outrage when other device makers rennder 3rd party spares useless with an update because it happens somewhat regularly but only when Apple and Microsoft do it does it seem to warrant a Slashdot shitstorm.
OS 11.3.1 Fixes Bug Where Third-Party Screen Repairs Made iPhone 8 Touchscreens Stop Working
... so all the screaming of bloody murder over Apple doing this deliberately to hurt people who use 3rd party spares was completely unwarranted. I suppose we'll have to going back to sharpening our teeth now in preparation for the next feeding frenzy.
... they can target all the ads they want, they are going to be ignored...
In the meantime, they make billions in profit. Who cares about what you do anyway?
Facebook cares, or so it would seem, they and a whole shit-ton of their customers. Why else would Facebook be trying to out do the NSA in achieving 1984 level surveillance? The fact that Cambridge Analytics may have been a major factor in swaying the US elections has only had the effect of new customers beating down Facebook's door with a battering ram and Facebooks marketing team trying to think of every single possible way of monetising what they know about people. Also keep in mind that you don't have to be on Facebook or click on any of their ads for them to know more about you than your own family does.
Do you really want to be making Apple products better FOR FREE?
The point of Open Source is that EVERYONE gets a better product "for free" because by contributing changes Apple benefits - but so do you, or anyone else that chooses to use the code. Why would you choose to contribute if you were not also benefitting to begin with?
In fact in a very real sense Apple is not getting anything "for free". There is very real time that Apple is paying for, that has gone into building this system that Apple has opened, and also Apple is paying for time to monitor and curate and test contributions. All of that takes time and money and is not "free", far too many people think of actual code as the beginning and end but it is just a tiny part of a more complex puzzle.
I agree, that's how symbiotic relationships work. Apple originally forked KHTML, turned it into WebKit and then open sourced WebKit, people contributed to it and some of the WebKit code was even re-integrated into KHTML. WebKit was then forked by Apple's competitor Google to become Blink (Nokia also forked WebKit at one point) so KHTML in a number of modified forms is used in large number of browsers. The same goes for Cups, which Apple acquired, open sourced, and is used extensively by Linux distributions (well it was, at one time, but Fedora still uses it). So in two cases Apple open-sourced stuff they had poured significant amounts of money into and the projects got forked and/or used by several direct competitors. Taking the view that using this software is 'helping Apple' is a pretty simplistic attitude, the way FOSS works is considerably more complex than so that it can be reduced to 'AppleCode==evil'.
You can tell by how ticked they are that trump won.
I think it is more a case of them putting up for election a bunch of candidates with all the charisma of a department store mannequin, that, and the Republican party generally being so out of touch with its base that even their carefully rigged primaries system was overwhelmed by the Trump train.
And more importantly Democratic Party got caught red handed by our Russian hackers conspiring to rig the primaries.
Time to stop publicly funding the partisan primary system. We shouldn't be publicly subsidizing secret cabals of rich well connected people conspiring to get "their people" into our government.
Huawei's market share in the US is microscopic at best. Most carriers don't offer their products and Congress has recommended against working with them for years. With the FTC looking to block subsidized carriers from working with them, the US market simply isn't worth the effort and expense anymore.
Who cares about 'facts' when this plays well with the base. Just like those steel tariffs the White House justified by citing Chinese steel dumping, China accounts for 2.9 percent of US steel imports,... but who cares about 'facts', tariffs on China play well with the base. I don't think US politicos, and particularly the ones in charge at the moment, really think much beyond what will 'play well with the base'.
Apple's stock goes up on their ability to be complacent. Tim Cook announces another great leap in innovation by Apple since Jobs' passing. The next iPhone is going have more RAM and a slightly different camera!!!!
And Apple's political contributions just went up. Again.
Apple, if you want the general public to care about "counterfeit" parts, make your production operations completely domestic.
Don't sue the little guy for your IP leakage problems in China. He's just trying to make a living, and there's no reason you should control the repair market.
Depends.
Was he an authorized Apple Repair Center, and using aftermarket parts to do WARRANTY Repairs?
If so, then Apple has a point. If not, I would agree with the Court's decision.
