Does the study control for Baby Boomers who were retiring on schedule or early?

That Apple has to be aware that their action would have that impact and that they didn't tell folks (e.g., they hid it) negates that their intention may have been 100% legitimate.

Their intention can be 100% legitimate but they were aware of the issue and how people would react e.g., this topic has been the popular press for years..

Air bags have reactive chemicals in them to help them deploy.. Govt. & manufacturers are not intentionally putting harmful reactive chemicals into cars - their intent is to rapidly deploy the air bag, and to do so safely. The intent is 100% legit but they know that harm may be caused.

They are not intentionally trying to hurt, harm or kill children but they aware that air bags designed for adults could harm small children. *its not their intent* but it COULD happen.. so that's WHY among other steps they put in warning labels.

Most engineering has trade-off including reliability, price and safety -- Apple may well have made the best choice - but since they would also know that the phones would perform worse and worse -- that they didn't discuss or recommend replacing the battery implicitly indicates that they knew and where happy about folks buying a new phone when there was an option far cheaper available.

180 GB is nice.. as caps go -- but it's still cap, that can be lowered, or additional fees can be added.

It's true but this has been well known in the security industry for years, if not decades..

It totally depends on the plan.. and the terms, etc.
I leased an LG G4 from Sprint for 26 months. A 24 month lease plus two extra months that I kept on making the payment..

My total cost was $100.72 including the fair market buyout of $22.72

I got a $15 credit every month I payed on the lease including the two months I payed after the lease expired.

I recently tried to lease the Essential phone from Sprint. The terms were totally different:
- no fair market buyout
- A smaller credit only good for 18 months

THe bottom line if i kept the Essential phone for 24 months it would end up costing me $465 far cheaper than the selling price of $699 but more than 4 x more expensive than my LG G4.

Here is my blog post about my LG G4 lease: http://www.talkingabouteveryth...

PS
If you keep your phone in a very strong case and at the end of the lease you can turn-in your phone with zero damage -- you don't have to worry about the buyout. I don't like smart phone cases and so I do worry that I can't actually turn in the phone "and walk away."

You an do a power wash of the chromebook... before and/or after.. but we should assume that State actors have access to items stored in the Cloud... and accessing them while over seas (or at least out of the country) prob. makes it easier for them to access the data.

I think they may be getting the same lesson the Music industry learned.

The product is expensive, the work to make it more expensive than it has to be, and many consumers would like to pick and choose which teams and sports they watch rather than buy a large mixed bundle of sports.

The music industry (for example) worked to make their product expensive -- you had to buy multiple songs.. not just the one you wanted.

The major ESPN channels are bundled into the almost all cable TV packages -- making them (those packages) very expensive -- for those who don't watch sports; this is also hiding the real cost(s) of sports from those who do enjoy watching them.

As more and more folks cut the cord, ESPN is going to lose out nearly every time.. and I'm sure that is a large % of the reported drop.

Even YouTube which is a "live" TV bundle coming to market, is including ESPN. Often companies that have sports properties like ABC, "require" cable TV companies into include their sports channels in most bundles -- giving them high subscriber numbers and gaining revenue from nearly every cable TV home.

The MSO - Multi System Operators -- have insisted that this bundling makes it cable TV cheaper for everyone -- it can't possibly help folks who don't watch sports.

While I know some sports fans who like and love nearly every type and kind of sport, not every fan loves every sport.

Since today any of the sport leagues can easily offer direct to consumer programming -- networks that offer sports programming, are really only provided 1 limited function -- ad sales. Having multiple companies bid for sports programming has certainly helped drive up the price over the last 30+ years.

I would think however, a direct to consumer model, that perhaps includes little or no advertising as well as other offerings that are contain large amounts of advertising... would in the long run get the most value for the teams and owners.

TV production from remote locations in teh 1950's was fairly hard. It's not super simple today but it is far easier and teams and leagues would be better off producing their own content and then selling the programming direct to consumers.

By GDP is a reasonable standard.. although in terms of labeling values, I would say he is the President of the Country with the Worlds Largest Economy.. vs. Democracy. But GDP is a fine standard.

I believe I was speaking to "Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:41PM (#53704327) " but maybe that is you?

When you said, "As the president of the largest democratic nation on Earth it matters for all people on Earth"

You are saying the US is a larger democracy than India because our landmass is larger?

Than the prior statement about the US being the word's largest democracy would have to be Russia or Canada, etc.

If its is by population is not by the US either.

A) which is why i didn't buy the G5 (I have a G4) I didn't think it would last more than 1 or 2 market cycles

B) modular design is a long term commitment by all parties

C) which is why I believe that as long as folks make Smart TV they are doing consumers a huge disfavor... People can keep "screens" for 5, 10, 15+ years or more.. and the "smart" features will hit "the wall" before then. So I'm sure the TV companies will be happy if we replace or screens sooner, than later.

BUT that is why consumers must demand modules for our TVs. Of course we can always connect out-board CPUs via HDMI ports, but every component should modular. We should be able to replace CPUs, add new tuners, add new ports, etc.

Really looks great.. wish there was a ChromeOS* vers. but Ubuntu would work just fine.

I run *Ubuntu under CROUTON when using ChromeOS... which for me is the best of all worlds.. a secure, simple OS for 90% of what I need, and Ubuntu for nearly everything else.

First with Crouton you can work with many Unix distributions, but if you wipe / install Linux clearly you can work with any one you want.

Second, if you really want Linux and wish to use it 50, 70 or 80 or 99% of the time, you should prob. install Linux.

I've used Ubuntu since 2009 as primary desktop until 2015 (July) when I purchased a Chromebook Pixel -- I use that device as my primary desktop, and use Crouton running Ubuntu when there is something I can't do in Chrome OS like run Audacity, record in Skype, etc.

14.04 LTS Unity with touch works very well.

I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS but not w/ Unity - it doesn't work as well but is reliable.

Now that I have access to Android Apps I now have fewer reasons to run Ubuntu.

ChromeOS + Linux (via Crouton) + Android Apps = is really an amazingly powerful system. ChromeOS is fairly secure, Android Apps offer a lot of flexibility and Ubuntu/Linus can do mostly everything else.

As other have said it's the map update I rather not spend..

My built-in GPS works far more reliably... As the care ages, of course the UI ages as well...

Also I use phone GPS for real time traffic..