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Apple's community forum gets the last word by banning the next one
· New York time
Apple is closing its 28-year-old online community forum and has already made it read-only. The change ends a long-running place where users could participate in a community around Apple products. A read-only forum creates an odd social arrangement: the existing conversation can be viewed, but nobody can add the next reply. People accustomed to asking questions or contributing answers will see an active gathering become a record of one. Apple has preserved the words while ending the exchange that produced them. After nearly three decades, the community's final feature is a reply button with nothing left to say.
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