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avon b7 said:

ranson said:

AniMill said:

“ Apple denied any wrongdoing…” 

Ummm, I have great respect for most Apple products and business practices, but the Butterfly Keyboard was an unmitigated disaster in design and durability. I understand they have to deny culpability, but they should send this bill to Jony Ive. Maybe this (along with the Apple Watch tree removal fiasco) were the real reasons they pushed him out, and cut ties to his new venture.

To be clear, there is no wrongdoing here. Wrongdoing in the legal sense means with nefarious intent. Clearly Apple did not intend to make everyone's life miserable with this terrible keyboard design.

And I suppose settling will have allowed them to avoid having to provide internal data on exactly how many machines were repaired due to keyboard issues. 

The number $35 million ($50 million minus $15 million in legal fees) gives you a very rough idea of the total number of repairs in the five year period for those states. It has to be less than 700,000 (if all repairs were $50 variety) and more than 88,000 (if all repairs were $395 variety) since it's going to be a mix of $50, $125, and $395 payouts. Or from an annual perspective: less than 20,000 repairs on average per state and more than 2,500 repairs on average per state. 

It doesn’t really make sense to say that MBA users generally won’t be using apps that need active cooling and then also complain that the MBA doesn’t support multiple external monitors. Being able to handle a 6K 32 inch external seems fine for something claimed to be for non-demanding apps.

crowley said: Proton compares more with what CodeWeavers do with CrossOver, and indeed Valve poached a number of engineers from CodeWeavers to make Proton.

Proton is a fork of Wine.

Sounds like a largely pointless exercise by Steam. It's more convenient than a laptop for people that want to tinker with emulators and that's about it. 

muthuk_vanalingam said: With so much progress in the last 10 years, it is beyond SILLY to suggest that "Availability of 3rd party Apps" do NOT matter. Take out App Store - iPhone is useless to most of the people who buy them. Take out Google Play Store - Android phones are useless to most of the people who buy them (which is why Huawei is having a hard time selling the phones in rest of the world without Google Play Store). 

Nobody is arguing that 3rd party apps don't matter. My own argument is that Apple's 1st party contributions are what make the app market possible. Apple introduced developers and consumers to the iPhone/iOS and then continued to improve the iPhone/iOS on an annual basis. If Apple had stopped with iPhone 4 and iOS 4, what do you think would have happened to the app market? Would you expect it to be just as robust as it is today with iPhone 13 and iOS 15? Or would it have slowly died out? Avon B7 appears to be trying to argue that it would be the former and not the latter.