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wood1208 said:

In Biden's administration, inflation went and going very high; Food,rent,daily necessity items prices skyrocketing. So, employers don't have choice not to raise pay for there employees. Apple is better company to recognize it and done it. Good to work for Apple.

Thanks for letting me know that Biden is the president of the world. Because pretty much the whole world has major inflation problem. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Perhaps Apple should sell its iOS products at a loss so it can claim they are specialty computer items? This is what it will come down to in the legislation. Why can the game stores on the Xbox, Playstation and Switch consoles be limited to the company that makes them? Because they are sold at a loss. Why must the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac app stores be open? Because Apple sells them at a massive profit. You the customer own them and you the customer have the right to do whatever you want to with them.

Of course iPhone customer can hack their iPhone and do whatever they want with it. But their ability to do it very. They can burn it if they want to. Apple will not care.

Apple also happened to own the App Store, so they can do whatever they want with it. They welcome anyone to join and sell in the App Store, as long as they follow App Store’s rules. This is no difference with any retailer or company.

will you want any company that want to do business with you but they don’t want to follow your rules?

highframerate said:

If you have some business plan or strategy where Sony could make $200 per unit on the PS5 and still sell enough to make money selling $70 copies of the Spider-Man game go ahead and share it. My guess is that you don't, and you don't care what happens to Sony or the console market so long as Apple gets to keep doing whatever Apple wants. You are probably ROOTING for the console makers to fail so Apple could take their place. Just as pretty much everyone on this site was rooting for Nintento to fail 5 years ago so Apple could buy them and make Mario, Link, Pokemon etc. exclusives on Apple TV (so that people would actually start buying them), iPads and iPhones.

Actually Sony has 4 major business that makes money now, PlayStation, Entertainment (Columbia, Sony Music, Manga), electronic and financial ( yes there is a Sony bank in Japan and they are doing very well. So don’t think Sony is just a one trick pony. Sony is doing much better than other major Japanese “electronic” companies, like Panasonic, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, etc 

Sony can start to make money on console so fast is impressive. But it mainly due to they have the know how to slim down the electronic. Just like at the size of first gen PS3 and the last one. Also, this time Sony mainly used off the shelf technology in PS5, no custom made CPU and GPU, no new format disk drive, so it save a lot time to get the hardware ready.

and no, there was a major shortage of PS3 in the beginning, because Sony use Blu-ray disks as storage media. It was state of art at the time. And Sony want to win the format war against HD-DVD. So they need to Blu-ray in PS3, not to mention the storage size is much bigger than dvd. They just make enough of it.

This bill will also make smaller platform much harder to survive. The resources of Facebook or Google is much bigger than Signal, AI or a random dog forum. 

My wife’s mini has tiny bit of it. But it is hardly noticeable.