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Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone

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testmasterflex ◴[14 Aug 22 20:38 UTC] No.32462731[source]▶
Perhaps the decline of Apple finally starts. And a startup will take their place eventually.
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c7DJTLrn ◴[14 Aug 22 21:07 UTC] No.32462940[source]▶
Sadly it's not the 80s anymore. A startup building their own hardware without VCs getting involved is basically impossible. Of course, I'm not talking about taking something like a Raspberry Pi off the shelf and making something with that. Wozniak was building something from scratch that could be sold as an actual product - no chance of that now.
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KajMagnus ◴[14 Aug 22 21:13 UTC] No.32462981[source]▶
There's Framework and Librem laptops, I'd rather buy those than a Mac (I didn't downvote)
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1. zapdrive ◴[14 Aug 22 22:24 UTC] No.32463620[source]▶
I wanted to buy a framework, but they don't accept crypto payments. So I bought apple gift cards with Bitcoin and bought a MacBook pro instead.
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2. paulryanrogers ◴[14 Aug 22 23:08 UTC] No.32464007[source]▶
Interesting. Did you not have to disclose a similar amount of personal information to buy the Mac?

Have you considered buying used? This can be better for the environment and privacy.