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  • Apple and Samsung rest cases patent damages trial, jury to decide on Monday

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    Samsung is so clueless. They admit they stole but then they want to set the terms of restitution. It doesn’t work that way. 

    Then they try to set a price on “only the infringing components and not the total smartphone.”

    thats the whole point - that those complete smartphones wouldn’t have sold like that had they not infringed. So yes, the whole cost is included. 

    Samsung had stuff like the Instinct, etc before they blatantly ripped off apple. And the rip-off is what gave them footing in the market so it could be argued Samsung owes Apple far more than Apple is asking. 


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  • The metaverse is 'off limits' on Apple's VR headset, claims report

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    Good. 

    The meta verse vision is extremely unhealthy. 

    While the other tech companies nerd out on being nerdy, Apple nerds out on making human life better. thinking of the humans once again. 

    This is why Apple is successful and why missteps are rare. It’s also why they are perpetually “cool” in site of campaigns to strip that title. 

    Good move. 


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  • Twitter staff nearly decimated by Musk's 'extremely hardcore' demand

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    Smart man. He knows the Twitter staff had a culture of hate toward him. He’s weeding out the underminers, the liabilities, and recreating the staff according to people who share ideals rather than having his own workforce fight against him both publicly and secretly while taking his paychecks. 

    Twitter has needed the poop cleaned out of the cage for a long time. Glad to see it finally happening. 

    Going to be a much better operation. 
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  • Folding iPhone & under-screen Face ID rumored arrival date pushed back -- again

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    avon b7 said:
    lordjohnwhorfin said:
    BeOS User said:
    If this report is true, (a huge IF) a folding iPhone would be the first major design change since 2007 and the original 4GB iPhone. Yes, Apple has lost it, they've been riding the Ghost of Steve Jobs influence ever since. 
    Oh for crying out loud. Have you seen the current tech for folding phones? It’s garbage. Apple is not going to put its name on a crappy product that has a crease right in the middle of the screen. If and when the technology allows making a reliable phone with a creaseless screen, they’ll make one. Until then we’ll have to make do with Tim Apple lack of creativity and inferior, boring, not-at-all innovative products like AirPods, AirTags, Vision Pro… </s>
    There is nothing 'garbage' about the state of almost all current folding phones and creases are a tradeoff and literally invisible in use. 

    They are tradeoffs, like the notch and big bezels. Remember those? 

    Two things stood out at MWC. One, probably the entire Mercedes fleet of shiny black mini vans with tinted windows, and two, the amount of folding phones being used by visitors. 


    Um no. Current foldable phones are trash. The creases are clearly visible and wear. 

    The Microsoft model had two separate screens that had a seem in the middle when folded so it was t perfect. But it was the only one that didn’t turn to trash after heavy use. And it’s gone already. 

    It’s a nice gimmick so far for as long as it lasts. 
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  • Intel 'Alder Lake' chips take same approach as Apple's ARM designs

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    It doesn’t matter. 

    They are still the x86 ancient architecture. 

    Sad to say, but with this move, Intel is showing that they are determined to either become a small player or die out. 

    RISC is the future. And simply slapping on some efficiency cores may help battery life when not doing much but won’t change performance s d will take more power under performance load. 

    Intel needs to develop a fresh RISC fab. They could spend a couple years and develop an all new thing. 

    But they aren’t going to. And they will diminish severely. Sad day. 

    If emulating Apples M1 design were actually helpful, other ARM based competitors would be matching it already. They aren’t. Because it can’t be emulated. M1 isn’t what it is because it has efficiency cores. And it isn’t what it is because it’s started out from an ARM based core. It is what it is due to the proprietary design chips of (formerly) P.A. SEMI. 

    Apple has the best chip design team on the planet. And that won’t change. 
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  • Japan plans to fine Apple over app stores and force sideloading

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    The EU disease is infecting the planet. 

    When Sony is forced to allow Apple and nintendo and microsoft to have their App Stores on PlayStation and tv sets, then we can talk.  

    Such nonsense. 
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  • Jony Ive still thinks of Steve Jobs every day

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    Jony is the best industrial designer ever. 

    The man had so many absolutely epic home run hits that it’s ridiculous. 

    The engineers failed on the scissor keyboard, Intel lagged to the point that the thinnest MacBook Pro design wasn’t the best for performance and the apple board was stuck in analysis paralysis when it came time to move all-in on thunderbolt and ditch legacy tech, stopping at the notebook lineup. 

    Some like to blame Ive for those mistakes, but the reality is he wasn’t a man on an island doing that - it was apple as a whole. 

    Still, even if you did want to blame Ive, a rare miss (MacBook Pro 2015-2020) is a drop in the proverbial ocean of successes, which have defined Apple aesthetics forever much as Porsche’s designers have long ago. 

    And he wasn’t just successful, his products literally brought apple back from the dead - to becoming the most valuable company on earth. From iMac to iPod to iPhone to iPad, to notebooks to Mac Pro to AirPods to you name it. The guy has the Midas touch. His designs not only sold apple products, but revolutionized entire industries. Today, all smartphones look like his iPhone, notebooks? Just take a peek at Microsoft surface laptops and Samsungs. Tablets? It’s ridiculous. AirPods have their design copycats as well. 

    Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and Jony Ive is flattered often by entire industries. 

    The man is a living legend and apple will always owe him a debt of gratitude. 
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  • Epic vs Apple suit finally ends, as Supreme Court refuses to hear both appeals

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    Lol epic. 

    You get to compete - as a developer. Against other developers. But you don’t get to act as the platform itself. You don’t get to go to Barnes and noble and try to set up your own bookstore inside. You can pay a fee to have r book sold there.
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  • 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple

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    avon b7 said:
    This doesn't look good for Apple on the face of it.

    Apple has the last word on 'trust'?

    I can't see that going down well in the EU. 

    I suppose Epic will accuse Apple of discrimination. 

    We'll see. 

    Previous judgements disagree with you. Apple indeed has “sole discretion.” 

    It’s not like epic didn’t breach the contract. End of.

    epic going on to criticize apple is a smokescreen. Being critical doesn’t award you what you lost due to illegal activity. 

    Epic violated their contract and paid the price. Inciting a mob doesn’t change that. Epic can be mad, but only at themselves. Shameful really. 

    Goodbye epic. Good luck on your own.  
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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    If the EU didn’t FORCE Microsoft to give sloppy third parties like CloudStrike the same security and update status it gives its internal OS teams, then the “sloppy developers” would not even be able to foist this crap on the world. 

    It’s absolutely the fault of the brain-dead EU policies. Today it’s cloud strike. Tomorrow it will be anyone else. 

    And now the EU is hoping to turn Apple into the same kind of disaster by removing the guardrails Apple has invested so heavily into. 

    The EU puts Joe developer over the big companies that are responsible for ensuring critical system stay working properly and disaster ensues. It’s the exact scenario we’ve been talking about since this crap started. 

    The entire set of policies from the EU relating to American tech companies needs to be reset and left alone. The new commission candidates would be wise to trash that nonsense on the first day in office. 

    Otherwise, it will be more of this snd in faster succession. 
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