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Originally Posted by john70t

Edge is missing most the buttons on purpose and is good for nothing unfortunately.
IE is for downloading FF.


What I do not like about that Apple feature is that there is no more USB hookup.
People can't store and control their own data locally without going through a cloud(someone else's computer).
I'm guessing 'thefappening' and stolen internet nudes of Hollywood stars were gaffled this way.

Apple seemed to take away any feature as soon as they started to well for customers.
It's a total loss of control for the customer.
Not sure why they would try to tick off their bread and butter like that. Only Microsoft did that.

Then I heard the iTunes updates would delete purchased music and I decided that Apple was not the platform for me.

Sorta like eliminating the headphone port? Potentially the dumbest hardware change ever to a phone.

Originally Posted by jyl

Sorry, I ended my prior post prematurely.

What I meant to conclude with is:

But the attention to "what is Apple's new exciting thing" distracts from what is really unique about Apple, which is the breadth and integration. There is no other company that has leading or at minimum co-leading positions in every kind of personal information device (keyboard computer, tablet computer, smartphone, wearable, home media) and ties all of these together with a single operating system (soon), a single family of computing architecture (soon), and a single set of services (cloud, media, communication, financial, navigation, etc) and core applications (web, mail, messaging, etc) that work across all these devices. No one else has even a fraction of this. You'd have to put together Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Samsung (ex the fabs), and a dozen smaller companies to come close. Pretty soon, Apple won't need a shiny new hit device to grow. It will still need a hit for the stock to reach its highest multiple.

I don’t disagree, but here’s the problem. All of that requires that I purchase expensive Apple hardware, in some cases double the price of similar competing models. THEN after I’ve already been ripped off once I have to pay for the services to integrate my expensive hardware. For me that’s a major irritant.