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  • Apple Vision Pro customers face a 25-minute in-store sales pitch

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    The first iPhone was revolutionary, the only people who said that it wouldn't succeed were the CEOs of big tech corporations who were at competition with Apple.

    It has no parallels with this product, most people are expecting it to be revolutionary but long time Apple users know how mundane it seems compared to other products in the market.

    Regardless, the next decade is about AI and integration of AI into products, not about AR headsets. This will be like the first Apple watch, which was a failure and the line only succeeded after they pivoted to health features.

    Remember, it will sell (Apple logo, rich guy symbol duh.), but it is not the product Apple is looking for to reduce their dependency on iPhone sales.
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  • Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network

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    Beeper should give up, Apple is not going to budge on iMessage it is even more important to them than Safari or even Apple Maps.

    That being said, everyone knows why Apple is doing this and its implications on the broader market (hint- it's neither about privacy nor security) the question is whether it is legal. If what happened to AOL messenger is any indication, it is not.
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  • EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores

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    AllM said:
    bulk001 said:
    glennh said:
    As an Apple shareholder, I would demand that any third party App Store, pay upfront their fair share to Apple for all R&D, marketing, IP, transportation, security and other associated yearly expenses and costs that Apple bears in making and maintaining its various devices and associated software products. 
    The walled garden is going away. The iPhone and iPad will move more and more to the Mac model. You are going to have to start learning to deal with it and decide how you want to move forward with your investment. Apple is going to have to start learning to deal with it too. Then have become too dependent on the iPhone and a watch, self driving car, weather app, and VR are not going to move the company forward like the iPhone did. Cook has done a great job generating iterative changes to make money but under his leadership Apple has missed on search, cloud, AI etc. In comparison MS moved into other areas after they lost the phone wars and somehow managed to closed on Friday as the world’s most valuable company, doing it without a phone type device or a map app. 
    Today, it’s Apple. Tomorrow, it’s America. The fewer Nordic socialist types on American soil, the better. 

    P.S. MS don’t produce jack in consumer electronics. If you ain’t no boring corporate type, you’ll hardly ever buy anything from them. 
    ...or if you are a gamer. Windows is the only option for gamers, no one is going to buy a Mac.

    (Which is kinda hilarious if you remember how Apple portrayed Windows in the Mac vs PC ads)
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  • EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores

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    eriamjh said:
    I wonder if Apple could force sideloaded apps to exist in a sandbox, locked and isolated from everything else.  

    Granted the user may grant access to Contact, photos, etc, but maybe it would contain nefarious apps.  

     Have no idea how this works.  
    All apps run in a sandbox even now. Apple could also copy Google's Play protect which periodically scans the phone for malware and viruses so even third party installs are secure.

    Some time ago I tried to side load a pirated movie app on Android and Play Protect warned me that the app had malicious code.
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  • EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    Vestager: "Billion and trillion dollar software companies deserve special treatment. You're forcing them to adhere to the same rules as the fart app programmer. That just isn't right!"
    Generally speaking, billion and trillion dollar companies do get special treatment from Apple.

    Google, Microsoft etc. do get special consideration, if anything comes up wrong with them, only executive level positions have the authority to issue directives.
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