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  • App Store changes look like a free ride to some developers

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    randyl said:

    .. I'm guessing there is a more optimal way that is secure/easy for the consumer, fairer to the developer considering I'm subsidizing the app store with my iphone purchase....

    Nonsense really. You bought a high tech iPhone for a price you felt was worth it and I am pretty sure that like most of us, you never really thought of the App Store as part of your purchase price. By your logic, you should get 'all' of Apple's services because after all... 'you subsidized it all' with your iPhone purchase. Apple should get a return for inventing, developing and maintaining the App Store and it should be market forces that dictate what companies want to charge for products or services. If Apple charges too much... well we can move on.
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  • Trump's tariffs could drive up iPhone prices by about 10%

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    If Apple absorbs the tariff cost rather than pass to buyers, then the tariff really becomes an Apple tax. That by itself is a problem if some tariff exclusion does not happen.  Additionally Apple has in past absorbed costs with currency exchange, when the US dollar was so much higher than most currencies. Currently, the US dollar is two standard deviations above its 50-year average so FX is another headwind for Apple selling outside of the US.

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  • macOS Sequoia 15.2 isn't allowing third-party utilities to make bootable backups

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    I tried to create a bootable drive, using CCC and an external NVME drive. The first time, my Mini announced 'success' but sadly it failed to boot my Mini going through the 'Shut down -> Recovery' process. So I tried again..and again.. but each time, CCC now reported 'Failed'. Not sure why, I did not change anything. I think Apple's logic is that the system files are so locked down in Sequoia that they can never be corrupted, and you would always be able to restore your data, after reinstalling the OS. I have always made a clone with CCC and a backup with Time Machine, but not sure that even makes sense anymore. My concern is what happens if internal storage fails? I think you would end up with a brick, unless the OS allows an external drive in that situation. I put AppleCare on my M4 Mac Mini and for the next 3 years I will not worry about it.

    The security changes have made everything more complicated. I had to add an extension and then go through several layers of installation and approval to get DriveDx to report SMART status of external data storage drives. Initially it would only report on the internal SSD otherwise. It also had trouble sleeping (like it would not sleep) until I turned off Spotlight, as it kept indexing files. A bug in Sequoia I have read. There is no longer any scheduling of wake and shut down in 10.15 - you can set up in Onyx but why was this removed? Because it uses so little power, that Apple thought you would leave on 24/7? [insert head scratch here]. This was an overdue upgrade for me. I love the size, speed, and low energy use of the M4 Mini but between the increased security and changes in Sequoia, I have never spent as much time tweaking a Mac to function as I wanted.
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  • Apple Intelligence second wave arrives today -- what you need to know

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    Having a new iPhone 15 this year, bought after many reviews suggested that it was the 'better' choice for a user like myself who did not need all the Pro features, and having assumed that it would be supported by Apple for at least a few years, I find myself feeling a bit angry at Apple. I know, I know... 'buyer beware', and 'you have a good phone so enjoy it', or 'time to upgrade LOL', but I feel that Apple knew that the iPhone 15 base was not going to have AI because of memory, which they could have easily bumped up for a few dollars more. If Apple thinks that they will get more money by having iPhone 15 owners upgrade, they may be waiting a long time. And Apple better support iOS 17 for a long time, because there is not a compelling reason to upgrade to iOS 18 apart from security updates and some window dressing. Sorry for the rant.
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  • Tim Cook says users are updating to iOS 18.1 at twice the rate of iOS 17.1

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    I have an iPhone 15. Some nice small tweaks but I can't see a compelling reason to upgrade given the lack of AI capacity. I should have bought the Pro  ) :
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