Djacobs

My thread network is an absolute disaster. With 9 Apple TVs and 8 HomePod Minis, I can't keep the network from splintering into multiple networks, and causing my Eve devices to go offline. I have a call TODAY with an Apple engineer about this. Interesting to see if Thread 1.4 comes up in the discussion, as this sounds like a fix for all my issues. Now, just to wait until September to get the fix, since any Beta updates installed, and Apple support will not help you.

Referring to Apple as 'Greedy Tim' is very short sighted. Tim has a job to do. His job is to generate ROI for investors. They are a publicly traded company, whose only purpose is to generate profit. The view that publicly traded companies exist for any other purpose is both short-sighted and ill-informed. Companies that virtue-signal by doing otherwise always course correct when those ideas start to hurt the bottom line, and thus the stock price, which is the measurement of their success. 

That all being said, Apple SHOULD make money from providing the platform, the tools, the support, the marketing, and the market. Every other company gets paid when they do these things. The app store is NOT a monopoly. Nor is the iPhone. You have a choice to buy an iPhone, or a different phone. When you make that CHOICE, you agree to the rules that come with buying the product. Just as the developer shave a choice to produce apps for the iPhone or not. If the business terms are so terrible dealing with Apple, then don't develop for Apple products. Develop an app so good that users will switch platforms to buy your app.

Oh great, another season of left-wing propaganda disguised as a tv show. Couldn't stand to finish season 3, I want to be entertained, not consistently feel berated because my views don't match those of the producers/writers.