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Congress members demand Apple exit China in letter to Tim Cook
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Facebook says Apple blocked in-app message informing users of 30% App Store fee
Pascalxx said:As I understand it, Facebook basically wants to allow small businesses to receive donations through the platform, without taking a cut and wants Apple to do the same. It doesn’t seem like an unreasonable suggestion to me. Are there no App Store fee waivers for donations?
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Editorial: The new Mac Pro is overkill for nearly everybody, and it hit Apple's own target...
10 years ago, it made sense to buy a Mac Pro for use with software like Adobe Photoshop. These days, that's not really a high-end software use anymore. Photoshop can easily be handled by a standard iMac. I think people who complain about what the 2019 version of the Mac Pro represents don't really understand just how much more powerful hardware is today vs. 10 years ago. The 'Pro' end for desktop is MUCH more specialized than it used to be. Only the heaviest of heavy lifting through software requires 'Pro' models anymore. -
Editorial: Why does Apple have a monopoly on responsive corporate values?
gatorguy said: Google is the first big tech, in fact the first company of their size in any industry, to use 100% renewable energy across all their operations for consecutive years.
"Google says it currently has contracts to purchase three gigawatts of output from renewable energy projects, and while it says “it’s not yet possible to “power” a company of our scale by 100 percent renewable energy,” these purchases do have a positive impact."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/4/17197342/google-renewable-energy-climate-change
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Twitter loses half its ad revenue, still weighed down by debt
jfabula1 said:mikethemartian said:The previous owners of Twitter must be laughing their asses off. -
European Commission says Apple is in breach of EU competition law
Per the "forbids them to inform of alternative subscription options", that's an industry standard for e-commerce. Try and name a retail web site or digital download store that allows sellers to advertise alternate ways of purchasing the product within the store or site itself. It just doesn't happen. Amazon, eBay, WalMart...they all have clauses that forbid that type of communication. That has never been unique to Apple at any time. -
TSMC managers think Americans don't work hard enough
Total federally mandated paid leave for workers based on 5 day work week: Taiwan = 22-42 days, United States = 0.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country
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European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming
avon b7 said:This is part of what the EU had to say:
"Today's decision concludes that Apple's anti-steering provisions amount to unfair trading conditions, in breach of Article 102(a) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU'). These anti-steering provisions are neither necessary nor proportionate for the protection of Apple's commercial interests in relation to the App Store on Apple's smart mobile devices and negatively affect the interests of iOS users, who cannot make informed and effective decisions on where and how to purchase music streaming subscriptions for use on their device. -
Cook justifies Apple's advertising on X as a 'town square' for the Internet
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Apple engineers lack optimism about the Apple TV strategy, claims report