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  • Spotify speaks out against Apple's 30% commission fee -- again

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    Spotify is literally the largest streaming music platform despite fact that all they really bring to the market themselves is an exclusive deal to help Joe Rogan spread misinformation. I could not possibly care less about their concerns. 
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  • Unity caves, is reconsidering new fee structure after developer revolt

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    Honestly, part of me loved the idea of having to pay on a per install basis but I can get why devs would hate it. 

    This could have decimated the crappy freemium game market and actually encouraged developers to charge for good games rather than trying to dupe users into becoming addicts. 

    That said it obviously should be per license not per download or install. 

    Really what we need are laws banning in app purchases for more slot pulls etc. when you pay additional money in a game it should at least be for cosmetics or tools, or levels or something. You shouldn’t be allowed to sell people in game consumables. It’s just ridiculous. 
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  • Apple's new iCloud+ tiers are too much for consumers, too little for professionals

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    It’s important to remember that Apple doesn’t always want to own every market that they’re they got rolled when Amazon cried antitrust over the Apple Book Store and if you notice Apple Books now gets the bare minimum in order to keep it number 2 in the market because they know if they ever fairly compete with Amazon again, Amazon will bribe people at the DOJ again. 

    Likewise with cloud storage, in a lot of cases Apple is essentially outsourcing their backend to Google or Amazon or somebody else, so they have no reason to want to steal customers from them.

    ICloud storage is primarily used for phone and iPad backups, as well as for iCloud Photo Library. It may also be used for things like storing large amounts of files in iCloud Drive.

    Typically you’re only going to see somebody using more the. 2TB if they’re sharing with family or shoot in RAW and use the photos app and iCloud Photos for managing their library. 

    Previously if you wanted more than 2 TB you needed to pay 30 extra for Apple One Premier. So compared to that, this is a great option. 

    Apple may some day come up with cloud integration for Final Cut Pro and Logic, but I kind of doubt it coming any time soon. Those use cases still benefit from local storage. I wouldn’t be surprise though if this is a precursor to enabling full blown iCloud Backup for for Macs. 
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  • iPad Air refresh could skip event for press release launch instead

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    If there’s no M3 which wouldn’t surprise me, then that would mean no iPad Pro refresh, no Max refresh unless the iMac was going to get M2. Everything else has already been refreshed.
    it does seem a little weird to have a whole event to spec bump the 10th gen iPad and the Air. So unless they’re totally overhauling the Air with something like Face ID. I wouldn’t be surprised if we only got one event this fall. 
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  • Russia bans officials from using iPhones in U.S. spying row

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    100% this is because Russia can’t hack their own employee’s phones and Putin wants to know who is plotting to take him out. 
    There are no other phones that Russia could be giving all these people that would be more secure than an iPhone. Certainly none that wouldn’t be affected by sanctions. 

    And using Android just makes them all a much easier target.

    100% this is because Putin wants to be able to read all the unsecured texts etc. 
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