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  • Apple hikes Apple One cost by up to $5 as most services prices rise

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    [email protected] said:
    iCloud storage can KMA: a Genius Bar agent reset my phone and after that it lost everything despite the fact that I was paying 2.99/mo for 50gb. Since then I switched to the 99¢ version because imho it’s just not worth it. Also a network reset recommended by AT&T deleted all of my WiFi signins last week and they haven’t been recovered and restored. I think that as a natural order of business, iPhones should unlock themselves from the carrier exclusivities automatically after 6 months has passed.
    The price has always been $.99 for 50GB. What were you paying $2.99 for because that wasn't iCloud. And yes, a network reset resets all your network settings. Your Wi-Fi passwords won't return. You have to enter them again. 

    To restore a phone through iCloud you need to have backed up the phone to iCloud. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • For the first time, Linux gamers outnumber Mac in Steam's game census

    ArianneFeldryArianneFeldry
    As much as I enjoy my Mac for desktop usage with how fast and quiet it is, it just isn’t good for gaming. About 1/4th of my total steam library is available on MacOS, less than my Steam Deck with Proton. Some games I can’t play because they’re 32 bit. The only real thing I played on it was World of Warcraft, but my PC handles it much better and I can play my entire library on it, so I do. 
    Apple needs to learn that their token features every WWDC about some big game that’s 4 years old finally coming to Mac “later this year” isn’t enough for developers to care. 
    williamlondongrandact73watto_cobraFileMakerFellerbeowulfschmidt

  • Apple tiptoes onto Threads -- but hasn't fully embraced it yet

    ArianneFeldryArianneFeldry
    darkvader said:
    I do not have a F*c*book account, and I will not have a F*c*book account.

    Apple should look at Mastodon or Spoutible instead of that horrible company.
    You advertise where people are.
    Fediverse does not have enough people to jump on it instead of something pushed by Meta that easily connects to your Instagram account with one easily accessible app.
    Look a the ease of use for finding people on Threads, you just need to know their @, while on the Fediverse you need to know which instance someone is on and hope your instance federates with theirs, or make a new account on that instance.
    So your ability to advertise on the Fediverse is impossible without making thirty thousand accounts across the various instances that have popped up. Good luck trying to create a cohesive brand strategy and presence on that.
    appleinsideruserFileMakerFeller

  • 'No Man's Sky' now available on Mac via Steam

    ArianneFeldryArianneFeldry
    Behold, Mac gaming! Announce a port of a 6 year old game and it is released a year later.

    Really makes me want to ditch Windows!
    neoncat

  • Microsoft & Activision Blizzard merger is a go with conditions, says EU regulators

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    danox said:
    Microsoft, please complete the deal, please….

    What a waste Microsoft just pissed $69 billion dollars down the drain, exceeding, Google, and HP in one shot, this waste of money means don’t expect any significant hardware development for Microsoft in the future.

    The Microsoft boneyard gets bigger

    * The big Acquisition losers of Microsoft Over the years…..

    Web TV $425 million dollars.
    Hotmail. $500 million dollars.
    Vizio $1.4 billion dollars.
    Titus communication $1 billion dollars.
    Navison $1.4 billion dollars.
    *aQuantive $6.4 billion dollars wrote off in 2012 i.e. (a completewrite off shortly after acquiring)
    *Skype Technologies $8.5 billion dollars.
    *Yammer $1.2 billion dollars.
    *Nokia $7.2 billion dollars.
    *LinkedIn $26.5 billion dollars
    *Git hub $7.2 billion dollars.
    *ZeniMax Media 8.1 billion dollars.
    *Nuance Communications to $20 billion dollars.
    ****Activision $69 billion dollars (Biggest in Microsoft history)****

    Note, most were software acquisitions, which upon completion, most of the value of the software company dissipates rapidly, similar to Twitter, as an example.

    Most of Microsoft acquisitions were complete right offs in the end. You certainly did not see most of the so-call tech implemented into their finished software i.e., their desktop OS or their web services division software in any meaningful way that justified the inflated prices that they paid for these boondoggles.

    In contrast, Apples largest merger in the last 25 years was only $3 billion dollars, Apples best acquisition cost $400 million but it came with the best CEO in the last 25 years, and three other acquisitions, PA Semi, Intrinsity, and Anobit critical to Apple’s, Arm SOC’s development, cost Apple a total of 1.1 billion dollars.
    Hotmail into Outlook is a loser?
    Vizio is still used today, how is that a loser?
    Skype became Lync which was used for Teams, one of the largest collaboration apps, but somehow that's a loss?
    Yammer is used as an "internal Facebook" for companies, how is that a loser?
    Nokia got them patents and an in on hardware
    LinkedIn is doing quite well
    Same with GitHub
    You say people don't see these implementations in desktop Windows, but you don't see how this stuff is implemented internally or through business software. 
    StrangeDaysmuthuk_vanalingamFileMakerFeller