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  • Apple is rumored to radically change up the iPhone 18 release schedule

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    Really can’t see this happening. Two years later, the market will think they are selling old stuff at new prices. 

    I can only imagine what Samsung’s counter-campaign would say. You just know they’d jump all over that. 

    Apple already sells old stuff at new prices with the m3 ultra Mac Studio and that has not gone over that well. 

    Put that on an iPhone level with the hot competition there and it won’t be good. Can’t see Cook going that route. 
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  • Tim Cook praises Trump in US tech titan meeting

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    Seems like a smart man’s genuine appreciation of another smart man. 

    Good to see. 

    Cook is they’re to look ahead and can see the potential blessing of current moves down the road  
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  • Epic vs. Apple: What Apple is being forced to do to the App Store

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    bulk001 said:
    Great overview. Seems like while Apple won the battle, Epic won the war! Every developer can now just link out without the Apple tax (though having run a medium sized online retail operation once, there are fees, expenses and just overall peace of mind that may not make it worth it for smaller devs to move away from Apple). For Amazon etc this is a big win. 
    The war isn’t over. 
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  • Epic vs. Apple: What Apple is being forced to do to the App Store

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    Apple has said they will appeal. It’s a very harmful ruling that misses on multiple fronts, not the least of which is value. 

    How valuable is it to have your product or service listed on the world’s most popular platform? So valuable that Google pays give amounts of money to be a default service provider. 

    Beyobd that, Apple hosts, serves, and Makeys the apps on its platform. Apple also build and provides the requisite programming languages and developer tools to create an app on their platform. 

    But that’s just the outer layer. 

    While we see many advertising their services on billboards, they are paying to do so. If these folks advertise their we site or whatever via a link, they’d better be need to pay for that. 

    But even that is just another surface layer. 

    It’s Apples platform. It’s apples store. If you sell something in a store, you get a commission. You offered shelf space, discovery, and promotion. Tje argument here is that the product is no longer on your shelf, because it’s on the developers shelf. But that not entirely true because there is not a sign residing on the shelf the app used to be. And that sign give directions to someone else’s store. 

    When did it become ok to: 

    1. post up a sign to your stuff in a someone’s store
    2. Do so for free
    3. expect that store to provide some level of support for your wares that they make nothing from. 

     I have a small amount of experience selling books with Walmart, Barnes and noble, Amazon, etc. and they all take a significant cut - even Amazon, and even when you are doing the shopping and everything yourself. You pay not only a recurring fee for the privilege of being on Amazon, but for the privilege of being seen on Amazon with a bite out of every sale. 

    Regardless? Just because another store does something a certain way doesn’t mean everyone has to do it that way. 

    These kinds of rulings are beyond fair and rational thpught. 

    Perhaps apple can do two stores under two different rules to satisfy the inconpetent judges and governing bodies:

    1.. the regular App Store which exists on-device with original rules. 
    2. A separate web based, Amazon style store that still takes a commission with a relaxed set of steering rules. 

    This way the developers have a choice. Either pay apple for their thoughtfully designed, user friendly App Store… or pay apple for their also thoughtfully designed “discovery store” which is nothing more than a billboard warehouse with inks to facilitate app transactions snd downloads via either there App Store or their websites. 

    Either way you dont get something for nothing. That’s basically forced salvaery to put apple to work with no reward. 
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  • Apple supplier Pegatron says tariffs will mean third world-style shortages for US

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    Wesley_Hilliard said:
    Ok Xed and 9secondkox2. You both clearly disagree on a fundamental level and keep turning threads into shouting matches and insults. Report posts you believe need to be addressed by mods, but refrain from responding to eachother for a while. This isn't productive. If someone believes a lie, you're not going to convince them otherwise in an internet forum. This isn't a place to convince anyone of anything anyway. Discuss the topic, share what you think, disagree even, but don't waste your breath trying to change people's minds on such a divisive topic.

    People that ignore reality will ignore evidence, no matter how intelligently and calmly it is presented.
    Wow. 

    I never insulted. 

    Also, there was a ton of educational value in my post as most here don’t understand what reciprocal means. Or even what tarriffs mean. You can cut out the parts where you think I was insulting. But no need to delete the informative parts. 
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