dysamoria

When it’s a subscription service from one company on one platform, it’s not going to “end” an entire abusive industry’s practice across the board. I won’t be paying for it.

mr lizard said:

rob53 said:

Limited article. Parallels can’t do anything with Windows 11 until Microsoft releases an ARM version. Apple moving away from Intel so VMWare seems to not care about non-Intel related virtualization. Parallels is trying but can’t make Microsoft do anything. Running Unix/Linux under virtualization on an M-series Mac might not have enough customers to keep Parallels in business long term. 

Um... Windows 10 has had an ARM version for a while now [...]

Not available to end users, though, is what I keep reading here on this forum.

goodbyeranch said:

darkpaw said:

Seriously, this fupping company. Cancel Prime. Sell your Kindle and Echo devices. Delete your account. Amazon is only as big as it is because we put it there, and we can put it somewhere else.

I'm on board with this, but if the choice is between having an $8.99 curtain rod show up at my door the next day or going on a city-wide hunt that will almost certainly lead to Walmart and sorrow anyways, then Amazon wins every time. Time, Gas, Mileage, Parking, Crowds. No thanks.

Walmart and Amazon are WHY you don’t have other options for local retail.

It is well documented how Walmart destroys independent and smaller regional businesses by using corporate wealth to undercut locals right out of business (and then they sometimes screw the whole community’s economy by arbitrarily shutting down a store after wiping out local businesses, simply because corporate didn’t like the profit margins at that Walmart).

Amazon causes the same issues, only they do it remotely.

This is how it’s operated (which we saw in the keynote), plus some requirements; not “how it works”.

I assume they’re struggling to make it work, which is why it’s not even going to be available in the first release. Or is it only missing in the first beta, but planned for a first release?

9secondkox2 said:

1.  Yes it probably was political as was much of the COVID-19 response. Government authoritarianism people’s private lives is not something to support. 

2. Apple is not a monopoly. They are a large successful company with a very nice cohesive platform that has taken a long time to get right. And it is right. 

3. The irresponsible trend of developers who’ve got an axe to grind jumping on Epic “Apple is a monopoly!” Bandwagon has got to stop. It’s false, potentially harmful, and doesn’t help the disgruntled like they would hope. It’s just lashing out. Like a child does. 

Grow up and learn to make your own case. 

1. What was political? Trying to reduce the spread of a disease with high lethality?

2. Apple may not be a monopoly, but they absolutely do have a lot of influence and power, as a multi-billion-dollar entity. They engage in laissez-faire capitalism just as aggressively as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. Their business model is fundamentally different from Google & Facebook, but not so different from Microsoft, and it’s long been believed in the Apple fanatic community that Microsoft is “the great enemy” (after they defeated IBM, who was the previous “great enemy”). Do not show loyalty to corporations; they have no loyalty to citizens or countries.

3. I agree, but we should not paint everything with the same brush. Apple deserves some criticism, though THIS story is NOT one of those cases where they’re in the wrong. Acting for the public good is a wise & ethical choice, even if the corporate motivator is company public image (gotta pick our battles; corporations doing good for others as a consequence of doing good for themselves is better than ONLY serving their interests, which is more often the case).