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  • France fines Apple over App Tracking Transparency, but doesn't order changes

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     No it isn’t a joke, and eventually the EU will break apart because the bureaucrats’ actions in Brussels will exceed what the voters in member states will tolerate.
    Brexit is just the first.  

    JanNLwatto_cobra

  • Apple's satellite plans could be stalled by Elon Musk's Starlink

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    12Strangers said:
    what happened to the free market capitalism that he espouses?  
    The actual case is about opening spectrum for all companies rather than licence segments. 
    as for “tense” discussions, I imagine any two companies negotiating major business deals are not doing it over breakfast tea and cupcakes.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • 'Wuthering Waves' and 'Control Ultimate Edition' now available on Mac

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    Is the character in the Wuthering Waves  game named Cathy?

    Also, “they”. Are we talking multiple personalities as well as amnesia?
    jSnivelywatto_cobra

  • iPhone fold display when open rumored to retain a familiar aspect ratio

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    Make it small enough when folded and interested. A bit. And instead of Face ID for thinness reasons, why not a forehead so we can have extensive camera setup?
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple doesn't appear to have plans to revive the iPhone mini

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    opinion said:
    Well, the iPhone 13 mini was introduced almost four years ago, maybe the user base has changed and more are hoping for a mini version now? I just don't get this big monsters of phones, ok for those who want it but not everyone does. Why not add phone support to the biggest iPad and let the big phone lovers use those!
    Yes, my 13 mini battery has just dropped below 80%. I will have to ge the battery   replaced as I have no plans for a larger phone. 

    charlesn said:
    prof said:
    hmlongco said:
    People say they want one. Apple makes one. People don't buy one. Apple stops making one.

    Rinse. Repeat.

    People did buy it, one dealer I know told me that they sold more iPhone Minis months for months than any other non-Apple or Samsung brand model. Sometimes it's not entirely clear why Apple ditches a product; all bad sales rumours are only unconfirmed speculation. 
    Please. Stop your descent into the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. It's really pretty simple: Apple is a publicly owned, for profit company that is in the business of making products that sell well enough to generate sufficient profit to justify keeping them in the product lineup. It keeps making the products that earn their keep and stops making the ones that don't. End of story, The Mini would still be in the lineup if it sold in sufficient numbers, and the story of what one dealer told you for a product that sells globally is absolutely meaningless. Do you think Apple is happy about EOL'ing a new product after just two cycles? Absolutely not. It's questionable if they even made back their costs for research and development of the Mini, costs for tooling and production, design, marketing, etc. after just two years. This isn't to say that the Mini didn't have its fans, and a lot of them, just not enough to make it worthwhile to keep around. Notice also that no major Android manufacturer, even though they seem to run with every new gimmick feature they can dream up, has stepped in to produce a truly premium mini phone--there's no high end Galaxy or Pixel Mini. That's further confirmation that a sufficiently big market for a premium mini phone is simply not there. It's also worth noting that Apple's low-priced and smaller iPhone SE was always the worst selling model in the whole iPhone lineup. 

    It isn’t really a conspiracy. The mini did sell in large enough numbers that many android manufacturers would dream of for their phones.  But for Apple it had small sales compared with their other phones. So in the scheme of things it just wasn’t worth it for Apple to have yet another product line.
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