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DAalseth said:

So he wants this done, and reports are he’s going to fire most of the staff, and this isn’t the only nearly impossible task he wants the programmers to do, and he’s fired the CEO and the board and is running the place single handedly. 

Oh this is going to end badly LMAO

Well, there was no ‘board’ to fire once he took over. Twitter is no longer a publicly traded company. It’s privately owned by Musk now. We’ll never know its financial status, how money it is making or losing, no quarterly reports to investors, no analysts jawboning about its future, just Musk haters hating.

dasjetta said:

Why can’t they add HDR10+ to the older AppleTV streamers?  You don’t need the A15 for that. 

Maybe because older ATV streamers are connected to older TVs that don’t support HDR10+? And only Samsung and a couple of other TVs (TCL, Hisense) support HDR10+ right now. And as the article points out, there’s almost no HDR10+ content available while Dolby Vision is widely accepted as better than HDR10+. HDR10+ is a fork of HDR developed by Samsung and Panasonic mainly because they didn’t want to pay the licensing fees for Dolby Vision and thought they could do better. Dolby Vision is also a fork of HDR developed and licensed by Dolby Labs of course.

So Apple changed the connector and not the chip. Well, the EU didn’t mandate the interface did they, just the charging port. So much for those techies who wanted TB4 for no apparent reason on a cellphone. But then, techies being who they are, would have screamed bloody murder if it had not been TB5 or 6 even if they don’t exist yet.

nadriel said:

This should’ve happened years ago! Since Apple obviously haven’t cared about improving lighting, except some small incremental changes they did.

The current devices or protocols aren’t even close to max usbc has to offer.

Granted the switch will be painful for some. Or not really, my lightning gadgets won’t become obsolete or stop working when their usbc counterparts come out. I’ll either sell them or use them until they become inoperable.

People really need to step back and take a chill pill here. This is - will be an upgrade, win win.

This has nothing to do with devices, protocols, usb-c or any other technical issue. It’s about a foreign entity imposing its will upon an American company and forcing it to manufacture its products to their specifications. And those gloating over this will change their tunes when something better and more innovative comes along and can’t be implemented until that foreign entity gives the okay, which could take years of bureaucrats ‘studying' the issue.

golddragon said:

I feel this is just a start. How would you feel if the EU said next every phone will have a certain screen resolution, or be manufactured in one of the EU countries? Who owns the USB-C standard? What are the interests of the EU and their relationship with companies holding the USB-C standard? If this was a mandate in the US you could bet someone in Congress would be pushing a company in their portfolio would be awarded a contract to manufacture parts that companies like Apple and Samsung would need to comply. 

Well, India told Apple they must manufacturer a percentage of iPhones in India if they wanted to sell iPhones in India. Where does it end? Global corporations like Apple have every swinging dick punching them in the balls to comply with their rules. We got Brazil ordering chargers be included while the EU mandates USB-C to save the planet. Bizarre to the max.