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  • Tim Cook praises Trump in US tech titan meeting

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    mrstep said:
    9secondkox2 said:
    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  
    We had 50 years of US leadership selling out our manufacturing base to a Communist regime and it seems most people are only angry at President Trump for trying to change that course.  The CCP is literally fascist. 🤷‍♂️ 

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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:
    The economy is crashing. Ports are empty. Truck drivers have nothing to transport. Shelves will soon be empty of key goods. The dollar is dropping. Jobs are being lost. People aren't buying anything. There's no flow into the treasury. Our national debt is going up as a result of these tariffs as Americans do without. The global trade continues with the US removed unabated. We're the only ones harmed by this action. No one is negotiating anything.

    So yeah, great plan all around so far.
    Meanwhile China is removing some tarriffs snd msking exemptions. 

    Like I said before, it’s too early. Less knee jerk reactions and more balanced analysis before we see the ultimate results. 

    Nobody like a fight. But sometimes they’re necessary. And when you fight, you don’t do so just to fight. It’s to win. So far, we are seeing other countries wilting. 
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