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  • Apple protests criticism that it's not complying with EU laws

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    xyzzy-xxx said:
    The latest that I have read is that Apple will not be allowed to notarize any app from an alternative app store. Hands off completely? Call me crazy but that sounds like the EU commission will take some responsibility for app safety. I would think, if this is true, that Apple will need to change the warranty on iPhones, to exclude coverage on phones that have installed malware that have damaged the phone or caused any security issues. Of course iPhones can be reset (in most cases if not bricked) but you would really need to trust the developer and the alternate app store. No thanks for me.
    Where did you hear that? Currently Apple does the notarization (and check for malware) for alternative app stores.

    https://twitter.com/KayJebelli
    Interesting detail: the EC told Apple that they aren't allowed to notarize apps to protect users. So "government authorities are the ones that are going to have to step up to protect" app developers and users from the risks of these 3rd-party apps.

    https://twitter.com/POB_journo/status/1529848339679875074

    He called it an “aberration to democracy that a company, as innovative as it may be, believes itself to be more of a custodian of public interest than democratically elected governments.” https://pro.politico.eu/news/150294 Full interview out soon.
















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  • Apple calls 128GB 'lots of storage' in new iPhone 15 ad

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    Anilu_777 said:
    People forget that if you store photos in iCloud you have to still keep them on the phone. If you delete them they’ll also delete from iCloud. I have always purchased the 256 GB phone and only recently have I found it going above half-full. I have Apple One for the family so its 2 TB of storage means no-one will lose their photos. If the family helps pay it’s worth it. 
    There is File App for iCloud Drive that can be used for storage, should you want to delete photos, or other files, as an example, from the iPhone.

    I just tried it on my obsolete 7+ and it works, but it isn't very intuitive. 
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  • Apple believes Spotify wants a free ride, and the EU may just give it to them

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    Good time to post this about Spotify changes in terms on Audiobooks;

    https://storyfair.net/spotify-modifies-terms-for-audiobook-rightsholders/

    [Tucson AZ, Feb 15, 2024]  A recent, significant change in Spotify’s terms for audiobook publishers and rightsholders allows Spotify to “reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, [and] create derivative works from” audiobooks. (Shout out to StoryFair author Amy Shojai for bringing this to our attention).
    Appears as those changes are not in the best interest of publishers, authors, or human narrators, but that continues a tradition of Spotify taking advantage of rights holders.


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  • Defining the Pro in Apple Vision Pro: Who is Apple's target professional?

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    wisey said:
    The article demonstrates a singular lack of vision and imagination.  Many thousands of people work in control rooms with multiple screens and information input.  They are the people who would benefit most from an Apple vision pro.  For example, a busy news room, a person with a Vision Pro would be able to direct people, stories, videos, and other input from multiple sources.  The writer clearly has never been in a busy stock trading room or a cryptocurrency trading room, where many people are frequently watching three monitors at a time and talking on two phones.  An Apple Vision Pro could be used by airport controllers who may be directing 15 aircrafts taking off and landing at a time.  These are the people who would need a device like this, not construction workers.  Military use of the Apple Vision Pro will blossom.  I also think that the Apple Vision Pro will be used by serious gamers.  
    I'm working with a guy in Aerial Mapping. Most of his hardware goes on a aircraft, or drone, and he is looking at building his own ground station. 

    The VP would work very well for the interface to the ground station network hardware, and better than that, the VP is mobile enough to transfer into and out of vehicles to be used by a passenger.

    Myself, I await Autodesk, SolidWorks, et al, to create connections to MCAD software.
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  • Unsurprisingly, Mark Zuckerberg believes Meta Quest 3 is the 'better product, period'

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    avon b7 said:
    tmay said:
    avon b7 said:
    He's doing what he has to do so I wouldn't expect anything less.

    The same applies to Tim Cook with, for example, the AI references. 

    Open formats would definitely be preferably for content like AR etc.

    The industry knows where it's going. I haven't seen any changes in direction in years. 

    It's waiting on various technological advances to reach objectives and fighting on price. Some playing to the lower end (with obvious trade offs) and others to the higher end (where cost is a key factor. 

    The industry will converge somewhere in the middle at some point but reducing the 'visor' element is obviously a major goal. 

    Compute can be largely off loaded to the cloud in the near term and that will help with the physical constraints and maybe initial cost. Charging and battery considerations will improve greatly in short order too. 
    Interestingly enough, Apple continues its notable advantage in edge computing, minimizing or eliminating the need for cloud computing. The penalty Apple pays for that is the weight, and mass imbalance, of the VP, and of course, the battery pack. 

    But Apple's VP hardware architecture does provide a very low latency solution, that cloud computing cannot.

    Meta and Apple chose different paths, with Apple choosing the more difficult path of technological leadership. Both are evolving their solutions as we speak.

    Who wins is to be determined, but I wouldn't bet on Meta, a company that hasn't been able to create much of a user base for all of its efforts.


    I think I generally use a different definition of 'edge computing' to yours. I use it in an ICT context. 

    To clarify, I'm not referring to cloud usage today. I'm talking about what is scheduled for 5.5G where latencies could be far below what Apple is achieving today. That is being rolled out in a testbed operation in a part of China today and due to begin shipping in 2025. 

    There were demos of the technologies during the last few MWCs (pending standardisation).

    The other cloud related problem is bandwidth and storage capacity (also to be resolved with the arrival of 5.5G).
    Your assumption that 5.5G would be pervasive enough for consumers in the U.S. or even the EU, is misplaced, and China is undergoing an economic dislocation, so I wouldn't count on widespread 5.5G in China anytime soon either. More to the point, I doubt that Meta is counting on massive Quest sales in China, nor would there be much benefit. Please note that China has edicts in place to reduce gaming by children and teens. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-issues-draft-rules-online-game-management-2023-12-22/ I wouldn't even expect pervasive 5.5G prior to Apple's 3rd generation VP arrival, sometime in the next 5 years, and even in that case, the VP will not be reliant on cloud computing anyway.
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