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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

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    At the moment, this is little more than a loss of prestige for Intel. 

    The problem will come if Microsoft decides to put some effort into its own ARM strategy.

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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

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    crowley said:
    Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard them say ARM once.  I wonder if that means anything.
    Good point. 

    But Apple doesn’t use ARM reference designs, just the instruction set, so they’re not really ARM chips from a hardware viewpoint. 
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  • App Store policy and developer fee drama won't change Apple's ways at all

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    This article misses one vital point when comparing Hey with other apps that do nothing until you sign up. For one thing, there is a good chance that customers will already have an account before they download the app. But that’s not it. 

    The other services have a page where you can sign up, so Apple can actually check the process and make sure that their customers are being signed up securely and Hey is charging what they say they’re charging. 

    Hey does not have a sign-up page on its website. Or if they do, it’s hidden until you email them and they give you the URL. Why is that? Is this an email service or a crack house?


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  • Hey email CEO says App Store policy dispute is not about the money

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    I’ll tell you exactly what this is about. 

    $99/year
    $349/year 
    $999/year 

    for a basic email service. 

    If he uses Apple’s payment system, those prices would have to be shown on the Hey app page in the App Store, where everyone who downloads the app would be able to comment on it. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want that. 

    So here’s the real argument he’s trying to hide:

    If he uses Apple’s payment system then he is actually being denied the opportunity to explain his eye-watering pricing to customers before they show up on the App Store and see them in the drop down. 

    Likewise, if his customers decide that $999 per year is too much to pay for a two-character email address without a personalised domain, then under Apple’s system he will be denied the opportunity to talk them round or, more importantly, give them a pro-rata refund (which I’m sure he would do). 

    This is what he really means when he says Apple is inserting itself between him and his customers. 

    So, to start with, Apple needs to allow the developers more control in allowing refunds and setting the refund amount. The problem with this of course is that someone will be required to arbitrate if the customer and the developer disagree, and since Apple doesn't know all the details, what then?

    But look at this from Hey's point of view:

    Someone comes to the app store, looking for an email app. They sift through all the free ones, and then come across Hey. They pull down the subscription drop down and see:

    $99/year
    $349/year 
    $999/year 

    That's his problem. When you're used to wandering around the app store and seeing $1.99, $2.99, $4.99 … you're going to spit your cappuccino when you see $999 against any app, especially one that is just a front end for a basic email service.

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  • Hey email CEO says App Store policy dispute is not about the money

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    Mmm. 

    For $99 a year you only get 100GB of email storage. That’s not good.

    And it appears there are more expensive plans for the unwary. 

    Ulta-short 2-character addresses like [email protected] are $999/year, and 3-character addresses like [email protected] are $349/year. All other @hey.com email addresses, 4-characters or more, are just $99/year.

    Whut? 

    Those are the prices they’re charging for addresses that don’t even have personalised domains? And he accuses Apple of extortion. No wonder he’s trying to drive the argument away from the money. 

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