Another thing to consider is that not all spare parts are created equal. Neither neither Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HTC or any other device manufacturer is under any kind of obligation to test their software updates with every single kind of 3rd party spares on the market you might decide to use to repair your phone with. I generally prefer to get my gizmos repaired with OEM parts at a certified repair shop even if it cost more, simply because there is always the chance that some random 3rd party spare installed by some independent workshop may be the cause of the device being bricked by a software update because of some kind of hardware incompatibility, failure of the 3rd party parts manufacturer to correctly implement a standard or because the part was simply a piece of crap and broke. The last thing I need is to end up with with a bricked phone that costs in excess of 700 dollars to replace. If this guy is using 3rd party spares, and you run the risk of a software update bricking your device, he should also make his customers aware of that eventuality. If the customers are then willing to take the risk that's their decision, but then they should also not moan about it if the misfortune fairy turns their precious into a brick.
To save a few GB in system libs? I realize that there are arch improvements in amd64 but that's no reason to break compatibility.
It's probably actually to reduce testing. It's still dumb. You're gonna have to run a VM to run 32 bit software. Even Microsoft is better at back compatibility than that. But Apple has never been shy about forcing its customers to spend more money, because they repeatedly demonstrate a willingness to do that — and they often give it to Apple.
Huh? I am not aware of a single piece of software that I still run that requires 32 bit support which is the only way this change can affect me and cost me money. Products get obsoleted and dropped and if you are expecting eternal backwards compatibility from Apple you are out of luck.
Everyone who buys a Mac is paying to subsidise the continued maintenance and support of the 32-bit versions of system libraries. Very few people are actually using these libraries. You seem to want other people to subsidise your purchasing decisions either way.
They aren't going to get cheaper when they drop support, you asshole, they're just finding an excuse to increase profit margins because they can
I don't want to pay to subsidize your roads or oil use when I use a bike, but I still fucking do it, you self centered man-child
"I shouldn't have to pay for anything I don't personally gain from! Waaaaah" Jesus you people are stupid
Apple obsoletes stuff all the time and they aren't even close to being the worst offenders in that category by any measure. You kind of sign up for that when you buy a macOS or iOS based product. They will also move stuff around and redesign the UI completely at monotonously regular intervals, add features that confuse the hell out of conservative users such as multiple desktops, and totally useless ones that you end up using all of the time, like spotlight and track pad gestures. They will also offend you to the core of your being by aggressively deleting obsolete or bulky connection ports like RS232, USB-A, DVI, Displayport, etc... and going off on wild and not always successful experimental tangents like Thunderbolt. If you don't like that kind of environment and yearn for hardly ever changing stability you should buy a Windows PC, Microsoft only intermittently confuses or offends you with new features whereas this is a constant state of affairs with Apple and the engineers at Microsoft are true masters at backwards compatibility (and that's not a snide jab and MS, they really are good at pretty seamless backwards compatibility).
P.S. you might want to consider dropping the profanity from your posts in the future, it ads no weight to your arguments, at least not here where most people tend to value logical argumentation over potty mouth. The only thing you achieve by using the word 'asshole' is making everybody around here who reads your post think you are the asshole.
Right to repair, which should be the law. You can't get OEM parts because Apple won't sell them.
It should. However, smartphones, whether they are made by Apple or anybody else, are not like build-it-yourself custom PC's that you can mod anyway you want with any hardware that catches your eye because there is such broad driver support for 3rd party hardware for smartphone OS'es. If you buy a highly tuned piece of kit like a smartphone which is specifically geared up to work only with a narrow set of manufacturer tested pieces of hardware, then those are the hardware that is guaranteed to work and you are best off replacing OEM parts with OEM parts. If, however, you put a piece of 3rd party hardware into your device that the manufacturer has not certified will work then you should not be surprised when an update breaks your device when the OEM has the 'audacity' to issue an update for the device that does not take your 3rd party hardware into account. This applies to all these devices not just Apple and the iPhone but Google/Samsung/HTC/Microsoft... all of them. The guy cited in the summary offered a repair service, he used non certified parts because they are cheaper and then he pocketed the extra revenues generated by people flocking to his service. Now these parts are not working properly and people are beating down his door demanding reparations. Tough shit but this was kind of predictable.
Tim Cook takes cheap shots at anyone in tech who is a Billionaire and isn't Apple.
The question isn't if he is right or wrong. The question is - what is his motivation?
No, stop overthinking this, it's really simple. Apparently Tim Cook said that ads that follow you online are 'creepy' and you know what? He's right!!... they are creepy. End of story.
