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  • New York State Senate passes right to repair legislation

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    d_2 said:
    Is this really in the interest of consumers?  And, Who’s pushing this ?

    One would think the NY state legislature has a few more important issues to address. 
    In 2017, the HDMI port of a Macbook Pro of my company stopped functioning.  I went the official Apple dealer and repair center in my region, and it costed me 169 Euro + 21% VAT  to get it fixed.    When 6 weeks later my company had to file its VAT declaration, I noticed that the shopkeeper had made an administrative error, as such that my company could not recuperate the VAT.    I immediately informed the shop, requesting a corrective action.  The response was not what I expected: they recognized that they made an error, but it was too late to make a correction because their IT system did not support it  (which was, of course, BS). 

    So for the next repair of one my Macs I went to an unofficial repair center.  The people there were very professional, and they lacked the arrogance of the staff at the Apple repair center.  The repair went well and although I took a (relatively) small risk, I was a happy customer

    So the right to repair is indeed in the interests of some customers.    

    If you don't want to go to an unofficial repair center or do the repairs yourself, that's fine, but give me at least the choice.
     
    williamlondondarkvadermuthuk_vanalingam

  • Spotify now has 158 million subscribers as war with Apple intensifies

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    loopless said:
    And they are not inflating their figures are they? The growth seems unlikely given how popular iPhones are and I would imagine unless you really want to use Spotify you would use Apple Music. For 99% of people they are equivalent services and using Apple Music is frictionless.
    Isn't it a little arrogant to assume that a "normal" personal has to choose Apple Music iso Spotify.  Why the heck should I prefer Apple Music above Spotify?    I don't see any technical or commercial advantage.  On the contrary.  In my family we have a multitude of devices (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android). The Apple Music app for Android is no match for the Spotify app and a Linux version is simply not existing. I would not associate Apple Music with a frictionless experience.
    muthuk_vanalingamCloudTalkinapplguybshank

  • Australian antitrust regulator examines Apple, Google web browser dominance

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    lkrupp said:
    So if these motherhumpers have their way a user setting up their new device will have to download and install a browser ‘of their choice’ so as to appear to be ‘fair’? The user will have to download and test numerous browsers so they can make an ‘informed’ choice. No default apps allowed? And they’ll call it consumer friendly and promoting ‘competition’? What planet do these assholes live on. They want the user to slog through app after app and to decide which ones they ‘prefer’? Yeah, that’ll make setting up a new phone or computer an adventure in futility. What browser shall I use? What email client shall I use? What photo storage app should I select. PLEASE HELP ME!!!
    Don't assume that people don't know what they want.   I am using Firefox on all platforms (Windows, Max, Linux, iOS, Android), because it is fast, secure and it syncs  bookmarks, history and plugins.  No need to test numerous browsers. Just download Firefox (on Ubuntu it is pre-installed).

    But making Firefox the default browser on some platforms (e.g on iOS) is a different story.  And that is what need to be addressed
    williamlondoncloudguy

  • Microsoft releases M1-native Visual Studio Code for developing apps

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    Until MS releases SQL Server for Mac, VS is really going to be useful only on Windows.
    This is about VS Code not VS.   There is no difference between the Windows version, the Mac version or the Linux version of VS Code.  The developers of my software development company use it on all 3 platforms.
    nicholfd said:

    I disagree - it is a shitty piece of software that caters to the lowest common denominator (at least on the Mac).  It doesn't even follow standard macOS keyboard shortcuts, etc.  Simply an Electron app that runs crappy, and almost runs everywhere.
    That "shitty" piece of software has become market leader for Javascript and Python IDEs in less than 2 years and not without reason.   Only PyCharm (for Python)  and Webstorm (for Javascript) can be considered as real competition, but these tools cost a lot, while VS Code is free.  The rest of the IDEs on Mac just lack the feature set of the thousand plugins available for VS Code. And by the way you can easily change the keyboard shortcuts if you don't like them.
    jdb8167muthuk_vanalingam

  • EU winding down Apple Music antitrust investigation, charges expected

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    dewme said:


     I’m not minimizing the benefits that app developers bring to Apple’s ecosystem. The fact that they get to extract at least 70% of the selling price of their wares by riding on Apple’s global platform reflects Apple’s recognition for the value they bring to the ecosystem. The 30% at-most fee they pay for the privilege of using the vast (global) distribution and payment system that Apple has created and maintains in good working order 24x7x365 is a small price to pay and probably much less than what they’d have to pay to reach a tiny fraction of the market that they get exposed to through their business relationship with Apple.
    A company like Spotify is paying for a secure payment system around 2% for credit cards transactions and 0.5% for debit cards transactions.  The marginal cost for a global software distribution center for its iOS app is about zero, Spotify has already set up a secured distribution center for the Windows, Linux and Mac versions of its app.  Comparing this to the 15% to 30% Apple is charging, I cannot call this a small price. 

    Combining this with the fact Apple has a monopoly (the App Store) for the distribution of the iOS apps, Apple will have a very difficult task to explain to the EU that its way of working is in line with the EU rules of fair competition.
    avon b7williamlondongatorguy