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sflocal said:

That's pretty ballsy of Qualcomm.  If I buy a chip from QC, that's it.  They got their money.  For them to demand (and expect) a 5% "royalty" based on the price of my product, especially if their chip only constitutes a small percentage of the entire device is worthy of an episode in "Narcos".  

So if I put that chip in a piece-of-s**t $50 plastic Android phone, they get $2.50 and if I put that same chip in a $1,500 iPhone that's actually built well and performs better, and those improvements have absolutely nothing to do with Qualcomm, they expect $75?  F**k that!!

Qualcomm's dirty laundry is coming out in baskets.  With all this negative news coming out about Qualcomm and their gestapo tactics, they will be begging Apple to quickly settle and save face.  I'm glad that Apple is taking this standing up and teaching a lesson to Qualcomm.  I hope Mollenkopf gets fired, no golden parachute, and ends up mopping floors.  He's everything that's wrong in the industry.

This is why we haven't seen Celluar modems in Laptops. $50 USB dongle $2.50 royalty same function embedded $75+ to QC. 

"Thus, such a fear that persons in the surroundings may be troubled by the continuous ringing of the alert sound can be remarkably reduced. Further, since the situation that a power supply is cut off forcibly during all origination can be avoided, the fear that a person on the call origination side may be given an unpleasant feeling can be eliminated."

It's literately a patent on avoid hurt feelings. Where were the political correctness gone mad people when this was issued?

9secondkox2 said:

It IS the town square for the internet. 

Strange article. 

Cook doesn’t have to “justify” being on social media. It’s good business. 

The only thing he really needs to rethink is investing so heavily in the human rights violation that is the Chinese government. 

Nope, it is not. It's a mall at best. If you want to use an Architectural analog. 

A town square is owned by the town there may be public and commercial buildings surrounding it, residential apartments and offices looking over it that can yell out the window if they like but the space in the middle is free and only bound by the rules of common decency. 

If there is a town square then its cobblestones are open protocols like SubPub. 

But yes why would Apple not advertise in a very large mall.  

clarker99 said:

Rene Ritchie posed the question ‘should Apple abanadon Google (as default search engine)?’ Billions of dollars of ‘services’ revenue be damned. Google/Facebook are a disgrace. 

It's interesting DuckDuckGo now has maps powered by AppleMaps. Would be good to see partnership extend.

Story icon shows New Zealand flag but teen is Australian. 

rcfa said:

As much as performance is great, part of the appeal of the Mac was superior compliance with open industry standards.

Looks like Apple feels iOS’ market penetration gives it enough clout to start acting like M$ and simply become ever more proprietary. Sad.

Apple could have either worked within standards bodies to move OpenGL/OpenCL towards Metal, create an OpenGL/OpenCL API on top of Metal, or opened up Metal like they opened up Swift for industry-wide adoption.

Metal and Vulkan both branched from the same AMD mantle project, Metal was slightly earlier than Vulkan. The standards bodies set rules that stopped advantageous parts of metal has being rolled in to the standard. In effect killing Vulkan by committee. Well at least as I understand it not being there and all.

anton zuykov said:

netrox said:

Wait a minute, Apple is being fined because someone had their phone repaired outside of authorized dealership?!?! What kind of stupid decision is that?

'stralia.... It is right to repair to the extreme, I guess. Basically, no matter what a shitty job a repairman did, your product must work, which makes zero sense when data security concerns are brought in.

That was the ground breaking update to telecommunications?

Mike Wuerthele said:

maltz said:

Um... that's a //c

We're aware, and this is addressed in the lede. We chose IIe for the head because it was more populous.

But unproven given no one has actually tested and you need the add language card and I'm assuming the upgraded CPU (remember when Apple swapped CPU's) to match the more advanced //c. So by the time you knock out that many Apple][e was it really more popular? 

Would also run on a ][gs in theory maybe even in turbo. 

Yet you can't buy an Apple Watch without a band at all. Given the choice of 3rd party options.