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  • Apple EU anti-competition fine is a relatively modest $570 million to avoid Trump retaliat...

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    Kuminga said:
    I did not understand the Spotify - Apple Music fine. The Commission conveniently overlooked that it is Spotify that has a monopoly in the EU and is not financially harmed by Apple, even becoming profitable after many years despite Daniel Ek's extravagant CEO lifestyle. Anti steering should have been a simple thing for Apple, with a notice that the app  could be purchased on the web. A url could have even have been provided, but I could not see how Apple should provide an actual link on the App Store page. That would be like Walmart arranging for an Uber to take you to Target to buy the product at a lower price. Apple was likely surprised how aggressive Vestager was, and how committed she was to promote EU industry by fining US industry. She is gone. Apple will appeal to the courts, which have in past over ruled the Commission, but the chances are small of reversing this. After all, this is 'only 500 million' and this is Apple...
    EU wants to Apple to give away their technology and IP for free , preferably to an European company . What is the difference then between these people and China?

    robbery in a suit like EU is still robbery

    The difference is the Swedish owners of Spotify wanted Apple, which Apple did by the way fly out Apple programmers for free to help them use Apple’s API’s, Spotify also at the same time still refused to upgrade to the latest API’s Apple had released, this was all during their complaints about Apple to the EU, the Chinese, however would have taken advantage like they did with Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but at least they would have learned how to use the API’s so that you didn’t need to hold their hands.

    https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/China-Unveils-Worlds-1st-Meltdown-Proof-Thorium-Reactor.html  The Chinese wanted to learn how to make it the Swedes wanted life long hand holding for free.

    PS The development of Thorium Reactor that works means that within the decade, the Chinese will be open for business selling it to the rest of the world. Just another infrastructure project the US has to worry about…. (Also coincidentally remember Nixon and Kissinger 53 years ago they prodded China to join into to modernizing and trading with the rest of the world).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_visit_by_Richard_Nixon_to_China




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  • Five years of Apple Silicon: How Apple continues to revolutionize chips

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    nubus said:
    Did the change make increase the marketshare for the Mac? All the "it is fast" and "it uses less energy" are nice but did it really change anything?

    Who cares if it didn’t change the overall marketshare the most important thing Apple can do is to continue to move/push forward in comparison to the competition, market inertia is market inertia, in the next generation of Apple Silicon chips will hit a performance milestone which will eliminate all the excuses made by some of major software developers when it comes to Apple Silicon at the end of the day that’s all Apple can do. 

    Apples pursuit of performance and energy efficiency is way beyond their competition today who are still basically just cranking up the wattage and the mhz to achieve faster performance.

    I would love to see Autodesk, update their line of software (AutoCAD, Revit, and Navis Manage to work on Apple Silicon laptops and Mac Studios, which would make Mac PowerBooks unbeatable in the field at a job site trailer or at coordination meetings at someone’s office unplugged from a wall but market inertia prevents that. 

    Seeing the performance of Microsoft PC laptops (in comparison) in the field at a job trailer or at someone’s conference room today during a coordination meeting, is utterly pathetic too bad because you can’t expect to plug into someone else’s infrastructure (because of security concerns) on the road.

    I would not be surprised if Autodesk expects Apple to write them a check (which will never happen).
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  • New TSMC 1.4nm chip is destined for the iPhone 19

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    hmlongco said:
    Amazing how steadily TSMC advances these processes. It seemed to take Intel generations to go from one process to another.

    Intel was resting on their laurels like US Steel, Kodak or Xerox before them….
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  • US will not tolerate EU fine against Apple, says White House

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    sirdir said:
    shrave10 said:

    Whitehouse is right here IMO.  Unless Epic, Nintendo, and third party app stores for iOS all reduce their own commissions to developers to zero as well, Pres. Trump has full right to raise EU tariffs to the amount to recover any illegal fines to US companies.  

    It is not fair that all other platform vendors can charge a platform fee commission while Apple is not allowed to do same to recover costs of development, support, and marketing.  Core platform licensing fees can be negotiated to be on similar or even slightly lower than that of other platform vendors but it can not be zero.  

    Does Epic get a cut for each game Apple sells? See the difference? It’s ok for Apple to charge a fee on their store, but they have to leave their greedy fingers off everyone else or they hopefully get fined until they learn.

    By that logic since Apple is giving away access to their technology to Epic, shouldn’t Epic give Apple access to Unreal Engine? Turn about is fair play….
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  • US will not tolerate EU fine against Apple, says White House

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    drzaphod said:
    Even though i do not agree with all that EU does when it comes to the DMA, Trump is, as usual, wrong!

    Trump won’t be able to help because he does not understand and even more frightening his minions don’t either, in fact the politicians in Washington don’t understand either. Apple over the last 25 years since Steve Jobs came back to Apple didn’t go crying to government like Spotify and others to help them be competitive, almost every major development in the last 25 years Apple has made they pretty much had to build from the ground up with the occasional small acquisition (none were over three billion dollars) to support an existing on going project in house.

    The European Union is making a mistake by not attempting to establish an environment conducive to company growth, akin to the early Silicon Valley. This region boasts nearby schools, research labs, infrastructure, and a relatively open society in California, which contribute to its success. However, dictating competition is not a sustainable strategy in the long run.

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