Comment on What DID Apple innovate?

Froyn@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The credit reporting and insurance industries would like to have a wor… What’s that?

  Nevermind. I’m being told they wish to be forgotten and ignored so they can quietly make boatloads without the threat of regulatory oversight.

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  • Froyn@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The first credit score was introduced in 1989, Apple computers was founded in 1976.

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    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1. That’s the FICO score. There have been other scores as far back as the 1950s.
      2. Credit bureaus are older than abstract scoring formulas, and credit reporting has been going on at least since the mid 1800s

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    • modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• ripcord@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That's a good point.

  Although, looking at it in a different, much more true way - no they weren't.

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