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  • Epic Games argues Apple has app monopoly, should make iOS more like macOS

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    davidw said:

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    Quizzically, the Epic attorney also likened Apple's App Store to a scenario where if the iPhone was a car, Apple would take 30% of what the driver had to pay for gasoline.

    This is a load of baloney. I don't pay Apple a bent penny when I use one of the Apps on my phone to pay for the charging of my car.  The charging company had my card details. They don't take 30% when I use Apple Pay on my iPhone even for Gas/Petrol.

    I really hope that the Apple legal team objected to that statement. If they didn't then why not?

    Wasn’t the actual quote. It makes sense in context. It falls short only in that the situation applies to apps, not games.
    This isn’t the actual quote and they certainly are not talking about literal gas. It makes sense in context. However it falls short in that the presented situation applies to apps, not games.
    No, it does not make sense in any way. A car is essentially useless, without buying gas for it. But a mobile phone is still essentially perfectly functional, without ever having to pay for any apps. This is why any car and gas analogy with mobile devices and apps, never makes sense, in any context. The the sales of apps on a  mobile device are like the extra money car dealers makes on a car they sold, if the customer brings the car in to for servicing and repair. 

    And car owners are most likely not buying gas from the dealer that sold them the car, which is why the dealer doesn't make anything on the gas sale. But if the gas station was on the dealer's property, the dealer will get a cut of the sales. Epic has a "gas station" on Apple's property. 
    I think you are reading too much in to it, but really all of these analogies are dumb. The App Store is not like a gas station, it’s not like a rail road, and it’s not like a brick and mortar store. We really just need to end all of the nonsense comparisons. I think all the people commenting here with weird analogies is proof in point.
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  • Epic Games argues Apple has app monopoly, should make iOS more like macOS

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    ‪If I was Apple, I would not mind spending a few billion to make an example out of greedy Epic @EpicGames .I would just ask Epic in court:”So you want to use our brand & services for essentially free? Do you think we are in communist China?Since Epic is owned by Tencent of China.”‬
    The Chinese government has no stake in this. This is just conspiracy theory. Correlation is not causation. If anything the current AppStore model gives the Chinese government more leverage since they can demand Apple block apps.
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  • Spectre comes back from the dead to haunt Intel chips

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    jdb8167 said:
    I know that Apple's Arm CPUs use micro-ops but I don't know anything about if or how they are cached. The caching of micro-ops is the source of this vulnerability. In general RISC CPUs have much simpler decoding so it is possible that micro-ops aren't cached at all or the cache structure is much simpler. Someone with more knowledge of Arm CPU Architecture should chime in.

    Edit: And apparently SMT (also known as hyper-threading) is involved. Since Apple's ARM SoC cores don't use SMT, it looks like they are safe from this.
    The memory model of ARM makes these types of attacks more difficult. Micro-ops are fixed length and shouldn’t require much caching unlike Intel/AMD. This is also one of the main reasons M1 has such amazing single threaded performance since it isn’t limited by the decoder. The x86 ISA should die already.
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  • A 24-inch 4K monitor & Mac mini is a good option versus the Apple Silicon iMac

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    dope_ahmine said:
    I really want to buy the new iMac 24”, but how do I combine it with my PlayStation 5? I have only room for one monitor on my desk.
    PS5 supports remote play on a Mac. Only 1080p, but it does support HDR.
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  • Lossless streaming option for Apple Music may launch within weeks

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    The referenced article is not explicit about an extra fee. It says $9.99 tier, not a $19.98 tier. It also says it will be the same price as the standard plan. 

    Additionally it says this “Speculation within the industry suggests Apple's move is to provide a more aggressively priced, higher-quality option after Spotify announced this week it was raising prices.” 

    This suggests Apple plans to significantly undercut Spotify’s price. If this were an extra fee, it would not be undercutting Spotify.

    Are we sure they are talking about it being an additional price in Apple’s case? 

    Apple may just be absorbing any extra cost to increase subscribers and to bring more music fans in the Apple ecosystem. They could then use Apple Music to drive more users to other Apple services. Apple tends to not like to make extra money over specs that don’t require physical hardware changes, so if they were forced to do add a fee by the industry I would expect it to be a smaller increase like Amazon’s. If they don’t increase the price, it gives Apple bragging rights that their service is superior to others. 

    Lossless was also something that deeply interested Steve Jobs, so I think Apple would want this to be for everyone simply in his honor.

    EDIT: All the other Apple news sites seem to be interpreting this the same as me.
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