danox

Never trust cloud services for storage for longer than a day and that is only in a temporary emergency. And Google never.

InspiredCode said:

I wouldn’t say Apple was outfoxed in the 90s. Apple just lost their way. It took Steve Jobs return and acquiring another operating system to get out of bad engineering decisions of the time. Apple needed a leader. At the time it was Steve Jobs correcting the ship. It is more Craig Federighi these days. Tim Cook has too many other responsibilities nor is it his expertise.

Without Steve Jobs coming back, Apple would be dead, like Motorola, Palm, Nokia, or worse just existing limping along, a mere shell of its former self i.e.. similar to Xerox, Kodak, or IBM. One thing, Steve Jobs did bring from exile was realizing that you didn’t need to be the dominant marketshare leader you only needed to make great products that the public wanted to buy, that were usable and profitable.

Notice many tech analysts, marketing types, and finance people are making the same mistake before the introduction of the Apple Vision Pro, Apple needs to make it cheaper, Apple needs to economize. What are they gonna do if they don’t, and the same spiel has been said over and over again about the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple monitors, and with various Mac’s, go long, go cheap or else you’re doomed….

Apple has put too many ducks in the row with the Apple Vision Pro, the new R1 co-processing chip, introducing LiDAR years ago starting on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPad Pro and every version made after, along with spatial video recording introduced on the 15 Pro iPhones, in addition Apple has added many other internal features to their ecosystems in a low-key manner which will probably be revealed upon the launch of the Apple Vision Pro which, looking at Apple’s list of mergers has been at least a decade or more in the making.

robin huber said:

Build a better mousetrap and someone will sue you into giving it away for free. Guess that’s what free enterprise means.

That certainly is what the EU believes.

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.