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  • Latest iOS 19 redesign rumor hinges on sketchy iMessage mockup

    lukeilukei
     I heard some shaky podcaster with an unhealthy view on Apple’s failure in AI talking about how the US isn’t safe to visit the other day.

    People in glass houses…
    watto_cobra

  • Apple faces billions in liability from Trump's TikTok ban delay

    lukeilukei
    TikTok could always build their own App Store /s
    watto_cobra

  • John Giannandrea out as Siri chief, Apple Vision Pro lead in

    lukeilukei
    charlesn said:
    Totally not surprised this happened although I didn't expect it to take this long. Tim Cook is the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove. It's worth recounting this tale from an urgent meeting Cook had called:

    "One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia. “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, “Why are you still here?”

    Khan, who remains one of Cook’s top lieutenants to this day, immediately stood up, drove to San Francisco International Airport, and, without a change of clothes, booked a flight to China with no return date, according to people familiar with the episode. The story is vintage Cook: demanding and unemotional."


    Very much vintage Cook. Not 2025 Cook from what we see recently. 
    williamlondonelijahgwatto_cobra

  • Apple goes to court to fight UK demand for iCloud encryption backdoor

    lukeilukei
    22july2013 said:
    As a protest, Apple could rebrand the iPad as the iPad- (iPad Minus) or "iPad Snooper" in the UK. The fact that UK iPads now have less security is the real reason why sales will drop in the UK, and a rebranding won't make it worse. A rebranding will force the government to reconsider due to the bad publicity it will get.


    Whilst I think this is a really bad move by the UK government what seems to be ignored is that Google, Microsoft etc already all such access and never had an encrypted option. 
    appleinsideruserwatto_cobra

  • Newly-appointed Apple CFO denies 75% App Store profit claim in UK trial

    lukeilukei
    I’m old enough to remember boxed (full packaged product) software which as a reseller we made 70% margin on. Add in a distributor’s margins, margin of production company etc and what was left for the developer was tiny. 

    I’m happy to pay for Apple to check any software I load on my phone isn’t full of spyware or other such things and to pay a fee for doing that.

    Want to side load some malware? That’s your choice I guess 
    aderutter