More fake "innovation" from the MIT Media Lab. When have they actually produced something that might be useful? And I call baloney on the ability to identify non-verbalized words. Complete BS.
I beg to differ, the MIT Media Lab isn't the first do achieve this, it has been done before, and with great success:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It could be a propaganda operation, to encourage users from others country to migrate to a compromised system.
Or not.
But if you have enough paranoia to need some system like that, there is no limit to your untrust.
In view of the fact that the Putin government is liable to have its thugs shoot you in the head on an open street, season your tea with Polonium 210, coat the door knob of your front door with a nerve agent, or dispose of you in some other way if you say things about Big Vlad and his corrupt posse that they don't like I'm not going to call Russians 'paranoid' for encrypting their communications, it's more like a sensible survival strategy.
As far as I know Apple discontinued their monitor line. The newest Apple brand displays that are still available sell on Amazon for around $550. The one this Apple user bought was a 27 inch 4k Asus display for around $450. I don't know a single Apple who bought a display at the Apple store any more than I know anybody who bought their Bluetooth earplugs. In all cases you can get better products from 3rd party suppliers.
Why is this a binary choice? A pox on both of their houses.
Tunnel vision, caused by an abnormally passionate, visceral hatred of Apple. Yeah Apple screwed up, so does everybody, but there is a whole bunch of people here who should wipe the froth off their mouths, go to the doctor for a rabies shot and then get over themselves. I've had Microsoft updates brick computers, corrupt databases, destroy large and important Office documents and I've had Linux updates mess up my file system, irrecoverably screw up several virtual machines ,... the list goes on. It's annoying but it happens, that's why we make sequential backups at frequent intervals..
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The fact is that people almost all muslim countries on earth can travel to the USA. The ban is on a handful of countries that are rife with radical terrorists. If we were banning muslim countries we'd have banned the other 43 countries. idiots
The real idiocy here is that the much lauded Trump Muslim-ban is not on Lebanon, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia whose citizens actually conducted and financed the 911 attacks. Iran? It is actually fun to watch Trump supporters try and explain that one away, it's like watching a severely constipated person holding their breath and pushing really hard while seriously contemplating digging it out with a stick.
...which means investors are expecting Amazon's profits to soar ten-fold.
Three Times Hurrah!!!! ... for unrealistic expectations.
Comcast Won't Give New Speed Boost To Internet Users Who Don't Buy TV Service
No high speed internet without a cable TV bundle? Phew!!! ... Is that the stink of desperation I smell?
At the same time it also gives the US a sample of the best Russia can throw at them..
Hah, keep thinking that.. This isn't (yet) a full on war between the US and Russia, both sides are *not* deploying 'the best' as they'll be needing them in the event that they do directly engage each other. As an example, at no point (according to a ex-colleague who worked on them) have any of BMEWS systems been run at 'full capability', the point being to try 'steer' Russian tactical planning in specific directions based on observed capabilities. Now, this is not to say that the Russians don't know this, they do, so any overt display of their tactics in regards to this have to be taken with a large pinch of salt. Ditto re this story, the Russians deploy various EW tactics, the USians bleat 'Nasty Russians, their EW degrades our ability to function..' both countries analysts then sit and try figure out by how much the other lot are taking the piss..
Oh!, the games people play....
I'm pretty sure that to hurt the US the Russkies are not using re-conditioned 1970s vintage Soviet era EW equipment in Syria that they borrowed from a a museum. They must be using at least SOME of their best stuff to mess with one of the best equipped high tech armies on earth even if they are not be using their best stuff to its full capacity. Basically I don't really care whether they have thrown all of their best stuff at the US forces in Syria at full capacity or if they are holding back, for me this is a warning bell. I've always had severe doubts about the vulnerability networked battlefield concept and the idea of replacing the entire USAF an USNAS with remote controlled drones and those doubts are due to EW and hacking. The networked army is nice while it works and when you are using it against the Taliban or the badly trained private armies of dictators using upgraded Soviet era equipment. However, those forces are meant to look good during military parades, they are not meant to perform on a battlefield.They are not the reformed Russian army and they most especially aren't anything like the opponent China would be. When US planners planners structure their networked 21st century army they'd better upgrade their expectations from what Saddam's armies could do to them to considering what countries on the level of Britain/Germany/France could do to disrupt their operations and conduct manoeuvres with these allies bearing that in mind (that's assuming Trump hasn't already ruined relations with these US allies beyond repair). The US forces need to be able to survive a complete breakdown in all of these networked systems and if there is one thing that recommends manned tanks/aircraft/choppers it's that a crew on board the vehicle driving/flying it manually can neither be jammed nor hacked.
