Hreb

The hockey-puck mouse design was indeed a disaster.  But they practically gave them away.  The Apple Magic Mouse is $80 -- and at that price you don't have to accept compromises Apple is offering.

Great to hear Podcasts will be fixed in iOS 18.1.  I had given up on Apple's podcasts app.

Relatively speaking, Apple does not sell that many Mac Studio or Mac Pro units.

Not like this they won't...

teejay2012 said:

Hreb said:

Maybe the problem is not that Apple is going to finally bring RCS to the iPhone in 2024.  Maybe the problem is that only Apple can bring RCS to the iPhone platform, instead of letting whatever app users choose provide RCS functionality on the iPhone platform, whether or not Apple thinks RCS is ready.

RCS needs to be integrated into the system and is not an add on app.

That's Apple's view.  But it doesn't need to be that way.  The DoJ's complaint here is that only Apple gets to decide whether RCS is a core system service or something that can be added on by an app.  If Apple were not a vertically-integrated monopoly, they would have to make a different decision.

Mike Wuerthele said:

Hreb said:

Maybe the problem is not that Apple is going to finally bring RCS to the iPhone in 2024.  Maybe the problem is that only Apple can bring RCS to the iPhone platform, instead of letting whatever app users choose provide RCS functionality on the iPhone platform, whether or not Apple thinks RCS is ready.

Could be, and that would be a better point -- had the DoJ actually said that.

Don't they?  Item #89 of the DoJ's complaint reads "Apple has not [added support for RCS] yet, and regardless it would not cure Apple's efforts to undermine third-party messaging apps because third-party messaging apps will still be prohibited from incorporating RCS just as they are prohibited from incorporating SMS."