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please list smartphones i can buy that have no suppliers with any history of human rights issues thank you

Apple's supply chain is more than 1,000 companies. Do you really think Apple has the expertise and personnel to replicate what 1,000 companies have spent decades mastering? Not lik…

apple makes 1/100th the revenue from ads that google does, so it's very clear which is abusing user data to do so

It's the most popular watch on the planet now, so... lots of people?

You can wear it for 22.5 hours/day and charge for 90mins

Games can have stores, marketplaces, platforms, and other arbitrary interactive stuff running inside of them, whereas movies and songs are more or less functionally identical in te…

The reviewer (a lowly employee just trying to follow a process) clearly made a mistake and did not follow Apple's guidelines. Manual review processes have plenty of mistakes, resub…

Because it's Apple's phone, Apple's operating system, Apple's app store, not the developers. Does Disney allow lewd content on Disney+ or at Disneyland?

All of them have one thing in common: they want to be seen as "new tech" companies, not dying older companies. Microsoft wants to be seen up against apple, google Oracle wants to b…

that's not what apple is doing they're only revoking epic's devtools, and ability to make NEW unreal engine versions, old UE versions are unaffected

Can't wait to troubleshoot my parents iphones after courts force them to allow arbitrary code installs from any source without apple's curation. The whole value proposition of iOS …

I don't. I really don't want to troubleshoot my parents iPhones after they install arbitrary code from the Alternative App Store #12 after clicking on a banner ad run by an anonymo…

the only reason I recommend iphones to family members is because they are closed platforms, why are we trying to take away that option, a valid option to want to exist in an open m…

yeah, I get that, and the only reason I picked an iphone for my grandpa is because it's a curated closed platform. i'm glad it exists as an option, and it's not the most popular on…

Can someone explain to me why Apple's 30% tax is so different from every B&M retailer providing shelf space? I can't sell stuff in walmart without paying Walmart "But you can't sel…

i'm sure they wrote this months ago

Good. Cross-site ad targeting/fingerprinting is digital stalking.

I think about it like this: what would happen if you did this manually, at the same scale? If I went around asking every single person you've ever met if they could provide any pic…

This is the democrats house bill, not the GOP senate bill.

Buffett thinks GAAP is almost useless now, and doesn't think accountants have a clue. He follows own "owners earnings" model, which is not a standard of any kind.

Koch Bros. Rural News for Boomers

She put "0" in the income field, didn't she? Doesn't take a complicated algorithm to explain that.

Here I go making mistakes again, murdering people left and right, i'm so clumsy, mondays right? - Saudis probably

Related, my girlfriend just bought a refurbished iPhone SE for $125. It works flawlessly, I think they were released 3 years ago now? You can also sell (or trade) your iPhone after…

The current system is absolutely prohibiting good science from being done, through incentive structures on the faculty tenure/review process weighing heavily towards frequency/quan…