I really doubt that the Russians are using their best tech here. They will just be testing how practical electronic warfare is for their soldiers to use. It has to be usable by low skill front line troops.
Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong, it is immaterial. Even if you are right and the Russians are already disrupting US comms, drone control and battlefield networking without even really trying or deploying their best assets it should be a wakeup-call to the Pentagon.
The craft's presence in Syrian skies gives Russia the chance to test its weapons against the best the U.S. has to offer...
At the same time it also gives the US a sample of the best Russia can throw at them and the effect that has on US tactics which have relied on battlefield networking, large numbers of remote controlled drones and the apparent assumption that these communications will never be significantly disrupted or even completely disabled. Let's just hope that this lesson will be better heeded than those learned by the Americans who fought the Japanese in the run-up to WWII. Their reports were filed away or ignored by the Pentagon which ignored the threat because the reports contradicted their preconceptions about the Japanese.
... so all the screaming of bloody murder over Apple doing this deliberately to hurt people who use 3rd party spares was completely unwarranted.
Or maybe a company backed off after the outrage of their actions and this screaming of bloody murder caused them to release a version of software that didn't screw over consumers who daredeth to not contribute to the Cook retirement fund.
Rather than calling it "unwarranted" a far more accurate term would be "effective".
And maybe if Apple was really cracking down on 3rd party parts use they would have [A] done it accoss their entire product line, iPhones, iPads, Macs inclusive instead of limiting it to the iPhone 8, [B] not put a note on their website (like all other phone makers) warning you that usiing non-OEM spares may cause issues and you do it at your own risk and repair any damage at your own cost and [C] people around here would post articles and scream themselves hoarse in outrage when other device makers rennder 3rd party spares useless with an update because it happens somewhat regularly but only when Apple and Microsoft do it does it seem to warrant a Slashdot shitstorm.
OS 11.3.1 Fixes Bug Where Third-Party Screen Repairs Made iPhone 8 Touchscreens Stop Working
... so all the screaming of bloody murder over Apple doing this deliberately to hurt people who use 3rd party spares was completely unwarranted. I suppose we'll have to going back to sharpening our teeth now in preparation for the next feeding frenzy.
... they can target all the ads they want, they are going to be ignored...
In the meantime, they make billions in profit. Who cares about what you do anyway?
Facebook cares, or so it would seem, they and a whole shit-ton of their customers. Why else would Facebook be trying to out do the NSA in achieving 1984 level surveillance? The fact that Cambridge Analytics may have been a major factor in swaying the US elections has only had the effect of new customers beating down Facebook's door with a battering ram and Facebooks marketing team trying to think of every single possible way of monetising what they know about people. Also keep in mind that you don't have to be on Facebook or click on any of their ads for them to know more about you than your own family does.
Do you really want to be making Apple products better FOR FREE?
The point of Open Source is that EVERYONE gets a better product "for free" because by contributing changes Apple benefits - but so do you, or anyone else that chooses to use the code. Why would you choose to contribute if you were not also benefitting to begin with?
In fact in a very real sense Apple is not getting anything "for free". There is very real time that Apple is paying for, that has gone into building this system that Apple has opened, and also Apple is paying for time to monitor and curate and test contributions. All of that takes time and money and is not "free", far too many people think of actual code as the beginning and end but it is just a tiny part of a more complex puzzle.
I agree, that's how symbiotic relationships work. Apple originally forked KHTML, turned it into WebKit and then open sourced WebKit, people contributed to it and some of the WebKit code was even re-integrated into KHTML. WebKit was then forked by Apple's competitor Google to become Blink (Nokia also forked WebKit at one point) so KHTML in a number of modified forms is used in large number of browsers. The same goes for Cups, which Apple acquired, open sourced, and is used extensively by Linux distributions (well it was, at one time, but Fedora still uses it). So in two cases Apple open-sourced stuff they had poured significant amounts of money into and the projects got forked and/or used by several direct competitors. Taking the view that using this software is 'helping Apple' is a pretty simplistic attitude, the way FOSS works is considerably more complex than so that it can be reduced to 'AppleCode==evil'.
