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Google's default search payments to Apple at risk in antitrust lawsuit
Google search payment was is and always has been target number one for the Justice Department from day, one. Who are we kidding? If you want true competition, get all of the large, so-called gatekeeper companies off each other’s platform if you want to see real competition top to bottom. If you look closely, actually, you don’t really have to look closely. Apple is the only one that’s not squatting all over the other platforms ecosystems. (ie..Safari on Windows which was rightfully, canned by Apple)Apple, not being a monopoly, not controlling the larger market always has to design something in house to support selling their hardware when something becomes successful because the public likes using it, In a frictionless manner then the complaints of monopoly come up after Apple has shown the way towards customer satisfaction, and ease of use.It is worth noting that Apple still has significant room for improvement in this area, particularly regarding the App Store. While the App Store can be populated with millions of programs, it should not be cluttered with a legion of poor programs from a user perspective. In recent years, approximately five to six years after the initial gold rush, the quality of the content has deteriorated to the extent that I find it challenging to use the App Store. In essence, Apple needs to evaluate the programs more closely based on their actual quality rather than prioritizing quantity at all costs.
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iPhone Fold rumored to cost over $2000
avon b7 said:
There are some things to consider here.charlesn said:Zero surprise. Galaxy Fold 6 ranges from $1600 to nearly $2K at Best Buy, depending on storage, So it sounds like Apple will be within a few hundred of those numbers. Why Apple would introduce this extremely niche and expensive bridge to nowhere is beyond me, but I also can't believe that all these predictions of its arrival are wrong. Apple has never felt the "me, too" need to chase Android gimmicks. and it's hard to see the Galaxy Fold as anything more than that when it has generated such little sales traction after six years on the market. Same for the Pixel Fold, although that has been around for only two years. Who knows? Maybe Apple will have come up with some compelling use cases by the time it arrives that will justify its stratospheric price and fragility when you inevitably drop it to a broader audience than either Samsung or Google has reached, but I'm not sure what those would be.
Apple is having a tough time competing in China. There are a few reasons for that but I'll highlight just two.
NEV sales are going through the roof there and the 'smarts' in those cars are very smart - blowing way past anything CarPlay can offer. Hundreds of thousands (and rising fast) of those cars are running HarmonyOS so anyone with a Huawei phone tied to a Huawei-partnered car will see the benefits. The opposite is also true. If one of those cars takes your fancy, getting a Huawei phone (or tablet, wearable, TV...) makes a lot of sense.
Xiaomi is another example although so far they only have one car.
What can Apple do to counter that situation if they have no competing product?
Folding phones are reaching maturity in many ways but remain expensive. That keeps the marketshare of folding phones down.
Prices especially of flip phones however, are seeing more affordable versions come to market.
Similar to the car situation if you want a folding experience, Apple is not going to get the sale because it has no folding option. You would have to look elsewhere.
It has been said that if the Huawei Mate XT hit sales of 500,000 units (unthinkable to my mind) it would bring in $1.5B in revenue. Yet just last week there were (unsubstantiated) reports of it having sold 400,000 units (in spite of the incredible price tag). In basically one quarter.
That model has now got a 'global' release so it's anybody's guess how many will be sold. Prices start at 3,699€ in the EU.
Now the Pura X has hit the Chinese market too with it's unusual form factor but great screen ratio.
Throw in the likes of Oppo, Honor, Samsung etc and there are lots of folding options to choose from and thinness, weight, creases etc are beginning to look like non-issues.
It's hard not to see Apple losing sales (especially in China) as a result of not having a folding phone.
There will clearly be a threshold to lost sales beyond which Apple must respond. Perhaps these reports are simply Apple gearing up to stop a trickle of lost sales turning into a flood.
The outlier here is maybe Google. While the US is shielded (quite literally now) from a wide spread of folding/flip options on home soil, if a Pixel Fold came to market offering Chinese level engineering, Apple would possibly be in a spot of bother (assuming there is untapped demand for foldables there).Samsung is having an even a harder time competing in China. They’re nowhere to be found zero…. -
Apple files appeal against court ruling that mandated App Store changes
youngjm said:Apple built the platform from the ground up, with some open source compents, and they are entitiled to be paid for that and for the continued development. Epic did not like the rules and wants to use apples platform for free. I hope the courts will finaly shout out Epic and make them play by the same rules as all the other developers prior to this ruling. Epic probably could have recieved their own agreement with Apple but he wanted to use a platform without paying for it. I hope Epic fails at this but they probably won’t. There are enough people who will use it.Apple is the one that will be stuck with the parents who had their kid charge three grand in the Epic store crying to the TV/Print media that Apple should bail them out because Epic and Sweeney Todd are nowhere to be found. -
iPhone 18 Pro leak claims under-display Face ID is on the way
Buy a Windows PC with an Intel cpu you deserve it….Oliver#65 said:This will be great tech but if the iPhone 18 launches with Apple’s C1 or C2 modem and not a Snapdragon it’s DOA ☺️☺️
So Apple is not allowed to design engineer and iterate over time with the C1? Like they did with the M series SOC’S which, by the way are one generation @ the most two generations away from being at the top of the heap when it comes to CPU’S/GPU’S across the line when compared to the competition Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. Your observation is the same attitude leading up to the M1 introduction. The M5 and M6 will be beasts pretty good for a company who can’t innovate…. according to the tech and Wall Street world.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-s-Snapdragon-X-Elite-laptops-have-a-dirty-secret-when-it-comes-to-external-monitor-support.896451.0.html Qualcomm troubles are interesting many of them would generate the word doomed if they were Apple. But the word doomed seems to be reserved for just for Apple.https://browser.geekbench.com/mobile-benchmarks ; Qualcomm five years behind….
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/arm-sues-qualcomm-over-its-1-4-billion-nuvia-acquisition/ Qualcomm has other worries.
On other hand Qualcomm wasn’t happy and is probably getting their legal department together to sue Apple over the C1 modem, because in time Apple will execute, it is just one more thing Apple has done that will leave Qualcomm even further in the dust. They already are functionally five years (generations) behind Apple Silicon iPhone SOC’S and that will only increase when Apple introduces the M5 series in the fall, and the C1 will only get better C2 and C3 most certainly are already being worked on with the C2 probably already finished in the back room.
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Apple may be gearing up for first corporate bond sale since 2023
I hope they don’t do it, but that means they will, just another popular financial sleight-of-hand move used by the upper crust of society. I hate stock buybacks I wish they were illegal again like they were after the 1929 crash for very good reasons. Bank Deregulation in the 1980s is also a part of the decline of America in recent times. Ties in nicely with what’s happening in Washington DC currently…..
