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  • Apple will crush the DoJ in court if Garland sticks with outdated arguments

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    nubus said:
    Apple can't win. Microsoft spent 8 years on US antitrust cases before making a settlement. Gates left the company he founded and Microsoft management lost focus.

    Apple+EU has been a disaster for years. Apple spent 10 years on promising before finally being forced to USB-C. Now EU has had enough with politicians hitting Apple in several ways causing disruptions to hardware and software. Apple is taking a beating every week.

    And now this... a case started under Trump that moved forward for 5-6 years. At a time when Car just failed, AVP is in need of full focus, competitors are all AI, and the last 4 iPhone generations are looking and behaving much like iPhone 12 (design, MagSafe, 5G)...   a legal battle into the next decade is not what the doctor ordered.

    We need Apple to get out of these battles and focus on the future.

    Apple never promised USB-C for 10 years. What nonsense it that?

    It was smart of Apple to finally move to USB-C — yes — but they were in their full rights not to until being forced. We all wish they voluntarily did so a few years earlier.

    The Car project never failed. So much would have been learned from it and applied to other projects. Heck, much of Vision Pro's "sight" tech was likely rooted in work done on car vision tech. The Car project also facilitated the "new CarPlay experience" that is being installed on many other brands. So what if Apple isn't going to build their own car... they are a software company, too, and the Car project helped the software evolve tremendously in ways we haven't seen yet. Not a failure.
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  • Apple will crush the DoJ in court if Garland sticks with outdated arguments

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    @AppleInsider ;

    It's absolutely critical to get facts straight when offering up an analysis.
    We await the DoJ suit against the carriers for allowing SMS to persist.

    SMS is _not_ going away with RCS. SMS is not the problem with low-quality photos and videos. Your comment should have mentioned "MMS" not "SMS".

    RCS will (optionally) fallback to SMS much like iMessage does — when data is not available.
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  • NVIDIA's shared VR environment technology is coming to Apple Vision Pro

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    Race car drivers operating a digital twin while a real car speeds down the race track.

    Flight simulators that are actually controlling a real jet.

    Doctors performing surgery from another continent.

    We've only seen the beginning.
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  • Apple gradually releases new firmware for the AirTag

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    It's time for Apple to:

    - streamline their approach to changelog notes across all software products
    - separate security updates from feature updates
    - do a comprehensive overhaul of release testing across a broader range of scenarios 

    The fact that this release is going out without any notes is a red flag for how misaligned the software teams are.
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  • Apple Vision Pro is reigniting the whole AR/VR headset market

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    I forgot all about the Vision Pro! It's still a thing?

    Joking aside, let's hope Apple can keep the ship upright. The fiasco with the Sonoma 14.4 release better not be a sign of things to come!
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