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  • Apple's EU App Store changes are extortion, says Spotify

    saareksaarek
    Long story short the companies that are complaining thought, rather naively, that the DMA would force Apple to lower or remove their fees and remove roadblocks.

    Apple has no intention of making it easy for companies like this. They’ve made it very clear that they, for whatever reason, feel fully justified in their fee structure and so, yes, they’ve worked out how to make the ruling effectively pointless.

    Personally I think Apple should have lowered their fees years ago. They’d have avoided years of negative press over it and could have demonstrated that they are reasonable.

    Still, my personal feeling is irrelevant. Apple will continue to fight this tooth and nail.
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  • Newest iPhone XR ad promises that 'you'll lose power before it will'

    saareksaarek
    SpamSandwich said:
    The XR is the model with no Force Touch, right?
    Correct, it does not have 3D Touch.
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  • Apple debuts $549 AirPods Max over-ear headphones

    saareksaarek
    Yeah, good luck with that. I can buy a pair of Bowers & Wilkins PX7’s for £289 right now, they were down as low as £220 in October (an absolute steal at that price), no way would I pay twice that for these.
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  • Mac Pro in danger after fumbled Apple Silicon launch

    saareksaarek
    Apple will likely release the next version with the anticipated dual ultra SoC. Without that it’s really a largely pointless product and Apple knows it.

    For whatever reason they could not get the volume right on such a combination for this launch and wanted to finish the transition to Apple Silicon so pushed the Mac Pro out as it was.

    It’ll all come right in the end.
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  • Hands on with HomePod & HomePod mini's new features in software update 17

    saareksaarek
    StrangeDays said:
    pumasalad said:
    I'd just be happy if Apple Music could play 5 songs in a row without stopping in the middle, or pausing for 15 minutes between songs. The new thing it's started this week is playing 20 seconds from the middle of a song, and then stopping for a second and then starting over at the beginning and then playing the whole song, minus the last 4 seconds.

    so annoying and so not worth a subscription fee.

    Don't even get me started on asking the homepod in the bedroom something and having the homepod in the kitchen downstairs reply. Does anyone think Apple will ever make these beasts behave as advertised?
    You experience is certainly not typical. In years of Apple Music use on my HPs, I've never experienced that. Hate to say it but how's your network
    It happens to me on occasion too. Sometimes I get told a song is currently not available on Apple Music, sometimes it randomly stops and then starts again, sometimes it plays the first 20 seconds and then stops.

    I have a strong mesh network and my fibre package comes in at 300mb, which generally I get.

    Other occasional issues are that the HomePod almost seems to go into sleep mode and when you ask a question is just flashes it’s lights and doesn’t do anything.

    Still, these are blips for me and usually it works as it should.

    I’ve been a HomePod user since they first came out, they are not perfect.
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  • Apple adds HomePod, AirPods to the 'vintage products' list

    saareksaarek
    Still use mine every day. Fantastic product that’s only let down by Siri.
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  • Inbound M4 Mac updates rumored to arrive as early as October 28

    saareksaarek
    mpantone said:
    saarek said:
    I wonder what the odds are on them releasing a real Apple Silicon Mac Pro with an M4 Extreme (of whatever the end up calling it) configuration.
    In 2024? About 0.1%, maybe less.

    In 2025? Higher chance as long as they don't discontinue the Mac Pro product. With Apple Silicon there are no discrete GPU add-in cards so the spaciousness and capacity of the Mac Pro chassis is largely useless.

    There aren't many usage cases that favor a Mac Pro over a Mac Studio at this point. If they can put an M-series Max or Ultra SoC in the Studio, that's probably covers over 95% of their high-end market. Note that there have been no credible rumors about the impending release of M4 Max or Ultra silicon. We're probably still 6-9 months away from that. You can look forward to it when the rumor mill starts churning out speculation but we haven't see any of that.

    Heck, we haven't seen any M4 Macs yet with vanilla or Pro chips let alone the higher-end silicon. One thing that's clear, Apple Engineering doesn't have the bandwidth to push out all four M-series chip variants at the same time.
    I’d assumed they would have skipped the M3 line for the Pro desktops. 

    The process being used is having issues in terms of yield and it was a rather disappointing update in terms of performance, at least from the Pro version point of view, where they appear to have severely nerfed it to push people to the Max version.
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  • Samsung Galaxy Ultra Watch copies everything except Apple's durability and customer servic...

    saareksaarek
    Last week the power button on my Apple TV remote fell out. There does not appear to be any way to push it back in and have it stay there. I’m a week out of warranty too.

    If you search for power button falling out of Apple TV remote you’ll find hundreds of posts of people complaining of the same issue, so not an isolated incident.

    Which brings me back to this article. A single complaint of an issue, with no way of ascertaining if the user caused the fault, should not an article make. 

    Perhaps you should pick up the very real issue with the Apple TV remote instead…
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  • WWDC unlikely to see debuts of any new hardware at all

    saareksaarek
    kiwimachead said:
    Why do PC makers have to constantly release new product? Sony by comparison have released 5 PlayStation models in 29 years. It’s become as wasteful as fast fashion despite all the bullshit talk of recycling materials etc. The irony is of course that Apple products have a really long service life if you’re not a power user. I have had 3 Macs since 1999; ‘99 Tangerine iBook, 2005 iMac G5, 2011 MBA. Will be upgrading to an M4 MBP when they’re released this year and see how long I can keep it trucking! 
    Personally I’m happy they release a new version each year. Not because I replace my MacBook Pro and Mac Pro Tower every year, but because when I do decide to upgrade I get a good one. If they only released new Macs every 3-5 years whomever buys one near the end of the generation gets screwed over.

    My 2019 Mac Pro is ready for a move to Apple Silicon. But the current model is just a sad joke. Might have to go Apple Studio route as my need for expansion lanes isn’t that great, but man would I be a day one buyer of an Extreme version of the Mac Pro.
    williamlondond_2watto_cobraAlex1Nargonaut

  • Apple is buying a treasure in Pixelmator, and we hope it won't get destroyed

    saareksaarek
    I really hope Apple doesn’t fuck this up. I’ve been using and supporting Pixelmator since they first launched and am also loving Photomator.

    Just yesterday I was using Pixelmator on my PowerMac G5 and was enjoying the comparison of where it started through to Pixelmator Pro of today (Yes, I’m one of those people that loves using old Mac’s).

    I was always surprised that Apple dumped Aperture and let many of their Pro Apps languish. Software sells hardware and Apple really should have a hand in pushing the Pro Space as they buy the most expensive hardware.
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