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  • Judge rules Tim Cook must sit through seven-hour 'Fortnite' deposition

    ouraganouragan
    Apple acts as a Monopoly when it demands that all payments be made through the App Store so that Apple can take its cut of 20 % or 35 %. As Apple also restricts to the App Store the possibility to download applications from independant third party application developpers, Apple has become a Monopoly on the distribution of iOS and iPad OS applications.

    Apple was always too greedy for its own good. And Tim Cook knows exactly what Apple should do to end the Monopoly of Apple on iPhone and iPad application distribution. Will Tim Cook acknowledge the Monopoly behavior of Apple or will he force the Court to quash the Monopoly of Apple ?
    kestral

  • Apple rolls out improved Maps to all users in the US

    ouraganouragan
    Is Canada in the initial deployment or in the Europe deployment or some other time? Sometimes when people say "US" they also mean Canada.
    It is not Canada-wide. There are regions of Canada that have the new data sets.
    Great news. I live in Canada, but everyone should know that the inhabited portion of Canada is, for the most part, a 50 to 70 mile wide stretch of land along the US border (the 45 th Parallel). The possible exceptions are in the East, first settled by French Canadians, with the Maritime Provinces, the North shore of the Saint Lawrence river in the Province of Quebec, and the southern part of the Province of Ontario.

    The City of Montreal is so close to the American border that by clear weather you can see inside the United States of America, 55 miles South, in the State of New York, from the Olympic Tower Public Observatory.

    And the City of Toronto is across the State of New York, on the opposite side of Lake Ontario.

    If Apple wants to include Canada in the revised Maps application, the territory to cover in great details is fairly limited (which makes it easy to include).

    watto_cobra

  • Apple brings forward iOS 13.1, iPadOS releases to September 24

    ouraganouragan
    Mike Wuerthele said:

    We have other sources as well.
    Try https://www.apple.com/ipados/
    watto_cobra

  • Jobs biographer slams Apple design and missed TV opportunity

    ouraganouragan
    guscat said:
    If he's going back 15 years, he's also leaving out the original MacBook Air and the iPhone in addition to all of the other products listed. What is the last great Apple product they designed, the 2004 iMac?

    As for TVs, they are a very low margin product that has to interact even now with cable. Coming out with a new TV is a lot harder than I think he realizes.
    What Walter Isaacson is saying is that impressive design died with Steve Jobs and that Jony Ive wasted the last 15 years of his career at Apple on the intricate details of Apple Campus 2 while totally neglecting the new products that Apple was selling to make money. And I agree with Walter Isaacson. The last great product launched by Steve Jobs before his death was the iMac in October 2009 and the iMac revision in 2014 was catastrophic with its thin edges, poor sound quality, limited repairability and heat dissipation problems. It's thin at the edges, but why ? And how can being thin at the edges be seen as an improvement on the previous Late 2009 iMac design ? Had Tim Cook and Jony Ive paid more attention to the products that Apple is selling, the iMac 2014-2019 would never have been launched. But it is not too late for Tim Cook to take a more active role in the future of the computers that Apple is selling.
    AI_lias

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook rips into 'absurd' Wall Street Journal report on Jony Ive's departure

    ouraganouragan
    After 30 years on the job, Jony Ive is entitled to retire without anyone drawing negative inferences.

    That being said, Apple has been plagued for more than 10 years by unreasonably high stock option bonuses paid to executives who, in turn, work for themselves like Angela Ahrends who showed no loyalty to anyone but herself and left Apple to its miseries after just 5 years on the job and a quarter billion dollars richer for her "efforts" and so-called "loyalty".

    In the case of Jony Ive, how could Jony have thought even for a moment that the lavish stock option bonuses were not a prelude to a higher position within Apple ? Hence, the dissatisfaction of Jony Ive and his eventual "retirement" once his stock options had vested.

    It's sad to say, but it's high time at Apple that customers and shareholders be shown some respect, not to mention the countless anonymous engineers and employees who make the day to day financial success of Apple.


    A word of advice to the Apple Board of directors and Tim: Just as you cannot buy your friends, you cannot buy the loyalty of executives in a company.
    watto_cobra