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Compared: 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro vs Dell XPS 17
I'm a big supporter of Dell (sell them, exclusively, to clients) but I have to say, they got a whiff of what the "Apple Tax" is and felt like they can just up the prices of their higher-end stuff a good 30% or more. Everything decent at Dell is just ridiculously pricey for being "a Dell".
Take the newest XPS17 for example. If a 4K LCD were available (why isn't it) God only knows how much this thing would cost! Why no 144Hz screen on the XPS for $2200?
It's just a big money grab by Dell now. Even their Outlet used to have good savings, and now refurb vs new is so close, you have to think hard if the savings is worth it! The benefit of the Outlet is quick shipping whereas most stuff at Dell is a month or more out before shipping.
I'm a bit disappointed with Dell thinking they are Apple. They're not.
This "review" though is just a rehash of the specs of both. No performance tests? Maybe should have waited for MBP16 M1Pro to actually ship and run some test showing how much it blows away the XPS 17!
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A new bill will try to stop big tech from preferring its own services over rivals
Have you tried it? I did. I searched "Verizon phones" and Total Wireless did not come up. I searched "AT&T phones" and Total Wireless did not come up. I searched "T-Mobile phones" and guess what? T-Mobile phones came up. When you search a particular brand, that brand comes up first, not Walmart's brand. Similarly, when I search Spotify on App Store, should Apple Music come up first? That's what the article is about.rob53 said:
All the time. Walmart sells things, they don't actually make any products. They do sell branded items like Total Wireless. Do they also allow Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile? If they do do they put Total Wireless at the top of the advertising list? In some communities, Walmart is the only store in town so they are looking for everything.ITGUYINSD said:
Depends. Do people go into Walmart looking for non-Walmart services? That's what this bill addresses.beowulfschmidt said:Are they going to make Walmart take down all the ads for their own services in their own stores?
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A new bill will try to stop big tech from preferring its own services over rivals
I agree with most of what you said, except in your example, if you made specialty pies and (for whatever reason) only sold them through one restaurant chain (exclusivity maybe?), and that chain puts their own baked pies at the top of the dessert menu and your pies mixed in with other desserts lower in the menu, wouldn't you find that just a bit unfair?retrogusto said:This is complicated by the fact that analogies don’t always take into account the unique aspects of the situation. Apple agreed to allow third-party apps because they believed (correctly) that it would improve the user experience, thereby improving the value of the product (which of course is beneficial to company’s sales prospects). In the same way, a restaurant might sell their own desserts alongside pies made by a famous local bakery. Should the restaurant be allowed to more heavily promote their own desserts, with more prominent positioning in the menu, or more favorable pricing? True, the only way to enjoy that pie in that particular setting is to order it off of the menu and pay whatever they’re asking, but it’s not true that it’s the only way to have the pie. Similarly, you can enjoy Spotify without the Apple App Store, you just can’t use it natively within iOS. There are lots of other ways to stream Spotify. If you make an app that can only be used as a native iOS app, you are relying heavily on Apple for their infrastructure, marketing, charge processing, etc., and it makes sense that you would relinquish a certain degree of control, as you would is you were making food that would be sold exclusively in one restaurant chain.
It's true that there are other ways to stream Spotify, but 100% of the people looking for Spotify in the App Store are using iOS and are not interested in other ways, so it's not a matter of choice for those people who are being fed Apple Music as the top pick when they want Spotify. -
A new bill will try to stop big tech from preferring its own services over rivals
Clearly, you've not a clue what this is about.Bosa said:How dumb is the Biden us government? They bombed 7 kids getting water and lied to us and said they were ISIS
and now they want to fix something that doesn’t need fixing and people like Google and Apple who are 10000 times smarter than these idiot politicians?
so are they going to ask Target to stop advertising their stores and have people buy at Walmart?
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A new bill will try to stop big tech from preferring its own services over rivals
Again, do people go into Denny's looking for pancakes from IHOP? When you're in Apple's App Store and you're looking for Spotify app, Apple Music shouldn't be the 1st search result, especially when Apple's App Store is the ONLY place to get Spotify.johnnyho said:A new bill will try to stop big restaurants from preferring its own food over rivals...A new bill will try to stop big religion from preferring its own God over rivals...A new bill will try to stop big governments from preferring its own laws over rivals...
