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  • Apple Vision Pro with M5 may arrive before the end of 2025

    nubusnubus
    Why only update the SoC of a low volume form factor where the SoC is not the main gripe from users? 
    You're absolutely right but M2 in a flagship product is beyond embarrassing. If Apple isn't capable of doing anything else before a full reset in 2027/28 then launching M5 is the thing to do. Preferably cut $1k and accept the reduced margin while building next generation.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Apple again tries to cut third party app fees to avoid EU fines

    nubusnubus
    ericthehalfbee said:
    Are you honestly going to say that a company with 20 million customers should be exempt because they’re not big enough? Seriously?
    I simply quoted EU legislation on how gatekeepers are defined. Shouldn't be a problem to bring facts to the table.
    avon b7williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple again tries to cut third party app fees to avoid EU fines

    nubusnubus
    ericthehalfbee said:
    Apple should simply drop fees to some ridiculously low level in the EU (5% for small developers, 8% for everyone else). There’d be no reason for any developer to want to roll their own store
    You can't be a gatekeeper (EU term) or hold a monopoly (US DOJ) and then use one product (smartphones) to get a monopoly on reselling software. Not by blocking competition or by "drop fees to some ridiculously low level" in order to use one monopoly to gain another.

    As for "what about Sony". The EU DMA regulation requires 45 million active users for companies to be seen as gatekeepers. Sony is at 30-35 million. Doesn't stop other cases to hit Sony. This week a Dutch case on "Sony Tax" hit courts.
    9secondkox2ericthehalfbeewilliamlondonemig647muthuk_vanalingam

  • Bipartisan 'Open App Markets Act' resurrected to challenge Apple's App Store control

    nubusnubus
    Globally, it looks like legislators think App Store commissions are the big bad wolf and crypto/AI are warm, fuzzy bunnies. Bizarre at best. 
    If you feel EU regulations on AI and crypto are warm, fuzzy bunnies, then these are for you:
    AI: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng
    Crypto: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1114/oj/eng

    Would you say that these are fuzzy bunnies compared to the EU DMA?

    My take is that the politicians in EU and nationally in the countries at times (often) are regulating rather hard, but then... try to implement Sarbanes–Oxley or other US acts that have a global impact. Staying compliant is part of business.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple again tries to cut third party app fees to avoid EU fines

    nubusnubus
    nubus said:
    One of the problems here (excusing the fact that the EU stance on Apple’s business is criminal to begin with) 
    You're saying it is criminal for EU to set the rules for companies operating in EU? Really?
    Yup. Prime nocta was declared a law too. Nevertheless, Corrupt and sick as can be. Kind of a bad example, and disputed historically. but it illustrates the point. 
    There are universal rights and wrongs. 
    Apple did everything right and abode by the law. Then the EU moved the goalposts after apple was entrenched. 

    Your take is that people can vote, politicians get elected, but they must then be lame ducks due to your "the future won't accept it" clause. It doesn't work like that. Those in power have the power.

    Also you claim that the future does move goalposts and we need to accept it. But when you see EU move goalposts then that is not OK. You can't have both. Once again... those in power have the power.
    ne19secondkox2shrave10ericthehalfbeeemig647muthuk_vanalingam