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White House says Trump doesn't want to harm Apple and iPhone prices won't rise
ssfe11 said:... Look Sure we all agree that Trump is not the brightest bulb however people like him deep down know this but they are astute at identifying those with intelligence and then surround themselves with them. ... -
Trump may have added 25% iPhone tariff specifically to punish Tim Cook
decoderring said:Could we just stop with these useless articles — everyone will be better off not constantly seeing articles about a mercurial individual whose only goal in life is to twist everyone’s undies in a bundle for his own ego gratification. -
Spotify says Apple is blocking volume controls for connected devices
ITGUYINSD said:apple4thewin said:Not Spotify again whining
Could the fact that Spotify has more subscribers than Apple Music have something to do with it?
But, I guess you missed all this,
This is what happens when you spoil a child, they think they are entitled to everything, now, with no effort on their part, and throw a tantrum when they don't get it.Consequently, Spotify has reportedly asked Apple to allow it to control the volume when using Spotify Connect to send music to HomePods. However, Apple has said that it requires Spotify's app to add integration with HomePods.
In 2019, Spotify complained to the EU that Apple was denying it access to the HomePod. Spotify has also refused Apple's help in adding AirPlay 2 support, which as recently as 2023 it still says is coming. -
Apple Vision Pro $3,499 mixed-reality headset launches at WWDC after years of rumors
Japhey said:gatorguy said:It does not seem like a very Apple-y product, but that's not unexpected either. It's a first gen, and according to reports was intended for developers anyway. Three years out they may have something. At the moment it seems like it was pushed out to the retail market before it's fully hatched, and I'm not sure why altho I could guess there's some other nearly-finished products from potential competitors coming before the year is out.
No doubt some regular users here will rush to buy a Vision Pro anyway; after all, it's from Apple. By the time it's fully developed in gen 3 I would expect it to be half to a third of the current price. That's when it may capture my interest. Or not.It seems like they put a lot of love and energy into addressing all the shortcomings other AR headset suffer from. So I’m just curious as to what you need to see for it to be considered “fully hatched ”? -
Apple's live events are probably a thing of the past, and that's sad
Actually, I prefer these scripted, pre-recorded presentations to the old live events. I think they are able to present a lot more information more clearly and concisely than doing a live event allows. You also avoid wasting time with glitches that have nothing to do with the product or presentation. (Like Craig Federighi's "failed" Face ID demo, which only "failed" because the feature was working as designed and had been disabled because of stage hands handling it and looking at the screen before the demo.) The demos and presentations are also better and more compelling since they don't have the restriction of doing it on a stage in front of a live audience but can be more creative with it.
If one were attending in person, a live event would be more exciting, but how many of us actually ever have the opportunity to attend in person? And, frankly, even the live events were scripted and rehearsed, and the only person who was ever going to go off-script was Steve Jobs, so we aren't really missing anything in that regard. (I was at the WWDC right after Jobs returned to Apple, and I wouldn't have missed the Q&A session he did there for the world (the one where he talked about taking the Newton out back and putting a bullet in it's head, among other topics) but those days are, sadly, long behind us.)
There is some irony, though, that the Steve Jobs Theater was designed and built to host live events and they stopped doing them almost immediately after it was "opened". -
EU antitrust agency may not fine Apple much to avoid tariff war escalation
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Apple's flavor of RCS won't support Google's end-to-end encryption extension
auxio said:Anilu_777 said:I still wonder why Google even cares about this and then why it’s pushing so hard. I don’t trust Google. -
UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide
phillyfanatic09 said:DAalseth said:Stabitha_Christie said:Xed said:CheeseFreeze said:beowulfschmidt said:Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services. I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.
Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-paxton-trump-fascist-1560652
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The future of internet liability is uncertain as congress targets Section 230
The other unintended consequence of repealing Section 230 is that it will actually affect the right more than the left, and in ways exactly opposite of how the right thinks repealing it will change things. It's well documented that the the vast majority of misinformation, including outright brazen lies, originates from the right. If suddenly the posting of this material becomes actionable, with companies like FB sharing in liability, they'll have no choice but to apply draconian moderation to this stuff, whereas now they have the cover of Section 230 to treat it with a light hand because it's not their problem. Some companies/sites might close their forums, but companies like FB and the company formerly known as Twitter have their entire business model built around user generated content, so they can't just shut it off, but now they may be on the hook.
I've never really understood why Trump, et al. think Section 230 is somehow muzzling them when in fact Section 230 is what has allowed them to post malicious nonsense and get away with it.
Also, changes to the law requiring companies to allow all content will be unconstitutional since that would infringe the First Amendment rights of the site operators. -
Masimo CEO steps down, but not because of Apple Watch dispute