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by gress 11y ago
Apple as a technology company does invest directly in renewable energy, and also medical research. Separately, Apple's money isn't a stack of bills. It is a set of investments managed by Braeburn Capital, which is one of the lar
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by gress 11y ago
Yeah because apple has never created new business opportunities for anyone else - all they do is cause people to lose their livelyhoods. /s
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by gress 11y ago
False. iTunes is not a different platform. Companies are not forced to keep their services the same forever.
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by gress 11y ago
> Why do you consider it reasonable for Apple to use artists' IP, free, in order to acquire users for Apple's paid services? I don't and that's a false statement about what's happening. When the free trial ends,
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by gress 11y ago
Headline is false. Apple will remove bands from iTunes if they don't offer a free trial. As for this being a 'threat'. It's clearly not - it's a mutual disagreement. The statement could just as easily be 'so
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by gress 11y ago
Apple isn't starting from where Google was 8 years ago.
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by gress 11y ago
The free trial is limited to three months, so it's simply false to equate it with 'free' or 'freemium'. Apple is asking labels to offer users access to their music for free during the trial period. I.e. Apple isn
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by gress 11y ago
A couple of hundred million dollars is a trivial write off for google. It should be a 5% of revenue.
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by gress 11y ago
They aren't 8 years behind.
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by gress 11y ago
It sounds like you just have a lot of judgement about what is and is not valuable work in the world, and would rather hide behind condescension than be honest about that.
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by gress 11y ago
Not really. Care to explain?
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by gress 11y ago
We do actually. It's called the real estate market, and Sunshine and Oxygen are built into the pricing.
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by gress 11y ago
No. Just for access to the Mac App Store, and pre-release tools and OS versions.
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by gress 11y ago
This comment gets made every new release and is just as false as ever. Apple always takes it's time to do things because it does them in a way that people can actually use, rather than rushing to be 'first'. Android does rush
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by gress 11y ago
Do you actually read all the sources of all the software you use?
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by gress 11y ago
I guess you paid no attention to the actual product, which is all and increasing the long tail even to unsigned artists.
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by gress 11y ago
If only there had been a backdoor in the system, or no encryption, law enforcement could have prevented this. /s
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by gress 11y ago
Do you use Google's autocratic platform instead?
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by gress 11y ago
What 'repeated public embarrassments' has iCloud had? Don't tell me you're referring to the celebrity photos social engineering attack?
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by gress 11y ago
Thanks - mostly I was curious about what leads the parent poster to believe that sleep is unnecessary.
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by gress 11y ago
If sleep is actually unnecessary, how do you account for it having evolved in almost all species? It seems highly implausible, given that a predator that didn't need sleep would seem to have a great advantage over prey that do.
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by gress 11y ago
I think that the author of that comment would say that 'post-mature release' is the second biggest problem.
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by gress 11y ago
Nope. Stop trying to impute racism. The facts are that Android video players are hugely popular in Asia, but these aren't iPad competitors.
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by gress 11y ago
ApplePay does a huge amount to mitigate the credit card fraud problem for it's users . The fact that it can be used to process cards stolen others is irrelevant.
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by gress 11y ago
That is describing using Apple Pay as a way to tender already stolen credit cards and has nothing to do with the security of Apple Pay itself.
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by gress 11y ago
I agree that larger smartphones attract buyers who otherwise might have bought a tablet, but there is zero evidence that hybrid notebooks have affected the iPad. There isn't even evidence that the overall trend foe the iPad is lower gr
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by gress 11y ago
Sorry, the data you quoted is absolutely wrong. It doesn't distinguish between low cost android video players and iPads. If you want to make a point about android being used widely, that's fine, but if you want to make a point a
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by gress 11y ago
It has nothing to do with 'Asia' or 'Europe'. It has to do with saying a 7" android based video player is a competitor to the iPad.
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by gress 11y ago
That's misleading because it includes a large number of android based video players in Asia, which are not competitors to the iPad as general purpose tablets.
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by gress 11y ago
No it isn't. Neither market has been overtaken by commodity products at all. Your argument about Apple products being commoditized is totally without merit. The Mac and iPhone continue to gain share in markets that have commodity al

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