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Probably the only thing I would change about this iPad is get rid of the lightning connector and move to USB-C. The rest of the ipads are all USB-C, and it would have been good to move to that for this one too.

Epic's case seems very weak. There really is no anti-competitive angle to this case from Apple. Epic wants to put their games on the App Store without following some of the rules, that is it. I think they are going to lose this big time.

Spotify to some extent, and Tile to a large extent have better cases. Because in both those cases Apple is both the storefront and a competitor. So, it is atleast a debatable topic and hopefully something useful and fair will emerge from those cases.

Apple has every right to completely remove the app store and sell a phone with only apple created apps. Nobody stops apple from doing that.

But since they have created an app store where third parties can sell their ware, they have a legal obligation to maintain a fair market. They can't have their cake (by getting all the third party app ecosystem) and eat it too (by using anti-competitive measures against these third party developers). Remember, the legal suits and complaints are by these third party developers and not by the government. They have every legal right to expect a free and fair market and to sue when they don't get it. 

It is not too much to ask that every apple app also pass through the same gates that third party apps pass through.
Apple apps should have access to the same capabilities that third party apps do.  (Otherwise how is it different from IE and Netscape?)

I think Apple is using its market power here in a little bit of anti-competitive behaviour. Airtags will get access to the full apple ecosystem for detecting tags while tile can only access the part of the ecosystem that uses tile app. So, unless apple makes available the BLE capability of the full ecosystem to Tile, they are forever handicapped and can't hope to compete with Apple. This one is going to be tough to defend in the court.

leighr said:

spock1234 said:

leighr said:

So, just wondering, does Apple also promote other religions such as Christianity at Easter?

Passive-Aggressive much?!  Apple is not promoting any religion - it’s just using a festival to promote their products. 

Why do you care anyway? You people don’t believe in Science, and think that everything was created by the invisible man in the sky. So, accept that this is all part of His plan and stop whining!

Besides, Apple is in the midst of reworking their India strategy. Apple is using this occasion to promote the iPhone because most Indians celebrate Holi. If a billion Indians celebrated Easter, Apple would promote that too. 

So, perhaps I should have said: Does Apple do anything to “Mark” other religious festivals such as the Christian celebration of Easter.  Just wondering, as it seems that people are ok with mocking Christianity, but respect all other religions. Just an observation. 

Yup. Remember at all the Christmas ads by apple and every other vendor that is out there?