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  • Reddit's largest Apple community will stay dark, as CEO promises to ride out shutdowns

    They specifically said it’s not about server costs if you had read any of the Reddit posts regarding this, moderators don’t get paid in fact reddit gets thousands of hours of mod time for free they couldn’t possibly handle all the work themselves
    davdarkvaderwilliamlondonFileMakerFeller
  • Netflix to end password sharing in early 2023

    Password sharing is stealing. 

    Can’t run a business giving stuff away unless you’ve got endless marketing nvwators or run  on ads. 

    A family plan where everyone gets a code to authenticate would be fine. Or just get moms code when Netflix texts hee that you’re logging in 
    pay for 4 people and use 4 people in no way can you classify it as stealing, now if they stop people using them 4 they bought that can be classed as fraud and false advertising.
    williamlondonStrangeDays9secondkox2
  • Is Apple's App Store a monopoly or a solution?

    lam92103 said:
    No, I paid for the FULL iPhone, I want to use the FULL iPhone

    Who the heck is Apple to tell me what I can and cannot do with a device I have paid for? They should refund my money, then they can have their device back to do whatever with

    You bought a device knowing full well what’s the limits were you could have bought an android phone instead 

    williamlondonToortogmacuserosumuthuk_vanalingambeowulfschmidtdewmebaconstangdanoxwatto_cobra
  • Google bizarrely believes that iPhone photos can be fixed on a Pixel

    TimApple said:
    h2p said:
    I’m a long time iPhone user that just got an Android for app testing. Sorry Android is inferior. That’s not breaking any ground here. But hey, this is my actual 1st experience owning an iPhone knockoff. 
    Inferior? Please remind me how iPhones get their apps updated.. oh right you have to wait for an ENTIRE OS update.
    How to say you are out of touch without saying it that’s not been true for a while

    Android devices are lucky if it even gets an os update after 2 years

    Anyone who uses mms for photos does not have common sense whatspp/telegram/signal/messenger would work better and faster
    magman1979williamlondon9secondkox2Alex1NJaiOh81pscooter63jeffharriswatto_cobra
  • Sky launches MacBook purchase plan for UK customers

    since i looked at this yesterday i know the MUST sign up for a dongle is a mistake, it's clearly an optional extra, you can take advantage of the free sim card and not add the dongle or just click the No Data Plan option.

    "Want to stay connected on the go? Add a data plan and WiFi Dongle" is what it actually says.
    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra
  • Apple raises iCloud+ pricing in the UK and other markets

    Fine, but it's time they up the storage limits in the highest tiers. 

    I'm getting close to 2 TB with my family. When I back it up to Synology NAS or something else, all the meta-data will be lost in the process. Apple does not provide an API so I can back it up externally. They are locking me in.

    Also, this makes iCloud £1 more than Google's way more advanced Google Drive offering with 2TB. iCloud via the browser doesn't even have a keyword Search! Trying to find documents is a nightmare and requires you to know which folder and subfolders it is in. Apple's cloud strategy is behind competitors.

    Transfer iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos - Google Photos Help
    hardly locked in if you can do this
    williamlondon
  • Here we go again - Apple rejects Hey Calendar app from App Store

    They literally only posted this so they could get free marketing 
    williamlondonchasmwatto_cobrazeus423
  • Apple must pay EU $14 billion over Ireland tax arrangement

    cropr said:
    The title is misleading:  Apple must not pay the amount to the EU, but to the Irish government.     The court has decided that the reduced tax rate  must be considered as illegal government aid to a private company.  This illegal aid must be reimbursed to Ireland.    

    Ireland is on apple's side they said as much, i bet you the all the EU wanted was get its hand on all that money at least they don't get any of it.
    h2pgilly33watto_cobra
  • Long-running App Store monopoly lawsuit gains class-action status

    avon b7 said:
    I found a heavily redacted file of the case,(. pdf):

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Apple-iPhone-motion-for-class-cert.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi007HX44-EAxVQgP0HHT_kB2A4FBAWegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw0XWOmus6tWTw53K-NTONpN

    And this was part of that:

    "First, Prof. McFadden investigated what app store commission rates Apple would have charged in a competitive but-for world (“BFW”). But for Apple’s anticompetitive conduct, there
    would have been non-Apple iOS app stores, against which Apple’s App Store would have had to compete to sell apps and IAP to iOS device consumers; as a result, Apple would have charged lower, competitive commission rates. Prof. McFadden has determined that the BFW commission rate would have ranged from 10% to 12%. Prof. McFadden based this range on various benchmark
    analyses he performed as well as his analysis of Apple’s App Store profit margin. Byrd Decl., Ex.
    K, ¶ 136."

    I wonder what he thinks about Apple’s EU proposals?

    It is going to be interesting to eventually see what Apple is not revealing here.

    Curiously, while searching for that I saw some sites saying his testimony had been rejected. 
    That professor must be out of date or crooked even epic says that the 12% is costing them money and they provide less than Apple does 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra
  • Apple & Epic agree no in-person court necessary after 'Fortnite' restored to App Store

    avon b7 said:
    shywizard said:
    I’ve asked this before, but nobody seems to answer.  I need someone to tell me why Apple legally (or doesn’t legally) has to host everyone on Apple’s App Store.   Can’t Apple decide it doesn’t want to host an app like Fortnite.  It’s Apple App Store after all.  So can Apple decode it doesn’t want to offer Fortnite ?

    Sure if they host someone, they must provide external links for purchases to be made per the court order.    But I’m talking about the ability to decide which App are even on its store.  


    Apple is on the hook for anti-competitive App Store practices around the world.

    Singling out a company by not allowing it on the store (while simultaneously not allowing any other store to exist on iDevices) would really put Apple in hot water. 
    do you need reminding that a court ruling allowed Apple to continue banning Epic Games and its subsidiaries from the App Store.
    davneoncatwilliamlondon