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  • Senate lawmakers introduce bill targeting Apple App Store, Google Play

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    designr said:
    p-dog said:
    rob53 said:

    The politicians are listening (being bought by) to loudmouth, greedy developers. I wish they would listen to users instead. If they did, we’d want a closed, secure, easy to purchase App Store. 
    They are also acting on behalf of Microsoft, who has been in the background trying to manipulate the situation the whole time, yet somehow a $2+ trillion market cap tech company not subject to any of this round of “regulation” or even minimal scrutiny.
    I've not been following this closely (or thinking about all the players and their motives). What does Microsoft have to gain here?
    Microsoft is upset that they have had apps rejected. They also see the App Store’s arbitrary rules as a risk to their platform as a service strategy.
    designrwatto_cobra

  • IDC: Mac shipments grow slightly year-over-year in Q2

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    Demand is outstripping supply at all of these companies, so it is hard to draw firm conclusions.
    FileMakerFeller

  • Microsoft, Apple feud over xCloud got Shadow pulled from the App Store

    InspiredCodeInspiredCode
    We hear “the app was removed by accident” far too often.
    Oferprismaticsjony0

  • 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.
    jdb8167killroywilliamlondonlolliver

  • Lossless streaming option for Apple Music may launch within weeks

    InspiredCodeInspiredCode
    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.
    lolliverwilliamlondondope_ahmine