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  • EU has very serious issues with Apple, says competition chief

    nubusnubus
    The one problem I have is that why does this apply to a company like Apple, but not to a Sony who makes a PlayStation platform and their own App store and others similar?
    Sony was fined by France and is currently being investigated in EU countries like Poland (Sony offices raided), Portugal, and Romania for pricing on games. These cases takes years to build. Non-EU countries like UK and Australia are looking at Sony for this. There is no "Lex Apple" and antitrust protection isn't limited to EU.
    muthuk_vanalingamsphericwilliamlondon

  • Apple Intelligence impresses now, and it's still very early

    nubusnubus
    noun: vapourware; noun: vaporware
    1. software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed.

    I don't believe we're back to the days of Copland - the macOS that never shipped. At least Apple paid hotel+flights for me to attend a demo.
    These days most products do ship with AirPower being one that only made it to a keynote.

    But shipping outside US are where things get ugly. Apple is active in 175 countries. iPhone 14 got satellite SOS. 2 years later and 16 countries (9%) are covered. In most of the world customers pay for hardware that does nothing.

    Look at this mess of a KB-post on availability of services: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118205

    Google Gemini is available in 150 countries supporting around 30 languages. MS Azure AI is doing 143 combinations.
    Apple Intelligence is scheduled for "en-us" and that is it. Apple Intelligence is mainly FUD to those of us not running on en-us.
    rezwitspascal007IreneW

  • EU has very serious issues with Apple, says competition chief

    nubusnubus
    I find it very hard to believe that Apple is deliberately ignoring laws pertaining of operating their business in the EU — that would just be bad for business.
    ...
    Welcome to the EU:  where innovation goes to die.
    Apple is getting hit by UK (https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/investigation-into-apple-appstore), US, EU, Japan, Brazil (https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/19/brazil-watchdog-investigates-apple-over-app-store-payment-rules), and more countries across the globe.

    Antitrust is not innovation. Antitrust is destroying competition and restricting markets causing less innovation. Not sure why you keep bashing EU in every post. A lot of regions and countries are taking action on this. We don't want an Apple Tax on memory, 2 years without iPads, 5 years betwen Mac Pro updates, a stale ipadOS, no Watch upgrades for devices Apple sold as new just 2 years ago, 5 years of butterfly keyboards, mice charging on their back with proprietary connectors, and we don't want iPhone 16 to be like 12/13/14/15. Competition, innovation,... that is what we need!
    avon b7Lettucemuthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • EU has very serious issues with Apple, says competition chief

    nubusnubus
    Vestager is ultra pro open markets. It seems not all here get that part. She is pushing for competition all the way by keeping competition fair. If you're like Apple doing tax evasion with a "Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich" model then you can expect to take some heat. And EU is by the way not keeping fines. Those fines are 1:1 deducted from what the countries pay and EU can't charge taxes on their own. EU is not like the US government.

    If Apple can't handle a person running things by the book, fighting for open markets, and being passionate about fair competition then the person replacing Vestager later this year will be a nightmare to Apple. The election earlier this month gave nationalistic parties more votes. Trade protectionism is high on their agenda. Tim Cook shouting at Vestager has all the way been very unprofessional. You don't see him like that when working with communist dictatorships.
    9secondkox2muthuk_vanalingamVictorMortimerwilliamlondonsphericelijahg

  • iOS 18 dramatically accelerates iPhone 15 Pro Max neural processing

    nubusnubus
    This adds to the impression that Apple didn't care about ML outside photography with iOS 17 and previous. Apple had the hardware but couldn't be bothered to optimize the OS. The gains are impressive and we should expect the same on macOS.

    Problem on iPhone seems to be with Apple penny-pinching on memory for years. Other iPhones have great ML hardware but without 8 GB they can't use their processor. This should serve as a lesson to those shopping for any mac with M3 and 8 GB. Go for at least 16 GB. Don't buy a fast CPU without memory to support it.
    muthuk_vanalingamavon b7williamlondon