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egpu support?

Did Apple use their copyrighted images, or did Apple change the coloring of images Apple owns the copyright to based on the idea of the CCI? Sounds like the allegation is the later which is not a breach of copyright law. If Apple made a minor alteration to their own copyright protected work to change the color pallet, then CCI can only possibly be alleging that Apple's emoji icons are very similar in design to their's. And since Apple released their yellow emoji icons much earlier than this, the only angle CCI has here is to actually claim that CCI was actually copying Apple's images and just changing the color.

At best for CCI. This goes nowhere. At worst, Apple file a countersuit citing this suit as evidence of willful breach of copyright of Apple's emoji images. Hundreds of copied images. That will likely get expensive for CCI.

ArianneFeldry said:

Apple is stealing money from their users.
If you signed up through Apple, then bought V-Bucks through the App Store, and never created a full Epic account for use with other devices. You're screwed. Apple disabling Sign in With Apple leaves these users with nothing.
This is incredibly screwed up for Apple to do this, and completely sours me on the service knowing that if Mozilla gets their developer certification cancelled for whatever reason, my Firefox account is gone along with my Pocket account.
What a boneheaded move from Apple, this move only harms the users of the app, not Epic.

And yet it was Epic that broke the contract and forced Apple's hand. What exactly would you have Apple do when a company decides to not comply with their contract? Just ignore it and allow the eco system to crumble into an insecure nightmare of malware as every other developer decides to ignore the rules too?

Epic put user's accounts at risk without asking the users. Not Apple. They put their own business and income at risk without asking the shareholders. Not Apple. They constructed a co-ordinated and premeditated attack on their contract with Apple, a contract they entered into of their own free will with full knowledge of the rules they now dispute. Epic put their hand in the mousetrap with full knowledge of what they were risking. The pain is not the mousetrap's fault.

ITGUYINSD said:

SpamSandwich said:

Apple could cap to a 20% commission, but add other fees. Apple’s costs don’t drop just because political meddlers tell them to drop them.

LOL!  I don't think Apple is just squeezing by on the current 30%.  Seems every quarter, Apple is making record BILLIONS in profits on their services.

Literally, everything Apple does is high-profit.

And you want Apple to only do moderately profitable things instead of high profit things? Tim Cook's legal responsibility is to provide the best profit he can to Apple's investors, like all those retirement accounts that have AAPL shares in them. Are you wanting him to take money from investors and not give them the best return he can? Do you know he's legally required to give them the best return he can? They would every right to sue, and they'd win, if he guided the company to abandon high profit lines of business for things he knew to be lower profit.

Apple won't cave on adding third party app stores for Russia. They'll stop selling in Russia and there will be plenty of enterprising Russians who will purchase elsewhere and import them themselves. Apple won't lose a nickel and Russia consumers will end up paying more to the middle men. And Apple won't pay taxes to Russia for the phones it didn't sell there.

If there is only a rate cap, then Apple will simple start charging fees for all the developer tools and services to Russian developers. And they'll be quite substantial if they are set based on the quality and value of the tools. Before ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder came along (the precursors to XCode), CodeWarrior was over $1000. And CodeWarrior was no where near as full featured as XCode.

I've never had a problem with iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iCloud. I remember creating my iTools account way back in 2000 a couple of days after it was released. I've used services from iCards through to all the new iCloud hotness of today and never had a problem. My email always works. Calendars and contacts always sync. iDisk always worked for me, in both incarnations. I hosted a website in my account for several years without any problems. But I've seen many other people have strange problems, especially with sync issues. I helped some people with issues during the .Mac days which is when the syncable services started, but it was mostly during the MobileMe era that I saw people have the most issues. But again, mine has never once skipped a beat in over 20 years. I'm feel rather old all of a sudden.