I would agree with you except for the fact that Google is arguably one of the top 3 direct competitor threats to Apple's existence as an industry force (with me counting Microsoft and Samsung as the other 2), so claiming ignorance of how much a deal you have with one of your primary competitors seems disingenuous to me. This isn't like asking Apple how much money they get in a deal with Joe's Pizza being able to put "official pizza of Apple computers" on their pizza boxes. Particularly when there's a long history of Google software like Maps being given less than priority status on Apple devices. In cases like this, I'd like to see courts be able to tell the witness that they are dismissed from the stand but have 1 week to research the requested information before they will be recalled to the stand. It's maybe conceivable (though I doubt it) that Cook doesn't know the figure right now, but it's poor management of a company if Cook can't unlock an IPhone and call a few people and get that information in a few days, if not a few hours.

I can speak to your one point because my favorite streamer Dan (from Dansgaming) was one of the original Twitch streamers, having originated during the Justin TV days. He had around 9 years worth of videos (VODs) on Twitch, going back to 2011 or so. All still archived there and watchable; I was just watching some of his really old 2013 Halloween streams as background sound last week. I believe if you were one of the originals you had that as a perk.

As this story relates, Twitch was not able (willing?) to do anything to help him identify the videos which may have been involved. What's curious is most of his videos do not generally play music other than whatever is in the games themselves, so it's conceivable (although not provable since Twitch cannot say) that the warnings for him came about because of in-game music (such as radios in Fallout 4 or GTA 5 etc), and not necessarily because he would play popular artists at will as background for his stream.

In any case, he wiped out all 9 years' worth of his videos (or so he says), and like others given the sheer size of the library of videos he built up over the years, there was no way he had the storage space to archive that much content. If he's being honest on Twitter and his feed, it's all gone, and as with many other streamers, he said repeatedly that he'd have been happy to delete any of the videos which were in violation rather than the entire library, but there was no information coming about it and he (like others) was only given 2 days warning about it.

I feel like you just overcomplicated the idea instead. The OP analogy about an extra tire is more apt, to me, because it is an inherent feature of the vehicle that it installed by the manufacturer. Satellite radio may seem to be a good analogy, but I feel there are flaws with it. No satellite radio service is actually provided by a vehicle manufacturer; you receive service from a company like Sirius (or whoever it still is these days), and the radio in your car that was provided by the manufacturer is just a receiver. It will always work - whether or not you are subscribed to the service determines if you can actually listen to anything. If you quit paying your subscription, the music goes dead. If I sell my car to someone else, the music keeps going until I stop paying the subscription. There's no expectation that a subscription service continues to work, unless I foolishly tell the buyer that I'll continue to pay monthly for them to listen to music (and put that into writing). Tesla has complicated the issue themselves by both providing the physical hardware of a feature and the software/license to use it at the same time. In my mind, and I'm hardly a lawyer, the end result of this case would be different if autopilot features were activated by Tesla on a subscription basis. They're not. Once the initial additional cost is paid, as part of the sticker price of the vehicle, the owner receives that functionality for life, if I understand correctly. If I sell that vehicle to someone else, unless there's any official documentation provided in any owner's paperwork, contracts of sale, etc, that clearly state that autopilot functionality is non transferable, I feel like Tesla is out of luck, even if they are the actual party of resale. I don't think anyone has shown such a thing exists, or I haven't seen it yet myself.

Just to be clear, what you're saying is technically accurate as of today, but won't always be accurate. Google has announced that the free stadia tier will launch "sometime in 2020", and once that happens you could, in theory, play a resolution and sound limited stream of any game you have "bought" through stadia for free. So far as I was aware, you may even be able to do that without stadia hardware if you are playing it through your computer, mobile device, etc. Right now? Yes, it's true that you have to buy the stadia hardware, "buy" the game, and pay the subscription fee as well, but I wanted to mention that in the future it may "only" require you to buy the game and that's it... But that's a ways off for certain.

I'm going to assume you didn't read the article, did you? The article makes it fairly clear that your interpretation is not what is planned; Apple is not enabling data from Clue to go into aggregation in Health, they are putting the same core functionality directly into Health. In fact, they quote the exec from the company producing Clue as wondering if the Clue app will "have access to the data in Health", which would be a pointless question to ask if the data was merely flowing into Health from Clue, wouldn't it?

You likely don't have 4 kids and 2 adults in your house like I do. In our house our iPads sit and only get used by the adults, while the kids use various Android tablets mainly because we have profiles on those devices, and it keeps things nice and orderly where my 11 year old isn't annoyed at having to sift through dozens of "kids apps" (her name for her 3 year old brothers' apps) to find what she wants. And, yes, we have tablets for each kid, so the profiles did not reduce the number of devices we bought and own. That Apple stubbornly ignores this is irritating to me and a primary factor of why I don't invest in more iPads for our home and ecosystem...

Seems like the simple solution is to scan a passenger out if they deplane, no?

