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9secondkox2 said:

Terrible value proposition. 

I’ve a theory that Apple could sell this for much less and end up making more due to volume. Right now it’s very niche. 

Would be great to see apple get the accolades it deserves as not only a performance per watt leader, but as an all-out straight up performance king. 

It’s too bad they went with m3 ultra instead of 4. Would have been perfect timing to hurt Nvidias feelings. 

Javert24601 said:

lotones said:

There's a real simple solution here: Apple should just make a separate model, the iPhone eu, sold only in the EU, with it's own version of iOSeu, that has no privacy protections, very few features, and complies with their stupid DMA, but doesn't give away any intellectual property. When it becomes riddled with bugs, malware, spyware, let it crash and burn.

When they see the rest of Apple's customers worldwide moving on, EU customers will have to make their choice, and remove those responsible for this obnoxious DMA policy, and repeal or modify the DMA to be more practical.

The issue with this approach is that they will have to fork iOS development again.  I already wonder if there aren't already too many iOS versions that Apple uses for itself.  And, what would be the point of offering new hardware?  

xyzzy-xxx said:

Any app on a Windows PC can communicate with any app on a Mac via networking without any problem.
This was enabled by Apple itself when they discontinued AppleTalk and replaced it by Microsofts SMB protocol.
Apple can do this for iOS too (and has done with restrictions), using WiFi, Bluetooth and RFID / NFC.
Some restrictions that need to be lifted is that a third party host app on an iPhone / iPad would need to be able to run in the background while the device is locked.
In addition to that, apple would need to make some private APIs public.

This would allow third party devices to communicate through an iPhone or iPad.

ddawson100 said:

I hate that the news here on AI has devolved into nationalism and partisanship but I guess that's the temp of the world right now. Calls for Apple to leave the EU makes absolutely no sense and every single person commenting that understands that.

AppleZulu said:

charlesn said:

michelb76 said:

Hampered by Apple anticompetitive stuff so it will suck using this with iOS. https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones
It will probably integrate fantastically with Android, so pick your poison.

From the link: "Apple claims their restrictions on competitors are only about security, privacy, crafting a better experience etc etc. At least that’s what they tell you as they tuck you into bed. I personally don’t agree - they’re clearly using their market power to lock consumers into their walled ecosystem."

It's really hard not to laugh out loud. Apple has ALWAYS been about a walled garden. Not a bug, but a feature. And for years and years (and years) it was roasted for this approach while Apple buyers were ridiculed as stupid sheeple being led to certain slaughter because Apple and its walled garden were doomed in the face of Windows and Android freedom! Funny thing: consumers voted with their wallets for the walled garden and made Apple the most successful consumer electronics company in history. Another funny thing: the competitors stopped predicting doom for the walled garden and are now wailing--with apologies to Pink Floyd--to tear down the wall! Now the walled garden, because it has become so successful thanks to consumers choosing it, is "anti-competitive." Oh, give me a break and tough luck! If you like the freedom of an open system, you have plenty of other choices which, collectively, outsell Apple by a lot. Have at it! Just leave me and my choice to buy into the walled garden alone. 

It's amazing, really, that after all these years, people still don't get this. With the noted exception of that time when Steve Jobs was in exile, the closed system has been integral to Apple's business model. This is because they view a device and operating system as a single unit. Develop both together and through limiting of variables and intentionality of design, it just works. What a novel concept. This isn't an anti-competitive scheme. For a very long time, the commitment to this model meant Apple was sacrificing easy paydays because all that stuff developed for Windows and their much larger market share didn't work on a Mac, and Apple's market share was small enough that Mac-compatible versions of many things just didn't get made. For so many years, Apple's competitors mocked the closed system and boasted how you shouldn't buy a Mac if you want to be able to run all the different software that wasn't available for Mac.

All these years later, and Apple is continuing to do the exact same thing, but now competitors are complaining that it's unfairly excluding them from the walled garden. They want in, but ignore the fact that mandating that Apple move to the Windows/Android business model would forcibly lower Apple's quality and destroy the reason for wanting in in the first place.

Apple customers choose the walled ecosystem because they want the quality, security and data privacy. People who don't care about that can choose the competition.