danox

22july2013 said:

It's Meta's right to refuse to provide services to any or all countries. It's also Apple's right, and I hope this encourages Apple to refuse to withdraw services and products from regions with unacceptable rules. For example, now that the EU has won the USB-C requirement, the EU is suddenly pushing for all smartphones to have removable batteries. Is Apple going to continue to do business there if that law passes? Next, the EU will mandate the particular size and connection types for those removable batteries. Is Apple going to let the EU micromanage their product designs, or will Apple just leave the region like Meta is doing?

The EU won’t stop so Apple will be faced with that decision coming sooner rather than later…… just wait for Spotify to complain about the Apple Vision OS and the App Store it’s coming.

humbug1873 said:

Why announce more?
Let's face it (pun intended), at the moment they want to get their newest trick pony in front of developers so they can get them to start working their collective creative minds and come up with cool uses for it. There is no need to announce more than that, especially when the rest is rather unpolished as of now (for a product that still has a lot of time to the finish line).
Also ... it's probably not a bad thing to have something to write home about, once the product gets actually introduced to the market. Apple doesn't want to read reports 'Yeah Apple announced the availability of the Vision Pro and it's all as seen long time ago' once it comes out.

From the time developers get their hands on the developer tools, and the device itself, there will be a long steady line of developers, announcing that they have ported over an existing program or created a new one to work with the Apple Vision Pro, over the next 6 to 9 months right up until its introduction/release to the public, and once it’s released to the public and people can go to the Apple store and test it out themselves, you can’t ask for a better runway, leading up to new product introduction. A tsunami.

There have been many complaints about the price, but, once you get the opportunity to try it out yourself, listening to the testimonials of people who have tried it, there will be a recalibration once people try it out for themselves at the Apple store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8Png-FZ0g. Another testimonial, includes a very funny quote at the end.

Apple may want the Studio Mac to be a big seller but it doesn’t mean that users necessarily want to buy it, most of the other Macs are far more versatile than the Studio Mac, maybe the recent increase in speed might help?

Mac’s and the development environment Apple has created around them and the Apple operating systems, used on all of the Apple platforms are vital to Apple’s iPhone future, and that also includes all SOC hardware development. The article title seems to imply that one has nothing to do with the other, they are interconnected, and one cannot be successful without the other they are joined at the hip.

anonymouse said:

The Apple subreddit has reopened under duress after a protest about API fees was squashed by threats from the company's CEO to remove the moderation teams of closed subreddits. 

I believe the word you wanted was 'quashed', not 'squashed'.

Seems to work fine ?????????

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Regional Apple devices is coming up for the EU…..