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In addition to its historical significance, it seems like it was not just the only large public theater/auditorium on the De Anza College campus but one of the few (maybe the only one?) in Cupertino, so it is a loss for Apple, the city and the region. At least it is being replaced by a creative arts building for the college, though presumably with a much smaller theater/auditorium space. It's also a shame that Apple doesn't seem to do large, in-person public events anymore.

Apple doesn't seem to be a great steward of its historical legacy. I believe Steve Jobs shut down Apple's own history museum and the collection was given to Stanford, where it is not on display (though Stanford does have some interesting historical exhibits.)  (Probably Jobs was more interested in the future than the past - a past where he had been sidelined before leaving the company; he also closed Apple's library and fired the staff, infamously claiming that Apple engineers should already know everything in it.) The Computer History Museum probably has some Apple artifacts and coverage, and the Apple's visitor center does have some information about the company, but it's too bad that there isn't an Apple-focused museum near the mother ship, cooperating with the company for preservation of history and artifacts as well as scholarship and education.

appleinsideruser said:

Does that mean Apple could finally bring FaceTime to other platforms as Steve promised? 

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/06/make-facetime-an-open-standard/

On one hand I like the idea of Apple keeping its (and Steve's in this case) promises.

On the other hand I have run into (so to speak) more and more people holding their phones in front of them and taking facetime calls as they walk around almost completely unaware of their surroundings. Perhaps people could still do that with Zoom or Skype, but Facetime seems to make it a bit too convenient.

Locking Instagram inside the Facebook App Store might have some benefits.

Perhaps alternate app stores will be more successful on iOS than they have been on Android.

avon b7 said:

leehericks said:

Boo EU.

Apple is not a digital gatekeeper, they are a product company, like Nintendo.

Apple actually meets the definition of digital gatekeeper and while it is also a hardware company, that hardware is 100% dependent on software which is tied to its services. 

Nintendo would probably qualify as a digital gatekeeper, but the law is written to target Apple and exempt Nintendo by specifying a requirement of 10,000 yearly "business users" in the EU.

Microsoft certainly qualifies, but perhaps the Xbox is exempted somehow.

mobird said:

A external monitor and a computer (headless) is not now, has not been in the past, and going forward, is not a modular computer.
A modular computer was always in reference to where the CPU, memory, graphics cards, I/O, etc. was housed.
A Mac Ci or a Mac Cx was considered a modular computer.

According to Apple's new definition for "modular" the Mac mini is a "modular" computer because it isn't an iMac with an integrated display.

Pay no attention to the intel Mac Pro's internal MPX and SSD modules, or its DIMM and PCIe slots.