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Comment Re:Lock her up already (Score 1) 86

My assumption is he wanted to distance himself from the situation as fast as he can. There's a clear lawsuit or more coming for this company, which is privately owned, not publicly, and being a major shareholder in a privately owned company that's getting super-sued is ?possibly? bad news. That was my assumption - he wants the hell out before it gets worse.

Comment How do you protect yourself from wireless hacking (Score 1) 140

By using a wire.

I know this sounds redundant and trite but I'm serious. The question asks about how to not use wireless on Windows 10, yet few people seem to be giving the stunningly obvious advice of not using wireless on Windows 10. Disable the wireless NIC. Don't use wireless. Don't join a wireless network. Tada! You're not using wireless!

Comment Re:Queue the headphone jack comments (Score 1) 131

Again, I am not an Apple Fanboi - but when they were APPLE COMPUTER (as you put it) they didn't have anything to take over when the Apple II got long in the tooth. Then they didn't have anything to take over when the iMac got long in the tooth. Then they didn't have anything to take over when the iPod got long in the tooth. Now it's the iPhone.

What does Microsoft have when Windows & Office are "long in the tooth"? What does Google have when search / ad revenue is long in the tooth? What does Exxon have when petrochemicals are long in the tooth? All these companies, including Apple, are diversifying their revenue as best they see (Microsoft with Azure, Apple with services, like iTunes, Appstores, etc. Google with ideas that never pan out. That kind of thing).

Why are people always predicting the imminent doom of Apple? For like 30 years, Apple has been "going to fail any day now". Frankly, Apple (and Microsoft and Google and many others) have so much money that even if the iPhone suddenly stopped selling because someone else makes "the next new thing" - Apple can just buy that thing out or buy a team to replicate it.

Comment Re:Queue the headphone jack comments (Score 3, Interesting) 131

Then again, Cook is no Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs brought "Gorilla Glass" to the masses. Tim Cook tried and failed with "Sapphire Glass". Steve Jobs was the iMac, iPad, iPhone, iPod - Cook was iWatch and iBuds - and dwindling sales of computers, iPads, and loss of market share for iPhones.

I'm not an Apple fanboi (feel free to read my years of posts, many of which are not Apple friendly) but if you look at the numbers, Mac sales went up not down. I'm also fairly sure Apple couldn't give a shit about the market share of iPhone considering they make like 100% of the profits, with what marketshare they have.

I don't really feel inspired by Cook, either - but to say he's failing at making Apple a profitable company is just your own Reality Distortion Field. Apple is the most profitable company on earth and it has been pretty much since Cook starting running it. It's making more money than ever. He's doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing - making a shit tonne of money. That might not be cool for people who really love tech - but he's tasked with making Wall Street and investors happy, not geeks.

Comment Australia (Score 1) 243

Most people in Australia have caps (and always have). My ISP advertises no data cap - but I get like 4mbps (because internet in Australia is just about the worst anywhere), so there's a logical limit to how much I can DL in a month, in any case. So for me to actually download a TB would be a real challenge.

Comment Re:Word 2013 rated garbage (Score 2) 202

Oh that's disappointing. I was really hoping to use Real Office(tm) on my Mac, not that pathetic port version Microsoft still ships for Macs - and yes I am being serious, not sarcastic. Some of the Excel features I really need are missing and the simply fact of not having favourites folders in Outlook is beyond irritating. Parallels is slow as hell.

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