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appleinsideruser said:

Sounds like there must be some disadvantage to upscaling, or MetalFX is implausibly good at. 

You're losing some detail in the body of objects, and any images with colour banding have that emphasised (it's obvious looking at the rear wheel cover in the first set of example images), but you're gaining sharper edges. If things are moving quickly enough, that's probably a trade-off worth making.

forgot username said:

What’s a “Heatset”?

Meatspace!?  I like that new word. Leave it. 

Meatspace was a term coined in the 1980s by science fiction authors writing in the cyberpunk genre.

chasm said:

jfabula1 said:

Ah EU….sorry but Google is not EU company you can bully. Yes you can tax them the right way but ad is their business. If businesses are really hurting then dont advertise on their platform. Simple enough.

You really should have read at least the full article, if not the report itself.

THE PROBLEM the EU are trying to address is that Google’s practices *eliminate* competition. So there ISN’T really another platform advertisers can just “go to” if (ha ha ha) their business practices are hurting publishers (like AppleInsider), users (yes, they are very materially hurting you by selling your data to scammers and bad state actors and more — hey, a buck is a buck), and the industry.

Talk to anyone in management at AppleInsider or any other website you love and ask them about how Google’s diminishing ad commissions and lack of viable competition is squeezing the life out of content-oriented sites like this one. Be prepared to listen for quite a while, as they will have a LOT to say on this topic.

Google is **abusing their monopoly,** plain and simple. Previous remedies have done zippity-doo-dah to get Google to be a fair competitor. There used to be a lot of other Apple-oriented news sites … now there’s barely a handful. There’s a reason why that is, and it’s spelled G-O-O-G-L-E.

I think there is something to what you say, but I would also like to point out that when the supply of something grows to the point where it exceeds demand the price of that something will drop. For a VERY long time, the number of websites has been more or less infinite, which means that the price for advertising space on the web has plummeted. In the face of such abundant supply, any purchaser will want the highest quality; the costs are so low that even a premium price for the best available thing is negligible compared to the benefit gained.

In a world of abundance, being the best is rewarded more handsomely than most of us can conceive, and not being the best is bringing fewer rewards than ever before. The competition is at an insanely high level. Those who can identify "the best" and make it available are going to be able to charge more for that service. Google were the first to successfully do it at internet scale; Amazon, facebook and Microsoft are also big players and there are a handful more further down the chain.

It's very similar to the effect large retailers have had over the past hundred years or so, and the legality is murky but the economic effects are crystal clear: get big enough to garner attention and you will earn outsize profits.

For some more information:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/09/reddit-ipo

https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/06/apollo-to-shut-down-developer-has-receipts/

mikethemartian said:

I’m surprised that it didn’t support SVG before.

Agreed. The format was formally adopted by the W3C in 1999 - that's a long time for Apple to leave it on the feature backlog.