The republicans didn't rig their primary.
You can tell by how ticked they are that trump won.
I think it is more a case of them putting up for election a bunch of candidates with all the charisma of a department store mannequin, that, and the Republican party generally being so out of touch with its base that even their carefully rigged primaries system was overwhelmed by the Trump train.
And more importantly Democratic Party got caught red handed by our Russian hackers conspiring to rig the primaries.
Time to stop publicly funding the partisan primary system. We shouldn't be publicly subsidizing secret cabals of rich well connected people conspiring to get "their people" into our government.
EVERYBODY rigs primaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Huawei's market share in the US is microscopic at best. Most carriers don't offer their products and Congress has recommended against working with them for years. With the FTC looking to block subsidized carriers from working with them, the US market simply isn't worth the effort and expense anymore.
Who cares about 'facts' when this plays well with the base. Just like those steel tariffs the White House justified by citing Chinese steel dumping, China accounts for 2.9 percent of US steel imports, ... but who cares about 'facts', tariffs on China play well with the base. I don't think US politicos, and particularly the ones in charge at the moment, really think much beyond what will 'play well with the base'.
Apple's stock goes up on their ability to be complacent. Tim Cook announces another great leap in innovation by Apple since Jobs' passing. The next iPhone is going have more RAM and a slightly different camera!!!!
And Apple's political contributions just went up. Again.
WTF, does any of this have to do with Apple?
No thank you... I can assemble a biased news feed all on my own or just subscribe to Twitter and Facebook and get one ready made for free.
Why waste your time painstakingly assembling the biased news yourself? Just watch the Fox News live stream.
if your iphone got a little bend on it apple denies to repair it
Well at least it doesn't blow up and burn your butt cheek off.
Apple, if you want the general public to care about "counterfeit" parts, make your production operations completely domestic.
Don't sue the little guy for your IP leakage problems in China. He's just trying to make a living, and there's no reason you should control the repair market.
Depends.
Was he an authorized Apple Repair Center, and using aftermarket parts to do WARRANTY Repairs?
If so, then Apple has a point. If not, I would agree with the Court's decision.
Another thing to consider is that not all spare parts are created equal. Neither neither Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HTC or any other device manufacturer is under any kind of obligation to test their software updates with every single kind of 3rd party spares on the market you might decide to use to repair your phone with. I generally prefer to get my gizmos repaired with OEM parts at a certified repair shop even if it cost more, simply because there is always the chance that some random 3rd party spare installed by some independent workshop may be the cause of the device being bricked by a software update because of some kind of hardware incompatibility, failure of the 3rd party parts manufacturer to correctly implement a standard or because the part was simply a piece of crap and broke. The last thing I need is to end up with with a bricked phone that costs in excess of 700 dollars to replace. If this guy is using 3rd party spares, and you run the risk of a software update bricking your device, he should also make his customers aware of that eventuality. If the customers are then willing to take the risk that's their decision, but then they should also not moan about it if the misfortune fairy turns their precious into a brick.
To save a few GB in system libs? I realize that there are arch improvements in amd64 but that's no reason to break compatibility.
It's probably actually to reduce testing. It's still dumb. You're gonna have to run a VM to run 32 bit software. Even Microsoft is better at back compatibility than that. But Apple has never been shy about forcing its customers to spend more money, because they repeatedly demonstrate a willingness to do that — and they often give it to Apple.
Huh? I am not aware of a single piece of software that I still run that requires 32 bit support which is the only way this change can affect me and cost me money. Products get obsoleted and dropped and if you are expecting eternal backwards compatibility from Apple you are out of luck.
Everyone who buys a Mac is paying to subsidise the continued maintenance and support of the 32-bit versions of system libraries. Very few people are actually using these libraries. You seem to want other people to subsidise your purchasing decisions either way.
