Apple Enacts 'don't Ask, Don't Tell'-policy For Mac

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Obama, who signed a measure repealing the ban in December, said lifting the ban 'would enhance our national security, increase our military readiness and bring us closer to the principles of equality and fairness that define us as Americans.' 'As of today, patriotic Americans in uniform will no longer have to lie about who they are in order to serve the country they love,' the president said. 'As of today, our armed forces will no longer lose the extraordinary skills and combat experience of so many gay and lesbian service members.' RELATED 'From this day forward, gay and lesbian soldiers may serve in our Army with the dignity and respect they deserve,' the memo said. 'We expect all personnel to follow our values by implementing the repeal fully, fairly and in accordance with policy guidance,' the memo obtained by The Washington Post said. 'It is the duty of all personnel to treat each other with dignity and respect, while maintaining good order and discipline throughout our ranks. Doing so will help the U.S.

Army remain the strength of the nation.' Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman planned to discuss the change, which took effect at 12:01 a.m.

EDT, at a Pentagon news conference Tuesday. Gay-rights groups, including soldiers discharged under the rule, planned celebrations across the country. The 'important thing about this date is two or three years from now, when none of the negative predictions come true,' U.S. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the most prominent gay U.S. Politician, told Politico. The 'don't ask, don't tell' policy said the presence of openly gay service members 'would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.' Tony Perkins, a Marine Corps veteran and president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group that lobbied against ending the ban, said the policy shift risked using the military as a tool to 'reshape social attitudes' and alleged that 'using the military to advance a liberal social agenda will only do harm to the military's ability to fulfill its mission.'

Carter Ham, commander of U.S. Forces in Libya, told The Wall Street Journal he would 'be astonished if this is a disruptive change.'

'I think it will be pretty unremarkable across the military, and I think that is the way it should be,' said Ham, who helped lead a study of the military's attitudes toward a change in the law. About 39 percent of gays and lesbians in active service planned to come out to some people in the military, an online opinion sample of 533 members by the OutServe advocacy group indicated. Nearly 17 percent said they'd reveal their sexuality to a few close friends in their units, 9 percent said they'd disclose it to most of the people in their units and 13.5 percent said they'd make it known to everyone. About a third said they didn't intend to make their sexuality known to anyone who didn't already know about it, the sampling indicated. 'Don't ask, don't tell' started in 1993, after President failed to end a ban on gays serving in the military in the face of stiff opposition from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and members of Congress. Obama campaigned on a promise to seek an end to the policy.

Mullen later argued it was time for Congress to lift the ban. A congressional bill to repeal the measure was enacted in December, specifying the policy would remain in place until Obama, the defense secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman certified that repeal would not harm military readiness, followed by a 60-day waiting period. A July 6 ruling from a federal appeals court barred further enforcement of the ban.

Obama, Panetta and Mullen sent that certification to Congress July 22, setting Tuesday as the end of 'don't ask, don't tell.'

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WWDC 2018. Let's put on one side for a moment the fact that WWDC 2018 is not the venue for hardware. WWDC is, as the name suggests, a developer conference (OK, you might be forgiven for overlooking this, especially given how during the keynote developers were expected to cheer at basic things like captions being added to the tvOS screensavers). Yes, Apple has used this venue to showcase new hardware, but when it does that there's equally forceful criticism from those who think hardware announcements take away from the developer focus, and turn the keynote into a gauche sales pitch. But there's something a lot bigger and more fundamental that Mac users need to realize and absorb, and that's the fact that the Mac isn't a huge part of Apple's business. Putting the Mac business into perspective, looking at, the company ships about five to six million Macs a quarter.

Not bad, but it's vital to put this into a wider context. The figure is a little more than Asus or Acer can manage, but only about half that Dell pushes out in the same time period, and only a third of what Lenovo or HP manage to ship.

Compare this to the. Even iPad sales, which are considered pretty soggy, are around twice that of Macs, and the revenue gap between the two products is pretty close. We can also break it down in terms of customer base. Mac users represent about 10 percent of Apple's user base. Yes, 10 percent. CNET: And the laptop and desktop market seems a lot more fickle and price-conscious than the smartphone market.

Now, having said all this, I don't think is going to pull the rug from under Mac users and get out of the business any time soon. It would be pretty brash to close the door on a business that brings in several billion in revenue and has a double-digit user base. But I also think that the days of Apple pandering to this market are over. In fact, I'd say that as we move towards 2020, Apple is more focused on growing its services and accessories businesses than it is in selling more Macs. Yes, and pushing apps and movies is a higher priority. By registering you become a member of the CBS Interactive family of sites and you have read and agree to the,.

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