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The article comments “ It removes a potential revenue stream (one these companies seem to have no intention of pursing anyway)”

I for one pay a subscription to Nintendo just to be able to play all the old games. Software piracy costs Nintendo. It’s a crime, plain and simple.
 

Apple have made some puzzling decisions with recent iPad releases. Cheaper models with features people want on the Pro model, limited differentiation between models and a confusing mess of accessory compatibility limitations.

Hopefully, the long wait for new models means that Apple have taken the time to resolve the problems. I think the Air might be ready, if it is they need to hold it until the Pro is ready because if they release a new Air that is better than the current Pro people will lose their minds.

This is great. Swift Data was a huge announcement at WWDC last year. Now beginners have some up to date tutorials that build with the latest technologies.

But these tutorials are not enough. Apple really need to update their school curriculum materials for Swift UI and SwiftData. Those teaching materials are now very old and outdated.

i don’t see a link in this article to where Apple made these comments. perhaps someone can point it out to me.

Muons-R-Us said:

 The same is true of the totally absurd accusation that Apple is deliberately blocking Android messaging formats from iPhones -- solely to profit from forcing people buy iPhones! 

What makes the iMessage accusations absurd is that the very fact the Messages app has different color bubbles is because it is interoperable between different messaging services.

All the antitrust accusers are completely confused because they don’t realize there is a difference between the Messages app (which supports multiple messaging protocols) and iMessage which is one of those protocols. One that runs on Apple servers (at considerable expense) to provide added value for Apple’s customers.

The antitrust accusers seem to think that Apple should run iMessage for everyone in the world and allow third party apps to build businesses on top of it that pay Apple nothing. But there is already messaging interoperability between Apple’s Messages app and the rest of the world because Messages supports not just iMessage but also SMS and soon RCS.

There are other messaging services out their whose apps are closed systems that do not have interoperability, Apple’s Messages app is open.