Please aim your kick carefully. I work in web applications development (full stack) for a public school district that switched to Fortinet across the district. The day it did my NPM and Node work went straight to hell. The networking/WAN group did it so the district could peep into the traffic to look for students doing things like death threats, bullying, etc. I'm just as screwed as ever. The kicker is they are okay with me switching my NPM server to insecure HTTP, when I don't want to. Ugh.

No, it's not just you. In fact, scrolling through the reviews in the Play store for the replacement app are horrendous, unless you ignore the sudden 4 star reviews that look suspiciously like astroturfing. There are tons of people who hate the new app. I hate it. I hate that Google decided what was best for me. That's the kind of crap I railed against Apple for, and it's ticked me off enough to make me slowly start thinking of going to an iPhone. (Among other reasons, to be sure.) As it stands, although I'm a very avid Angular 6/7 web application developer, I have little experience writing mobile apps. That said, I'm looking into learning NativeScript now and trying my hand at writing my own News and Weather replacement app. About 3 weeks ago I started screenshotting everything in the app I could so I had reference shots to work with. I'm glad I did, since Google absolutely killed the old app now. My biggest issue is trying to find suitable RSS feeds to use for the news pulls. Since Google deprecated their News API a while back (conveniently), it's not as clear where I can look for replacements. But, my anger gives me power, so I'll find a way, even if I have to hard code my own feeds.

I get what you're trying to say, but it would be nice if you didn't phrase it in a way that makes you a douche. My Computer Science degree, with the countless hours spent implementing every well known sorting algorithm, search algorithm, data manipulation algorithm, data structures, and other things that were done well decades ago, says your concept of requesting a lack of an engineering degree to being a code monkey is crap. A degree doesn't have to have the word engineering in it to be a valuable degree program. Hell, it doesn't have to be taught in a college of engineering either. It's the content and curriculum that matter. I'd argue it's more likely that the company has pushed their developers to release faster and faster, without the time needed to properly test and QA their work. You can be a vaunted engineer, and if you are being rushed, you'll make mistakes. Look at Apple... You could make the same arguments about the last 3 versions of iOS being substandard for quality as the Windows 10 updates have been lately. I doubt Apple has code monkeys, as you'd call it; I think they are just rushing their workers to market.

I'm trying to figure out whether you are trying to be A) pedantic, B) sarcastic, C) clueless, or D) all of the above.

Did you really think the OP you replied to was trying to say a/all Macs are useless because they can't do one particular thing? It's obvious from the way the OP wrote what was said that the Mac is considered useless to that particular user if it cannot perform the function needed by that person.

That's completely sensible. It's not entitlement, it's recognizing that some products have a specific segment of the population which will receive them well and for whom those products can handle the needs they have in a pleasing manner. For OP, as he/she went on to illustrate, there were a number of reasons why the Mac wasn't suitable for his/her needs.

Indeed, even their argument about it not being gambling because you can't sell or trade the in-game items for real world money is missing - quite conveniently - an entire realm where real world money does come into play: league gaming. Let's say loot boxes are guaranteed to give you exactly 1 rare item, 2 uncommon items, and 6 common items, each of which come from a pool of available items. EA seems to think it's fine that it's random so long as you are guaranteed to get a fixed number of items. Fine, but what if the items are things which convey a competitive advantage in the game (e.g. are not cosmetic skins that do not affect gameplay)?

Now assume that players play the game in an eSports league setup where there are actual cash - or tangible value items - rewards available for final rankings. If you can buy loot boxes with randomly granted items, some of which grant the recipient a distinct gameplay advantage which can increase the player's chance of ranking higher in such a tournament...and thus increase their chance of earning [more] money...that is gambling, in my book. The player buying those loot boxes can now receive a tangible monetary reward for having bought into those boxes. And EA should try to say there's no guarantee that the player would rank higher (and earn more money) if they had to loot box than if they didn't...well, that's like saying there's no guarantee that buying a piece of paper that comes out of a lottery machine will get you more money than if you hadn't bought that piece of paper.

This, and then some. Seriously - that should make for a seriously stark commercial. Heck, if you could get away with it without getting sued somehow in our wonderfully litigious society, you show somebody fumbling around with trying to find the right dongles, while another person sets a laptop down, opens the lid, and just jacks the cord right into it. When everyone stares at him dumbfounded, he should just shrug, smile, and say "It just works."

Although I'm pleased to see this announcement, living here in Lakeland, FL where there's a fairly large Amazon distribution center I'm really disappointed that there's no move this year to put these here, when they're going to be putting them in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. In virtually every solar radiation average exposure map I've seen, Florida generally receives more solar radiation than all three of those states - and sometimes more than areas of California as well. This area is ripe for this, at least from a physical standpoint. I have to assume there's some sort of governmental roadblock in the way at the moment that isn't to their tastes, because it certainly can't be because they won't generate enough power down here.

So...how long before the Netflix iOS app disappears off the App Store, or the negative reviews start piling up? Apple is either about to begin, it has already begun, requiring all iOS apps to strictly only support IPv6, so this is entertaining. If the Netflix app has to only use IPv6, and Netflix starts blocking various people using IPv6...heh. :)