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Apple in 2019: surviving iPhone challenges like the 1990s Microsoft
seanismorris said:terrence1019 said:A lot of the "doom-and-gloom" surrounding Apple is nothing more than social media drama deliberately created. Apple will push the boundaries of what we consider as personal computers. John Srouji is doing great work hardware-wise when it comes to Apple Ax chipset. The only thing Apple has to do is keep evolving iOS into a more robust mobile operating system and unlock more features that we know it can handle. I really look forward to a day when I can do all the work I would usually do on my PC right on my iPhone XS Max or iPad.
The expectation is for Apple’s A series chips to power MacOS laptops. The alternative is for iOS to “grow up” in functionality. In my mind, the 12.9” iPad & the A Series laptop need to run the full Office 365.
I’d also like to see iWork become something more like Office 365. It had promise but the effort has fizzled... If Apple wants services revenue to grow, that would be a good place to start. Microsoft knows business and sustainable revenue. People will cut video & music subscriptions when money gets tight. Business’s can’t cut the tools to let the people do their jobs.
Apple is all about the ecosystem, but the customer lock-in isn’t as great as they hope. Currently, their is nothing they make that is as “sticky” as MS Office. Without that, there is nothing to prevent them from becoming the next Blackberry.
For example, if I switched to Android devices it would be annoying, but after a month it would be business as usual.
I’m not in the “sky is falling” crowd. Apple remains dominant in several areas, but they can’t sit on their laurels. The most interesting thing Apple’s been working on is medical records and devices, those have the potential to be “sticky” and helps them keep their dominance in the other areas.
One thing I did want to mention is Project Marzipan (I think that is how it is spelled). This alone should be a huge indicator as to where Apple is heading. It isn't that iOS and macOS are merging, but instead allowing for applications to be built on both easily. If Apple can pull this off, and I have zero doubts that they can, this will be huge. As a software developer, I can tell you that if the only thing that I have to do is some slight tweaks to a bit of code and I can migrate my application to another platform, that is a huge win; and once the apps come people will have no problems going back to the Mac. -
Google CEO 'Lord Farquaad' lambasted for giant pay raise after 12,000 layoffs
I think the most damning part of the article is right here:Large companies have complex financial systems, so it isn't going to be clear how the money saved from laying off those employees will be used. However, it is damning when a $70 billion stock buyback program was announced in one week, then SEC filings show the CEO got a raise in the next.
This is the smoking gun right here. A CEO knows that if they do layoffs, stock prices usually rise because the P/E ratio rises; then on top of that, a stock buyback means that Google (read: Sundar) knows that the price per share for that stock will skyrocket because there are fewer shares in the wild. As a result, the number of shares he gets (usually a fixed number of shares, depending on how well their stock is doing) will be worth substantially more.
In summary, I think the SEC should investigate his ass and see if insider trading laws can be applied to him.
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Nike teases Tuesday reveal of new iPhone-controlled self-lacing sneakers
DAalseth said:Oh for crying out loud. How f****** hard is it to tie your bloody shoes. -
Apple pulls Fortnite from App Store for sidestepping commission fee [ux2]
dasanman69 said:JMaille said:When are people going to realize this isn’t about reducing the cost to consumers, this is about getting as much money out of consumers as they possibly can. Epic and the other companies that are protesting the “Apple Tax” aren’t trying to eliminate or even reduce the cost of being in the App Store for themselves. What they are trying to do is force Apple, either through their own decision, through the courts, or through legislation, to change the way they charge developers for being in the App Store. They want to do away with the competition from free apps. They want Apple to change to an approach where any developer that wants to put an app in the App Store has to pay for it, which in turn will eliminate almost all free apps and almost all developers they may have to compete with. Or better yet, they want to force Apple to allow, or be force to allow, alternate App Stores on every single IOS device so they can stop having to live with the privacy restrictions Apple forces on them. Then they can get to what they really want, harvesting user data so they can make the user what they think all users should be – the product rather than the customer.
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MacBook Pro with SD card slot, no Touch Bar coming in 2021
This whole iteration of a report just seems like going backwards. I know that most people aren't fans of the Touch Bar, but I think it does serve a purpose and is far more useful than what people think. And for those people who lament the "loss" of their beloved function keys, are really a small number of people. Hell, I do development for a living, connecting to multiple machines via SSH and I don't use the function keys ever. The only time that I ever use it is when I am refreshing a SQL query in DBeaver. I know I am one person in a crowd of millions of people, but I just don't see Apple moving backwards. If they were going to do that, they would have done it when they revealed the M1. -
Apple says Epic Games demands threaten iOS app security, privacy, quality
wizard69 said:Frankly Apple is using some of he same idiotic excuses, that only the extremely gullible accept, that they use to fight right to repair. In the end Apples motivations are planned obsolescence and getting a cut of every commercial app that runs on its devices. It can be likened to Ford demanding 30% from every gas station when you fill up your tank. It isn't something most Americans would feel comfortable with and frankly is against the law. I just don't see Apple having a leg to stand on especially if one looks deep into existing law and what has traditionally been accepted business practice. -
iPhone & Mac game engine Unity putting the screws to independent developers
Marvin said:danox said:I hope this doesn’t turn into another one of those Apple must roll up its sleeves moments again, with Apple getting into gaming engines, Apple has enough on it’s plate working towards GPU parity with AMD, and Nvidia, oh and that little business with Qualcomm regarding modem replacement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines
All these companies tried to reinvent the wheel making an engine of their own, solving the same problem over and over to end up with dozens of buggy proprietary engines that work for one product or franchise and with very little transferrable skills for the people who work with them.
A lot of them have reached a point where the saw how much effort and pain was involved maintaining an engine internally that many of them are now looking at Unreal engine but they don't control the engine.
If all of the studios pooled their resources together, they could make a strong, reliable core engine that everyone could use and know that it would be supported everywhere. -
Chrome's new AI update brings a smart twist to browsing & text composition
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Apple will try to talk its way out of a $40 billion fine on Tuesday
Maybe it has been a while since going over the ApplePay developer docs and what not; but I don’t recall that the developer is charged with a fee from using ApplePay, any sort of fees come from the credit card companies. As such, it seems to me like the EU is making a false claim here. Are they going after Google for GooglePay? What about Samsung and their SamsungPay? Wait, what about WalmartPay (which I can do from my iPhone)?
This seems like complete bullsh*t, if you ask me. -
Microsoft & Activision Blizzard merger is a go with conditions, says EU regulators
danox said:Microsoft, please complete the deal, please….What a waste Microsoft just pissed $69 billion dollars down the drain, exceeding, Google, and HP in one shot, this waste of money means don’t expect any significant hardware development for Microsoft in the future.The Microsoft boneyard gets bigger* The big Acquisition losers of Microsoft Over the years….....
Vizio $1.4 billion dollars.
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*Git hub $7.2 billion dollars.