The law has no teeth basically.
Apple can simply say, trade secret and not make iPhones repairable.
Essentially, Apple as it does business today fits within the law. In fact, the law benefits Apple because Apple Stores no longer carry the liability for a product they fuck up.
Also consoles don’t count as electronic… Read more
Ok so what’s the catch? What concessions have been made in this new California bill that makes it appealing enough for Apple to suddenly change their long held stance? The only reason they’d support something like this is if they could still profit off of it and maintain control so I’m assuming (without reading… Read more
Saw a pretty hilarious post recently showing a lot of classic meme images with full backgrounds imagined through Firefly. The post was trying to show how good they looked, but to me it was jarring. People were shown riding in vehicles that didn’t make sense, or at dinner parties with mysterious, unidentifiable… Read more
This could be done very easy with no impact to customers: simply modify the body scanner to have a transducer in the floor. They won’t have 100% of the passengers, as a small percentage go through other scan methods, but since the passengers traverse that point one person at a time, it will be statistically relevant,… Read more
This is not exactly new or unique to Air New Zealand, over my years of traveling I’ve been asked to step on a pad many times on many different airlines. There is NO WAY the airline can match the readings taken to an individual passenger. Read more
Holmes was sentenced in November and told the court Theranos was “my life’s work,” adding, “I gave everything I had to build our company and to save our company. I regret my failings with every cell in my body.” Read more
My wife is completely freaked out by my using the “American Male” voice in Whisper Mode... very unsettling!!! Read more
I’m honestly shocked to see her report to prison. I expected this to end with a fugitive search and her being in some non-extradition country! Read more
While my Apple apps seemed to update seamlessly, accessing my Xfinity app on the console resulted in me being trapped in a loop of authorizing repeatedly. Customer support simply said- “yeah, this has been happening all day” to which I replied “so the rebranding is going well I see” LOL Read more
“Didn’t go as planned” should be WB’s new corporate slogan.
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Feels like adding insult to injury given how shitty this whole transition is, at its core, from a customer perspective. Read more