Is Apple Changing from a Hardware Company to a Service Company?

This week's news include info about an Instagram data breach, an Amazon data breach, a new class-action lawsuit against Apple, and an expensive way to get access to your iPhone if you get locked out. Then we discuss whether Apple is morphing from a hardware company to a service company.

• Kirk's Hackintosh project and his Hackintosh parts list
• Kirk wrote about how much dust the Mac Pro collected back in 2014
• Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs
• Apple Facing Class Action Lawsuit Over Lack of Filters in MacBooks and iMacs Causing Trapped Dust
• DriveSavers Lets Consumers Retrieve Data From Locked iOS Devices for $3,900
• Amazon warns customers it leaked their names and email addresses
• Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days before Black Friday, emails world+dog
• How Apple Is Changing from a Hardware Company to a Services and Media Company
• Google Fi

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