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  • Intel looking to 'avoid fighting' with Apple for TSMC's 3nm chip production

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    verne arase said:
    Picture you're TSMC.

    Apple has been using TSMC to produce their Apple Silicon chips for the better part of a decade. They help finance development of new cutting edge nodes, and have been a critical partner in TSMC's advancement and evolution into the world's best (and possibly largest) fab.

    At first, TSMC was reluctant to take on Apple's business because they didn't want to put so many of their eggs into such a large basket, but eventually the two got together and have been working with each other ever since. Apple likes doing business with TSMC because they not a competitor, and their IP won't accidentally leak into some other subdivision's competing products.

    Now, along comes this new Johnny-Come-Lately with a fist full of dollars and wants you to produce their CPUs while they're upgrading their own fab to more modern standards.

    Do you go with with Intel for the fast cash grab, of stick with the partner who's been working with you all this time?

    Of course, when Intel gets their own fabs up to snuff, you know you'll suffer the double whammy of losing not only the business of fabricating Intel CPUs, but Intel will then try to take as many of your other customers as they can.

    What's a body to do ... ?

    Don’t underestimate corporate greed.
    Here’s 2 companies that did something similar and stepped on Apple’s toes:
    Google
    Samsung

    Luckily, TSMC hasn’t put knockoff Apple products on the market but nothing is protected or off limits anymore.
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  • Apple's Director of Machine Learning exits over return-to-office policy

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    He didn’t wanna work.

    Nothing lost.

    jdw said:
    It doesn't make a lot of sense to us who aren't Apple employees, but I am aware that most of the appealing jobs are at the Cupertino headquarters, where the cost of living is absolutely insane.  It would be great to work at Apple while being able to live in an area with more reasonable rent and living expenses, which would only be possible if most work was done remotely.

    The solution is simple. Offer rent-free condos and homes close to the office, owned by Apple.

    Surprised they haven’t done this.
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  • Microsoft says that if Apple isn't stopped now, its antitrust behavior will just get worse...

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    brian.on.android said:
    Beats said:
    Not like MS is a competitor to Apple or anything.

    And MS is right! Let’s also open up all of Microsoft’s stores to 3rd parties! I wanna be able to sell my crappy games on Xbox without giving them money!!

    Microsoft has a monopoly on Windows!! Microsoft, police yourselves!
    Microsoft doesn't put the same controls on Windows that Apple puts on their platforms.

    For one you can install whatever you want on their devices. For another they allow third party payments for when you do use their store.

    I can install anything in my Mac too, including Windows!! Can’t do that on a windows machine.

    And they allow 3rd party payments and stores? Heck I’m setting up shop on Xbox selling crappy games then. 
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  • Epic's 'Support a creator' program pays out only 5% of game content makers' sales

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    dantheman827 said:
    StrangeDays said:
    So they take 95% from their platform, but sued Apple for taking the 15/30% from its platform. Hmmm
    You're comparing Apples to Oranges... Epic is giving someone money for referring them, an affiliate program if you will.  This is in line with other such programs like the Amazon one.

    No. This is the amount content creators get.  Also the fine print says they have to make over $100 in 12 months to cash out. Think of all the money they’ll steal from those making less than $100 a year!! So basically the more little the guy, the harder he gets fu**ed!!

    Epic really fighting for the little guy here!
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  • Ex-Apple engineer explains why the first iPhone didn't have copy and paste

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    get serious said:
    Beats said:
    It’s insane how much work Apple has to do to invent the first iPhone. Swiping, scrolling and pinch-to-zoom were insanely great innovations.

    Only for Android to come along and copy all the hard work. Imagine how that felt?
    Imagine how the inventor of the wheel has to feel.

    He’s probably crying in his cave.

    alezvic said:
    Beats said:

    Only for Android to come along and copy all the hard work. Imagine how that felt?
    A huge corporation copying another big corporation, cry me a river. Kocienda got paid by Apple and kept being paid regardless. 

    The real sad thing is when a big corporation copies a small team of devs who seamingly get their main source of revenue destroyed overnight.
    Remove.bg, Camo, Pillbox from the top of my head, this WWDC alone. 
    Watson, f.lux, Growl, Duet and Luna Display and many other before. 


