qwerty52

crowley said:

qwerty52 said:

gc_uk said:

ChickenOrTheEgg said:

buying through apple in-app purchases is much better user experience. I am confident my kids can only "ask to buy" and me or my wife can then approve / reject. Epic games Direct Payment means I have to store my card details on my kids devices and I no longer have control of what they purchase / spend.

Apples payment system is much easier then any of the other platforms such as Nintendo & Sony Playstation

That’s fine, you can still purchase through the App Store, but other consumers may want to have the choice to purchase through Epic’s store instead. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to do what they want, when you can make your choice?

If you want to sell your own potatoes in your own store it is perfectly fine,
but if you want me to sell your potatoes in my own store, then you have to know that:

1) You CAN NOT force me to do that if I don’t want 
2) If I DECIDE to sell your potatoes in my store, it is more than obvious
that you have to pay me a commission.

What Epic is trying to achieve in the court, is forcing AppStore to sell their potatoes without paying any commission!

So, you think this is fair?

Epic cannot have their own iOS app store.  If they were able to then your first sentence would make sense and we'd have an acceptable solution.  But they can't.

gc_uk said:

ChickenOrTheEgg said:

buying through apple in-app purchases is much better user experience. I am confident my kids can only "ask to buy" and me or my wife can then approve / reject. Epic games Direct Payment means I have to store my card details on my kids devices and I no longer have control of what they purchase / spend.

Apples payment system is much easier then any of the other platforms such as Nintendo & Sony Playstation

That’s fine, you can still purchase through the App Store, but other consumers may want to have the choice to purchase through Epic’s store instead. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to do what they want, when you can make your choice?

If you want to sell your own potatoes in your own store it is perfectly fine,
but if you want me to sell your potatoes in my own store, then you have to know that:

1) You CAN NOT force me to do that if I don’t want 
2) If I DECIDE to sell your potatoes in my store, it is more than obvious
that you have to pay me a commission.

What Epic is trying to achieve in the court, is forcing AppStore to sell their potatoes without paying any commission!

With all those rumors around Apple Car lately, there is one thing for sure: Apple Car is coming closer and closer to see finally 
a daylight.

tzeshan said:

StrangeDays said:

GeorgeBMac said:

steven n. said:

entropys said:

Mostly agree although Tesla loses money in every car it sells. It is only profitable through sales of EV credits as offsets to other car manufacturers not yet meeting their EV targets. Once the other manufacturers meet these imposed targets Tesla will quickly be in a world of pain.

Note: I still don’t believe the Apple Car hoopla.  I just see them using cars as a tech test bed. That said, I think you undersell Tesla’s business model as it is nothing short of genius.

Tesla figured out how to get other car manufactures to pay for them figuring out mass scale car manufacturing. Genius.

yes: the stock is in 2H2 O2 bubble territory and it will pop soon with a big boom IMO.

note: I thought the same of Apple in 2005 and 90% of my shares thinking: 300% in 3 years is too good to be true. Oops. 

Yeh, it's amazing to me that those who hate China the most and predict that they'll never amount to anything tend to say the same about America's premier tech leader.

Why are you so daft about China? No one says that. What they say is the Chinese government is a brutalist authoritarian regime with no concern for human rights. 

We’ve linked you these facts many times. 

Why are you so daft about China? If Chinese government is a brutalist authoritarian regime with no concern for human rights, why no one has died of Covid-19 for many months now? 

Just because the Chinese government is a brutalist authoritarian regime! Do you really believe in the information coming from this regime?
Do you really, really, really believe that no one has died of COVID-19 in China?
What about the doctor who first warned for the disease and who was therefore put into the custody for telling lies?
Why already a year till now, experts of WHO are still not permitted to come for inspection in China?
Please when you post something, post it honestly! Here is not a place for propaganda!

M68000 said:

kknopp01 said:

Elon Musk figured out how to do it in America.  It made him the world's richest man.  Why can't Apple be that smart?

Maybe because Apple is known as a computer company who now makes new phones like clockwork every year and oh by the way wants to take over the steaming media industry among other things...  where as Tesla makes vehicles and focused on that.    Samsung also makes refrigerators I think, not that I would ever buy a Samsung kitchen appliance..  should Apple also be working on a refrigerator too? (Sarcasm)