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  • EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

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    jamnap said:
    If Apple had the visceral fortitude they would promptly and concisely tell the EU to f$&k off and start closing down shop and stop selling to any EU member country.  Maybe the folk there will rise up against the EU ruling class.  With the expanding Asia market Apple will not fall.  Sure, it will affect the stock market at first, but for Tim Cook to always tout "principles" he needs not to bow to the EU.  The USB/C issue is one thing, but this new EU demand will open Apple's Pandora's box.
    Apple has to draw the line in the sand, all European Apple devices within the EU have no store included you sell just the core Apple software with the iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple Watch.

    It’s time for those do nothings in Washington DC to earn their pay. 

    Europe just represents about 19% of Apples total revenue, and when compared to other parts of the world, it’s falling, Apples revenue in Europe is about the same as the entire country of Japan.

    https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/.      Select Chart App revenue by region
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  • Unity's self-sabotage with pricing will be a long-term problem for Apple

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    auxio said:
    danox said:
    neoncat said:
    "It means in-house game engine by Apple is inevitable"

    If you don't recognize why that doesn't even remotely solve the problem with Unity, I think it's pretty clear you either didn't read the article, or didn't understand it. The appeal of GDEs like Unity, Unreal Engine, or Godot, to developers is they're not platform specific. That's the whole point. That's why they're important. Essential, even. Apple is happy to keep pounding sand with Epic in their petulant quest to always be 'right' (how'd that work out with the eBook lawsuit, Apple?). Godot is promising, particularly in 2D, but it's 3D environment is woeful. That leaves Unity, which already has deep use particularly for iOS and iPadOS assets which are key to Vision Pro's development model.

    Now do you understand the problem? Apple doing the equivalent of a DirectX would be beyond useless. Apple is stupid about a great many things, but they're not that stupid.


    Sorry, you evidently don’t know much about Apple history, it has become too important to let some third-party company control your destiny if you are Apple. Sitting around and waiting for them to get their ass in gear is not gonna help Apple. I am sure they’ve talked about it internally, but it’s inevitable, at every turn in Apple’s history. They’ve had to roll up their sleeves because third-party companies came up short. Unity got a taste of the big leagues and they struck out, they like Sweeney Todd and Company showed their true face, yes they make a good gaming engine but you can’t wait for them or anyone else how long is Apple supposed to sit around and wait for these people to do something they won't.

    You missed the point about game developers wanting cross-platform solutions. Sure Apple can recreate Unity for their own platforms, and some smaller game developers might bite because Apple's marketshare is big enough for them. However, the big players want their games on all the major gaming platforms. That's the appeal of 3rd party game engines like Unity. Just like Apple, game developers don't want one platform maker controlling their destiny either.


    Cross platform is fine, but that is secondary in order for Apple to sell their hardware they can’t sit around and wait forever for third parties to do the job and throughout their history in the end, they have to roll up their sleeves and get busy.

    Another example where Apple has had to roll up their sleeves and it’s one of the biggest things that they’ve ever done was to open up their own physical Apple stores, which was also met with derision at the time by the so-called experts, and the reason was the same, most of the existing storefronts could care less about showing Apple products in a positive light.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/sanfordstein/2021/05/19/apple-store-turns-twenty/?sh=1bd26efb31ac
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  • Apple sneaks in very old devices into iPhone 15 event video -- and omits one, too

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    coolfactor said:
    I never did get an iSight or Hi-Fi. Wishing I had, though.
    The Apple hi-fi has a 3.5 audio jack, which means you can still use it today if you have one. Wired connections work that way too bad the original HomePod doesn’t have any, I wanted to buy a pair, but the lack of wired connections was a huge stop sign. Speakers good ones last for decades, Bluetooth/Airplay who knows?
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  • China completely bans use of iPhone for government business

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    Appleish said:
    Russia did the same thing. Makes me even happier with Apple's secure-ness. Russia and China want electronics that are easier to break into and monitor.
    Every country on the planet fits into that category, in recent times the most successful country breaking into iPhones/iPads, isn’t Russia or China.
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  • Apple & ARM's iPhone & Mac chip partnership will continue for decades

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    Pocket change, I can understand why the other companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, and AWS are investing in it, they’re hoping to collect intelligence, so that they can reverse engineer a usable chip, as long as Apple isn’t sharing any useful info or sending any upper echelon people, who know anything about Apple Silicon, throwing a few pennies as goodwill towards Arm in theory won’t hurt?
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