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JWSC said:

I imagine the initial AppleBank™ rollout could feature blockchain based AppleCoin™ operating at near break even margins to support fast banking services growth.  Imagine getting reasonable interest rates and no nickel and diming customers with hidden fees.  Imagine an open and honest bank.  It would be revolutionary.

It would also be damn near impossible because doing so would create a long list of business and Government enemies for Apple.  Any moves in this direction will have to be turtle slow.  But one can dream.

I would love to see Apple get in to both crypto and trading. Secure crypto storage feels like a core Apple competency. Not sure about AppleCoin, but an environmentally friendly crypto option would be great. We need to get away from the Chinese coal burning crypto mining farms.

This feels like an Apple Car financing move. Hopefully they follow Tesla and take on auto insurance too. AppleCare for cars. Would love to see improved Mac financing too. They really should have 2-3 year financing for Macs to reflect most peoples upgrade cycle better. It used to be 18 months, but dropped back to 12 months with Goldman Sachs.

Any idea if the A13 actually has access to the display? I was wondering if they are using chips with graphics defects.

MacsWithPenguins said:

When I see these screenshots of the knitting app, I envision a web app, which you put on your iPhone homescreen. In iOS 15.4, Apple is seemingly adding push notification support to mobile Safari, bringing it up to par with the push notifications already in place on Safari for MacOS. It would be a perfect homescreen app, with zero app approval, and 100 % profit to the knitting app creators (minus fees for credit card processing and loads and loads of ads and other marketing promotions via Google AdSense and social media.)

Apple is also increasing the size of their Safari team. This might be good news for PWAs. I think a lot of stores and brochure type apps would be better off as a PWA. It might also reduce pressure from regulators.

This rule was created for Amazon, but Apple usually enforces their rules the same with everyone so they don't need to say they created the rule just for Amazon. 

At this point I think Apple probably needs to do something to reduce their market influence or they will keep getting targeted by anti-trust regulators. As cases like this come up, it tells regulators that companies can’t run their businesses and manage customer relationships the way they want. The regulators then take the worst possible action to solve the problem because they are lawyers not developers. I'm not an advocate for Android-like side-loading, so hopefully Apple finds a better compromise to lower the temperature. It could be better support for PWAs so developers could opt out of paying Apple commission for their closed SDKs and use cross-platform PWA SDKs instead. This would be a safer way to side-load. With WASM it is even possible for some native-like development.