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EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
jamnap said:If Apple had the visceral fortitude they would promptly and concisely tell the EU to f$&k off and start closing down shop and stop selling to any EU member country. Maybe the folk there will rise up against the EU ruling class. With the expanding Asia market Apple will not fall. Sure, it will affect the stock market at first, but for Tim Cook to always tout "principles" he needs not to bow to the EU. The USB/C issue is one thing, but this new EU demand will open Apple's Pandora's box.
It’s time for those do nothings in Washington DC to earn their pay.
Europe just represents about 19% of Apples total revenue, and when compared to other parts of the world, it’s falling, Apples revenue in Europe is about the same as the entire country of Japan.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/. Select Chart App revenue by region
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Trump says Tim Cook complained to him about the EU
xyzzy-xxx said:I hope this did not happen !
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/04/jpmorgans-billionaire-ceo-didnt-endorse-trump-despite-trump-saying-he-did/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/politics/trump-dimon-false-endorsement.html
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Apple's 'carbon neutral' claims are misleading, say EU groups
Nothing mankind does is green or necessarily good for the environment it’s basically called survival, the mere presence of 7 billion human beings and growing on the planet is the what that is killing the environment, and making plants and animals extinct, when a project like a goldmine that will dump mercury into every stream, creek, and river at the headwaters of the largest salmon fishery (Lake Iliamna) in the world and that project just lurches forward on to the operational state says it all. It can’t be said enough that the lake is more valuable as a reoccurring food resource, at this stage of the game and is basically irreplaceable.
The very concept of carbon credits it’s just bait and switch by the ruling classes, the largest salmon fishery in the world is up for grabs.
It is mind blowing that not even that threat can stop it. (Half of all Sockeye Salmon in the world are taken from that lake).
https://kuow.org/stories/copper-versus-salmon-why-an-alaska-mine-matters-in-the-northwest
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New 24-inch iMac in production testing, but won't ship until late 2023
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Biden administration: Apple & Broadcom should quit stalling and pay Caltech $1.1 billion i...
applebynature said:danox said:In patent, cases, such as this always challenge the patent validity upfront, because the patent office seems to grant patents for just about anything, their philosophy appears to be, people, companies or any other interested party should fight it out in court later. In short, the patent office doesn’t want to take any real responsibility.
I might add the upper division (the corpocracy ) actually prefers it this way, so change probably isn’t going to happen.
True, the system is designed for the 18th century, and in those days you had to have something that actually worked, and you had to demonstrate it to the examiners, now, however, someone presents an idea, some drawings and equation. You don’t have to demonstrate an actual working device. You just say here’s the application, here’s the fee give me my patent, and the patent office grants it, and then washes their hands, someday someone will actually build a fusion reactor, one that actually works, and they (the company) will be sued by all the idea, equation people from all over the world.
The Wright brothers went through that process, they built some thing that actually worked on the idea people just had paperwork. Took the Wright brothers years to finally get everything settled and at the end a large number of people in the public, thought they were the bad guys. -
Apple sneaks in very old devices into iPhone 15 event video -- and omits one, too
coolfactor said:I never did get an iSight or Hi-Fi. Wishing I had, though. -
Apple could be out $20 billion a year if Google loses DOJ antitrust case
Google is paying Apple for the default position in search because it eliminates competition from other companies, and because within the iOS/MacOS, Google makes more profit within the Apple ecosystems than they make in the entire Android ecosystem combined (a guess). In short, Google gets to kill two birds with one stone, the Justice department if they were doing their job would find out exactly how much revenue and profit does Google actually make in each ecosystem worldwide. (my guess is that Google is far more profitable within the Apple ecosystems than their own).The Android operating system only exists solely to gain access and to generate information for a Ad company (Google) to sell/target its ads, Google has no loyalty even to its own ecosystem. Its only purpose as a company is to hoover in information.
It would be a win-win for Google, to have no payment and get access to iOS and the Mac eco-systems for free like Spotify, the solution, the Justice department, or the EU will dream up is a free socialized default position for everyone in the name of competition, similar to the current movement, allowing companies to camp out within the App Store for no charge, because that’s what gatekeepers do, all the work and then they (Apple) turn around and give it away for free. -
New 24-inch iMac adds M4 chip, nano-texture glass option
bobcubsfan2 said:So "new" mouse with USB C. Is port still on bottom of mouse? -
Amazon denies it had plans to be clear about consumer tariff costs
Absolutely the right thing to do show it (the new Federal sales tax) as a line item on the bill that Americans get to see, eliminate all doubt where the cost is coming from. The red staters need to see it in black and white. They don’t seem to understand anything until it knocks them over the head.
Anyone selling anything across the land is not gonna take the blame for that occupant in the White House. As we have heard from him so often business is business and he is the greatest at it. Isn’t he? According to his constant blathering he is the smartest man in the room or is it the world I keep forgetting? -
Calls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence miss that he has made Apple what ...
KalMadda said:No lies involved, simply a delay in feature rollout due to last minute issues requiring reworking to fix. The ad clearly said “coming in a future update”. Apple never said that was currently possible with the public version of Siri, they said it will eventually be possible with a future software update, and there is absolutely no reason to believe that isn’t still the case… Apple says they anticipate rolling out the features within the next year. Now that they’re done whining about how bad the iPhone 16e supposedly is because it doesn’t have MagSafe, these tech writers need a new artificial scandal to whine about. And so they’ve turned a simple delay of feature rollout into claims of Apple “lying”, “misleading”, claiming the features “never existed”, were “never under development”, etc., when there’s zero evidence for any of those claims, and zero reason to believe them… We actually have many good reasons to believe Apple is developing these features, and simply ran into last minute issues that will require a delay. For one, Gurman cited internal sources numerous times about the features when saying they would release in 18.4, and then later when he said they were potentially looking at a delay to 18.5. I’m really getting sick and tired of tech writers making claims like this with absolutely zero evidence. It’s wrong to falsely accuse companies and/or people of “lying” and such when there is absolutely no evidence to support those accusations. It’s merely someone’s conjecture, and much of this comes across like school children throwing tantrums because they didn’t get what they wanted right now this instant and will have to wait…Hmm… hasn’t Apple been criticized many times about not being an open book in terms of their product announcements in comparison to other companies like Google, Meta, Samsung or Microsoft (Recall AI, Blizzard acquisition, CloudStrike Kernel presence, Surface Computers, Billions-financing OpenAI) who usually blurt out everything before hand? And haven’t Apple been routinely criticized about not making huge blockbuster acquisitions over the years? It appears they can’t win no matter what they do….. Once again in comparison to their competition, Apple may be easily one of the best run companies in tech and Tim Cook is probably the best CEO going.
Notice: the five blunders by Microsoft within the last 12 to 18 months.