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'The Morning Show' wins Apple TV+ its first Emmy
This might be a better story for the Oscars.. it's the wrong logic for the Emmys. Especially since they had opened to online-only shows 7 years ago and the winners are decided by peer voting. E.g. The same people who get hired to make these shows are the people casting votes.entropys said:Here is how you would write this story as a screenplay:
Apple Executive: Dear Hollywood, we tried really hard to beat all the other streamers out there with a very limited range of expensive, highly engineered content
Hollywood Establishment: Dear Computer Industry Intruder, we don’t like deep pocketed, unapproved upstarts invading our turf. So what if you spent bucket loads on your projects and got 18 nominations. Just take the nominations and this single win in the way it was intended, as a participation trophy.
Apple Executive: [says nothing, looks shocked and crestfallen]
Hollywood Establishment: And stay off our lawn!
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Arlo launches wire-free video doorbell with square aspect ratio
Just a reminder that Arlo are nice on paper, but horrible in practice:
- Finding the relevant video is near impossible and the recordings always start too late regardless of the sensitivity setting. (Had entire parcels get delivered without any video recording.)
- Scrubbing the video isn't possible (must always download it in full first because their servers are slow af)
- The detection features are bizarre, expect lots of recording of moving foliage and not a lot of people.
- Add ons like the solar panel aren't sufficient to keep the camera charged without intervention
- Entire add-ons like the plug-in system were abandoned because they weren't even slightly moisture proof and the system itself would throw errors after long term use.
Etc. etc. The hardware looks nice, but that just hides a rubbish, poorly thought out system that clearly no one over there uses themselves.
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Korea investigating Apple and Google over in-app purchase costs
A retail rental construct includes conditions based on earnings - this is something many developers have never had to experience due to their business solely living through the internet.
This act of protesting the 30% fee is merely going to bite them in other ways. Let’s say Apple allow 3rd party payment processing, instead they can rightfully demand a fee for the apps place and activity on the store.
Secondly removing Apple from payment professing doesn’t remove them from disputes: Developers can expect their apps to be frozen and investigated for their activities. Developers can experience first hand how a group of fraudulent competitors can make a series of complaints to their payment system provider in order to have them blocked from service.Developers of titles like fortnight with their fast rise to millions of players would literally have to become as large and proficient as Blizzard to cope with the consumer aspect that Apple currently handles.
Then there are the end consumers, who have to deal with a magnitude of different payment processing platforms, and the perhaps tricky ways that they are implemented from application to application in order to fool users into paying for more than they want or need.Developers are looking at this with a very short sighted point of view - any of the proposed changes will hurt small developers, and force large developers to be constantly on defense.
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Spotify supports Epic Games' private antitrust action against Apple
Spotify and Epic really haven’t thought this through. Epic’s goal is to force Apple to have their own App Store, because you can’t force the App Store to not levy some kind of charge for its service.If this is forced upon Apple then they are now in competition with Apple on Apple’s own devices: a bit like Microsoft being allowed to have their games store on the PlayStation; it doesn’t work - Apple could then use “build your own App Store” as an easy excuse to remove any delinquent titles such as Spotify - Then compete them out of existence with their home advantage.
3rd party app stores only “work” on Android because they’re preinstalled and run by the same people making the Android device. Eg Samsung has its own store for their own devices. Other 3rd party stores do not enjoy any kind of penetration.
The idea of replicating the Desktop Steam or Epic store on iOS is completely naive: Apple run the hardware, even on desktop most of the Mac Steam catalogue became extinct after the switch to 64 bit, and more will follow this with the Apple Silicone switch. Apple don’t need to protect competitors like they do their own App Store developers, and emulators don’t work forever.
No matter how this goes, it doesn’t bode well for Epic or Spotify.
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LG UltraFine 5K Display listed as 'unavailable' through online Apple Store
These screens are a nightmare. If Apple kills and replace it, it would be a blessing.
They were supposed to be the 3rd party answer to the discontinued Cinema displays (i.e. combining a Display with USB hub, webcam + microphone + speakers). However for they have been causing regular issues especially with mac laptops:
- The screen is known to reliably crash the mac (Fortunately recent macOS updates appear to be limiting the scenarios when this occurs.)
- The screen may or may not wake from sleep, or force the system to crash/reboot when in sleep.
- If it does wake, it'll often wake "late", meaning the desktop/windows are flying back and forth across displays
- After waking, the screen may exhibit unusual flickering lines (resleeping/waking the display does seems to resolve these however)
For the cost of the screen and the fact that it's sold 1st party from Apple (with no true alternatives from Apple) is a disgrace to the brand, one of the strongest motivators I have to buy through Apple is knowing that the hardware isn't going to crash my system or generally misbehave. Additionally because it's 3rd party: all attempts at resolving the issues lead no where, if you don't refund the screen within your 2 week grace period, you're stuck with a very expensive lemon.
