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  • Apple came to Ireland to build a community, not skirt taxes, Tim Cook says

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    nunzy said:
    Tim said it.

    I believe it.

    And that's it.
    What a great example of critical thinking

    Apple choose Ireland as its European headquarters for a number of reasons: EU membership, relatively low wages, high quality educational system, low taxes, native English speaking people, .... The community argument does not belong in this list.    The community is Ireland in no better than the community in Belgium , Sweden, UK, or any other EU country.

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  • Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal about iPhone App Store antitrust suit

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    From a consumer point of view there is no anti-competitive behaviour: you cannot buy a Mercedes at a BMW dealer.  

    For an app developer this is a slightly different story.   You can only sell your iOS app via the App Store, at the business conditions imposed by Apple.   This might be considered as anti-competitive behaviour.   But of course this is not at stake at the Supreme Court
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Here are all the big changes to Apple Maps from 2017 through 2019

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    macxpress said:
    simply258 said:
    AppleInsider said:
    In a bid to beat Google
    Let's be honest, that will never happen in the Maps arena.
    What exactly makes Google Maps so special these days?
    2 points that makes Google Maps much more useful than Apple Maps.
     - the global coverage.  Apple announces support for public transport city by city, Google does it country by country.  At the pace Apple is announcing a global coverage of public transport will be for the next century
     - the integration with search engine.  You look for something in the search engine and the location is automatically available in the Google Maps on any device you have.
     
    For developers: integration in your own developments.
    muthuk_vanalingamargonaut

  • Apple's 2019 iPhone lineup may mark the end of the Lightning connector

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    gutengel said:
    I don't really see Apple dropping the lightning connector. Lightning is smaller, more robust/durable, better designed than USB-C, plus MFi program makes some bucks to Apple while they can do some quality control. I would say they'd go completely wireless after lighting.

    However, it'd be pretty cool if they implemented the Smart Connector (from the iPad Pro) across the line as support and accessory port, but it doesn't feel like they are really pushing that connector into the market.
    My experience with the defects of my lightning cables/connectors and my USB-C cables/connector is crystal clear:  USB-C is more robust and the difference is not close.  And it is very logical: the contacts of a lightning male connector are naked.  The contacts of a USB-C male connector are inside the connector.

    It is not without reason that on Mac Apple has moved fully to USB-C
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple isn't doomed because it didn't release new Macs and iPads at WWDC

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    slurpy said:
    I don't know how actual heavy users of Apple products (not trolls that pretend they do) could not have come away from this WWDC extremely happy and impressed.
    As owner of an app development I was not disappointed, but also not impressed.   There was nothing new announced that made me say: "wow that is cool".  It was a mixed bag:
    • performance improvements in iOS are nice
    • running iOS apps on a Mac is much more a marketing story than a actual and practical solution. The moment you want to develop a high quality Mac app, making using of the features of a Mac, you will need more than just repackaging the iOS app
    • Siri shortcuts is a natural evolution which I like but at the same time the announcement masked the fact Apple has been unable to remedy the existing shortcomings of Siri.   The gap with Google and Amazon voice assistants will not be closed in the short term
    • Nothing was announced about the evolution of Swift.  Given that WWDC is targeted at developers, this is worrying.
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