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  • 'Fortnite' antisteering mandate punishment 'fundamentally unfair' says Apple

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    Marvin said:
    Apple has a right to charge a commission for directing over 100 million players to an app. Even if 30% of all transactions is too high, it shouldn't be 0%.
    Apple doesn't have any right. Ford can't require for you to use Ford Gas or demand for oil companies to give Ford 30%. Same goes for Apple.

    Even worse... Apple is seen as holding a monopoly on smartphones (feel free to argue, but that is how things stand). Trying to get a share of software sales or making secret APIs to benefit sales of headphones are not OK when you hold a monopoly.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • 'Fortnite' antisteering mandate punishment 'fundamentally unfair' says Apple

    nubusnubus
    I think both of you have a point. In a free market,..
    It will be far easier to understand what is going on when arguments don't begin with "in a free market".

    There is none. In a free market there would be radiation from headsets, antitrust would be acceptable, and asbestos in baby powder... those parents should have shopped something else. Free markets don't come with regulations like patents or tariffs or consumer protection of any kind.

    Apple will have to adjust to the real world. Preferably before more executives commit perjury.
    muthuk_vanalingamwonkothesanewatto_cobra

  • Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach

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    mikethemartian said:
    sflagel said:
    it is ludicrous for a car manufacturer to give Apple access to all its car systems, which will invariably lead to Apple becoming the gatekeeper to the entire tech stack of a car. This in addition to the branding impact. CarPlay is not the end of evolution, for example, the music app is well on CarPlay. Audi music controls are much better. 
    The idea of a company giving control of their product to another company is crazy.
    It made (more) sense when cars were all hardware. Tesla (and CarPlay) changed the game. Now car manufacturers are doing software + hardware + services making it core to the brand experience. With good software the car manufacturers own the entire stack while CarPlay Ultra can only do skinning of hardware from someone else. It does however look pretty.
    williamlondonjibwatto_cobra

  • Apple's 'F1' ad in Wallet won't hurt you, but it might save you $10

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    The legal implications of Apple using special areas of iOS to push movies. This could end in yet another antitrust case.
    We don't need ads in Wallet or for Apple to spend time on legal battles.
    dewmewilliamlondonjibbaconstang

  • Five years of Apple Silicon: How Apple continues to revolutionize chips

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    StrangeDays said:
    nubus said:
    Did the change make increase the marketshare for the Mac? All the "it is fast" and "it uses less energy" are nice but did it really change anything?
     Market share is not the correct question. Apple leads the profit-share in the PC market, which is quantifiably more valuable. 
    Market share can be the correct question. It indicates the value consumers see in products. The market share for Mac was 8.7% in 2020 and still is. Clearly Apple Silicon didn't boost Mac sales. With no growth in sales there won't be increased sales of services or Apple Care or keyboards/monitors. At best Apple Silicon allowed Mac to stand still.

    Do we even know that Apple Silicon improved profits? Intel Lunar Lake is using a similar on-chip RAM but Intel rejected it from future chips due to impact on margins.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon