danox

avon b7 said:

While it's difficult to know for sure (from what few details have leaked out so far) it looks like Apple could end up with some collateral damage.

Using the best solution available and using the solution that reports basically money for nothing, money to stay off someone else's turf or teaming up to impede competition might cross some lines depending on how the setup came about or works in practice.

I'd say neither Google nor Apple are sitting comfortably as this plays out. 

Google is sitting pretty in the end they will get access like Spotify for nothing, the gatekeepers as defined by the EU, should be cleared off of each others patch, for the sake of all the small to medium size developers it will never happen. 

mikethemartian said:

jimh2 said:

Those using the 3rd party app stores for their products will quickly find out 99.99% of iPhone users will never venture over there to hand out the credit card and personal information to another company. They may well find out the $99 developer kit is no longer $99 for them or their is a per install licensing fee. The really do not know how good they have it now.

It is really easy to get fraudulent charges reversed. You just have to do it in a timely manner as the law specifies and sometimes you can still get it reversed afterwards.

Maybe you can get things reversed with major banking/retail institutions, but bad outfits like Epic, eBay, PayPal, and most smaller hole in the wall companies winging it good luck I’m not gonna use any of those companies. Most of the smaller companies will end up going to a third-party outfit to handle their online transactions for a fee, because like Epic, they will find out that there is a lot of real cost that Apple took on behind the scenes.   Back to the good old days were third-party money men are in the middle.

When politicians and the government bureaucracies say they’re doing you a favor, run in the other direction.

Nothing mankind does is green or necessarily good for the environment it’s basically called survival, the mere presence of 7 billion human beings and growing on the planet is the what that is killing the environment, and making plants and animals extinct, when a project like a goldmine that will dump mercury into every stream, creek, and river at the headwaters of the largest salmon fishery (Lake Iliamna) in the world and that project just lurches forward on to the operational state says it all. It can’t be said enough that the lake is more valuable as a reoccurring food resource, at this stage of the game and is basically irreplaceable.

The very concept of carbon credits it’s just bait and switch by the ruling classes, the largest salmon fishery in the world is up for grabs.  

It is mind blowing that not even that threat can stop it. (Half of all Sockeye Salmon in the world are taken from that lake).

https://kuow.org/stories/copper-versus-salmon-why-an-alaska-mine-matters-in-the-northwest

clexman said:

They can spend all they want, but they won’t be able to catch up until they change their privacy stance and tap into user’s information. 

Apple sells hardware and services to their customers. Apple already gets more valuable quality information (at a good price) out of their customers than Google, and Meta does by their nefarious snooping methods.

What can be better than having more than 500 stores around the world showing off the Apple Vision Pro with that new user interface call it Apple AI if you want, but to the public it’s not gonna matter, what will matter is how it works upfront and personal as if by magic, where you just simply rub/softly tap two fingers together and have a command executed on the screen, what can be better? Nvidia’s who? back room shenanigans won’t matter.

9secondkox2 said:

tht said:

Curious how they are going drive down the price on an iMac with a 32" miniLED.

ProDisplay XDR is $5000. Mac Studio base model is $2000. Hard to believe this thing will start at $7000. The ProDisplay XDR is an early version of a miniLED with only 656 FALD zones or so. If it is like the iPP12.9 or MBP14/16, it could have 40,000 zones. Imagine four MBP16 displays fused into one. Sounds expensive.

Even a regular 32" 6K LCD monitor is probably $3000, if it is available.

The iMac 24 also needs to have a base model at $1000.

When looking to the future, look to the past.

when the iMac 5k came out, a 27” monitor was pretty big. And 5k did not exist. 4K was costly and yet Apple came out with a 5k monitor. Not only thst, but they had to invent new internal connectors to drive all those pixels as there was no standard way at the time. Apple was offering the 5k at launch with a novel display for an absolute steal. 

The XDR and Mac Studio/studio display are huge profit margin padding machines. There is no reason a 32” iMac won’t be a good deal unless apple simply chooses to continue to gouge. And that may be the case. The strategy could be - discontinue iMac at a fair price snd introduce the studio combo for a high price for long enough that customers forget about the great deal the iMac was. Then reintroduce the iMac at a high price. Hoping against hope that such is not the case. It just depends on what apple wants to do. 

Funny… back when apple silicon was just a rumor, everyone was talking about how much more affordable macs would be. Nope. Quite the opposite. 

Hopefully the return of the iMac heralds the return of decent pricing once again. There is nothing stopping that from happening.