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  • Drama about emulators on the App Store has only just begun

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    I'll keep my Atari 800 and Nintendo 64.  Yes, they are still in a box in my basement.
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  • Rumored Apple Watch Series 10 screen improvement will sip battery power

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    Even if true, Apple will just add more functionality (a good thing) to eat into that power budget, with a net change of zero.
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  • EU questions whether Apple has changed anything after its $1.95 billion fine

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    avon b7 said:
    Apple at the time objected, saying that the EU had failed "to uncover any credible evidence of consumer harm."

    Why would they bother to provide such evidence? The law isn't about preventing "consumer harm", because there isn't any.  It's about bringing Apple to heel, and making them answer to their rightful masters.


    There is definitely consumer harm: Anti-steering.

    Also, never allowing competition to exist in certain areas. Alternative app stores, NFC, being the sole voice on what is and isn't acceptable... 

    The 'no credible evidence' is simply Apple's opinion. A PR blurb to say something that actually means little. 

    Obviously the EU thought differently and the anti-steering related fine, AFAIK, wasn't DMA/DSA related.

    It was also open to appeal so I'm surprised that Apple is now rumoured to have just swallowed the decision. 

    As for their being nothing in the DMA against Apple imposing a 27% commission on transactions outside its realm, I'd argue that there doesn't need to be, as the whole point was to stimulate competition and Apple taking a cut from everywhere there is app related business going on flies directly in the face of that so I doubt it will pass the sniff test again. 
    Nonsense.  Some people decided that they have a right to what Apple created, even if Apple doesn't want to give it to them, and since they have political power, and the legal authority to use force to get their way, they get their way.

    Benito would be proud.
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  • EU questions whether Apple has changed anything after its $1.95 billion fine

    beowulfschmidtbeowulfschmidt
    Apple at the time objected, saying that the EU had failed "to uncover any credible evidence of consumer harm."

    Why would they bother to provide such evidence? The law isn't about preventing "consumer harm", because there isn't any.  It's about bringing Apple to heel, and making them answer to their rightful masters.


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  • Canva's Affinity deal will shake the Adobe status quo

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    neoncat said:

    If you’re a professional, use the professional tools. And if you can’t see how cheap that is at typical billable rates (at least at the level I work at—I can pay for a year of a CC enterprise license in under one 8 hour day), then maybe it’s time to reevaluate your rates or your clients (no disrespect intended—I realize not everyone’s base necessarily supports the same level of billing and that’s ok). But don’t “solve” the problem by compromising your workflow, or mine. 

    I'm not a professional.  I'm just a guy who takes pictures and edits some of them.  I neither need nor desire a suite of professional tools, and I couldn't give a rat's ass about interoperability with other systems.  I just need a simple (and from my non-professional perspective, pretty powerful) photo editor.  Affinity has been that, and with this acquisition, I'm skeptical of it's future in that regard.  Whether or not it's "as good as" any given Adobe products is completely irrelevant to me; it does what I need.

    The good part is that Affinity does do what I need right now, and I don't see me needing any more functionality, so if Canva gets stupid, I still have what I need.

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