EsquireCats

It's kind of funny how they get labelled as a monopoly, even though they are the minority product and have even lower market penetration in Europe compared to English speaking markets. The somewhat creative narrowing of the definition of a monopoly requires quite a bit of mental gymnastics and assumes that consumers are blind to the marketing of other brands.

What I also find interesting is that these cases are popping up from the same countries, despite there being no meaningful change in the market, app store rules, or even the estimated app store growth %. Then when taking into account the proposed fines, it just looks like a shake-down, rather than trying to correct any legitimate unfairness. 

Thus it's clear to me why Apple isn't making any preemptive changes to their operations - it seems that these lawsuits will arise no matter how Apple operated its business. Much in the same way that Apple only pays the taxes it owes rather than guessing where the tax code will go, Apple are now likely to only make changes to the app store model when it's legislated, anything else is irresponsible leadership.

These kinds of judgements ring of protectionism. Not only does Apple not have a market majority world-wide, but penetration of the iPhone in Europe is significantly behind other 1st world markets.

It's clear this judgement will go back to appeals, since the accomodations required by the Dutch are beyond the scope of satisfying the judgement.

I somewhat doubt that a new iPhone to be released in October will share the same processor as the recently announced budget iPhone SE.

Mike Wuerthele said:

EsquireCats said:

Not measured here are the myriad of other issues with the LG UltraFine 5k, including:
1. slow wake time or more rarely unresponsive to waking.
2. backlighting issues best described as the macbook “stage light” problem.
3. The “hydraulic” adjustment system is jerky and requires two hands to operate, it’s also is easy to de-level the screen.
4. The apple community forums are full of system crash complaints related to the LG screen. Particularly if using a macbook pro with dual GPUs.
5. Colour consistency is poor with a noticeable gradient.
6. Sometimes the display will wake with a stripe of offset pixels.

One final note: the apple display has their typical hard glass surface, the LG has no protection, it’s just the cheaper plastic-feeling deformable/soft layer

These issues were mostly resolved after the shielding fix was applied after about the first year, and after another unspecified change was made prior to the second iteration.

The second version of the monitor released about four years ago is very clearly what the display should have been at release.

Actually no - the Wifi issue was fixed with the second version.
The other issues still stand - I'll add two more: the autobrightness control "forgets" where it is. So the screen may be at "max" setting, but actually is only at 70%, and there are plenty of reports of the plastic chipping too.

It's always been a dud display and introducing the XDR was clearly not the core reason Apple stopped selling it.

Not measured here are the myriad of other issues with the LG UltraFine 5k, including:
1. slow wake time or more rarely unresponsive to waking.
2. backlighting issues best described as the macbook “stage light” problem.
3. The “hydraulic” adjustment system is jerky and requires two hands to operate, it’s also is easy to de-level the screen.
4. The apple community forums are full of system crash complaints related to the LG screen. Particularly if using a macbook pro with dual GPUs.
5. Colour consistency is poor with a noticeable gradient.
6. Sometimes the display will wake with a stripe of offset pixels.

One final note: the apple display has their typical hard glass surface, the LG has no protection, it’s just the cheaper plastic-feeling deformable/soft layer