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A credit card is a bit of a stretch. Virtually every enterprise in existence has tried to get me to sign up for their in-house card since the mid 80s.
I mean if you look at it in conjunction with Apple pays it’s pretty good.
If you’ve been an accountable executive in both entrepreneurial startups and global enterprises, this article resonates.
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> What about the fact that they haven't announced a single new product category since the Apple Watch in 2014? AirPods (2016) are pretty popular. (edit: I listed some of Apple's recent new services here, but removed since the AirPods make the point by themselves. Apologies to user optimiz3 for leaving your comment dangling.)
A credit card is a bit of a stretch. Virtually every enterprise in existence has tried to get me to sign up for their in-house card since the mid 80s.
Using 'Rosner' as an example is a little bit insufferable: "We only have experts!" But then put an eng. with 20 years Engineering in charge of a media product?!?
'I have to learn what incentivizes News companies!'. Yeah, maybe a few more things. Three cheers for being a cowboy, but know that you're a cowboy in that situation.
Do you notice how badly Apple does in everything social or media? Sure they made podcasts mainstream, but after 20 years of incubation, and still others reap the reward?
This is an example of that kind of weird hubris, it reminds me of 'Google Plus'.
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Before there was iMessage, there was BlackBerry Messenger. It had similar qualities of being a nicer user experience as compared to SMS. Must be nice to reimplement an old idea and qualify as innovation. :)
Google tries again, again, and again, to create a decent messaging app, and fails every time. Whether it's bad marketing or management, it's clearly not the simplest thing in the world to achieve what apple did with iMessage (unless now you want to posit that the billionaires in Google also have no idea what they're doing ever) and the discussion is relevant especially when we are reviewing their management style.
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End to end encryption. If you’re using iCloud with iMessage Apple has access to your messages. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Apple doesn't have access to your iMessages unless you give them permission by consenting to have your keys backed up to iCloud. If you use iTunes backup (or don't back up your phone), the Messages will be encrypted and can only be unlocked if you have a device that still has the keys. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 "Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, yo…
Although Apple uses end-to-end encryption for both iMessage and FaceTime, it doesn’t do the same for iCloud backups. They are encrypted, but Apple holds the key, meaning that the company has access to a copy of almost everything on your phone – and that includes stored messages.”
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You never know if SMS actually arrived. Sure, it probably did. But sometimes, it didn’t. And you won’t know.
Is that a common thing? IME they do always arrive unless the recipient has a habit of leaving their phone turned off for weeks.
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> Apple is now the best mobile processor house in the world Will likely be the best laptop processor in the world as well.
Very much doubtful. AMD is seriously on fire, and unless they can pull some magic I don't see that happening.
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> Apple is now the best mobile processor house in the world Will likely be the best laptop processor in the world as well.
Very much doubtful. AMD is seriously on fire, and unless they can pull some magic I don't see that happening.
And I would expect Apple to be significantly better at Amazon.