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  • Party's over: Apple tries to shrink costs of Apple TV+ productions

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    I realise I am probably an outlier on this, but I stopped watching much broadcast TV over a decade ago because I got tired of series being cancelled with no conclusion to a story at the end of a season, often ending with a cliffhanger for the next series that never came. I often waited for the end of a series to buy dvd complete series boxsets if they reached a satisfying conclusion.

    Streaming has possibly made this even worse, with many shows cancelled across different platforms before they reached a natural ending in the storytelling. Streaming services are under pressure to see a return, but I think some patience is required and viewing figures cannot be judged on a single season - the advantage of streaming that should not be thrown away is that people can come to watch a series in its entirety years after it first started, with many people binge-watching an entire series from start to finish in one go. Evan now I rarely watch an Apple show unless it gets go ahead for at least a second series, or more... i'm not going to waste hours of my life each year on shows that get cancelled with no conclusion. Whilst growing rapidly, Apple's offering is still too thin to be judged properly, and with uncertainty still surrounding shows like Foundation.

    Maybe try to address why they're not successfully reaching a wider audience before cutting their legs off below the knee...
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  • Australian court is the latest to attack Apple on behalf of rich corporations

    nmemacnmemac
    Absolutely agree with this article.

    I am supposedly being represented by all of these champions of freedom... only problem is, i completely disagree with their actions, so I feel like no-one is actually representing me, a consumer, and someone who happily chose to purchase the phone that I did. There was no-one with a gun to my head.

    It's even more galling when seeing these attacks on Apple that none of these people were around to prevent Microsoft 'acquiring' the whole Desktop' metaphor for Windows, or of Google copying IOS, or Samsung copying the physical design of iPhones. Maybe it's been claimed that with hindsight all of these things were obvious - but it doesn't change the fact that no-one had these things on their drawing board until after Apple came along and showed the way.

    It's largely accepted that Apple has changed entire industries, and particularly personal computing and mobile phones, but this article rightly highlights how Apple changed the whole software distribution model. As a consumer, I believe largely for the better. I wish all these people would please go back to trying to download software on their Nokia 3320s. Or hell, even their Palm and Blackberry mobiles.
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  • Spain puts $209 million fine on hold while Apple and Amazon appeal

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    There's a point where government interference in markets becomes over-reaching, and it is becoming more common across the globe.

    Will governments start telling Apple they must sell other brands of computers, software etc on their webstore? Will Microsoft have to start selling Apple Computer products and software? Amazon and Apple as retailers, like any retailer, should have the right to decide who can and cannot sell through their retail stores, whether it is a webstore, a phone app or any other channel.

    I don't see governments telling Thornton chocolates in my local high street that they must sell other brands of chocolate, and which brands they should sell.

    Apple chooses to let other providers sell software on Macs. They chose not to on phones and tablets. They created both devices. They were not obliged to sell any apps, by any channel, for use on the iphone. They chose to. They chose to make a store to enable it. For governments to dictate whether they allow other stores on a device they created is invasive. The same is true for Amazon. I may not be a fan of Amazon, I may not always like the way they behave towards customers, staff, or other retailers, but it is not for me or anyone else to dictate what they allow on their store, in the same way no government should tell any bricks and mortar store what they can and cannot sell, and what contracts they put in place to sell a manufacturers products.
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  • M4 Mac mini rumored to get a redesign making it smaller than ever before

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    eightzero said:
    Oh...and notice the disappearing need for local storage. There was a shitstorm when the optical drives went away. I keep one now only for legacy things like DVD movies and music. And now, who needs a huge HDD for local storage? Admitted, the free 5GB on iCloud is BS, but gone are the days when I needed huge storage. A backup? Sure. And there is something to keeping movies local somehow. 

    Different users, different needs.

    I have two 18TB eternal hard drives for Music, Films and TV shows purchased from iTunes and other sources.

    I have an 8TB hard Drive for current work, and multiple hard drives for archived work (over 40TB worth). I regularly work on multiple projects with multiple .psb files in the 30GB range - those files eat up disk space fast.

    Working on multiple iterations of files in Premiere Pro and After Effects also eats up a ton of disk space real fast.
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