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  • Apple TV+ hits #1 in streaming movies, Top 10 in streaming TV series

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    It seems likely to me that the viewership of Argylle on Apple TV+ was precisely because of the poor critical reception in Theaters.

    "I've seen some bad reviews so I'm not going to pay ridiculous theater prices to go see it, but now that it's playing on the service I've already paid for this month, I'll give it a shot."

    And of course, as my daughter said, "but...Henry Cavill."
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  • Fear of Nintendo's wrath is keeping emulators off of the App Store

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    9secondkox2 said:

    If Nintendo doesn’t want their old games available, that’s literally their prerogative, as much as it’s annoying for enthusiasts.

    Yes and no.

    They absolutely have the right to stop selling their old games, and to stop the pirating of those games by people who haven't bought them.

    Whether or not they have the right to stop existing owners of those games from employing an emulator to continue playing those games on another device is a different question entirely.

    As with movies and music, it's completely legal to make a backup of the media for one's own use.  Nintendo has worked especially hard to make the making of those backups difficult, for which I condemn them even if they are fully within their legal rights to do so.
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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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