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Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees
Demand over the years seems to have fluctuated for one reason or another but always maintained an upward trend.
https://www.ev-volumes.com/
On the premium and ultra premium side there seem to be more and more entries to that market and they seem to be selling well.
Margins might be another story (or maybe not) but the EV industry is ripe for another shake up (probably this year or next). That would be the second shake up for Chinese manufacturers
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EU officials are not happy with how Apple is handling Progressive Web Apps
That would be commercial suicide for Apple. Just hand the EU market over to your direct competitors. I can't see them going down that route.BuffyzDead said:I know it won't happen because, most likely, it does not make business sense for Apple to do so.
But I really really hope and pray that Apple simply says "ENOUGH!!"
And they pull the iPhone OUT of the EU countries, ....seriously !!
What will the EU and users in the EU do ??
Sue Apple, because they HAVE TO be forced to sell the iPhone in the EU ?
Will EU users be forced to "choose" Android phones ?? ...a choice they've always had, to this very moment
Talk about inflicting some real inconvenience on those EU users, if Apple said go eff yourselves, and buy Android !!!
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And of course, the black market for iPhones would be huge BUT at least Apple can manufacture the iPhone they deem, with the software and functionality they deem,
and the EU users would again have the choice they have always had;
Android or Black market iPhone, but with an iPhone as it was intended to be manufactured and delivered by Apple
And in case you didn't know, MWC2024 started here in Barcelona today and the opening speech made a big play for Open Gateway which already has 65% of the world's telecos onboard with the biggest proponents being the big EU players.
'Cloud phones' are already a reality and I hear there were high performance XR demos running at the different stands with all the heavy loading being done at the ICT edge, not the handset.
It might be worth keeping an eye on where that goes because in just two years, great strides have been made.
The network itself is looking to become more than a simple transport pipeline and who holds the keys to that gate?
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Apple kickstarted 5G and now 2 billion smartphones have it
For handsets, considering it's mainly Chinese, South Korean or US brands, looking at the numbers, the Chinese brands possibly moved the needle most!StrangeDays said:Yeah man, the fact that your chinese knockoff brands didn’t move the needle whatsoever is not the sick burn you think it is. but ok, “first!”
For 5G modems as a component it was possibly Qualcomm but only because of sanctions against Huawei. Although Mediatek might have popped Qualcomm to that particular post.
For 5G ICT and patents it was probably Huawei.
Apple literally wasn't in the game, made a huge strategic goof and still seems to be trying to overcome the technical challenges.
"First"? And? What’s your point?
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Apple defends its controversial EU App Store plans
I know what they wrote but if you read the comment I was replying to, what was the implied line of thought?AppleZulu said:
If you read what they wrote you'd understand that they're not saying that the EU has given its OK yet. They're saying that they were extremely meticulous in their process of engaging with the EU to completely understand the requirements, and then were highly focused on meeting those requirements to the letter of the law while doing everything possible to still maintain the most reliable, safest and most secure platform for their EU customers. What they're saying is that they did not leave any room for the EU to reject their response based on the law. If the EU rejects it, it will be a political action, not a legal one.avon b7 said:
Note that they didn't say actually touch on what the EU thought about its 'compliance'.PauloSeraa said:
So you actually think Apple is going to spend all of those man hours while in direct communication with the EU throughout the entire process, to result in something that doesn't comply? Of course it complies. And, there is no waiting game. No one is investigating anything.avon b7 said:Now, the waiting game to see if the EU thinks it really complies.
Personally, I don't think it does. We'll see.
That begs the question: why not?
Man hours. APIs. Studying the DMA.
Why didn't they just say 'we ran the whole thing through the EU side and they say we complied'.
Not a peep about that because it is very likely that the EU knew about the technicalities of the solution but little about the terms that would govern them.
If the EU has given the OK it is weird that Apple did not mention it in the statement.
I'm not seeng where they even get close to saying they did not leave any room for the EU to reject their response. If anything they are explicitly skirting saying that. After all, if they thought the EU was all in on the proposal after so much communication, then why not come out and say so clearly?
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Meta & Microsoft are lobbying the EU to reject Apple's new App Store plans [u]
'Consumer' apps because businesses already have the possibility to create and deploy apps to their users.PauloSeraa said:
That's not correct. "Consumer apps" is not correct. What you meant to say was, whether Apple has the right to be sole provider of Apple iPhone apps via the Apple App Store. Which of course they do, except in the batshit region of the EU where they think success is a legitimate reason to tear down a company and force them to do things that are in absolutely no one's best interest. The only reason this is even a conversation is because Apple's platform became popular. When things become popular, some people start to believe that they are entitled to them. Never mind the fact that the entire thing is Apple's creation from top to bottom.avon b7 said:
The real question is whether Apple has the right to be the sole provider of consumer apps via its App Store.
Being popular is obviously what got it labeled as a gatekeeper. It's in the numbers but that isn't everything.
Take time out to actually read the DMA/DSA.
