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  • EU questions whether Apple has changed anything after its $1.95 billion fine

    sphericspheric
    rob53 said:
    As I've said many times before, people have plenty of choices on what products they want to buy. If you don't like Apple's way of doing things go with an Android platform or demand a company in the EU to build a new platform. Just because Apple's platform is the one many people want to use doesn't mean the EU has any right to tell Apple what to do. If you don't like what Apple is doing, find another platform. It's just like wine. If you don't want to pay for wine made in the EU, then grow your own, which the USA has done. 
    And in Rob53istan, where Rob53 decides what laws are made and what those laws should mean, that's the way it works. I'm a little surprised that in Rob53istan, the lawmakers don't have any rights to tell companies that operate there what to do and what not. Maybe the ruler of Rob53istan doesn't understand what laws are, how they work, and why they exist? 

    At any rate, in all other places, including the very real European Union, it is not Rob53 who decides how laws work and to whom they apply. 
    muthuk_vanalingamctt_zhwilliamlondon

  • Apple rolls out minor updates to iWork apps

    sphericspheric
    dutchlord said:
    iWorks is a joke. Just another hobby of Apple to keep people in the ecosystem. Only maintenance updates, no cross platform compatibility, zero innovation. 
    You could have legitimately argued your point fifteen years ago, except even back then, Pages ran circles around Word for layouting, and Keynote output production-grade video (I know of at least one media-agency former customer of mine who threw together a quick presentation demo in Keynote, which the client immediately signed off — so he just exported the final video directly from there). 

    They then sadly castrated the Mac versions in the name of cross-platform compatibility (with iOS and iPad, mind — not Windows). 

    But actual proof of viability came when Microsoft decided to „starve“ the newly emerging iPad platform by not making Office available for iPadOS (despite having a working touch-enabled version to blueprint from on Surface). 

    Turned out, people didn’t really need it. iWork was great, and it could work with MS Office files when needed. 

    Yeah, there’s some super-complex Excel stuff that doesn’t translate — but there’s some super-specialised Excel scripts that only work properly on Windows, as well. Edge cases, not
    relevant to the market at large — and certainly not to private use. 
    jony0

  • Apple rolls out minor updates to iWork apps

    sphericspheric
    Wow. Didn’t discontiguous text selection use to be a feature back around 2010? 
    appleinsideruserwilliamlondon

  • Future Apple Vision Pro may correct for vision problems without magnetic lenses

    sphericspheric
    ramanpfaff said:
    I really can't believe this wasn't in the first version. The technology isn't new. I go to the eye doctor and the software immediately determines my prescription and focuses the corn at the edge of a grass field. They need to have this built in to the software. 
    From what I can see, autorefractometers start at around €3000, used. 

    (Somewhere around 15,000€ new)


    watto_cobra

  • macOS Sonoma update fixes USB hubs, Java crashes, and more

    sphericspheric
    The biggest bug for my entire industry was iLok authentication for audio plugins not working natively. 

    14.4.1 fixed that bug. 
    watto_cobra