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  • Telegram CEO claims Apple is delaying update that will 'revolutionize' messaging

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    Steve Jobs at D8 in 2010:
    What happens sometimes though is that some people lie. Some people use unpublished APIs and their app gets rejected. Some people submit an app that they say does one thing, but really does something else. They try to hide it from us, they get very clever about that. They try to hide it from us and we find it and we reject it. And they run to the press and tell a story about oppression and it gets written up and they get their 15 minutes of fame because they hope it will convince us to change our minds. It never does, but they keep trying to do that. And it’s unfortunate, but we take it in the chin. That part of what we do. We don’t run to the press and go, “This guys a son of a bitch liar.” That’s just not appropriate for us to do. So we take it in the chin and we move on.

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  • EU will force Apple & Google to allow third-party app stores, payment services

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    JMaille said:
    Without that revenue Apple will have to change it's business models.  Which means developer tools and interface access will be financed like on other platforms. 
    Before the App Store, the annual fee for the developer program started at $499 and went up to, I believe, $1,499. Mac OS X upgrades also cost $129. People really believe they’re going to be able to have their cake and eat it too. 
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  • Apple's App Store anti-steering rules are gone, but the replacement isn't much better

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    Apple's limitations and continued collection of a commission will likely light new fires for litigation opportunities
    • Hosting
    • Bandwidth
    • Technical support
    • Xcode and all the other developer tools
    • Apple-developed frameworks
    All of that for only $99 a year, a rate that hasn't changed since the App Store opened 16 years ago. If Apple is at some point forced to stop charging a commission, prepare for that to increase and potentially have itemized billing. Per-gigabyte bandwidth charges will add up very quickly for popular apps that are hundreds of megabytes or more, as well as monthly per-user licenses for Xcode.
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  • Elon Musk says Apple's 30% commission rate is 'definitely not ok'

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    “Not ok” based on, what, exactly? Why is 3% any less arbitrary than 30%? I bet people think Tesla products are overpriced.

    This guy has plenty of money. Maybe he should build an entire hardware-software ecosystem from the ground up, and continuously maintain snd improve it at no cost to end users. Then he can charge developers whatever he wants and we’ll see who wins out.
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  • Telegram CEO claims Apple is delaying update that will 'revolutionize' messaging

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    Hedware said:
    CheeseFreeze said:
    These app developers are right. As a game developer who created over 20 games on the app store (often tied to theatrical releases) I can only applaud these developers protesting. It's time this gets addressed. Apple's become a shit company with good hardware.
    Another whinging developer. Set up your own phone company and App Store. Game developers do not add anything much to the benefit of the world. Get a proper job.
    People act as if Apple's ecosystem is some kind of natural resource like water that just "exists" and should be available for free to all, rather than the result of years of deliberate planning, design, and hard work by thousands of people costing billions of dollars.
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  • European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming

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    Kick Spotify off the App Store and tell them they’re free to use one of the third-party “app marketplaces” that will be available in the EU soon. Shouldn’t be a problem for them since Apple supposedly provides nothing of value.
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  • TikTok is still your one-stop shop for total nonsense about Apple

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    swineone said:
    AppleInsider said:

    The concept of planned obsolescence is so broken it only takes a moment of actual, coherent, thought to understand why it isn't happening.
    Until and unless Apple provides a blessed API call and approves an app that allows you full control over battery charging, then yes, planned obsolescence is a very real, concrete and provable thing. No, the non-working (and half-useless even if it worked) “Optimized Battery Charging” feature is not it. It is In fact the proof that Apple designs planned obsolescence into all of their hardware save Macs, since the technical capability for controlling charging exists but they won’t let the owner control it as they please.

    If users were given that capability and followed a few simple battery care steps (plug phone in whenever possible while limiting battery SoC, do not expose to high heat, do not fast charge) then a mobile phone battery would easily last as long as an EV battery, rather than forcing you to swap the battery after a couple of years — which, at this point, is only marginally cheaper than upgrading, and thus people make the rational choice of upgrading; ergo, planned obsolescence.
    A new battery for the X and newer costs $69. The cheapest iPhone is the SE at $429 over 6x the cost of a battery. And if you want the cheapest iPhone with Face ID and “modern” design, you’d be paying $599 for the 12,  8x the cost of a battery. So a battery replacement is not “marginally” cheaper than buying a whole new device.

    Batteries are consumable. They will need to be replaced at some point no matter what you do. And only a very tiny minority of nerds is going to download an app and control the battery charging to the degree that it would have any noticeable effect.
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  • Apple refutes Epic Games claim that it has blocked 'Fortnite' worldwide

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    What happens is people lie. And then they run to the press and tell people about this oppression, and they get their 15 minutes of fame.
    An evergreen Steve Jobs quote about apps getting rejected from the App Store.
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  • Meta seeking unfettered access to iPhone user data via EU DMA interoperability requests

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    Maybe Apple should just let people install Android on iPhones in the EU, then you can let any company suck up as much of your data as you want.
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  • Google continues to awkwardly push for iPhone RCS integration in new 'Meet iPager' video

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    Does the plain RCS standard support E2E encryption, without involving Google at all? As far as I can tell, encryption only works with Google’s proprietary implementation.
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