ericthehalfbee

The fact those idiots at Spotify and Epic are whining so much just shows Apple has done something right.

it boggles the mind that Spotify, the worlds largest music streaming service by far (and more of a monopoly in music than Apple is in smartphones) doesn’t have to abide by the DMA. Any artist that wants to be on Spotify has to agree to their terms. That’s the very definition of a gatekeeper.

One interesting fact is that developers who create a 3rd party App marketplace (store) can’t use it for their own Apps. They have to accept submissions from other developers who might want to use their store. So Meta can’t open a Meta Store that ONLY has their Apps.

Apple basically said “fuck you” to Google.

I’ve repeatedly said Apple should counter Google’s shame campaign by announcing they’ll support RCS when Google opens up their RCS APIs for everyone. Including competitors like WhatsApp or Telegram.

Google has their own RCS APIs in Android but Samsung is the only one allowed to use them. Developers have asked and Google has done nothing to allow other Apps to implement RCS via their system and use E2EE.

So Apple did one better and said they’ll work with standards bodies to improve RCS.

Now Google’s hopes of a messaging duopoly are finished.

soundsinmotion said:

I have the last intel MacBook Pro from late 2019. Spent almost $4000 on it. Unfortunately can’t justify upgrading for thousands more when mine works great still. 

I had the 16” MBP with the 8 core i9 and Radeon 5500M. I now have the 16” M2 Max 38 core and 64GB RAM.

The difference in performance and battery life are game changers. My 2019 MBP used to get hot and the fans would spool up as soon as I did anything more taxing than browsing the Internet. I never got anywhere near a day of battery life without having to plug in.

My M2 Max is not only much faster, but I rarely hear the fans and I still have 40% battery after a day of heavy usage.

The upgrade is worth it.

😡😡

So Apple adds support for Fuji, ARRI and DJI and still no sign of Nikon N-RAW support. Right now only DaVinci Resolve has it. 

Kind of ridiculous that Apple got flak for trying to implement CSAM using a better method to improve privacy while Google, Microsoft and others have had full-blown CSAM scanning for years and hardly anyone talks about it.

Google is even worse for using machine learning to try and identify images that aren't in the CSAM database, generating additional false positives.