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Is the next technique going to be called KISSES?

auxio said:

You know, back when I was in college learning how technology worked by reverse engineering it, I understood that it was simply for learning purposes and that I'd eventually have to work on creating original products to make money in the industry. Never once did I believe that reverse engineering was a valid way to make money, much less even entertain the idea that I was somehow entitled to do so. Products from other countries like China which were based on reverse engineering/cloning were often banned from being imported/sold in the US. When did the attitude towards this change?

At a guess, Compaq vs IBM where the reverse engineering of the BIOS was viewed by the courts as legal and PC clones were thus legitimised.

tht said:

I'm still a little befuddled with the logic of Google having an illegal monopoly on Android app distribution and payments though. With Apple, it is much easier. They design and "make" the hardware (down to chip design), design-ship-support the OS, and design-ship-support the platform and tools. It's their product through and through and you can't have a "monopoly" on your own product. Google Android has something like 50% of the market in the USA. For me, that's a little low in marketshare to have monopoly power. Those deals though. Definitely can see that those deals hoisted Google on its own petard.

The context for Android is that Google has always promoted it as an open system, and as an open system it should not have an opinion about the software being added to it. Users can CHOOSE where they get that opinion from by selecting an app store that provides features they care about; the store is responsible for educating the user about each application and obtaining consent for installation that is then communicated to the OS using a standard process, and then recording the OS response against the user's account.

The version of Android licensed to OEMs, however, overwhelmingly favours the Google Play store and the evidence provided to the court confirms it. This means that Google is either lying about the openness of the system or that it is exerting undue influence in an open market. Catch-22.

bloggerblog said:

Then people get triggered when large companies adopt automations or move talent abroad like tech support. Apple refused the 7% pay rise because every other company paid 4%.

What's interesting is that companies are motivated to improve their efficiency when wages are high. Naturally, nobody wants to be forced into doing work; thus the usual approach is to complain about the high cost of labour and try to suppress wage growth - which has the result of breeding resentment.

I wonder what would happen if companies framed the problem as "how can we afford to pay our employees more?"

InspiredCode said:

Afarstar said:

I *can* sorta imagine Apple offering a new and distinguishable "virtual computing device" of some sort; but not just a less capable, less expensive, AVP.

In proper English it’s ’sort of’ not sorta. 

Won’t you Yankees ever learn?

Why not? All of Apples other products have separate consumer and pro lines. Apple may be able to get away with a less powerful chip since the general use case will be apps and media consumption. The iPhone processor is much more powerful then what the Meta Quest 3 has.

Powerful VR experiences closer to PC VR rigs may be limited to the pro.

For me it's a matter of timeframe. Apple is absolutely planning for multiple price tiers for the AVP, but they won't implement them until supply gets close to exceeding demand. Right now the bottleneck is the screens - supply is constrained and we don't know exactly when that will be rectified, but I doubt it will be in time for "version 2" of the device.

The one certainty is that Apple will not make any compromises on the quality of the experience. Any "low cost model" will be at least as capable as the first version of the AVP, and Apple will focus on how the "Apple Vision" is a wonderful experience and the Apple Vision Pro is even better.