80s_Apple_Guy

Whether this is a great or a major bomb will depend on the content available and any limitations hidden in the fine print. 

A very cogent and brilliant editorial. Completely correct IMO. 

Given how the EU is fining and treating Google for tailoring advertising on their own search engine to their interests, the winds are blowing against these companies. They'll come after Apple one way or another here. 

BTW, the argument of if you don't like buy Android doesn't fly. Just like Microsoft couldn't argue go but Mac in the IE vs Netscape legal battle.  

freerange said:

Metriacanthosaurus said:

There has to be a system of checks and balances. The idea that Apple can do whatever it wants with its own platform isn’t good enough. That is just a copout and a way to circumvent fairness, openness, and possibly even the law. 

If you want to have a platform and pretend to make it available to everyone, it has to actually be available to everyone, without various anti competitive practices that prevent any one particular company or group or political ideology from exposure. Let the market handle it, not the whims of a few people in Cupertino. 

What bullshit! If you don’t like the policies, just get android / develop for android. Apple owns the OS and the App Store so you need to play by their rules. They didn’t have to let any third party apps on their system! And they have lots of apps in their store that compete with their own so that argument doesn’t hold water. 

That was the argument Microsoft used with IE and blocking Netscape. They lost that battle legally even if Netscape went the way of the dodo bird. 

This is Apple's biggest issue and Achilles heel IMO. While the base model is pricey, that's what we expect from Apple. However when you start to increase storage, which of course you no longer can do later or on your own, the prices quickly climb to ludicrous. I'm running a 2012 MacBook Pro Core i7.  With upgrades over the years I'd say I have less than $2000 into it. That's amortized over 7 years. To replace would cost me well over $4000 at once. Yes Apple's chips are the fastest, but I don't need that. If my 2012 dies it won't be replaced by a Mac at that price. To make it worse you get a crap keyboard with it and whole bunch of dongles to buy. IMO Apple needs a line of MacBooks for the upper end common folk who don't mind a little thicker and slower.