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  • Apple to remove popular DOS emulator for iOS from App Store

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    bleab said:
    This is straight up why I use Chromebooks instead of iPads: being able to install and run executable and arbitary code is an unconditional requirement. I mean for cheap stuff like the $80 Wal-Mart and Amazon Kindle Fire Android tablets that I just use as e-readers and for Netflix yeah fine doesn't matter. But anything that I pay real money for and use for work or school? Needs to run arbitrary code. That is why that "the tablet that can replace your PC" iPad commercials never applied to me, and the A12Z and M1 being faster than anything below an octacore Intel Core i7 didn't matter either. Can't run what I need means can't use it.
    Wow, and you got 4 likes. Counting you that’s 5 people who, in lieu of an IPad, will be buying Chromebooks to bask in the freedom of running arbitrary code. Best Buy better hire more staff PDQ, there’s sure to be a run on this all over the world. And Apple’s position as the tablet market leader is going to be in biiiig trouble, I’m sure. Of course data is quite clear that Chromebooks are overwhelmingly eating into Windows’ market share. iPad sales have no metric to suggest they are tangibly affected by Chromebook sales — save you and the four. 

    Apple has never positioned iPads as a purchase over a Macbook. Those have been and are two important and distinct revenue categories. Notice IPads don’t run MacOS, even IPads that have M1s? Apple sells the differing user experience devices to each market’s user segment needs. Quite successfully too, right? 6 to 9 billion worth of each device category every single 3 months, dayum!

    See that’s not so hard to understand is it? If it is then whip out your new Chromebook and start executing arbitrary code to assist in cracking this ‘data presented->reach obvious conclusion’ puzzle. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple to remove popular DOS emulator for iOS from App Store

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    hackintoisier said:
    This is why sideloading or alternative app stores would be great on iPadOS and iOS. Here we have a perfectly legal app that has been in the store for years, now suddenly being booted, arbitrarily. 

    There are so many ideas for Apps that Apple would never allow in its App Store.  Here we have Apple restricting trade between a perfectly legal app and would-be customers. Who is Apple to restrict such trade? Just a matter of time before some government some where says “no” to Apple’s shenanigans.  

    Meanwhile, despite Apple’s locked down ecosystem, which allegedly exists in the name of security, Pegasus has shown us that the locked down iPhone isn’t as secure as Apple lets on. 

    So let’s get this reply above straight:
    A, umm, Apple bad for lock down eco, it only “allegedly” to protect customer. We want open to  internet load.
    —then
    B, Pegasus shows there’s bad stuff out there for Apple. 

    A + B = you’re an embarrassment to low thinking posters (and that’s a low bar already).  People actually type and send this discombobulated embarrassment. An odious contradiction contained within their own post sprinkled with indignation that everything they typed is so right. 

    So you be smart just once, just one time, and go to the Android platform.  That’s Apple’s eco and its users instant improvement by subtraction.  Buh bye…
    watto_cobra

  • HBO officially kills Apple TV Channels integration

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    patchythepirate said:
    chadbag said:
    I am not am HBO subscriber and don't plan on it.  So humor me. Is there really anything compelling enough to stay on HBO if they want to make you run their app vs the customer friendly Apple TV integration?

    Since HBO is basically giving the finger to customers who want the integrated experience instead of each separate app (I assume this breaks the Siri search integration in the Apple TV all in one solution), should customers give the finger back and just drop them?
    This is all on Apple, for their crappy Apple TV app implementation that makes watching series shows a pain (doesn't keep track of where you left off right, doesn't automatically restart the next video right, etc). I don't understand why Apple can't get something so relatively simple right. I doubt it'd break siri search.

    FWIW, I'm really like HBO. It's worth subscribing just for the show Raised by Wolves (amazing sci fi), and of course game of thrones, westworld, true detective, good movie selection, etc.
    This is on Apple? HBO cancels it and it’s on Apple? JHFC what rock do these low IQ mopes come out from under? But great plug for the expensive HBO max — because If one with your non-think is endorsing it? I’d suspect stay away from HBO Max as a general rule. 

    Channels is decent. I use a third party integrated menu but that’s not for the average user. 
    And likely what this is about is HBO looking for greater control of user and probably user data. This is a game to make money. HBO is just doing what they think will help that. No shame in that. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple hit with patent infringement lawsuit for selling a smart water bottle

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    It is earnings time. Every earnings time is time for lawsuits. It puts your product in free media. Odds are it is thrown at pretrial but they've already won by that time. 
    killroywatto_cobra

  • Developers of free apps seek $200 billion damages, claim Apple restrains trade

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    Right now there’s a cottage industry where a company or companies sue Apple and reap the free media exposure.  With enough media looking for sensational and a sufficient (and quite a bit farmed) anti Apple online mob, it currently is a can’t lose strategy. 
    AI and others like it get hits with it too.  Many win, the truth certainly doesn’t.
    ronnwilliamlondonwatto_cobra