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Ingila_Bear said:

"Yet Apple isn't shifting its iPhone prices dramatically lower to maintain its volumes; Samsung is." 
Haven't you heard of iPhone SE and iPhone XR (11)?

Hence the “...isn’t shifting its iPhone prices dramatically lower...”

g3. said:

anantksundaram said:

These stupid thumb-twiddlers who can't innovate to save their asses, going after US tech again...

Payments now. Pathetic. And ridiculous.

Limiting usage of NFC for 3rd parties is clearly anti-competition behavior. It’s like to say you will use only Safari at your iPhone because of security. It will not go like that forever. It can’t. Apple is just milking NFC payments and keep all generated on iPhone for themselves. 

More to say, apple pay didn’t improve “payment culture” in Europe much. When US was using swipe and sign, EU was doing chip and pin payments (more secure) and contactless payments were pretty common long before apple pay. In general, acquiring and payment services as such are more developed in EU - that’s for the innovations.
Main point is that Apple is really limiting developers to make use of NFC and deliver additional services on top of apple pay...

Me: let me add a bolt and a few locks to my store’s doors and windows FOR MY SECURITY and to keep my business safe, and thieves out
EU: that is anti-competitive because it doesn’t allow other store owners to use your store to sell their stuff
Me: *slap forehead*

Based on what’s stated on this article, it does sound like the developer has a case on two points. The only thing I don’t think they have a case on is the App Store issue. So after the NYT article his rating jumped from 143 to 13? Could it not be that the article itself caused a spike in interest, which caused an increase of downloads, which made it jump from 143 to 13? Isn’t that more likely than Apple adjusting the algorithm so they’ll move up in the results?

Four years and they can’t deliver because of Bluetooth implementation? Not sure I can buy into that explanation. During those four years there have been countless products released using that technology, so I don’t see how that can the the obstacle. I was ready to order one while reading this article and watching its video, but when I got to the part of the “reason” for the delay, I figured I’d better wait until they release it.

I experienced that as well. All is good now, though. And yeah, I’m sure there will be a few who will say iOS 12 is doomed because of this “hiccup”