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To: Star Traveler

Well, we’re back again, this time in the category that the mod wanted ... :-) ...


2 posted on 03/07/2015 11:17:09 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler; Swordmaker
> we’re back again, this time in the category that the mod wanted

I'm not picking a fight here, but frankly on that issue, I side with the Mod. This and similar articles are FR chat, not FR news (which should be conservative interests: political, social, financial, even philosophical, but not day-to-day business fortunes of a particular company). I would hate to see FR news threads double, with fans of every company posting about the stuff that matters to them... and not so much to everyone else. So IMHO Apple business news is not FR news, it's FR chat, even if it rates as "news" in other venues.

As one who has Apple gear and likes it a lot, I'm of course interested in their fate -- I want them to stick around. I'm very happy they're doing well, since it means my MacMini and iDevices will continue to get legendary Apple service. Indeed, I wish very much that Microsoft and Fujitsu and Samsung and Dell and the other manufacturers of my other gear had as bright a future as Apple's. *sigh* But I don't care about every twist and turn as they continue their meteoric rise. I have no Apple stock, so what their stock does, or what their valuation is, doesn't affect me except very indirectly.

I vote for keeping Apple threads in FR chat, unless for some reason the company does something that falls into political, social, or other "core conservative" areas, where it's clearly news of likely interest to a majority of FR members.

9 posted on 03/07/2015 12:38:51 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Star Traveler
By the way, Star, here is the thread on Apple becoming the #1 smartphone maker in the world:

Apple iPhone takes smartphone market share from Android around the world

18 posted on 03/07/2015 1:51:00 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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