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  • News app Quartz removed from Chinese App Store amidst Hong Kong protests

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    mobird said:
    Taking wagers of how soon this discussion will be closed... :*
    Why do they allow comments on these types of articles if they’re just going to shut them down.
    muthuk_vanalingamStrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • After Apple's iOS 13 update, Spotify adds support for Siri

    rogifan_newrogifan_new
    Good. Now they just need to allow users to set default apps so you don’t have to say using Spotify every time you make a request. If Apple is going to be a services company then they should compete on those services. If Apple is the best users will select Apple apps/services as default. If not they’ll select something else.
    caladanian

  • Microsoft teases dual-screen Surface Neo notebook, Surface Duo folding phone for 2020

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    Someone needs to call Microsoft out on the BS of showing a device they admit will look different than what they showed off and it will be 12 months before it will ship. It’s basically vapor ware on stage just to get the writers at The Verge to wet their pants.
    mike54tmaymuthuk_vanalingamcornchipwatto_cobra

  • Apple's Cook addresses App Store monopoly, Apple TV+ launch, iPhone 11 in interview

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    avon b7 said:
    sflocal said:
    As a developer myself, it just irks me how other app developers are whining about Apple's curated App Store.  Look at the cesspool that is Android and it's easy to see why Apple has NOT adopted such an open model.  I find it hard to believe that any app developer worth their weight would complain about Apple's App Store and its policies.  They were probably still in diapers when the "old" way of marketing one's own software independently and hoping that marketing would be enough to actually sell it, and in any decent quantity to make a profit.

    Apple makes a lot of money for developers.  If you're not making much - or any - money, it probably has something to do with your app being crap, and not Apple.  The ability to make an app and have it available to hundreds of millions of people with little to no effort by the developer still amazes me to this day.  There is no way I would ever want to go back to the "old days" of going to CompUSA and buying software in big boxes.

    Whiners should just go to Android if they want the Wild West.  I'm happy Apple keeps the store to themselves.  To open it up to 3rd party stores would open the iPhone to the limitless security problems that is Android.

    No thank you.
    The issue is not a curated app store. Apple can have that without question from anyone.

    The issue is if Apple's store should be the only store on iOS devices.

    We'll see how the different investigations come down on that question. It isn't a given that they will rule against Apple but the question needs to be asked and answered at a 'competition' level.
    So if there were other app stores who would oversee them and maintain quality? Would the apps there be following the same developer guidelines and using the same API’s as Apple’s App Store? Would developers be selling apps in both stores? Do Google and Microsoft allow other stores on their platforms? Or is the other store the ability to download directly from the web?

    Apple just announced they’re going to allow competing messaging apps to be the default with Siri. I suspect that will happen with audio apps soon too. And I’ll bet within the next year or two Apple will allow users to set default apps. If they do all that I think the complaints about the App Store will fade away. 
    tmaywatto_cobrajony0

  • Editorial: Apple faces entirely new challenges with Apple TV+

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    sdw2001 said:
    rogifan_new said:
    Modern TV shows suck. I wish Apple would get the rights to some older/classic shows. One of the reasons I subscribed to Netflix is it was the one place you could stream The West Wing and The Wonder Years. I’m sure others were there because of Friends or The Office. Amazon Prime had the show Thirtysomething but it’s currently unavailable. The hard part is a lot of these classic shows are owned by media companies with their own streaming services coming. 20th Century Fox is owned by Disney, WarnerMedia is owned by AT&T, Paramount will be owned by CBS, and of course NBCUniversal owned by Comcast which has the Peacock stream service coming.

    I just don’t see how Apple TV+ can be successful with just original programming or well known franchise. People aren’t going to sign up for all these different services. They’re going to pick a couple and ones that have a back catalogue of stuff will be more enticing. I still don’t think Apple has done a good job explaining why Apple TV+ exists. Does Apple think there’s not enough TV content available? Do they think the TV content from everyone else is crap and they’re going to do TV programming better? Wall Street will say it’s a way to extract more $$ out of existing customers. But that’s not why you design and build a product. 

    I agree with much of that, with the exception of "modern TV shows suck."  I would argue that the last decade and a half of TV has been the best ever.   Think about the shows that have come out or existed since 2004:  

    Lost
    Breaking Bad
    The Wire 
    Dexter
    Sons of Anarchy 
    Rescue Me 
    Better Call Saul 
    Justified 
    The Sopranos (still going in 2004) 
    24 (still going throughout 2000's and 2010's)
    Homeland  
    House of Cards
    The Walking Dead 
    The Colbert Report
    Fargo 
    The Americans 
    OITNB 
    Veep 
    The Deuce 
    Game of Thrones
    Mad Men 

    I've seen most of these, but not all.  There are a lot of misses, but we are in a golden age of TV at this point.  




    I was being a bit hyperbolic. Though I don’t know if I’d say this era is the best ever. Still I think Apple I’d screwed because getting rights to legacy content will be nearly impossible.
    mobird