Any normal person trying to sell some source code would be living in fear of their employer for which it was developed, at the time it was written.

He gets all the credit for writing it, he deserves this. But he does not own it to do what he wishes, it's the property of CERN an org that is funded by taxpayers money from around the world.

Used FeedBin ever since Google shut down their free service, and Reeder on my Phone.

These days I no longer need a Twitter client to follow people, even Twitter searches. Just add them as a feed. The great thing about it is it's cached and separated into separate feeds for me. So much easier than any Twitter client.

https://www.pagico.com/

Used it for quite a few years now, supports Linix, OS & Windows. very responsive dev team.

And they are still looking to make a profit at the reduced cost of replacing the battery, just not as much as before.

And I'm sure their plan is if they are dragged screaming and kicking into court they will say 'well we did knock down the price of the replacement battery by $21, that that means we do listen to customers and we are a nice company'.

The class action may go ahead but will never amount to anything and reduce an SKU profit margin is not a punishment.

The MacPro is a perfect example of this. Iâ(TM)ve been saying for years that Cook has been overseeing an shift from technical innovation to a logistical innovation and dramatic product margins increase.

Well not really a logistical innovation, common sense really if you look at the cost of shipping the trash can MacPro compared with the previous tower MacPro. Not to mention the reduction in COGs (cost of the materials to make a MacPro).

But you cannot really blame him, heâ(TM)s a logistics guy, heâ(TM)s doing what he knows. And investors have loved him for it.

My iPhone 6 still works just fine thank you, though I will need a new battery soon (my second replacement). My life would not enhanced by any of the new hardware dependent feature that requires a new phone.

I approached the (then) product manager responsible for the OS and proposed a fork in their route-to-market. My pitch was to create an OS for devices built for industry that were being sold running Microsoft® Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 & Microsoft® Windows® CE and are still be actually sold today.

At the time companies developing and selling devices were not investing in developing new MS mobile OS devices cuz the OS is long dead and the cost of creating new platforms (they still sell device platforms that are more than 6 years old). Also MS Windows Phone was consumer focused completely cutting out the industrial sector.

So they were stuck in limbo with regards to a viable mobile OS.

So I pitched the idea of approaching these companies with the idea of creating a common OS to get around their legacy issues, cuz at the time they were just dipping their toe into Android, and security back then was an afterthought for most.

Talk about not knowing anything about their broader target market, it seemed to me the guys making the decisions were hoping to copy what Apple & Google did, slap a Unix label onto it and they would had a hit on their hands. Without any real depth of knowledge about the wider mobile market.

The mass-market consumer doesn't buy Unix, its a niche market (still) outside business.

iOS is Unix underneath but Apple (very wisely) keep that hidden and point the consumer at the shinny features and eye candy. They talk about iOS and give consumer friendly names to stuff like 'Metal' etc...

But if you think about it, that's exactly what Ubuntu is really, yer they build some stuff along the way but nothing substantial. Don't get me wrong I use Ubuntu regularly and its my preferred distro. But it takes different skills to build something new.

With the (very) recent release of Windows 10 S, and with it only being able to download and install apps from the Windows store. It makes complete sense.

I use RSS daily through FeedBin & Reeder. I was a Google reader refugee (like many), looked around and FeedBin showed the most promise for the future. And Ben has not let me down, excellent and well priced.

I rarely visit the websites I have feed from, some are smart and include ads others are not. I don't mind ads in feeds as its minimal and does not detract from the reading.

I have a real hate for sites with auto playing videos and the crap in the side-bars. These side-bars get wider over the years with the article ever being squeezed into a narrower column.

I quickly flick through articles that don't interest me and read the rest.

Cook will never go back to the tower MacPro.

The new MacPro (arrgh!) is smaller and lighter to ship, that means more profit for Apple. I still have my old MacPro (2006), built like a tank and still does it's job. Even though its stuck on an old release of OS X

Cook is an operations guy (and a very good one) but not CEO material. He's been riding the Apple wave for many years now, now its going to start to unwind for him. Hopefully is only has a few more years before he gets the boot!

Unfortunately Apple is run by a logistic expert and not a technology guy. Yes Cook, I'm talking about you!

The latest Mac Pro was all about reducing the cost of logistics an increasing SKU margins and nothing else.

The old Mac Pro (the one I have) is big, heavy and more expensive to manufacture than the new cylinder Mac Pro and there is a simple explication where this is the case.

1) Apple can fit more cylinder Mac Pro SKUs ontpo a single pallet for shipping.
2) The cylinder Mac Pro is weights a lot less, allowing more to be loaded onto a pallet.
3) When buying from the Apple online store the cost of shipping the cylinder Mac Pro direct to the customer is a lot less.

And then there's the price, ah!

And the same goes for their other products, the iMac has a irregular box shape to they can stack just a few more SKUs onto a pallet. etc......Slim,sleak is a sales talk for lighter, cheaper to manufacture. But more importantly cheaper to ship, massively cheaper.

This means Apple are earning a lot more from each pallet than the old tower Mac Pro, because it was large and very heavy.

So to make the cylinder Mac Pro Apple had to compromise on everything, but mainly how to handle the heat from the CPU & GPUs. I think one of the reasons why the Hackintosh community to so active these days.