lowededwookie

Sweet. No all we need to do is hack every politician’s iCloud account and distribute all their photos and notes and search history so that they then realise they were not intelligent and the UK gets security again.

How long before the US refuses to do business with the UK because they can’t trust dealing with a country without security?

spheric said:

foregoneconclusion said:

The EU is desperate to collect a penalty fee. In the U.S. legal system, Spotify wouldn't have had the standing to complain since they had already moved 99% of their iOS subscribers to web payments WITHOUT needing any kind of in-app communication. Nothing about their financial reality supported the complaint. Not the revenue part of it or the communication part of it. 

Yes, with a nominal GDP of almost US$20 trillion projected for 2024, I'm sure they're desperate to collect 500 million Euro from a company violating existing antitrust laws. 

Apple hasn’t broken any laws. The only laws that Apple appears to have broken are recent laws designed to punish Apple for being successful. Those laws didn’t exist at the time the EU went after Apple.

Incidentally, remember when they created a law forcing a standard power supply being USB-C? They claim Apple was filling their rubbish dumps with their leads. Only, Apple has only ever had 3 leads for their iPhones. 30-pin Dock connector, Lightning, and now USB-C. How many different charger leads existed on the EU’s beloved Nokia? Oh that’s right, there was a different power plug for every single model of Nokia phone until they settled on that crappy USB-Micro connector.

The EU is the biggest bunch of hypocrites which isn’t difficult to understand when Russia is one of the lead countries.

This is very reminiscent of the old Microsoft Exchange issue. If you had Outlook or Apple Mail connected to a Microsoft Exchange account your battery would disappear super quick after an update.

I had this issue and when I disconnected the Exchange account my battery was fine.

Here's what I'm looking forward to with RCS - an end to carrier charging.

While most cell plans here in NZ offer unlimited text, there's still a few old plans that charge 20c per text. Even with free text plans, they still charge for MMS (the real reason texting to Android users gives them crappy images). Going RCS will basically screw over the cell providers which I'm all for.

HA, that’s exactly how I thought Apple would play it and damn right too.

They’re not doing anything illegal but they’re also not going to make it easy for companies wanting a free ride.

Well played Apple, well played.

GeorgeBMac said:

seanismorris said:

I wonder what Epic is thinking...
I get they are frustrated with the 30% “Apple Tax” but their actions make no sense.

I'm thinking that for them, they can only win.   They can't lose:

Their game is to break down the walls of the walled garden.  

-- If they succeed then they win

-- if they don't succeed then they go back to obeying the rules -- and have lost very little (but gained a bunch of free publicity!)

Epic will turn more developers away than gain by this move. Apple created the 30% to level the playing field. EVERY developer has to pay the SAME amount regardless or how big they are. Epic wants new deals just for them so developers aren't going to take to this too well. Sure it might make others come back to Apple and demand similar deals but most developers are intelligent and realise the need for Apple to take a cut.

Remember, Epic has always had the ability to side step the App Store for these purchases by purchasing through their own website. Epic CHOSE to skirt these rules and try and do it in-app. Epic has taken a double barrelled shotgun, pointed it at its feet and yelled "PULL". Now Epic has no legs to stand on.

Tracking calories burned is nomenclature at best.

You don’t burn calories at all. What happens is you convert fat or sugar into Carbon Dioxide and water via a chemical reaction. This chemical reaction generates energy which is used by our muscles.

The rate of this chemical reaction is dependant on how much exercise we do, how much oxygen intake, and how much fat we actually have.

Fat is not burned off and become nothing. We literally breathe out 84% of it as carbon dioxide and the rest is water we either sweat out, absorb into our cells, pee out, or poo out. That’s it. Nothing more nothing else.

As it varies from person to person the idea that a tracker can be accurate to the nth degree is in itself wildly inaccurate. But 28% means the Apple Watch is still accurate 73% of the time. That’s freaking good really.

StrangeDays said:

ah yeah, Look Around, I remember that…had so much promise. But never materialized as I’d expected. I’m in a city with multiple pro sports teams and regularly hosts the Super Bowl, and Apple vans drove thru years ago…yet, no Look Around. 

Really? Am I missing something because we have it here in New Zealand. Works even smoother than Google Maps.

Next question. How do we get access to the web beta? I'd love to give it a crack.

My only missing feature I'd love to see in any version of Apple Maps is house numbering like in Google. As a postal worker, being able to see the addresses on the map when zoomed in helps a lot when making up delivery lists. It's the ONLY thing I use Google Maps for which is woefully out of date here in NZ.

Or could it be that the legal system is so bad it needs things in writing which means Apple needs to print out 1.3 million documents?

Thats a tough ask for even the largest print house let alone a corporate office.

Even if they can be delivered by email, someone has to check each of those documents to ensure they are what is being requested. Algorithms are pretty poor at the moment.

I'm still waiting on Apple News to come to New Zealand. But we've just got Visual Voicemail so maybe there's hope. However, given that the news media in NZ is in a state of disrepair we NEED Apple News now more than ever because Stuff, NZ Herald, and even TVNZ all seem to be on shakey ground.