auxio

designr said:

The sad thing is that this is one area where Apple is being remarkably short-sighted. A study of history—both in the recent tech world and in the longer scope of industry and technology—will show that closed (AKA "walled garden") systems eventually succumb to open ecosystems.

Only once those technologies have been commodified. You still need incentives for companies to come up with something new or do things in an innovative way. If you force everyone to be open about everything, there's no incentive to invest heavily in something new/innovative because it'll just be cloned and sold for cheaper by others who didn't have to pay the upfront R&D costs.

I came of age in the tech industry as Linux was finding its footing, and loved the openness of it because I could learn how hardware and software worked from bottom to top. However, in retrospect, while it was fun to learn about technologies which had been reverse engineered and copied from companies like Sun Microsystems, I also realized the effect of such efforts was the devaluation of technology and most of the money from technology products going to the big manufacturing companies, not the engineers who were designing and creating it. Due to the fact that most of the software and hardware was just cloned, commodified components which didn't require much engineering effort to put together. Really just a cheap assembly line of software and hardware with very little true engineering.

And yes, there is a need for commodified technology products in the world to make that technology accessible to all. However, it would be sad to see the whole world made up entirely of cheap, cloned products because there's no incentive to do otherwise.

Stabitha_Christie said:

avon b7 said:

ihatescreennames said:

avon b7 said:

This is Apple getting high on its own delusions.

It's understandable but still ridiculous. 

Anybody that thinks only 'they' could do something really needs to rethink things. 

I’m pretty sure they are correct when they say only Apple could have created the Apple Vision Pro.

You can be pretty sure with your opinion but it will remain an opinion. 

The very notion that only one company or group of people can achieve something is crazy in itself.

As long as you take it as marketing fluff it's fine. Taking it seriously is more worrying. 

Errr. ….. you missed the joke hatescreennames made. It was a good one but subtle. 

Kinda sums up the sentiment behind the idea. Perspective is everything.

appleric said:

As a site developer I find it almost impossible to make any updates to Apple Maps for my clients. Sometime last year they changed how this was done, and now requires the business owner to log in with their Apple ID. It makes it now impossible to serve my clients like it used to be, and how it is with Google Maps. Apple Maps keeps screwing up, while also providing some great new features. I just wish they would make this easier to make updates to one's business listing. 

I'm guessing this is the very reason why they made it so that only an authorized person can update business listings: to prevent disgruntled customers or competitors from trying to get back at them.

Sounds to me like whoever is in charge of maintaining their online presence/marketing dropped the ball post-COVID. Though if it was changed to permanently closed without their knowledge, then they need to find out how that happened.

williamh said:

auxio said:

22july2013 said:

hmlongco said:

Need to shut scalpers down.

How exactly do you define a "scalper"? If I buy something then suddenly realize I don't need it, should the government stop me from reselling it at any price I want? Do you want everyone who sells everything to get approval first from a government agency? And do you want price controls that prevent the value of anything we own from going up? Does that apply to the value of your house, if someone offered you ten times the price that you just paid for it?

Pretty simply really: purchasing something with the intent to immediately resell it at a higher price without being an authorized reseller.

No government approval necessary, just massive fines for any online service that allows such transactions to occur. Force sellers to either enter an authorized reseller ID or enter the serial number of item they're selling, which can then be used to validate the date of purchase and purchase price, to ensure that it's not being sold over the MSRP within 30 days of purchase.

You're a bit of a fascist.  

Not in the slightest. I'm someone who likes to cut right to the heart of what motivates people. Why not just come right out and say that you only care about yourself and amassing as much money as possible, whatever the cost? Rather than trying turn it around and hide it behind labels for others. If you have to hide your true nature, chances are you understand how much it would offend others to know it.

Happy to expose the true nature of those who believe they're entitled to profit off of something which they put zero effort into helping create, market, or otherwise add value to.

22july2013 said:

hmlongco said:

Need to shut scalpers down.

How exactly do you define a "scalper"? If I buy something then suddenly realize I don't need it, should the government stop me from reselling it at any price I want? Do you want everyone who sells everything to get approval first from a government agency? And do you want price controls that prevent the value of anything we own from going up? Does that apply to the value of your house, if someone offered you ten times the price that you just paid for it?

Pretty simply really: purchasing something with the intent to immediately resell it at a higher price without being an authorized reseller.

No government approval necessary, just massive fines for any online service that allows such transactions to occur. Force sellers to either enter an authorized reseller ID or enter the serial number of item they're selling, which can then be used to validate the date of purchase and purchase price, to ensure that it's not being sold over the MSRP within 30 days of purchase.