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  • After Jony Ive's departure, Apple's design philosophy is slowly changing

    The new iMac looks great IMHO, and as the article states, feels very Ivy-ian. Several products now balance usability and design better.
    However the Mac Studio looks ugly and the designers didn't have the balls to move beyond stacking two Minis together; a wasted opportunity.
    I hope the new Mac Pro and iMac Pro will show a more ambitious design.

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  • Compared: Apple Music vs Spotify in 2022

    What is missing in this Apple propaganda piece is;

    - UX/UI comparison 
    - integrations (e.g car brands like Tesla)
    - algorithms (curated / automated recommendations)

    Spotify is much better in the above, having both AM and Spotify subscriptions.

    Only annoying part is Spotify not willing to integrate with Siri/HomePod.

    Lossless is nice but only beneficial when you have high-end audio equipment from source to speaker. Current compression algorithms are extremely effective and it’s hard to tell the difference otherwise.
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  • EU law will force Apple to blow open its entire hardware and software stack

    rob53 said:
    EU is a dictatorship, plain and simple. At this point Apple needs to seriously tell the EU to GTH. The US needs to triple import duties on EU goods effectively shutting the EU down. The US should also reduce exports to the EU and cut off any financial support. 
    You should read up on the definition of ‘dictatorship’. You are responding as a child does. 
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  • Compared: Apple 2022 iPhone SE vs Google Pixel 6a

    Not an Android user, but impressed by the product - not spec by spec - but by the aesthetics and a more contemporary overall package and design.
    I hope Apple will update the next SE to be more in line with what consumers expect.
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  • Koch Group founders, Roblox, and more back Apple in 'Fortnite' antitrust case

    Roblox hypocrisy. They make all their money from Robux, a currency parents buy on their website, and they don’t require to split that with Apple. Since they’re a kids platform they want a direct connection with the parents (if Apple is collecting the payments they don’t have any way to interact with the parents anymore).

    So Roblox benefits from not having to share revenues with Apple AND Apple being their quality assurance gateway for content deployment.  

    Ofcourse they want to file their support, because they have to show their investors that they care about kids security. Ofcourse they file their support because they are in a great position where they have nothing to lose, and parents as the buyer will logically locate the website to buy a virtual currency, whereas Epic Games has a completely different audience and model (a more common one) that hurts from the App Store dominance. 

    Epic Games is right that Roblox is getting preferential treatment, you can look up the articles on Google on this subject. 


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