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  • UK launching investigation of Apple App Store after anti-competition complaints

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    elijahg said:
    There is very little chance that Apple will win all of these investigations and be able to continue as usual. Chances are some investigations will result in changes having to be made, so there will be different rules in different localities. That will be a bit of a headache for all involved, especially developers. Unless Apple applies the lowest common denominator to all App stores, but I imagine that very unlikely under Cook.

    Apple is and always has been a hardware company, the software (App Store, iOS etc) was supposed to be to push device sales, but Cook has realised it can be used to milk more money from iOS, and is apparently happy risking Apple's reputation to bump the bottom line slightly higher.

    It would be so easy for Apple to allow notarised sideloading and all this would go away, with a popup explaining to the user that security can be breached much more easily without going through the App Store. The notarised apps could be disabled if they are malicious, but without having to comply with onerous App Store rules. It's already done with enterprise certificates as it is, but "official" sideloading would make the user aware of the risks. Apple doesn't guarantee every app on the App Store isn't fraudulent anyway, so users should be careful as it is.

    Of course people here and elsewhere will claim that sideloading will infest iOS with malware, but macOS has been "open" for years, and it is not infested with malware. The inability to sideload on iOS is purely about profit and control.
    No it’s about lowest common denominator.  This forcing Apple to allow side loading will by its very nature, take controls AWAY FROM the user and INTO the hands of the app developers, some of whom will choose ONLY to work through side load.  If a user wants that software package they MUST then risk the security of their system.  This is inNO WAY consumer friendly, and to argue otherwise is to ignore all evidence from the Android side of the market.
    igorskyMacPro

  • Apple has stopped producing 512GB, 1TB SSD iMac 4K models, claim sources

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    Fidonet127 said:
    Hoping for more ports than on the M1 Mac mini.
    Not with the M1.  That’s why I’m guessing even the low end iMac will have an M1X.

    watto_cobra

  • 'Fortnite' developer Epic Games files antitrust complaint against Apple in EU

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    doggone said:
    Instead of "What's at stake here is the very future of mobile platforms." it is what's at stake here is the security of mobile platforms.  Apple has excelled at providing a secure and stable mobile experience for billions of users.  That costs money and that is why Apple charges developers for using their platform.  In return the developers get a broad potential customer base and excellent development tools.
    Many developers, including Epic, wouldn't be around if Apple hadn't released the iPhone.  Epic is just getting greedy.
    Epic is to 10cent what Trump is to Russia—just a puppet.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple 'M1X' chip specification prediction appears on benchmark site

    robabarobaba
    I have no doubt the Pro will live on, but:

    Will the Pro shrink down into the newly developed mini-modular Or stay in the current full-sized-modular chassis?

    Will the Pro be a chiplet-style cpu/gpu or a huge SoP?

    How will it handle memory?

    Will the Mac Pro stand in for all back room use-cases or will they bring back hardware specialization in the form of Xserve, blades, or other large scale deployments?

    Will Apple integrate the functions of the Afterburner FPGA into the main logic or perhaps introduce other such specialized acceleration cards?

    lots still to find out!
    watto_cobra

  • Apple 'M1X' chip specification prediction appears on benchmark site

    robabarobaba
    Limited to 16 gig memory?  Nah, that makes no sense.  As the computing power increases, Apple will need to bump the memory and bandwidth of the on-chip fabric in order to prevent bottlenecking.  I also expect Apple to have an on-package graphics chip for cost and production flexibility reasons.
    jdb8167watto_cobra