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  • Apple's relationship with web apps will improve in 2023

    mrochestermrochester
    tht said:
    Right now, in June 2022, it looks like the release of Web Push in 2023 will be good for users and developers.
    Hopefully Apple will have a flag to turn off Push notifications from web apps and web sites.  :/ 

    I've taken quite the dim view of these "pro competition, pro business, pro consumer" rationales. GDPR pop-up notices are like a modern rendition of ActiveX pop-ups, and it didn't do anything to actually protect people. This Web Push stuff sounds like it is going to amp up notification marketing by increasing the surface area of who and what can send a push notification by orders of magnitude. Eventually a few "bad" players will blow up all the goodness and just trash everything. Like, all it takes is one "web app" to mess up your phone or PC and you will have to go through some cleaning activity.

    Every single communications medium we have eventually just turns to shit. My mail box is 99% advertisements, and probably 99.999% by weight. Just the thought of the gas and diesel used to deliver that shit pisses me off. My landline phone is nothing but telemarketing and basically shit calls. My cell phone is getting there and I really should just turn on the flag to only allow my contacts to ring the phone. Email? Our email apps have the work of multiple PhDs to filter that stuff out, on multiple nodes of an email's path to your input. Text messaging? I think text messaging costing money way back when actually delayed the inevitable, especially now that regulators want "compatibility".
    It’s almost like us humans should focus our efforts on our immediate neighbours and communities instead of trying to ‘connect to like-minded people’ on the other side of the world. Make meaningful, real relationships with a handful of people and everything else just fades away to insignificance. 
    williamlondondewmewatto_cobra

  • iPad mini review roundup: Superior speed but missing a critical feature

    mrochestermrochester
    I would have had this in a heart beat if only it had Face ID. Maybe next refresh now it has the Face ID design. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Compared: Razer Blade Pro 17 versus Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro

    mrochestermrochester
    The only way to get the 4K 17" Razer is to configure it with a GTX 2080 Max-Q at which point the machine costs a whopping £3599 (4568USD). 

    At least Apple lets you have the best screen even in the most basic specification!
    watto_cobraforegoneconclusiondewmeDetnator

  • Compared: Razer Blade Stealth 13 versus Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro

    mrochestermrochester
    I’ve always loved the look of the Razer Blade series but there’s absolutely no way I’d buy a laptop with a 16:9 display. 
    kpomwatto_cobradewme

  • European Union evaluating if Corning monopolizes the smartphone screen market

    mrochestermrochester
    9secondkox2 said:
    avon b7 said:
    If this doesn’t show just how evil and overreaching the eu is, Nothing will. 

    If something is the best, EU VIEWS IT AS ANTICOMPETITIVE. if everyone wants your stuff, because you’re that good, prepare to pay ridiculous fines and get holes poked in your business to make you not so good anymore. 

    Another attack on an American company. 

    Sickening. 
    Take a look for yourself... 

    https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_5681

    Where is the overreach if an organisation opens an investigation to see if a company is breaking antitrust legislation and is providing the grounds for it?

    Should companies be allowed to go unchecked if their business practices might mean they are abusing dominant position, harming competition and stifling innovation? 
    bruh. They make screens and screen protectors. They’re really good. 

    That’s it. There is no anticompetitive bent. They simply make great stuff. 

    The fact the eu has decided to launch a witch hunt is s as steady showing the overreach. We saw them start this with Apple rtc. With disastrous extortionate results. 

    What are they going to do? There is nothing they can change. What, make their product less good, give up supplying screens to OEMs? There is nowhere to go here. 

    This is the problem with the EU today. Just looking for ways to hurt American companies and get rich doing it. Again, sickening.  

    I can see a tariff or something. If you really want it, pay more. It’s also more honest. But to pretend something is wrong in order to impose fines through the nose of ridiculous. 
    The investigation is regarding Corning tying manufacturers to exclusivity agreements. It’s nothing to do with how good Corning’s products are. 
    tiredskillsMplsP

  • The new MacBook Pro: Why did Apple backtrack on everything?

    mrochestermrochester
    The silly thing with these new laptops is we’ve gone from 4 universal ports that will do anything to 3 universal ports and 2 ports that can only do one thing, so technically a less flexible machine now. 

    Also, where’s the outcry about Apple using a proprietary charging port? 
    9secondkox2

  • F.lux says it is 'original innovator' of nighttime display color tech, asks Apple to open Night Shi

    mrochestermrochester
    dasanman69 said:
    latifbp said:
    Apple has an App Store rule that apps that replicate core OS operations get denied a place in the App Store.
    How many apps have gotten replicated, and suddenly became a built-in feature of the OS? Those developer's apps that were once allowed in the App Store were removed and their income from it summarily cut off. 
    That's why they need to continually innovate and come up with new revenue streams.  If you sit still and try and cash in on past successes, someone else will come and eat your breakfast, lunch and dinner.