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  • Apple appeal to pause injunction enforcement allowing external linking fails

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    Uhhhh… isn’t it the other way around? The developers are battling Apple in court, not Apple suing them. So let’s not obscure who the instigators are, yes?

    These software companies … because let’s be clear these are not solo or small developers, but large companies led by overcompensated executives and owners trying to squeeze everything they can out of everyone, including their users and employees. 

    These software companies typically erect barriers to leaving platforms in ways that Apple prohibits. Cancellation runarounds, either on their sites or through thier customer service. Refund issues. Overcharges, particularly with kids. Awful pricing arrangements. No family sharing. Unresponsive support. 

    Stop me if I’m wrong here, but most of these companies are not good community members but are either close to or are actually predatory. Guess we’ll see how that works out.

    Personally, I do try to deal directly with companies when it makes sense. I often get better service and convenience buying direct than using retailers like Assmazon and Walfart. 

    But I’ll point out that there’s no cross-linking of who’s got a better deal. I have to do the legwork, so to speak. If one doesn’t have the intelligence to know that there are shopping options, I don’t think a link out is going to help. But that’s just me I guess. 

    It just seems so nonsensical. Can I scan bar codes at Target and pay the manufacturer directly, whereby the onus is on the manufacturer to reimburse the retailer at the adjusted price? Can I easily pay the Walmart price at Amazon, or Joe-Shmo stores, or are there lots of barriers to getting the price adjusted?

    My point is that there’s are lots of points of friction when purchasing anything, yet there’s no mass revolt or market defining lawsuits on the part of either manufacturers, retailers, or consumers to make it easier. Yet here we are quibbling about shopping links. It’s bizarre, not bazaar. 
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  • Meta reignites its fight with Apple over platform power & developer freedom

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    Ah yes, noted altruist The Zuck is here to save us. Breathe easy, everyone.
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  • Epic Games Store Webshops launches to help iOS developers offer out-of-app purchases

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    There’s a reason r/fuckepic has 49k members 
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  • Google has an illegal monopoly on online advertising, judge rules

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    gatorguy said:
    Afarstar said:
    jfabula1 said:
    So I’m thinking, if a US company get very successful in their business model & it get rich it becomes monopolistic.. 
    Will Facebook be the next? 
    Hopefully. 
    Careful. There's a few American tech companies who have become behemoths. Apple and Amazon are two who immediately come to mind. This administration would not have been one I would expect to be insisting on business success being penalized. 
    Bwaaaahhahaha!! No? Not like game plan 2025 wasn’t there for all to see, ami’right? Oh, yeah, and the economic and human disaster that was 45, where he got his ass impeached twice … but not a clue, yeah?
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  • Future Apple Vision Pro rumored to be directly connected to a Mac

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    mattinoz said:
    sloaah said:
    $799-999 could work. Mac Studio pricing does not. 

    This sort of pricing is a pipe dream. There’s no way that Apple will abandon internal computing and make this just a monitor that you wear on your head. 


    The vision of “spatial computing” is fundamentally sound; inevitably we will be interacting with our computing devices in a spatial environment. It’s just a matter of when it comes to maturity… whether it’s in the next five years or in the next fifteen. Probably it’s the latter.


    For that spatial computing paradigm, the cost of a laptop makes a lot of sense. I can imagine that Apple sees in the long run users owning iPhones, iPads and Visions - whilst the Mac becomes an increasingly niche product.

    Indeed Apples first laptops were the same price range. When they did get a laptop to $2.5k it didn’t sell well but was a very effective at getting customers in to convince to pay for the upper end models. MacBooks even hit that same mark today but stretched down to price people keep saying the Glasses need to hit. 

    To me the vision family will eventually, like in a decade or two, spread down picking up more market as it goes. That will be a long journey. 


    My guess would be that the Vision is an intentional way to replace laptops in most situations. Takes up much less space, is fully mobile, weighs less, doesn’t need a wired connection, allows a big screen experience (giving demonstrations more impact), etc, etc. This isn’t a device you walk around using, except in limited circumstances. At least for now. 

    So this is a bet on what the future of laptop computing will be, not a replacement for desktops, or tablets, or phones. This is for where you sit down and do extended computing work that a tablet won’t be completely suited to (there’ll be overlap).

    Yeah, yeah … media consumption. But the facts are that family members rarely watch the same things and certainly less and less at the same times. People’s schedules don’t align. So this isn’t for family time. It acknowledges that it’s for a single person’s media consumption. (Just imagine the consumer data they’ll get from that! Woo!)
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