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  • Steve Jobs' signature on 1976 Apple check will fetch thousands at auction

    baconstangbaconstang
    It trips me out when I see these items.
    I opened a WF account in 1976, and used that style check for years.
    48 years later, I'm still a WF customer...
    watto_cobra

  • After 14 years, Apple has finally retired the famous MacBook Air wedge shape

    baconstangbaconstang
    Still lovin' and using my 9 y.o. 11" MBA.  So nice, small and light !
    watto_cobra

  • New class-action lawsuit says you pay too much for iCloud

    baconstangbaconstang
    Xed said:
    2) There are plenty of other server OS options and plenty of third-party SW that runs as a server on macOS if you need it. You could’ve also not installed a major macOS update that deprecated a feature that you still wanted to use. None of this is difficult to understand and non of it is reasonably class actionable.
    The deprecation is why I still have a machine running Mojave to deal with my Aperture library.
    watto_cobra

  • New class-action lawsuit says you pay too much for iCloud

    baconstangbaconstang
    Every morning I wake up hoping to be able to shed the unbearable burden of the cost of keeping my data SAFE with Apple. 

    I'm going to start planning how splurge that 99¢ I will be saving every month!
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  • Imminent DOJ antitrust case against Apple is in final pre-filing phase -- probably

    baconstangbaconstang
    gatorguy said:
    gatorguy said: That said, by now I'm confident you've realized the basic premise for your opinion that "market share is irrelevant" is wrong, and that's what led to the back and forth posts since.
    My comments about market share weren't wrong. Epic already failed in U.S. federal court with Section 2 arguments so ultimately Apple's market share WAS irrelevant to a successful prosecution.

    Read the judge's comments. Epic attorneys erred in arguing the "relevant market".  From the judge himself after the ruling:

    "Given the totality of the record, and its underdeveloped state, while the Court can conclude that Apple exercises market power in the mobile gaming market, the Court cannot conclude that Apple’s market power reaches the status of monopoly power in the mobile gaming market. That said, the evidence does suggest that Apple is near the precipice of substantial market power, or monopoly power, with its considerable market share. Apple is only saved by the fact that its share is not higher, that competitors from related submarkets are making inroads into the mobile gaming submarket, and, perhaps, because plaintiff did not focus on this topic."

    In case you missed it I'll offer it again: According to the judge in the Epic case Apple is only saved by the fact that its (market) share is not higher...
    You two should get a room already...
    williamlondon