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  • Apple won't send reviewers a Vision Pro without briefings, says Gurman

    tech_travellertech_traveller
    Probably isn't going to be so special if you have to worry so much about negative reviews.

    Regardless, this device will probably be well received, but it wouldn't be an iPhone replacement. Not for the next decade.
    williamlondongrandact739secondkox2watto_cobra

  • Apple insists to EU antitrust regulators that it runs five App Stores, not one

    tech_travellertech_traveller
    These kinds of statements probably work in the US.

    I wonder what the EU's attitude is towards such lawyer-speak.
    muthuk_vanalingamgrandact73

  • EU antitrust chief to meet with Tim Cook to discuss fines and regulation

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    AllM said:
    avon b7 said:
    AllM said:
    nubus said:
    AllM said:
    Is this old politician herself fit for the ’Digital Age’?
    Think Different! You can quote her, disagree with her, glorify or vilify her, but the only thing you and Cook can’t do is ignore her because she changes things. Vestager is absolutely not for turning. With both her parents being Lutheran pastors she is 100% focused on "fair play". She grew up in a country where carrots are hit by a 25% sales tax. Not pleasing anyone is what got her elected. Cook tried in the past to sweet talk or scare her with his "I'm CEO of a big US company", then called her politics "crap", and pushed DC + Obama to behave like henchmen in order to save the tax scheme of Apple. Didn't work... like didn't work at all. Complete failure. According to sources quoted by Financial Times the meeting Cook had with her was "the worst meeting ever in Brussels". This simply indicates that Cook came fully unprepared as her style hasn't changed.

    Unlike the last 3 US presidents she is capable of making stuff happen. She pushed for USB C, Digital Markets Act, AI Act, and has been a fierce advocate for GDPR. These days EU is setting the standard for how things are done with legislation is copied around the world. I don't get why Cook want to meet her after having called her politics crap and sent political henchmen after her. She is known to have the memory of an elephant. Unless Cook is ready to pay and surrender then it simply won't work.

    Nice quoting Jobs, - yet we’ll talk when this has affected our user experience and Apple’s pricing. Tim Cook won’t pay for your new Mac, and neither will this lady. Unlike her, Jobs whom you quote gave us the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad. How could one even compare an artist like him to a politician whose job is to tax you?

    P.S. GDPR is so useless one even needs third-party software to get rid of its notices. Prove me wrong. 

    GDPR is an absolutely necessary piece of legislation. A model to follow and considered one of the best stabs at protecting EU citizens in the digital age.

    To many here it's the silent shield. Without it, Meta would have been deep into our underwear and way up our nooks and crannies!

    It's what saved EU WhatsApp users from many of those nasty privacy changes Meta tried to slip in a while back.

    No legislation is perfect and it will get revised but I'd rather have it over any alternative. 

    What’sWhat? Isn’t it better not to use crap products in the first place rather than rely on legislation to protect you? 
    Isn't it funny you say that, when your culture has created a literal social class over the colours in a messaging app.

    At least, Europeans don't segregate based on Blue and Green bubbles.
    Respitenubus

  • EU antitrust chief to meet with Tim Cook to discuss fines and regulation

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    AllM said:
    nubus said:
    AllM said:
    Nice quoting Jobs, - yet we’ll talk when this has affected our user experience and Apple’s pricing. Tim Cook won’t pay for your new Mac, and neither will this lady. Unlike her, Jobs whom you quote gave us the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad. How could one even compare an artist like him to a politician whose job is to tax you?

    P.S. GDPR is so useless one even needs third-party software to get rid of its notices. Prove me wrong. 
    It doesn't matter if you get GDPR. The important part is that a global company can't ignore it. That is real power. I don't see any current US politician operating on that level. Hate it or not, but there is a bit Pelosi to it. We need for Tim Cook and team to get that. The next Vestager is problably not going to be any more US-friendly.
    I don’t get foreign politicians prying into American business practices. Were the US to merely entertain the idea of introducing, say, a 200% import duty on all European produce in response they’d have no choice but to cease and desist (and perhaps even apologize).  
    Do you really think the US is going to antagonise the EU over Apple losing money over side loading, when other other American companies such as Google and Microsoft (and even Apple themselves on Macs) allow it and are doing just fine.

    If anything the US is going to replicate the digital markets act in the future.
    williamlondonRespite

  • Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company

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    hmurchison said:
    Zoom is still a favorite for many over Teams. 
    Zoom isn't as prevalent as you think it is. Most companies have switched to Microsoft Teams or Google Meet.

    Of course, there would be some individuals who still use Zoom, however, that number is decreasing every year.

    hmurchison said:
    Surface hasn't really put a dent in the iPad
    Despite being a market leader, the iPad itself only accounts for a little over 7% of Apple's revenue.

    hmurchison said:
    I find the Vision Pro launch to be significantly more important to computing than Generative AI. 
    Maybe in the third or fourth generation. This tech has existed in one form or another for the past many years, what Apple has done is crank up the specifications to 100. It is currently being marketed as a productivity tool but only the market will decide it's future. The first generation Apple watch was marketed as a premium watch but failed and only when Apple utilised its capabilities as a health tracker did it gain market share.

    hmurchison said:
    And if 
    Apple is effectively able to put LLM right in silicon without heavy reliance on external servers for most 
    of the daily AI tasks that will leapfrog much of today's  "Hey we have AI in our app but please don't use it 
    too much because it's expensive" approach to extant AI use cases. 

    The problem with that is, Android OEMs have already started doing that. Of course Apple's implementation will gain more mindshare (it is Apple duh...), however, it will not be something unique to Apple only, and that's not even considering the capability of the LLM model which Apple will use and whether it will be better than the competition.
    grandact73