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I wonder if the thief was actually caught, since the story doesn’t say (nor does the original source report). Very odd bit of info to leave out.

sirdir said:

This was 100% clear from the beginning. An Appstore is not “sideloading”, who would have guessed . Now just the fees have to go. If you don’t use any of Apple‘s services, why would you pay them.

“I don’t drive on that particular local highway, why should a portion of my taxes go for that?”

timmillea said:

Just how many years can Apple go on thinking that 256GB is sufficient, even for an entry-level model? I know streaming is removing much of the need for storage but most people have a large back-catalogue of DVDs and Blu-rays which we want stored at high quality plus our lives' music and photo collections. Then there is the requirement for working storage. Even if you just want to make a Youtube video to share with friends, there is a large amount of space required during editing. 

I would have thought Apple would have upped the entry-level storage by now, before its reputation is (further) tarnished. 

If you have a catalog of media, consider an external SSD drive for that -- that's what I did (and I have the 512GB internal storage model). That's what freed up a lot of space on that 512GB for production work, which as you say can sometimes (coughADOBEcough) require a heck of a lot of working space.

Just to offer some clarity: there is a difference between “saving what amounts to bookmark on your Home Screen” and a Progressive Web App. The former is just a convenient way to open your browser and go to a site in a single step. The latter seeks to “appify” the site and make it work as much like an app as possible. Some sites offer this ability; most don’t, and in any case very few people actually use PWA technology at all.

Here’s what will happen: Apple will explain to the EU that their rules require that PWAs run on ANY browser engine. Some alternate browser engines are fine, like DuckDuckGo and Firefox, which are more-or-less as private and secure as Safari’s engine. Other ones, even well-known ones like Chrome, act as a pipeline of information about the user and their choices direct to the engine maker, i.e. Google. Others that might get into the business of browser engines might seek to open up attack vectors to the device. This effectively defeats Apple’s efforts to protect users on the web.

Massiveattack87 said:

AAPL needs to bring more innovative ideas here. 
Their games are just childish.. 

Nothing what I would play longer than 2 days... 

Apple Arcade is not aimed at competitive gamers like teens and adults.

It is aimed squarely at the casual game market that made it king of mobile gaming. In particular, Apple aims Arcade at families with children.