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  • iPhone 13 Pro & iPhone 13 Pro Max review: Exceptional phones but the Pro Max underwhelms

    BiggieTallBiggieTall
    all cell phones "underwhelm" unless you need them or want them...then they don't. 

    The max is the max simply because there is an audience out there that wants a larger screen and are willing to absorb the cost difference to get that.  And you get some additional perks like battery life, video/camera enhancements as well. Not underwhelming. 

    ...and if you are in the apple upgrade program, there's no real reason to not get the max.

    ...and not sure Apple really wants to create and maintain another fork in its iPhone iOS software development  - max v non-max. 


    napoleon_phoneapart

  • Rogue Amoeba quits 'restrictive' Mac App Store

    BiggieTallBiggieTall
    …which relevant and impactful to probably no more than something like 0.001% of Mac users. 
    [Deleted User]uraharawatto_cobra

  • South Korea ends Apple, Google control of app store payments

    BiggieTallBiggieTall
    In the realm of “no good deed goes unpunished”:

    remember the days when Tim got standing ovations at the developer’s conference when he announced how many iPhone customers with registered credit cards were available to the developers and their apps? 

    Apple created the concept and market. 

    Smh. Someone name me a developer who was actually worth a crap that went out of business solely because of the App Store overhead charge or because they had to sell only in the App Store.   

    Go ahead shoot yourselves in the foot. I would gladly pay an Apple Prime subscription amount to buy solely via an Apple curated store and it’s benefits. 

    And once you curry favor of governments to do your bidding and let politics determine what competition success and failure is, let’s let Apple put a couple dozen of its $B in cash into strategic app development efforts and let’s see what the market looks like. Anyone other than MS, Google and Apple doing the big three “Office type apps” these days?
    igorskywatto_cobra

  • Epic's Tim Sweeney said he would have taken special deal with Apple

    BiggieTallBiggieTall
    Just curious, Why do they have to cost the same? One of the ways businesses compete is on price.  If epic makes the v-dollar product cost less at its webstore, it can drive folks to it’s store, just like Walmart does, etc. 

    If there is something that prohibits that, that would be price fixing and collusion in restraint of trade, right? A pretty basic antitrust notion. 
    If this “same price” is a apple thing (in concert with others), then I’d think they’d be vulnerable there.  

    If epic was serious about this, they should sell v-dollars ONLY thru their website and outside of ANY platform. with a few tweets and other social networking moments, everyone would know where to go etc. The price across platforms would then all be the same. ZERO



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    The problem is that V-Bucks must cost the same on all app stores. Just like how a Netflix subscription cost the same, no matter which platform one uses to pay. This prevent players from favoring one platform from which to purchase V-Bucks. Because even if the V-Bucks are not transferable across game console platforms, all virtual items bought with V-Bucks are accessible no matter which platform the player is playing on. A cool looking virtual outfit bought on an X-Box can still be used while playing on an iPhone or Playstation. So nothing would stop a player from buying virtual goods on the platform that has the best deal on V-Bucks.

    watto_cobra

  • Facebook launches new initiative to fight against iOS 14 ad tracking protections

    BiggieTallBiggieTall
    Yes, heaven forbid Z would actually spend his PR and Ad money showing users the positive side for THE USER of FB targeted ads, FB information gathering, and why users should always opt in...and show them how to do so. 
    ...but I guess that would not require the requisite Z-whining
    watto_cobra