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I and the twitter board can't wait until Musk takes ownership of Twitter and promptly drives it into the ground.. it'd be a nice analogy to his self driving deathtraps.

Ah yes, a new Apple has lost their <insert Mojo / Soul / Identity / Innovation / Lead> due to departure or absence of <insert staff member / hardware partner / next big idea / production advantage / culture / focus > article.

It's funny how over the years the Apple death-knell articles has never truly gone away, and in retrospect they've always been so incredibly off the mark. While the tech press was hammering down on Apple seemingly having lost interest in the mac, Apple was in reality putting the finishing touches on their most ambitious mac hardware releases in history.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Sounds similar to the same issue iPads have when connected while using the Photos app (constantly reconnecting as if it's been plugged in anew).

Now is probably a good time to mention the Vinegar app. Gives you PiP and a lot of the basic iOS video playback features that Google deliberately block*

*for what merely appears as competitive reasons.

davidmalcolm said:

What these politicians fail to realize is that as soon as you take payment processing out of Apple’s hands, you take refunds out of Apple’s hands. Suddenly these companies are allowed to lie cheat and steal from people as soon as they get their credit card details, and it’ll be up to the credit card companies to refund for scams, which they often won’t do. 

Get ready for a figurative tsunami of seniors getting scammed by third party apps. 

It also harms small developers, especially those in countries known for fraud where one might not be willing to entrust them with your credit card information. This entire play is a big developer dream (no surprise who is lobbying for it as well). One can see it already, small developers are going to get screwed by this while big developers cash in.

The whole point of Apple handling the finances was that you didn't have to think about the opposite end, they were never getting your details and if there was a problem Apple would just refund it.

I can also foresee the politicians attempting to blame Apple for the spike in payment fraud that will come about from this change.