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Apple's 'California Streaming' iPhone 13 event invite has an AR Easter egg
Kinda cool. If you go through the portal and turn around, the logo is now a portal looking back into your room.
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Apple to adopt hybrid work model despite worker pleas for more flexibility
I think their model is more than fair. I especially like the two weeks a year of full remote work for those life circumstances that come up.It would be near impossible for Apple to maintain their level of innovation long term with a fully remote workforce. Like someone else said, you can’t mull over a prototype on Zoom.
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MacBook Air redesign will include iMac-like color options, leaker claims
In order to get the first gen of M1’s out the door ASAP they kept the existing enclosures so the engineers could design to known specs and thermals. Now with the benefit of time they are able to put out new form factors.I also believe this redesign will be for the next generation, not a mid-cycle refresh.I think the thin-ness of the render means the MBA will be stuck with a 720p camera. That’s too bad in this age of Zoom. -
Apple asks court to toss Epic Games lawsuit in Australia
Yes, but Epic is the one who initiated the lawsuit in Australia despite them contractually agreeing not to. They aren’t faulting Australian law or the Australian courts. They’re faulting Epic for once again flouting agreements in order to grandstand.crowley said:
Epic are claiming that it is Australian law that has been broken, not American law.larryjw said:
There are both international treaties and the doctrine of Comity which will apply. What standing would Epic have in Australia? They're an American company suing an American company and there is an alleged contract under American law.crowley said:
I'm not sure that Epic's contractual obligation would be of any interest to the Australian court if it's specific Australian law that has been breached, just as a breach of Australian law wouldn't be of any interest to a US court, even if there's a contractual obligation to litigate in the US. You can't contractually oblige yourself out of having to abide by a nation's laws.DAalseth said:Apple argued that Epic Games had contractually promised to settle any disputes or litigation with the Cupertino tech giant in the U.S.
Epic, for its part, argued that its case concerned "great competition harm" involving specific breaches of Australia law
So Epic responded to Apple’s argument by saying something utterly unrelated? Whether the issue involves “harm” and “breaches of Australian Law”, is not the point of Apple’s argument. Epic is contractually bound to settle this in the US. Anything else is just smoke.
I'm not on Epic's side (and I don't actually know if any Australian law has been broken), but I think in this particular regard they probably have it right.
Why would the Australian courts want to inject itself and sink its resources in dealing with these combatants fighting over the interpretation of American Law? Once the American courts have decided, then Australian courts might have jurisdiction on deciding how to deal with foreign laws.
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Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip
I had a strong feeling they would drop the new chips into existing cases. The iterative nature of new silicon design and new hardware design makes for a lot of moving parts in the development stages. This way the silicon designers have a set chassis and a set thermal envelope as their foundation. I believe they will introduce new designs next round. And I also think that’s when they’ll bump the camera too.As for the 16 Gig RAM limit, keep in mind they have tighter integration now. IOS devices can run laps around Android devices with twice the RAM. I think the same would apply here.
