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  • Compared: Apple AirTag vs Tile Pro and Chipolo One Spot

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    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.
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  • LG considers exiting smartphone business after $4.4B loss in 2020

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    Kuyangkoh said:
    avon b7 said:
    lkrupp said:
    It really boils down to two, Apple and Samsung. The others are totally irrelevant, including Google’s Pixel which isn't even a blip on the sales rankings. So it wouldn’t surprise me to see some bureaucrat decide that government subsidies are needed to keep ‘competition’ alive, or to force iPhone clones into being. 
    Well, really it doesn't.

    BBK, Honor, Xiaomi and Huawei are far from irrevelant. 
    If Apple and Samsung have 99.5% of the profits, where does these far from irrelevant others have? .5% basically?? So how can they survive if they only have .5% of the profits?? I must be out of this world thinking 🤔 

    Apple and Samsung don't have 99.5% profits. In 2019 they had 84% of the smartphone market profits with about 60% of revenue. The rest of the players (like BBK, Xiaomi etc.) account for 40% revenue with 16% profits. Apple's profit share was 66% and falling YoY. 

    (2020 numbers show apple falling further, but I am not taking the 2020 numbers seriously due to the tremendous disruption caused by the pandemic)
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  • Teardown shows 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard's revised mechanism

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    Guess this is the nearest we will see apple kind of accepting that the butterfly was a flawed design. Going back to the old working design with very minor changes. They probably can't talk more about the reason for dumping butterfly and going back for fear of litigation.
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  • Apple accused of stealing dual-camera technology used in latest iPhones

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    applesauce007 said:
    There’s enough meat to this story to make it seem credible.  The company is definitely not a patent troll.

    If everything turns out to be true, it’s not a good look, and it’s more than just a disagreement on patent validity...

    It’s full blown IP theft, which I despise.
    I think Corephotonics has no case if the Apple patents are valid.
    The iPhone 7 came out years ago, so why didn't they sue?  Because they knew that they had no case.
    Many of the cell phone cameras have similar technologies but once key features are patented and the patent are valid, that's it.
    You can't sue a company for using their own valid patented technologies instead of yours.


    Please read the full article, full timeline is given. They did sue apple for patent infringement within an year (after attempting talks for a few months). Apple was engaged with them for 4yrs before they brought the tech out into an iphone. Their patents are older, and they have had the tech since 2012.

    Prima-facie this looks like a strong case, and possibly even legitimate.


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  • How to check which Mac apps are 32-bit and won't work in macOS Catalina

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    AnotherBrick said:
    Over the last few Mac OS updates I have gotten a message about my Canon printer and the fact that it has a 32 bit driver. No link, no name about what you should download, just that the driver will soon cease to work. 

    Go to Canon website, find the update drivers, then put in the printer model. It’s a printer/scanner, about 4 years old.  The model is a MG 7520, so select Mac drivers and look for a newer one. Then look at the one already installed. Other than a few digit difference after the decimal point, it’s the same number. Download and install anyway. Next point upgrade for the iMac get the same notification that the driver soon won’t work. 

    Do do an online search to see if it’s KNOWN that this printer will not be supported on the new OS. The 7520 series is supposed to be Mojave compatible, per Canons website. 
    I have a canon printer-scanner too which came with the 32-bit "Canon IJ Scan Utility". You need to download the newer version "Canon IJ Scan Utility2" which is 64-bit if that is the software you have.
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