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  • Microsoft beta build of Apple Silicon-compatible Office for Mac imminent

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    melgross said:
    In June, during the presentation for the DC, Apple clearly stated that Office would be available when the first new Macs came out, so this is a disappointment.
    They “clearly stated” no such thing. During the keynote presentation, 1 hour and 31 minutes in, Craig Federighi states:

    “I’m happy to say that we have all our own Apple apps including our most demanding pro apps up and running as native now, and they’ll be ready for customers on day one. 

    Some of the biggest Mac developers have already gotten started. Microsoft is hard at work on Office for Mac, and we’ve been working with Adobe on Creative Cloud and many of their apps are already up and running great.”

    So Apple only claimed that their own apps will be ready for when the new Macs came out. They made no such commitment on behalf of any third party developers, Microsoft included, other than to say that they have been working with them and that they have universal binaries in the works. 

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  • Keychron K1 review: the wireless keyboard Apple should have made

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    Good lord that thing looks hideous. I’m sure it’s an absolute delight to type on and it’s great that it exists for those who want it, but no, it’s definitely not the “keyboard Apple should have made”. 
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  • Android executive offers to help Apple deploy RCS messaging

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    Maybe RCS genuinely is the future of messaging on Android. But…

    1) Google has a long history of dumping services when they get bored of them. Unless RCS is going to be a big income driver for Google I wouldn’t be surprised to see them walk away from it several years down the line. 

    2) RCS has been under discussion for what feels like forever and it’s still not the default on Android. If it takes this long to roll something out, how long is it going to take to add new features? How are Apple expected to maintain parity with RCS if Apple’s ready to launch support for a feature and RCS isn’t ready?

    3) Control of iMessage is of obvious strategic importance to Apple, but it also lets Apple set and control the direction and feature set of its default messaging service. If the RCS folks decide they want to take RCS in a new direction (say, adding send money features), and that direction isn’t where Apple wants to go, then we end up breaking parity again. Apple doesn’t want some other consortium of companies setting the strategic roadmap for iMessage features. 

    There’s lots of good reasons for RCS and customers of both platforms for this to work. I can see very few reasons for Apple wanting to do it though.  


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  • NFT -- Everything you need to know about non-fungible tokens

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    “Owning that token can infer ownership of something, be it one unit of a bitcoin or some other currency”

    You mean confer 

    “    While the NFT infers the holder "owns" the artwork as presented, there's more to it than just that.”

    You mean either confirms or implies, depending on what you’re trying to say. 

    Infer is passive; I can infer meaning from something you imply. You cannot infer something to someone else. 

    Really enjoyed this article though :) 
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  • Jony Ive removed from Apple's leadership page, marking the end of an era

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    “ The official Apple Leadership page no longer includes Jony Ive, marking the formal end to his role as a crucial part of the company. While he'll continue to contribute to Apple, it looks as if Apple no longer sees his design vision quite as crucial as it was.”

    What a bizarre comment. He’s been removed from the leadership page because he’s left the company, not because Apple “no longer sees his design vision quite as crucial as it was”. 

    Unless this comment was intended to imply that he was somehow forced out or asked to leave, in which case please supply some evidence for this stance. Every account available points to this being Jony’s decision, not Apples. 
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  • Tap to Pay on iPhone has been live for weeks, here's who supports it

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    “Apple earlier in June released Tap to Pay on iPhone to developers. Here are the apps that currently support the Apple Pay feature, as well as platforms that eventually will.”

    It’s not an “Apple Pay” feature. 

    Tap to pay is completely separate from Apple Pay. 

    Tap to pay is a feature that point-of-sale apps can use so that a business can accept any form of contactless payment (debit card, credit card, Google Pay, Apple Pay etc) by using the iPhone as a point-of-sale device. 

    Apple Pay is a feature that lets customers use their Apple devices to store cards in the Wallet app, and use those stored cards to make purchases. 
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  • Parent angry Apple didn't stop 10-year-old's $2,500 TikTok spree

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    Parent hands child device with credit card linked to account, sets no child restrictions, then blames everyone and everything else when the child spends money. 

    It’s Apple fault!
    It’s TikTok’s fault!
    It’s the TikTok creator’s fault!

    It can’t possibly be my fault! 
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  • Apple may launch its own web-based search engine

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    techconc said:
    Beyond the technology in this proposition, I have to wonder about the business model.  Apple is apparently receiving billions of dollars from Google to use their search engine by default.  Why would Apple want to stop that revenue stream?  Further, does Apple really want to get into the advertising business?  One of the reasons we trust Apple today is precisely because their business model doesn't depend on them harvesting our information to monetize with advertisers as Google does.   The alternative is to have an unpaid service like Maps, but not only would that cost money to run such a service, but Apple would be losing revenue from Google in the process.  None of this makes much sense to me from a business model perspective. 
    I suspect if they did get into web based search their advertising model would look similar to how it does on the App Store, where they are already in the advertising business. 

    In other words, no information harvesting, just classic paid-for sponsored search terms. Similar in many ways to DuckDuckGo's model, which has proven well for them. 

    It will indeed be interesting to see if Apple is prepared to drop the significant payment they receive from Google though. A test of their privacy focused values vs. lucrative revenue streams...
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  • Apple tells Epic judge to consider Supreme Court NCAA decision

    mr lizardmr lizard
    I’m sure that patronising attempt to help the judge reach her decision will go down well. 
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  • Apple's MagSafe Duo Charger approved by FCC

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    Just saw Tech Crunch’s review. What a disappointment. Not even a proper hinge, just two halves held together by cheap flimsy rubber. You can even see the laminated seal around the edge of the product. This has been made using the most inexpensive production methods. 

    I was expecting something premium for the price. This is like a cheap knockoff. 
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