    Stealing trillions from Apple and undercutting them with knockoffs is sad. It’s easy to be a brat and take everything for granted after Apple did all the hard work claiming it’s no big deal. Reminds me of when iKnockoff morons claim “well, that was common sense”.  Why wasn’t it common sense in 1985? Why wasn’t it common sense in 2005 to BlackBerry, Samsung, Nokia and Microsoft?


    shamino said:
    Beats said:
    It’s insane how much work Apple has to do to invent the first iPhone. Swiping, scrolling and pinch-to-zoom were insanely great innovations.
    Apple may have been the first to deploy these technologies on a consumer device, but they didn't invent it.

    Before there was any iPad/iPhone, we were all fascinated by multitouch UI demos produced by Jeff Han (researcher at NYU and founder of Perceptive Pixel, which was since acquired by Microsoft).  For example:

    I don't think Apple ever used Jeff Han's code, and modern multitouch display panels use a completely different technology from what Han was using, but I can guarantee that lots of important people there (like the rest of us) saw these videos and drew inspiration from them.  Including swiping, scrolling and pinch-to-zoom operations.

    Dismissing the hard work of Steve Jobs and Apple engineers because crappy resistive touch screens existed is ludicrous. I was heavy into futuristic cell phones in 2007 and had the highest rated Windows Mobile Phone and it was absolutely garbage compared to what iPhone brought. None of the ideas of Windows Mobile carried over to iPhone and it had none of the cool iPhone inventions like pinch to zoom. There were arrows everywhere in the UI and there was a “calibrate” setting I had to revisit every few days. This was a super high-tech phone in 2007, mobile keyboard and all!
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  • UK pushing for on-device scanning for child abuse materials

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    CelticPaddy said:
    robin huber said:
    Don’t be taking any pics of your kids in the bath or you may get a knock on the door. 
    It doesn’t work that way. 

    Not yet. 

    People don’t understand how long the government has been trying to put one foot in the door to our homes. That’s all this is. Same with the government trying to install back doors to stop the .00000001% of people who are terrorists. 
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  • Valve Steam Deck review: Mac users can welcome back 32-bit games

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    Sega Game Gear is console quality?

    Well, maybe compared to Apple Arcade.
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  • Apple releases full trailer for animated comedy 'Luck'

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    emig647 said:
    Beats said: For the life of me I don’t know why Apple hasn’t acquired this studio or any studio really. It’s also awkward to see 3rd party logos on Apple TV Plus. “Sony Pictures” for example. This one should be good since it’s John Lasseters new company. This could be Pixar 2.0 but Apple won’t bite.

    If Apple does acquire a studio, it should be THIS one. Now better than when the value shoots up because it will. Wouldn’t be surprised if Skydance becomes the next Dreamworks.

    Looks like they have hired quite a few from Dreamworks already... 
    https://www.screendaily.com/news/skydance-media-hires-four-senior-executives-from-dreamworks-animation-/5127082.article

    This company is gonna be a monster. A lot of Disney giants also moved in to Skydance. Heck John alone would make the company a priceless asset. Just keep him happy.

    I wouldn’t doubt it if Amazon acquired them next year because Apple is too concerned with piling cash.
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  • Apple VP of industrial design details MacBook Air overhaul

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    I highly disagree with adding an SD card when they could have added an extra USB port. Why please 2% of your users when you can have pleased 98%? This is Apple
    going backwards post-Jony.

    You can always find a USB-C to SD adapter but try to find an SD Card to USB-C Cable.
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  • Jony Ive is no longer consulting for Apple

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    Every knockoff Apple product tried to mimic Apple because of Jony. From the Samsung Galaxy iPhoneys to the MateBook Pro and those pathetic Huawei knockoff AirPods.

    Unless someone is better than Jony at Apple, this is sad. I hope it’s not a personal thing between Tim and Jony.

    Jony Ive was quite literally the best industrial designer in history. I put Dieter Rams at #2 and Rams himself said Ive was way better than himself because he never had lines of people waiting to buy his products!
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