They aren't going to get cheaper when they drop support, you asshole, they're just finding an excuse to increase profit margins because they can
I don't want to pay to subsidize your roads or oil use when I use a bike, but I still fucking do it, you self centered man-child
"I shouldn't have to pay for anything I don't personally gain from! Waaaaah" Jesus you people are stupid
Apple obsoletes stuff all the time and they aren't even close to being the worst offenders in that category by any measure. You kind of sign up for that when you buy a macOS or iOS based product. They will also move stuff around and redesign the UI completely at monotonously regular intervals, add features that confuse the hell out of conservative users such as multiple desktops, and totally useless ones that you end up using all of the time, like spotlight and track pad gestures. They will also offend you to the core of your being by aggressively deleting obsolete or bulky connection ports like RS232, USB-A, DVI, Displayport, etc... and going off on wild and not always successful experimental tangents like Thunderbolt. If you don't like that kind of environment and yearn for hardly ever changing stability you should buy a Windows PC, Microsoft only intermittently confuses or offends you with new features whereas this is a constant state of affairs with Apple and the engineers at Microsoft are true masters at backwards compatibility (and that's not a snide jab and MS, they really are good at pretty seamless backwards compatibility).
P.S. you might want to consider dropping the profanity from your posts in the future, it ads no weight to your arguments, at least not here where most people tend to value logical argumentation over potty mouth. The only thing you achieve by using the word 'asshole' is making everybody around here who reads your post think you are the asshole.
Right to repair, which should be the law. You can't get OEM parts because Apple won't sell them.
It should. However, smartphones, whether they are made by Apple or anybody else, are not like build-it-yourself custom PC's that you can mod anyway you want with any hardware that catches your eye because there is such broad driver support for 3rd party hardware for smartphone OS'es. If you buy a highly tuned piece of kit like a smartphone which is specifically geared up to work only with a narrow set of manufacturer tested pieces of hardware, then those are the hardware that is guaranteed to work and you are best off replacing OEM parts with OEM parts. If, however, you put a piece of 3rd party hardware into your device that the manufacturer has not certified will work then you should not be surprised when an update breaks your device when the OEM has the 'audacity' to issue an update for the device that does not take your 3rd party hardware into account. This applies to all these devices not just Apple and the iPhone but Google/Samsung/HTC/Microsoft ... all of them. The guy cited in the summary offered a repair service, he used non certified parts because they are cheaper and then he pocketed the extra revenues generated by people flocking to his service. Now these parts are not working properly and people are beating down his door demanding reparations. Tough shit but this was kind of predictable.
As for Apple refusing to sell OEM internal spares to 3rd party repair shops, they are in good company since according to iFixit: "It’s important to note that while Apple is improving their battery replacement program, every single Android phone manufacturer also refuses to sell consumers integrated batteries or other internal repair parts."
Tim Cook takes cheap shots at anyone in tech who is a Billionaire and isn't Apple.
The question isn't if he is right or wrong. The question is - what is his motivation?
No, stop overthinking this, it's really simple. Apparently Tim Cook said that ads that follow you online are 'creepy' and you know what? He's right!! ... they are creepy. End of story.
More fake "innovation" from the MIT Media Lab. When have they actually produced something that might be useful? And I call baloney on the ability to identify non-verbalized words. Complete BS.
I beg to differ, the MIT Media Lab isn't the first do achieve this, it has been done before, and with great success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It could be a propaganda operation, to encourage users from others country to migrate to a compromised system. Or not. But if you have enough paranoia to need some system like that, there is no limit to your untrust.
In view of the fact that the Putin government is liable to have its thugs shoot you in the head on an open street, season your tea with Polonium 210, coat the door knob of your front door with a nerve agent, or dispose of you in some other way if you say things about Big Vlad and his corrupt posse that they don't like I'm not going to call Russians 'paranoid' for encrypting their communications, it's more like a sensible survival strategy.
In other news: People pay $1000 for a monitor.
As far as I know Apple discontinued their monitor line. The newest Apple brand displays that are still available sell on Amazon for around $550. The one this Apple user bought was a 27 inch 4k Asus display for around $450. I don't know a single Apple who bought a display at the Apple store any more than I know anybody who bought their Bluetooth earplugs. In all cases you can get better products from 3rd party suppliers.
Why is this a binary choice? A pox on both of their houses.
Tunnel vision, caused by an abnormally passionate, visceral hatred of Apple. Yeah Apple screwed up, so does everybody, but there is a whole bunch of people here who should wipe the froth off their mouths, go to the doctor for a rabies shot and then get over themselves. I've had Microsoft updates brick computers, corrupt databases, destroy large and important Office documents and I've had Linux updates mess up my file system, irrecoverably screw up several virtual machines , ... the list goes on. It's annoying but it happens, that's why we make sequential backups at frequent intervals..