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  • Apple's 21.5-inch Intel iMac is officially retired

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    About G-D time! When Apple peddles old cruft like this to educational institutions, it makes generic windoze boxes and e-waste, er…chrome books, come out looking good in comparison. It doesn’t matter if this old gear was price-competitive, it was still 5 year old tech with a tiny amount of storage and memory. 
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  • Meta's Zuckerberg takes shots at Apple App Store fees, maintains its own

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    Zuckerberg is a greedy, hypocritical, democracy-destroying, fetid turd on a booster seat.
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  • Epic's Tim Sweeney ludicrously calls Apple's 'Find My' a privacy hazard for thieves

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    I live minutes away from Epic Games headquarters, which is in Cary, North Carolina. There's even an Epic employee who lives at the end of my street. I can tell you there is absolutely a reason why Tim Sweeney is known as the "dick of the Triangle". One of his recent stunts actually ruined the retail revitalization plans of Cary's largest mall. He swooped in and bought the entire property for $95 million and shut down the entire mall for his new headquarters. The town, its planners, and all the retail partners involved were blindsided by this. When the kids at the nearby Cary High School lament that they have one less hangout spot and one less food court to go to, yet pine to play Fortnite on their iPhones again, one can point out to them that the "dick of the Triangle" was responsible for both situations.

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  • ClassPass and Airbnb speak out against Apple's 30% digital commission fee

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    Wow, airbnb, that’s very hypocritical of you. I guess you wouldn’t mind if your clients who offer rentals decided that they only wanted to pay you a pittance (or zero) of a commission based on the fees renters pay them. Of course, airbnb, you would claim that your front end guarantees the business that the renters need and helps secure (relatively) safe, violence-free non-criminal guests and that such a front end (read: App Store) doesn’t come cheaply (upkeep costs, etc.). The shoe is on the other foot now. Do as I say, don’t do as I do.

    The opportunistic, cowardly predators only “jump into the fray” once the large prey is being attacked by others sharing the same goal. In this case, that goal would be a free ride in a massively profit-generating, safe Apple App Store. 
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  • 2024: Apple's 40 year old Macintosh survives another year

    p-dogp-dog
    Excellent perspective. I'm glad to see your articles again!
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  • South Korea likely to pass prohibitive app store legislation on Wednesday, report says

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    rob53 said:
    lam92103 said:
    Finally!! A win for developers and customers
    Win for developers only. This customer will not like it and I bet I’m in the majority. 
    A win for big developers only. 
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  • Android struggles against iPhone as US smartphone sales drop by a quarter

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    tht said:
    I'm frankly in disbelief that Apple can achieve this level of penetration in any market any where. An average iPhone is about 2 to 3 times more expensive than an average Android or other competitor device. It really speaks to the zero interest 30mo payment plans, at least in the USA, that carriers use as incentives to lock in customers.
    A comment like this ignores the entire “price versus value“ concept, or that there are relative differences in quality or usability between the platforms. This is why refurbished iPhone demand has soared in India, even though they are still more expensive than most android phone models sold in the country. https://www.ft.com/content/7ffc9881-7414-4b04-9687-9f95dbb3948e 

    Everything isn’t all about absolute lowest price at all times, otherwise our buildings would be frequently falling down and we would all be driving Yugos. 
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  • Apple stock overtakes Microsoft on increased AI expectations

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    DAalseth said:
    Every time there is a big innovation people try to put it in everything. Then after a few years they realize that most of those applications were stupid*. This will be the way with AI. Right now they want it in everything, while we the customers just want a Siri that can understand linked questions and a spelling checker that won’t recommend ‘banana’ when I type ‘mountai’. I am actually glad to hear that most of the Apple Intelligence features will be rolled out separately over the next year. That way I can hunt them down and kill them one at a time. 

    *This is how we ended up with asbestos modelling clay, and radium in makeup. 
    I have always appreciated your insightful comments over these last few years.
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  • EU officials' iPhones were targets of NSO Group's spyware

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    EU officials should get used to more of the same if they force Apple to allow sideloading and break open the App Store. It seems EU regulators have let Swedish music streamers and companies from Redmond and Cary, NC whisper into their ears too much.
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  • Apple's Mac mini has outlasted Intel's NUC

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    Ha ha ha ha ha! Or shall I say, "Nuc nuc nuc nuc nuc!" 
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