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  • EU's antitrust head is ignoring Spotify's dominance and wants to punish Apple instead

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    We should also recognize what Apple has done for its developer community in terms of turning over languages like Swift to the open source community. This has allowed Swift as a language standard to grow much more quickly and over a broader range of contributors than it would have done had Apple kept it proprietary to their own developer community. 

    I know that Swift isn’t the first time a company released something they paid to develop to the public. What impressed me was the fact that they did so very early in the language’s evolution and didn’t pull any fast moves to bind adoptees to Apple’s whim. Other companies have typically done similar things only after they’ve amassed a large number of adopters and gotten their developers ahead of the pack. They also didn’t move to standardize it under a standards body that has less industry clout than OSI, like Microsoft did with ECMA. 
    tmayteejay2012watto_cobra

  • EU's antitrust head is ignoring Spotify's dominance and wants to punish Apple instead

    dewmedewme
    Correction to my earlier post; 1.8 million, not 180 million. My apologies. 
    watto_cobra

  • EU's antitrust head is ignoring Spotify's dominance and wants to punish Apple instead

    dewmedewme
    jimh2 said:
    Apple's 30% is highway robbery.

    Once Apple is forced to allow normal software installation on iDevices, I won't care what they charge.  As far as I'm concerned, they can charge 99% on their app store, and I wish they would, it would encourage developers to pull their apps off of it and distribute from their own websites.

    But since Apple still doesn't let us install software normally, I'm looking forward to the EU punishing them.
    You really have no clue as to how the selling of anything works. With your logic Walmart would not be permitted to apply their overhead costs (taxes, insurance, rent/mortgages, compliance, employees, travel, maintenance, training, etc.) to their items. If Walmart can buy a bike for $50 they should have to sell it for $50, which would at a loss.

    Apple will win as the software tools to create an App are not free and $99 is a token amount that assumes they will make money off of the App Store. 

    It is safe to assume if Apple added a setting to block 3rd party app stores the vast majority of users would select it. The EU is catering to a bunch of grifters with Spotify being the largest. Were I Apple I would drop the price of Apple Music to $0 and choke Spotify out of business.
    Apple’s $99 per year fee for developers is the deal of the century for anyone who has done professional software development on Windows. I recall spending north of $1500 USD for individual MSDN professional versions. The lowest subscription price for MSDN professional is around $45 USD per user per month. Enterprise subscriptions are $250 USD per user per month. 

    I’ve always felt that Apple priced its developer plans and App Store fees to allow individual and small independent software d
    badmonkwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • EU's antitrust head is ignoring Spotify's dominance and wants to punish Apple instead

    dewmedewme
    jimh2 said:
    Apple's 30% is highway robbery.

    Once Apple is forced to allow normal software installation on iDevices, I won't care what they charge.  As far as I'm concerned, they can charge 99% on their app store, and I wish they would, it would encourage developers to pull their apps off of it and distribute from their own websites.

    But since Apple still doesn't let us install software normally, I'm looking forward to the EU punishing them.
    You really have no clue as to how the selling of anything works. With your logic Walmart would not be permitted to apply their overhead costs (taxes, insurance, rent/mortgages, compliance, employees, travel, maintenance, training, etc.) to their items. If Walmart can buy a bike for $50 they should have to sell it for $50, which would at a loss.

    Apple will win as the software tools to create an App are not free and $99 is a token amount that assumes they will make money off of the App Store. 

    It is safe to assume if Apple added a setting to block 3rd party app stores the vast majority of users would select it. The EU is catering to a bunch of grifters with Spotify being the largest. Were I Apple I would drop the price of Apple Music to $0 and choke Spotify out of business.
    Apple’s $99 per year fee for developers is the deal of the century for anyone who has done professional software development on Windows. I recall spending north of $1500 USD for individual MSDN professional versions. The lowest subscription price for MSDN professional is around $45 USD per user per month. Enterprise subscriptions are $250 USD per user per month. 

    I’ve always felt that Apple priced its developer tools, developer programs, and App Store fees to allow hobbyists, makers, individual and small independent software vendors (ISVs) to get professional level tools and support services, like beta testing, storefront, distribution, billing, updates, user reviews, etc., at very low cost to these developers. The big ISVs can already afford to take on all of necessary costs and effort themselves, so they’re basically getting to ride on Apple’s gravy train less than they spend on “free” coffee for their staff. 

    IMHO anyone who thinks that 180 million app developers would be better served by hosting their own web based e-commerce sites, update services, advertising, etc., knows very little about what it really costs to develop and support a software product when they’re paying for everything required out of their own pocket.

    It’s ironic that those who are presenting themselves as victims of Apple’s generosity are largely capable of doing and funding everything on their own. 

    Again, it irks me to have these regulators and politicians state that they up in Apple’s shorts to save US from Apple. Based on Apple’s customer loyalty and product attachment rates I’d say that the overwhelming majority of Apple customers aren’t looking to be saved. It’s largely those who are already raking it in when playing by Apple’s rules (terms and conditions) that aren’t content to only get a free ride, they want to drive the train and harvest even more from Apple’s massive and largely captive customer base. 
    teejay2012tmaybadmonkwatto_cobra

  • Apple Notes in iOS 18 looks to up the ante with Microsoft OneNote

    dewmedewme
    mike1 said:
    Wesley Hilliard said:
    mike1 said:
    I really hope they separate the scanning capability from Notes.
    It really should be part of Camera. Open camera app, select scan, take pic (scan). Ask me what to do with it (like a screenshot does). Message, email, save to Photos or Files, save as Note etc. 
    I often need to send PDF scans of documents. I never need to save them as a note.
    Using this feature as a part of Notes adds a lot of unnecessary steps and time to the process, including deleting the unnecessary note I just created.
    There's an app for that!

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-scan-quick-scanner/id6477965455

    And it's $20. I know there are scanning apps out there. Was glad to delete the one I was using for native functionality. No reason Apple couldn't or shouldn't do their own better too.
    If you have a scanner or multifunction device, like the Brother MFC-L2750DW, the Preview app does extremely well as a scan-to-PDF document tool. I use it all of the time to scan multiple 2-sided hard copy documents from the MFC device feeder to multi-page PDF documents. This particular MFC device scans both sides of the pages at the same time so it is very fast. The Contact Sheet view in the Preview app allows you to reorder, move, and delete individual pages in the PDF file, which comes in handy if some of the scanned pages are blank on one side.

    Despite all of the improvements in iPadOS for handwritten to text conversions I still feel far more comfortable in meeting using a paper notepad or graph paper to jot down notes and sketches. To keep my notes from piling up on my desk and to preserve them for archival purposes I periodically scan a stack of my notes into a PDF file and give it a name that conveys the time period of the archive. Yeah, I'm still killing more trees than I'd like to, but I've never adapted to writing or even sketching on-the-fly during meetings on a tablet. I also use Microsoft Lens to capture whiteboard images and add them to my archive files as well, alongside my notes. Greatly reduces clutter and file cabinet space.
    watto_cobra