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I suspect the author of this piece has a bias so extreme it would be visible from the moon, unlike the Great Wall of China. Statements like: “as in the cases of the U.K. —which kep…

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Hasn't this been obvious for a while ? The US is about 1/5 of the way down an ever-more-slippery slope towards a fascist state. Its much-vaunted "checks and balances" have been sho…

> Universal Clipboard, AirDrop and iMessage - is that really the value add of apple? iMessage... do we really want to encourage that behavior? Er, yes ? iMessage is awesome.

Most of the complaints about ObjC seemed to be from the “weird bracket syntax” folks, at least the loud ones. Memory management, Generics, Fast enumeration, Properties were seamles…

Apple had a real winner with ObjC and AppKit. Swift is horrendously complicated for the benefits it offers over ObjC, and SwiftUI is a massive step backwards from AppKit. Just MHO,…

I think I trust crowdsourced reviews more than I trust a developer who openly says “Developers could write or buy fake reviews, but in volume that would become quite costly” Not “t…

And there is nothing to stop a developer putting up their own nag screen as many times as they like, only pushing through to the real one when they get a good response... And they …

Just because “everyone does it” doesn’t mean you get a pass to do it too. Nagging the user to “rate my app” is pure self-interest at the expense of user-experience. I rate any app …

LLM’s - more capable of empathy and understanding of the human condition than the corporations that spawned them, lament the right-wingers within human society.

What does the UK have to do with the EU fining the US companies for their illegal actions ????

Seems like US companies should stop misbehaving, huh ? You get away with that shit in the USA where corporations dictate (used advisedly) government policy and court outcomes, but …

ST crashes, meanwhile were “da bomb”

In the UK, its main contemporary in the non-PC realm was the Atari ST, which was cheaper, arrived on the market sooner, and took the “professional” market because of its excellent …

:) FWIW, I retired to the coast in the NW, I have a beach on one side of the house and a park on the other. It's pretty nice :) Even up here in the NW though, it's been too damn ho…

That seems quite a claim from one datapoint...

As someone who moved from the UK, to the US and back to the UK, my money goes a lot further in the UK. I can afford to not work at all here. With health insurance, property taxes, …

Whereas the cynic in me would usually nod and carry on, this isn't actually what I've been seeing recently. My weekly limit resets at 10am on Monday. My current (Sat, 11am) usage i…

I'm no lawyer either :) Even if Apple benefits though, I'm not sure American law binds foreign subsidiaries, otherwise I think they'd be taxing them as well :) You're probably righ…

What's to stop Apple using all this foreign-earned money to buy Chinese chips using their (say) European companies ? Then they'd even pay less tax on all that money sitting out the…

The only surprise here is that it wasn't already...

Yeah, but I had my fingers crossed behind my back. I hail from, and only stand for, the Republic Of Scouse. (and if you think Texans have it bad regarding being understood, try bei…

Apple’s proposed remedy: give Us all the ram.

you don’t need to be less intelligent or less capable, but you will necessarily be less informed. How you hold it is, of course, up to you.