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  • Apple unveils macOS Monterey at WWDC 2021

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    CheeseFreeze said:
    lkrupp said:
    CheeseFreeze said:
    I hope Safari will support an option to render tabs the way they are now.
    Adapt or move on to something else. 
    As if these things are so binary. 
    Krupps a weird man. He’s an Apple ideologue not a normal consumer. Any minor complaint and he’s extremely defensive. People can’t be fans of Apple and dislike the odd thing, that’s what “haters” do. 

    Also pretty sure that he’s the passive aggressive poster using the informative button as a disagree button. 

    He’s the caricature of the Apple diehard fan that is ridiculed outside of the Apple world but rarely exists anymore inside it. Thank the lord. 

    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • 2021 2nd-Generation Siri Remote Review: The star of the show

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    When your remote is more expensive than a competitors product .....

    I could buy 2 fire sticks for this. 

    Anybody want to justify the price? Most remotes are <$10. I have an Apple TV and I don't really like the old remote, but this is insanely priced. 

    Edit:

    Glad someone found this informative. It was more of an opinion really. But thanks!
    williamlondon

  • Apple releases $99 HomePod mini smart speaker

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    Well this is going to sell like hot cakes. 
    Beatsjahbladerazorpitwatto_cobra

  • Apple agrees to make key App Store changes, create $100M fund to settle developer lawsuit

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    trackeroz said:
    This isn’t going far enough. 
    This is just a legal move to protect them from what’s coming, but it’s not enough by a long shot.
    Yeah, because building the hardware, the OS and providing the infrastructure for the App Store is so easy and cheap to produce and maintain! I expect to see CheeseFreeze’s versions of each shortly.

    Ask yourself this, have the terms changed since they came onboard? Did they not know what Apple’s terms were?  Developers seem to love to bite the hand…. Greedy and ungrateful are terms that come to mind. 




    I bet that if Apple were not in this industry and Microsoft was, and was charging Apple 30% of its profits for on the MS platform ( say iTunes), then you would have a different opinion. Or if MS had done this on their desktop OS and charged Apple 15-30% there. 

    Secondly, as any fule nose, keeping developers happy is a non zero sum game. The number of people here who would destroy the platform for a "victory" over the people who add value to the platform is astonishing. 
    crowleygatorguymuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple worker walkout organizers issue demands, size of strike unclear

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    robaba said:
    Collective action exists for a reason, and fsurprise surprise, it’s not to please internet trolls.  I will always support workers standing up to the paternalistic contempt of their employers.  
    AI appeals to customers and share owners. The latter are generally right wing and older. Interesting take calling workers privileged if you are living off dividends. 

    I always support the right to collective bargaining although the requests here are a bit OTT. Appointment only can’t be the way shops work. 
    muthuk_vanalingambaconstang

  • US DOJ prepping antitrust case against Apple

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    People are talking existing laws here. The US will almost certainly pass a law that opens the app store(s) eventually.  If that happens Tile will win or not need to take the case. If Apple is enforcing privacy on Tile and not on itself (that it it is using private API that would benefit Tile but would get Tile banned from from the App Store) then that is indeed anti competitive. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Craig Federighi blasts Mac security to prop up iOS App Store

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    Beats said:
    sflocal said:
    Beats said:
    I’m disappointed Apple didn’t roll out an App Store like iOS.

    People called me different names for suggesting the new M1 Mac software should be treated like iPhones App Store and said “PCs have always allowed software via web” as if moving forward was a bad idea.
    I believe if MacOS had an App Store similar to iOS and only software from that App Store can be installed, it would have meant the death of MacOS for sure.  

    I hate Android, I love iOS.  MacOS has to balance that line between user safety, and flexibility.  There are tons of apps that aren't on the Mac App Store, and it will always be that way.  I the user accept responsibility for downloading/installing software that could infect it.  When I need to install software, I look first at the Mac App Store, but most of the time it's from the developer's website.

    iOS is completely a different animal.  It's a toaster.  Treat it as such.

    It’s called moving forward. Just like how developers are migrating to M1.

    The irony is that the judge is questioning why they allow multiple app stores on Mac. Had Mac had one iOS-like App Store the argument wouldn’t have arose.
    It would kill the Mac to stop downloads from third parties from the web. Craig was only dissing the Mac because he didn’t want to support the idea of app notarization on iOS. And the Mac is well protected for ordinary users anyway. 

  • Tim Cook refutes negative IDC Apple Watch report, says early holiday sales set new record

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    Cooks use of the word sell through indicates that they may well have had a bad quarter last quarter. Sell through is sales from channel 

  • IDC: Apple Watch loses ground as 'basic' wearables boom

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    richdatswho said:
    I love reading the comments when an article that isn't kissing Apple's ass is posted. So many of you bitches react like a teenage girl who read something bad about Bieber on twitter.
    I'd say many defenders don't even have the watch. Those of us criticising it do, because we have real world criticisms. And I'll probably buy the next one as well. And criticise it if necessary. 

  • EU tax investigation concludes, Apple hammered with $14.5 billion bill

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    cnocbui said:
    sog35 said:
    The EU still refuses to state what law Apple broke.

    All they are saying is Apple paid a too low effective tax rate. That is totally ridiculous. Any other company could have used the same provisions Apple used to lower their effective tax rate. 

    This ruling is so ridiculous its obvious it will be thrown out. 

    Ireland has the right to charge what ever tax rate they wish. They also have the right to decide on the other finer points of tax law. This decision is saying Ireland does not have the right. This decision is saying the EU can swoop in 10 years after the fact and change Ireland's soverign tax laws if they feel it goes against their opinion of matters. In other words the opinion of a few beaucrates in the EU is worth more than the entire citizenship of Ireland. Crazy.
    Shut up.  I know that I have personally explained this to you several times.  You are just ignoring reality as it would give you less to be indignant about and would deflate your hissy fits.  You want Apple to be the victim when they aren't.
    Where's the state aid?