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  • Green texts in iMessages nudge teens to use iPhones

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    avon b7 said:
    I'd say the opposite is possibly true in the EU. For years Messages has been a rarely used option as far as I can tell while WhatsApp has been a must use for almost every person I know.

    My wife has never ever used Messages for IM. I only know one person that still uses sms for regular messages and that's on Android.

    I use WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber and Signal.

    Every now and then I see waves of people appearing as new users on Telegram but I'd say WhatsApp is still the IM client that reigns supreme here. 
    They are missing sooo much by using 3rd party Apps. One of the best features is that when sending to someone new, it will revert to a text automatically if the user is not on the iMessages network 
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  • Epic CEO fears Apple's influence over the metaverse

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    If this looser didn’t keep Apple’s name in his mouth every time he gets a microphone in front of him, we would have never heard of him or would have long forgotten him. 
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  • Apple warns developers it will pull apps without recent updates from the App Store

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    slow n easy said:
    itinj24 said:
    Ridiculous... I have an app that’s pretty much one of a kind and works really well. Hasn’t been updated in a while but why should it if it works?  

    Funny thing is, Apple always breaks a lot of things with their software updates .  iOS 15 has been a nightmare for HomeKit and especially Siri on the HomePod. That’s just one example. 

     No need to update for the sake of updating.  
    That last line is exactly what I say over and over again. I might be one of only a handful of people in the world that still uses Mojave but I like iTunes and would prefer to not give it up until I have to. I like my operating system the way it is and don’t need any changes.
    There are a lot of hackers that love this stance. Apple makes changes that benefits their customers first. I’m certain they address quite a few issues behind the scenes as to not alert hackers to flaws that they can exploit when stubborn users refuse to update. Old apps can serve as an back door for hackers under the right circumstances. 

    Instead of developers complaining because they don’t understand the reason for a change, they should know that Apple doesn’t believe in wasting their resources for no reason. If they invested time and resources into a change, there is a reason and likely a reason that it would not be productive to broadcast. 
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  • Apple is just getting started with Apple Silicon

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    22july2013 said:
    Apple's market penetration of the PC marketplace has been stuck under 10% for over 25 years. One way Apple tried to remedy this in the 1990s was to grant licenses to other companies to build Mac clones.
    WIKIPEDIA: From early 1995 through mid-1997, it was possible to buy PowerPC-based clone computers running Mac OS, most notably from Power Computing and UMAX. However, by 1996 Apple executives were worried that high-end clones were cannibalizing sales of their own high-end computers, where profit margins were highest.[18]

    A total of 33 companies made Mac clones, fully licensed. Apple could take this approach again if it wants to crack the 10% market penetration of MacOS. There's no need for anyone to ridicule me for suggesting this, as I'm already sure nobody will agree with me that Apple should try this again. However what's different this time around is that many countries are hassling Apple for not allowing competition on their devices, and if Apple licensed other manufacturers to build hardware clones and/or to replace the OS on Apple's devices, that would likely reduce the cries of "monopoly."

    Market share chasing was the foolish game they were sucked into back then. It was the primary factor that nearly killed apple. It would be dumb to do that. They currently make a majority of the industry profits because they dominate the most profitable segment of the market. The market share chase devalued the Mac and siphoned sales while negatively impacting profitability. 

    Jobs killed this immediately upon his return because it was counter productive. None of the PC companies that whose model they were copying at that time survived as they were. IBM exited retail and Dell’s founder found an equity group to go private because they were bleeding out and shareholders were running out of patience. 
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  • Epic Games pays $520M to settle child privacy violations

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    wonkothesane said:
    I would see this more in the context of Tencent, practically owning Epic. Apart from owning WeChat, Tencent is the world’s biggest owner of gaming studios. They basically own gaming on a global level. And with such ethics, this looks very “promising” regarding manipulation and exploitation of our younger generation. They fact that Sweeney apparently is not opposing at all to this, in my eyes speaks volumes about the guy’s character and values.
    Sweeney is not the innocent bystander here. He is the ringleader. He owns 52% of the company and get the bulk of the profits. His greed is driving all of this. 
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  • Apple Vision Pro safety concerns limit 'fully immersive' apps

