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Thatguy2 said:

USA wins yet another trade deal, and this one where everyone said china would never cave. Now 90 days to make it permanent and help our farmers with more china purchases like last time. Impressive 

Last time? Are you talking about Trump's 1st term? Farmers needed $28 billion in taxpayer funded bailouts during Trump's first term.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/

quakerotis said:

Guilty, predatory, limiting are all ways I would describe Ap[ple and its behavior.

Apple chose to use the video game console model for its commissions. It's not like what they were doing was unprecedented. If anything, that way of doing business had been standardized for companies that made their own operating system and exclusively ran it on their own hardware. 

Video game console manufacturers charge 30% commission for games sold in their 1st party digital stores, don't allow 3rd party digital stores and also collect 30% commission on physical units sold in 3rd party retail stores. So there is a precedent for collecting commission on sales made outside the 1st party digital store. Epic has tried to claim that it's okay for consoles to do that specifically because they don't make as much profit on hardware but that is not a legal argument. There aren't any laws that control commission levels that companies can charge based on profit levels elsewhere in their business. 

LOL...the current 1000 V-Bucks price in-game is $8.99. Epic raised the price on their customers during the court battle. 

LLM programs are relatively easy to develop. That's why there are so many different companies that offer their own LLM programs. It's really the training model that's important. The LLM is worthless without it. And the training model is mainly a euphemism for a gargantuan database. That gargantuan database can either be created ethically (verified sources with appropriate permissions) or unethically (unverified sources without permission). 

So all the talk about Apple being "behind" in LLM based AI is mostly blather since the LLM part is largely inconsequential versus the database being used and whether it's legal.