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No matter what our thoughts about Epic are, it’s clear that Apple’s policies on the App Store need some amount of tweaking. 30%, or even 15% is fairly high - and Apple surely can’t make the case that it needs the money to sustain or survive. They n…
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Its not like Microsoft isn't still in with a chance. They made a great hedge bet by buying Xamarin in 2016. And Xamarin is today the largest cross platform development tool out there. If Microsoft launches Windows Mobile again, most Xamarin adopter…
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Apple is relatively new to the Data Center game, and doesn't have anywhere near the capacity they need. And Apple is not even close to where Google is, in terms of playing the cloud game, so their data center needs will only keep increasing as they …
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Apple doesn’t need to do much to shift, because of work that was done over 10 years back. LLVM and CLANG are the foundations of pretty much every single piece of software running on the Mac for over 10 years now. So all anyone has to do, is to simpl…
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If Apple can't find anyone else to partner with, they have a serious problem. Or maybe they are coming out of the closet, of their avarice.
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Yes another example of how Apple is earning bad karma by the day. This guy should not have released the exploit to Apple, and he should not even have mentioned that he was aware of the exploit. And just raised the issue of a Bug Bounty as a hypothet…
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Apple has always played the game of being pricey, that if you don’t want to pay up, they don’t need you as a customer, etc. That works very well in the early stages of a product cycle, when there is lot of scope for differentiation using innovation…
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Apple will crib if Qualcomm wants 4% royalties that are tied to the cost of the phone - and not to the much lower cost of the chipset. But Apple wants a 15% cut of ONGOING subscription costs of NetFlix, even though the only service provided by Appl…
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Google, FB, etc make money off violating customer privacy, and we think of that as bad. Apple engages in unfair business practices, but it’s ok? How different is this from Microsoft making IE the default browser on Windows? MS at least didn’t char…
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This is someday going to come back and bite Apple - because it will be seen as an Unfair Business Practise. Apple claims services revenues are growing rapidly, but this is clearly not healthy. This is the sort of thing that a court or the Justice D…
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sebastian37 said: macarena said: Is Apple really consumer focussed? This is a company that takes out features that are valuable to the consumer, just because it can. This is a company that has crappy quality accessories (lightning c…
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Sorry - make that $800 for the cheapest Mac Mini.
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Create the iPad Pro, but don't include the Apple Pencil - and even better, sell it for a ridiculous $99. Consumer friendly, indeed. Remove the 3.5mm Audio port, and convert it to lightning. Excellent way to force customers to buy MFI third party …
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Is Apple really consumer focussed? This is a company that takes out features that are valuable to the consumer, just because it can. This is a company that has crappy quality accessories (lightning cables) that get frayed in months, but cost a bo…
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Karma, meet Apple. I know this is all temporary, and in the end Qualcomm will lose - but until then, its good to see that Apple is taking a hit. Their recent policies have been hurting consumers big time. Apple is only interested in price gouging …
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India is a price sensitive, and value conscious market. And clearly, Apple has been failing to deliver on the value front. In its relentless quest to up Average Selling Price, Apple has now upped the price points of its products to a level where eve…
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Most people don’t consider 2 things. Back in 2005, when the Intel transition happened, LLVM and CLANG werent very robust and sophisticated. So Apple had to support emulation for some time. But in 2-3 years, they ended emulation completely. There is…
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Most of the Prime subscriber growth came after Amazon launched Prime in India. And that makes Amazon about $15 per year. With Amazon being the largest e-commerce player in India, and with India’s massive population, it’s quite likely that their ove…
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Mike Wuerthele said: Your science is bad regarding LTE versus Wi-Fi cancer risks. When your phone connects to a LTE tower, it needs to transmit at a power that can carry the signal as much as 1000 meters. Because thats how far the tower is…
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Apple makes a ton of money on hardware - but that doesnt mean Apple will forever be a hardware centric company! Apple is gradually turning the ship around, where hardware is simply the facilitator into the ecosystem. At some point, the Apple ecosys…