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  • Apple to reportedly remove app that enabled Google Stadia on iPhone [u]

    roakeroake
    coolfactor said:
    I normally defend most decisions that Apple makes, but this feels like a dick move to me. Unless users are somehow put at risk, I can't think of a single reason for the removal of this app. And I'm not a gamer.

    If this app is putting users are risk, then I support its removal, with the condition that the issues be addressed. But I'm learning towards Apple just not liking that something is competing with Arcade and their "service" revenues.
    Even if that is the case, the Developers have agreed to Apple’s Terms prior to even getting the development kit.  With apps like this, they are in violation of that agreement.  Apple IS a business; they did not spend tens of billions of dollars building the infrastructure just because of their altruistic nature.  I don’t understand the argument that it’s a “dick move” not to allow Google to utilize that infrastructure for free (or at all for apps in violation of the Agreement).  This app was 100% written to get Google Stadia on iOS devices in violation of the Agreement.  If I were this developer, I would have been shocked if Apple DID NOT remove the app.

    Someone better at it than me should check to see if this guy had any professional ties to Google.
    mac_dogaderutterwilliamlondonraybowatto_cobra

  • Apple to reportedly remove app that enabled Google Stadia on iPhone [u]

    roakeroake
    elijahg said:
    Would like to hear what the people who say "just play the games in a browser if they're rejected by Apple" have to say about this, which is just a browser using WebKit, but with controller integration. Again Apple's response to a fear that someone might make a couple of dollars outside the App Store is to close them down.  The more Apple tightens its control, the more belligerent they appear, and the more likely they are to end up on the sharp end of the antitrust stick. It's really disheartening to see Apple's response to the antitrust investigations expose a total lack of awareness for their customers and the developer base, when it's always championed the mantra of equality. There's nothing equal about a $2tn company rejecting an app from a developer who is probably part time, trying to put food on the table.
    You've missed the point.  This free app allows Google to bypass the app store rules.  Google is the major benefactor here, not the browser developer.  Since the app is free, it hardly puts food on the table unless perhaps he has a commissioned deal with Google, which would make this highly suspect.  Perhaps the app is ad-supported, allowing Google to collect bits of your privacy and intrude on your personal life.  Even if he does only "make a couple of dollars outside the App Store," he should know to adhere to the contract he signed in order to become a developer with the option to publish apps in the app store; he should know that if he does not adhere, his app is in violation of the rules and will be rejected or removed.
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  • First Apple silicon Mac could debut on Nov. 17

    roakeroake
    designr said:
    Rayz2016 said:
    designr said:
    I'd bet on a MacBook Pro as the first.

    The first round of customers for Apple Silicon Macs seem likely to be developers. A new MBP would be a good start here. Plus they can likely hide any increase in BOM cost more easily in a higher cost machine. They can also show off the power they can do with early AS chips without doing a full Mac Pro or iMac just yet.

    Seems like a nice middle ground between consumer and high-end pro.

    I think they’ll go for the lower end machines first.  Consumers are less concerned with what’s running inside the machines. Developers will need to see stuff like Docker running reliably.  I’m just guessing though. 
    I think the issue early on might be availability of 3rd party software products. But maybe they're already there though and that will be announced at the same time.
    As far as I can tell, existing Mac OS software will run on it.  While the underlying processor is different, the operating system is the same from a third-party programs perspective.
    watto_cobra

  • Samsung mocks Apple for removing power adapters from iPhone boxes

    roakeroake
    cloudguy said:
    Yawn. 

    1. Need I remind people that Apple burst into public consciousness with their 1984 attack ad against IBM (and by extension Microsoft and Intel) in the first place?
    2. This is quite mild compared to Apple's years-long FUD driven "privacy! security!" advertisements and public statements with their recent commercial depicting people shouting credit card numbers and medical test results taking the cake. (Especially considering that while iOS may be secure the apps on it - Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc. - are not, and that their "complying with local laws" makes the entire ad campaign outright false advertising since it doesn't have a "we protect your privacy so long as you stay outside China!" disclaimer).
    3. And as if Apple has never done this before. The stylus anyone? (Despite Apple and its fans various methods of backtracking and recontextualizing that infamous statement.) 
    4. If we were include the statements Apple fans - that Apple never disavowed - we can include: screens bigger than 4 inches, OLED, smart watches, mobile payments, wireless charging, CPUs with more than 2 cores, more than 1 GB of RAM, various types of multitasking, widgets, customizable home screens, app draws etc. All criticized by the Apple community as gaudy, poorly designed desperate gimmicks for years before Apple adopted them. Now that Apple has gotten a lot faster at adopting Samsung and Android tech, the criticism has basically stopped - very little mocking of foldable phones for example - because now everyone knows that Apple is going to adopt it if it sells.
    5. By the way ... Samsung never did and never will adopt the notch or anything resembling Face ID. (Which Apple is going to ditch in a couple of years.) And they only ditched the headphone jack in Galaxy Note and Galaxy S devices. Meaning that the vast majority of the phones that Samsung sells still has them. 
    Lol.  Unapologetic troll.

    They DID adopt something resembling Face ID, but it could be fooled with a low-res photograph displayed on another phone.  Or maybe you mean they never adopted something like Face ID that actually worked.

    watto_cobra

  • Only 10% of analyst's survey respondents plan to buy an 'iPhone 12' in 2020

    roakeroake
    They didn’t poll me.  I’m going to buy one.
    tommikelewatto_cobra