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Your typical home Windows users does not see $1000 notebooks as affordable or reasonable. They have been using the sub $600 POC's not knowing there is a better experience to be add once you get the $1000 or higher. They will not spend the money and no Mac users are jumping ship. Everything more or less stays the same. The shame of it is acting like this is the only computer that can do AI even though Apple has had the equivalent set up 4-5 years ago. The media consists of a bunch of dull tools buying whatever line Microsoft will give them.

"Recall" is something that employers will love. Makes current monitoring look amateur. 

jellyapple said:

Did any one of them foresee the imminent need of end-point AI on iPhone and on Mac? If one does, they are qualified CEO candidates.  

What about putting a SIM/eSIM on a MacBook Pro? 

What about a MacBook Pro AI Pro?

Still need to wait 10 years?

Why in the world would you need a SIM/eSIM on a MacBook Pro. I use my iPhone and it automatically figures it out when I am out of WiFi range. There are no upsides unless you are one of the people who will not have a smartphone. It is also is another device on your account with an associated monthly cost. Someone please enlighten me.

VictorMortimer said:

Apple's 30% is highway robbery.

Once Apple is forced to allow normal software installation on iDevices, I won't care what they charge.  As far as I'm concerned, they can charge 99% on their app store, and I wish they would, it would encourage developers to pull their apps off of it and distribute from their own websites.

But since Apple still doesn't let us install software normally, I'm looking forward to the EU punishing them.

You really have no clue as to how the selling of anything works. With your logic Walmart would not be permitted to apply their overhead costs (taxes, insurance, rent/mortgages, compliance, employees, travel, maintenance, training, etc.) to their items. If Walmart can buy a bike for $50 they should have to sell it for $50, which would at a loss.

Apple will win as the software tools to create an App are not free and $99 is a token amount that assumes they will make money off of the App Store. 

It is safe to assume if Apple added a setting to block 3rd party app stores the vast majority of users would select it. The EU is catering to a bunch of grifters with Spotify being the largest. Were I Apple I would drop the price of Apple Music to $0 and choke Spotify out of business.

sbdude said:

Downloading all of these before they get pulled . . .

Made sure I got it as well. The Delta app is outstanding. I am looking forward to more emulators being added. One can only hope that someone is working on a MAME emulator. 

foregoneconclusion said:

LOL...emulators. That doesn't seem like the economic boon the EU was looking for. 

Which is a model that depends on IP theft for content (games). I've never seen a software emulator that uses licensed games. I know there are plenty of game systems that are based on emulators and they include games they have licensed. Will the EU allow people to download these emulators knowing the users are stealing from the owners of the games? When your stuff is being stolen it makes 30% look good.