22july2013

I suspect that most car manufacturers know that the average consumer is too dumb to know the difference between original CarPlay and the latest CarPlay updates. But once consumers learn the difference, car manufacturers will update their products.

The current situation may also be partly exacerbated by the worldwide chip shortage. Newer products probably require newer chips.

I eagerly look forward to buying an Apple Car, largely to stick it to the current car manufacturers who refuse to give me what I want. But it's looking more and more like I won't live to see it.

In the current Apple App store, the fees collected from the apps which cost money are covering the cost of ("subsidizing") Apple's work providing free services for all the developers who don't pay any fees because they don't charge anything for their apps. This won't work for free apps on third party app stores, because Apple won't agree to be subsidizing those free apps. Therefore the whole idea of a "free app" on a third party app store won't exist, because Apple will charge a flat fee for every download from third party app stores. Of course, the third party app store owner could pay Apple the per app download fee to allow for free apps on their store.

Also, it's worth noting that one of the many services that Apple provides for free are the ability for those apps to communicate with Apple's online servers. There are many APIs that Apple provides which are not only free to incorporate into an app, but communicate with Apple's servers for free services, like push notifications. All that would be gone for any apps on third party app stores, because Apple would either block those APIs from being compiled with apps on other app stores, or would be able to detect that the app was downloaded from a third party app store and block free access to their online services.

I worry that companies like Google or Facebook will tell their partners not to use Apple's app store, or those partners will have to pay more for all the services they get from them. The could spell the end of the Apple App store.

I'm not sure what features Microsoft Authenticator provides, but my guess is that the features of Microsoft Authenticator app for watchOS overlap with the new Passkeys feature that Microsoft, Google and Apple are now rolling out for each of their OSs.

A tapered design where the monitor is basically thin at the top and thicker at the bottom could avoid the need for either a chin at the front or a bump at the back. And Apple has done it before with iMacs, which had a really fat middle, tapered to the edges.

JP234 said:

22july2013 said:

Maybe the future of social media is one social media engine used exclusively by conservatives, and a different one used exclusively by socialists. Companies with a political agenda will use only one of these two engines, and they won't even advertise on the engine that doesn't suit their own political agenda. Neutral companies may never be allowed to advertise on either platform because they will be banned by each platform if they advertise on the other platform.

Basically, you have to pick your side before you can interact with anyone on the Internet. Ultimately, socialists will have their own nationwide VPN and conservatives will be forced to have their own too. This will finally bring peace to the Internet. At least nobody will argue about politics anymore because everyone will be on their own political VPN.

Calling MAGA extremists on Twitter "conservatives," and everyone else "socialists" reveals your MAGA sensibilities. Get over yourself, or get off AI.

You've actually just proved my point. You are literally calling for me to leave this website because you can't handle opposing views. Thanks for agreeing with me.