mjtomlin

brian.on.android said:

Beats said:

Not like MS is a competitor to Apple or anything.

And MS is right! Let’s also open up all of Microsoft’s stores to 3rd parties! I wanna be able to sell my crappy games on Xbox without giving them money!!

Microsoft has a monopoly on Windows!! Microsoft, police yourselves!

Microsoft doesn't put the same controls on Windows that Apple puts on their platforms.

For one you can install whatever you want on their devices. For another they allow third party payments for when you do use their store.

Microsoft licenses their OS to 3rd party OEMs. Apple does not. That's a huge difference in business models. It's in Microsoft's best interest to allow a certain degree of "openness" to attract OEMs to their platform, the same can be said of Android.

There is nothing illegal about controlling your own platform or controlling what features you include on your own OS and hardware. The App Store is part of Apple's whole "widget"; it is a feature and it is implemented the way they want to implement it - it allows them more control over how the platform progresses and it provides them with a hefty revenue stream which gets turned around and put back into advancing the entire platform; which includes the developer tools, the OS, silicon design, hardware R&D, etc.

abriden said:

The question is : how many of these are paying subscribers? ...I did not take up free Apple TV subscription with purchases as I might have done, but currently have free 6-month trial subscriptions on Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple News and Apple Arcade thanks to Barclaycard. 

Apple has gone on record and stated they do not consider free trials as subscribers. So all of them are paid subscriptions.

I’m at a loss as to why Apple charges a commission for such apps. Their own policy says “digital goods and services”. A dating service is not digital, no more than a ride hailing service. You’re looking for a hook up in the real, physical world.

Apple kicked off its Apple Silicon transition in November 2022

2020

Isn’t this “rumor” rather pointless when we all know Apple said it would be a two year transition, which ends Fall of 2022, and all assumed the Mac Pro would be the last system to make the transition.

Apple is going to wait until there’s enough M1X SoCs stocked up before they announce the M1 “Duo” and M1 “Quad” based systems. Especially after they release the larger iMac which will surely eat into that stock.

Will definitely see larger iMac with M1 Pro/Max relatively soon.
Along with Mac mini “pro”

WWDC… iMac Pro, Mac Pro   “Transition complete”


M2 in the Fall… released in the new colorful MacBook and new iPad Pro