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  • Apple EU anti-competition fine is a relatively modest $570 million to avoid Trump retaliat...

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    mike_galloway said:

    Ok, had to delete some incredibly off topic and rule breaking threads that are just useless screaming matches. Let's chill out.

    And as a reminder: It isn't illegal to be a monopoly. It is illegal (or at least heavily regulated globally) if a monopoly uses its power of a specific market to manipulate that market or others. The EU has a right to govern how it sees fit, even if some of its policy seems unfairly targeted towards Apple. It is up to Apple to work through the litigation and arrive at a happy medium. These things take time, and the world leaders having pissing matches won't help either.

    Patience. This fine was a pittance for the affected companies. We'll see where it goes from here.

    Avoid insulting each other, politically charged comments, or leaving the topic entirely to make some kind of random point. There's no need for that.

    There also needs to be some safeguards where political regions can't just "change the rules" or implement new rules, and then claim companies are breaking those very same rules. It can take years, even decades, for a large company to build up their sales ecosystem, and then governments come along and just make new rules? One interpretation is that it's a convenient money-grab. Where does this fine money end up in the end? There should be some regulation over that, too.

    Unfortunately voters (us) are continually demanding from politicians that "something must be done" about whatever grieves us at the moment and that we are "unfairly disadvantaged" so we sort of get what we deserve (continual knee jerk responses and badly thought out changes) and not what we need. 


    And so-called voters/citizens will pay for every charge at every step of the way indirectly, because the additional cost will be passed down to them, that pesky company is just a Clearinghouse and everyone is just a ledger/line item in their books.
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  • Apple wants nearly every iPhone 18 sold in the US to come from India

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    You mean trans ship them from China to India and then to America…..
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  • Five years of Apple Silicon: How Apple continues to revolutionize chips

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    nubus said:
    Did the change make increase the marketshare for the Mac? All the "it is fast" and "it uses less energy" are nice but did it really change anything?

    Who cares if it didn’t change the overall marketshare the most important thing Apple can do is to continue to move/push forward in comparison to the competition, market inertia is market inertia, in the next generation of Apple Silicon chips will hit a performance milestone which will eliminate all the excuses made by some of major software developers when it comes to Apple Silicon at the end of the day that’s all Apple can do. 

    Apples pursuit of performance and energy efficiency is way beyond their competition today who are still basically just cranking up the wattage and the mhz to achieve faster performance.

    I would love to see Autodesk, update their line of software (AutoCAD, Revit, and Navis Manage to work on Apple Silicon laptops and Mac Studios, which would make Mac PowerBooks unbeatable in the field at a job site trailer or at coordination meetings at someone’s office unplugged from a wall but market inertia prevents that. 

    Seeing the performance of Microsoft PC laptops (in comparison) in the field at a job trailer or at someone’s conference room today during a coordination meeting, is utterly pathetic too bad because you can’t expect to plug into someone else’s infrastructure (because of security concerns) on the road.

    I would not be surprised if Autodesk expects Apple to write them a check (which will never happen).
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  • New TSMC 1.4nm chip is destined for the iPhone 19

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    hmlongco said:
    Amazing how steadily TSMC advances these processes. It seemed to take Intel generations to go from one process to another.

    Intel was resting on their laurels like US Steel, Kodak or Xerox before them….
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  • US will not tolerate EU fine against Apple, says White House

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    sirdir said:
    shrave10 said:

    Whitehouse is right here IMO.  Unless Epic, Nintendo, and third party app stores for iOS all reduce their own commissions to developers to zero as well, Pres. Trump has full right to raise EU tariffs to the amount to recover any illegal fines to US companies.  

    It is not fair that all other platform vendors can charge a platform fee commission while Apple is not allowed to do same to recover costs of development, support, and marketing.  Core platform licensing fees can be negotiated to be on similar or even slightly lower than that of other platform vendors but it can not be zero.  

    Does Epic get a cut for each game Apple sells? See the difference? It’s ok for Apple to charge a fee on their store, but they have to leave their greedy fingers off everyone else or they hopefully get fined until they learn.

    By that logic since Apple is giving away access to their technology to Epic, shouldn’t Epic give Apple access to Unreal Engine? Turn about is fair play….
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