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Alaskan005
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Alaskan005
14y ago
Every time I turn my Garmin GPS it warns me that maps might not be correct, so it's not just Apple. That said, Apple should have written a big fat check to a company with much better data. (I still think Apple needed their own mapping and a
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14y ago
Nah, I was trying to see if it's really a f-up, a marketing scheme or a mix of the two. Maybe demand is really unexpectedly high.
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14y ago
I wonder how many they have sold. Does anyone have any concrete numbers?
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14y ago
Thanks for the link, I would have never known without Wikipedia...out of all places. /s Sperm count falling by one third in 25 years is much scarier, suggests a horrible trend for us. As for overpopulation, people usually had /have a lot of
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14y ago
Tim Cook thinks different though ;). He also re-instated the charity giving. Either way, even if Apple makes a few dollars less on each Mac the publicity alone is worth it. "Look, we make things in USA." Remember BP's, Beyond Petroleum? ---
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14y ago
IIRC, they have a written (or maybe unwritten) rule that they will not drop support right away. It's probably to encourage adoption of Microsoft's standards and software by enterprise. If a major company adopted this and Microsoft gave them
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14y ago
Maybe he violated the letter of the law but I don't see a comment where everyone can read it, and broadcast to 200,000 people isn't public disclosure.
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14y ago
Until they disable them again? Save yourself some time and aggravation. Either pony up or find a more reliable provider.
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14y ago
How do you know that Google search is pure? I for one can barely see what are ads vs regular search and am deeply suspicious of Google's humongous increase in profits and Adwords revenue this past year after Panda and other updates. Occam's