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    jdw said:
    geekmee said:
    jgreg728 said:
    And here is a major reason why this technology will not be replacing any current devices anytime soon.
    Yes, it will be a utter failure…
    just like Apple’s other failures.
    You mean like...
    • Pippin
    • Hockey Puck Mouse
    • Butterfly Keyboards
    • Lisa 1 with Twiggy Drives (even though UI elements of the LISA OS made their way into the Mac)
    • Apple III
    • eWorld
    • Newton & eMate (no, it did NOT evolve into the iPhone)
    • Macintosh Portable (totally different from the PowerBooks which came later)
    • iTunes PING
    • AirPower (hyped, but never released charging pad)
    • Pretty much the entire PERFORMA line
    • Copland, Cyberdog, Open-Doc, QuickDrawGX, and...
    • QuickTimeVR, which I always felt was outstanding tech, but where is it today?

    I do not say this to suggest VisionPro will fail.  I say this to combat flippant replies.  There are people who, without using their brain at all, casually claim VisionPro will fail, and then you have the opposite extreme who mock and say it absolutely will not.

    NONE OF US KNOW FOR SURE!  

    That's the point.  I hope VisionPro will succeed in the market where others like Meta and Microsoft have failed.  Apple certainly has the reach and the money to do something other big companies cannot.  But in the end, consumer acceptance and sheer sales will define it as a success or failure, just like all the other items I just listed.

    WE SHALL SEE.
    Outside of the AirPower which wasn’t a failure because it was never released and Ping which was less of a product and more of a feature in iTunes, everything you mentioned was before the iPod was released. Most before MacOS in 2000. Sound like a great track record to me. 
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  • Warren Buffett praises iPhone as an 'extraordinary product'

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    JP234 said:
    So sayeth the Oracle of Omaha. And he's right. You pay $30-40K for a car that does one thing. You pay $1K for a device that does more things than you can count or even remember, many of them essential of important to your daily life.

    It's the bargain of the millennium. And enough people know that, consciously or not, that Apple Inc. is a cash machine, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, regardless of global events, market fluctuations or technology advances (the iPhone will be at the forefront there).
    I agree ☝🏾. I hadn’t considered it like this, but Apple’s secret weapon is solving problems people don’t know they have in stealth mode and having the iphone in their pocket facilitate it effortlessly. Once they own two current devices and experience the seamless integration, they can’t go back. If they do for some reason their absence will be short lived v
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  • Spotify speaks out against Apple's 30% commission fee -- again

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    foad said:
    Spotify chose a loss-leading industry and is scapegoating iOS. They pay less to artists, overspent on podcasting, and are using the government to coverup their poor decisions. 
    They created the loss-leader streaming model and then sold their souls to China and the record labels. Now they are complaining. 
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  • As you may expect, the internet already says that Apple's headset is doomed, apparently

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    ApplePoor said:


    Hopefully, this still unreleased "product" will be more successful than myG4 Cube in the closet which was a unique design and customizable....


    The Cube was a decade before its time, just like Newton was. One big difference now is that Apple has an abundance of cash and other resources that allows them to stay the course while making the appropriate adjustments. The success of the iPod changed everything and each release after including iPhone was released with a long term strategy. Multiple versions across multiple years of releases are in development before the first version is announced. 
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  • Large US developers are avoiding third-party App Store alternate payment plans

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    The key is that Apple does allow those who offer Apps to access platforms that don’t use Apple APIs and bring their own customers or offers free ad supported apps onto the App Store with no fees. Most apps are actually free, supported by paid apps from Apple and 3rd parties. So if you want access to the store, you either pay their standard profit or bring value to Apple’s customers with free Apple Platform apps that you are not profiting from outside of Apple. 
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