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  • How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the iMac 27 years ago

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    "the iMac screen is one of the best 15-inch displays available"!???
    That screen was absolutely horrible on the original iMac, probably about the worst you could get.
    Thankfully nowadays it's the other way around. I have a 27'' iMac since the day the 5k Version was available and there still - 4 years later -  isn't anything better on the market (at that price point). 
    steve_jobswatto_cobrarandominternetperson

  • Reliable leaker claims Apple VR tester was 'blown away' by headset trial

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    badmonk said:
    I am sure MZ and the folks at Meta are having some sleepless nights.
    I bet they're already warming up their copy machines.
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  • Tim Cook may be launching Apple VR headset earlier than engineers want

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    blastdoor said:
    If true, it will mean marketing needs to do a great job explaining what this product is and who it’s for in order to set expectations. 

    Maybe one option would be to lease (not sell) it to registered developers only. 
    That's what I'm afraid of. If your product sucks make sure marketing is great.

    If Apple at launch has nothing useful to show off then this might truely be the Newton (the major failure for the last post-Steve CEO) moment for the current Post-Steve CEO. Apple used to be able to proof it's not just a cool technical toy but also solves something in an 'insanely great' way and at this point there's nothing 'insanely great' with those heave VR headsets (except the price maybe).

    nubuswatto_cobra

  • Meta is slowly recovering, but still 'at the whim of Apple' says exec

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    So they missed the overall development in the market, lost the young crowd and now companies are 'saving' money on advertising due to slow market development. Then they tried to pivot into a new market (VR), but botched it's market introduction by showing off an unfinished product and not managing to sell a 'killer feature' that might actually be useful. 
    But of course it's Apple's fault that they don't make enough money.
    Bad news for Facebook stockholders I guess. If management is only localizing the scapegoat in an outside of company for bad performance, this can't be good.
    williamlondonkillroylolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple will try to talk its way out of a $40 billion fine on Tuesday

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    KTR said:
    The EU DOES NOT LIKE AMERICANS, they are using the legal system as a bullying tactic to gain the upper hand to gouge money.  If Steve Jobs was still alive, he would stop all operations in the EU, and every one in the EU will lose out.  They will have to find alternatives.  Shut down the EU App Store.   If it goes to trial.  I hope apple wins…..  there aren’t that many mobile OS’s out there.  With the exception of Linux.

    Most decidedly wrong. But the EU follows a different legal philosophy in areas like privacy (which is way more relevant in the EU) and antitrust regulation. EU antitrust cares about competition and fairnis between companies while US antitrust mostly cares about customer pricing.

    That's how e.g. Apple Books was victim of US antitrust ruling quite badly even though based on EU philosophy Apple Books was doing a lot of good for competition.

    ... and still the EU let a lot of things through the US did wrong: Like spying on political leaders as Edward Snowden proved to the world. The US Cloud Act, which essentially kills EU privacy rules for Cloud customers of US Cloud Services, like the recent Biden Inflation protection Act (ok that remains to be seen).
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