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@hmlongco More like "they didn't have to do business with Apple unless they had the knowledge necessary to know what were favorable terms for them - and not Apple - beforehand as well as the clout to insist on them and the lawyers good en…
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mknelson said: I can understand Valve abandoning Counterstrike on the Mac. I don't believe any of them were ported to 64bit so were abandonware at best. None would run on a current Mac/MacOS. LabView 2021 was 64 bit. Lots of the work that…
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lowededwookie said: Honkers said: lowededwookie said: Macs have proven that a 100% native version of a game outperforms a better specced PC. version and Metal 3 makes that even more the case. Really? Where have they proven tha…
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StrangeDays said: Honkers said: Can hardly blame them, after Apple pulled OS support for 32 bits apps, rendering a massive chunk of Steam's library obsolete on Mac. Apple are a flighty partner when it comes to other parties' interests…
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The elephant in the room: inflation. It is also why smartphone purchases are way down. People who used to buy a new phone or watch every 2 years as a "not luxury or impulse but not entirely necessary either" purchase are now holding onto perfectly u…
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Not defending Microsoft or Google here, but I just want to point out that Microsoft is not suing Google here (because they would lose). The feds are. The feds called Microsoft as one of the many witnesses for the prosecution. They aren't trying to p…
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The most concerning rumors was that the iPhone was overheating - and throttling - while playing demanding games. This was the earliest mention: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-15pros-overheating-during-gaming-severe-throttling.2403584/ w…
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Appleish said: Seems overblown, but because of third-party cable and charger fires, we only buy authentic Apple accessories. And only directly from Apple, because everything on Amazon, Ebay, etc. is suspect. We only get non-powered third part…
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Marvin said: danox said: Apple can do Direct X in their sleep. They haven’t done it because they’ve been busy doing other things but now that’s probably become inevitable. Microsoft by spending $69 billion dollars on Activision shows tha…
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danox said: Cross platform is fine, but that is secondary in order for Apple to sell their hardware they can’t sit around and wait forever for third parties to do the job and throughout their history in the end, they have to roll up their slee…
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Xed said: thadec said: Disagree with the writer. USB-C has been the standard for gadgets for years. Even if you only use Apple products whenever possible, the author himself states that Macs adopted USB-C in 2015. Everyone else? Headph…
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tenthousandthings said: A spec bump (M1 to M2) for the iPad Air isn't a "new iPad model" -- so this doesn't contradict the likelihood that iMac and iPad Air will both get the M2, via press release, in October. The iMac jumping directly to M3…
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No new iPads until there are new chips for them. Remember: entry level chips only because of power/thermal/cost considerations. And you can't have the Pro and Air on the same chip. The iPad Pro will need to go from the M2 to the M3. The iPad Air wi…
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Disagree with the writer. USB-C has been the standard for gadgets for years. Even if you only use Apple products whenever possible, the author himself states that Macs adopted USB-C in 2015. Everyone else? Headphones and pretty much every other gadg…
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tmay said: avon b7 said: Keep digging! My first post! My first line! It was a joke. "money for nothing and your chicks for free" - Dire Straits A reference to how Qualcomm ended up with a triple windfall and all without doing …
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dewme said: Just checked Apple’s leadership team profiles on https://www.apple.com/leadership/. Did I miss something? I don’t see Mark Gurman’s profile anywhere on that site. Where does he sit in Apple’s leadership team that decides the execu…
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"Meanwhile, YouTube Music trails with 8.5 million paid subscribers, and Pandora Radio has 2.4 million paying customers." "It's worth mentioning that unlike Spotify or Apple Music, Amazon Music is a built-in perk for another widely popular subscripti…
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robin huber said: Apple wants to be in the banking business so now is the time to either start one or buy one. When the Car comes around, having their own GMAC-type in house financing will be a boon. An Apple car when stuff like this is …
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tht said: maltz said: I'd really like to hear some technical elaboration on how Apple Silicon helps to make a BIGGER laptop with less space constraint. It's going the other direction that's hard. For Apple, it only means that Appl…
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godofbiscuits said: Given that the patent system was created to protect entities like Cal Tech AGAINST enormous corporations... Waiting for the first post to call Cal Tech a patent troll and/or accuse the judges of corruption/bias. You kno…