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Schiller fails to convince skeptical judge over Apple's App Store fees
Stabitha_Christie said:jdw said:Summary of the Conversation:
Activist Judge: "How can you justify making more profits than companies barely scraping by?"
Apple: "We seek to be here 10-20 years from now and therefore seek the profits necessary to achieve that."
Activist Judge: "I personally think you should make only profit necessary to barely remain in business, and I honestly don't care what your investors think."Judge Gonzales-Rogers has rules in Apple’s favor on all but one count. Her ruling stated that Apple wasn’t a monopoly, that the 30% cut, while high, was legal and that that Apple could charge a cut even if the purchase was made outside of the store. She even went as far as to say making a lot of money isn’t illegal.That you ignored her entire ruling and made up a factually incorrect narrative to personally attack the judge is just sad.
Second, I'm not sure why you're embarrassed on my account when you merely have chosen to disagree. And the basis of your disagreement assumes the judge makes all the right decisions as per your citing of her having "ruled in Apple's favor on all but one count." Your statement seeks to have us all believe that we should naturally assume that remaining count she takes issue with must truly be an issue only because she ruled in Apple's favor on all but one count. "She largely ruled in Apple's favor, so let's cut her some slack on the remaining issue" — would be my interpretation of what you wrote.
But I disagreed with that one count in my earlier post for reasons I've already stated. You simply read what I wrote, disagreed, and here we are. So there's no reason to get embarrassed about anything. You and I simply disagree, and that's okay. If everyone thought the same on this planet, what a boring and unproductive place it would be!
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Dive into app & game development with new 'Apple Pathways' hub
Speaking of Apple (Macs) and "Pathways" and Games, who can forget this classic!
https://simplici7y.com/items/aleph-one-pathways-into-darkness/
To play it on a modern Mac, you need to download AlephOne from the above link, and also click the DOWNLOAD button in the upper right of that same web page. Open AlephOne, then choose your AOPID_v1.4 folder, and you're good to go! -
A San Francisco highway near Apple Park wasn't pretty enough, so it got deleted
It's called "subject isolation." Ever shot a photo of yourself or someone else and wanted to remove either another person or an eyesore? Subject isolation! And with AI, that process is getting much faster and easier.
If you examine the side-by-side shot in the article, you see the highway takes your focus away from the train tracks. It would take longer for you to notice the train is there. The doctored photo helps you see the white-topped train on the tracks more clearly and quickly.
So who cares if the "SF Gate wasn't fooled"! It wasn't about fooling you as much as it was making your eyes see the MAIN POINT of that scene, which was the train.
"What about homes changed to mansions?" you ask? ANSWER: scene beautification. And who does that better than Apple? My goodness! Where does the clip say "this scene is 100% accurate?" Our cities do need some beautification. Obviously, you can't replace old homes with new ones instantly. But 100 years from now, things will probably look different. The old will be destroyed and make way for the new. But the biggest change that would make a huge improvement would be the complete elimination of power and photo lines. Ever watch Star Trek earth scenes of the future? No power lines. Funny how eliminating the world's BIGGEST eyesore makes things look more "futuristic."
The things people talk about and complain about these days is getting pretty crazy. Let well enough alone and enjoy life. Don't worry. Be happy. -
New 13-inch iPad Air will eat into iPad Pro sales
Just as the Apple Watch is largely for people who love to exercise and work out, the iPad is made especially for creatives who like to draw with the Apple pencil. I used to think my iPad was more of a content consumption device, where I could watch videos. But these days, I prefer my 16" MBP for its larger screen for content consumption, AND it is a work machine too!
iPadOS is only a tiny bit more functional and useful than iPhone's iOS, which has me turning to my Macs far more often than every before to get things done, which either can't be done on iPad or can't be done as efficiently. As a result, our family doesn't use iPad much at all anymore, turning either to an iPhone or Mac instead.
In light of this, whether one model iPad eats into the sales of another matters little. It's almost laughable to even talk about that when iPad's other problems are so enormous.
I want to love the iPad, but iPadOS and limited number of Pro apps which actually enable me to do real work cause me to use a more functional device like my Macs. Until Apple addresses this, it makes no sense for our family to have an iPad, be that Pro or the Air. And this isn't my feeling alone. One of the biggest tech YouTubers out there Marques Brownlee basically said the same thing in his recent video coverage of the new iPads. And he's not the only tech YouTube who has said that either.
Some people love their iPads and use them even more than Macs. More power to those people! But to reach a wider audience, even among loyal Apple device lovers, Apple has much more work to do on the iPad. And that goes far beyond worries over which iPad model eats into the sales of another.
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Apple charms investors with record $110B stock buyback, dividend hike
AAPL has taken a huge hit recently, so it's common sense Apple should do its buyback now, in a major way.
And before anyone gets excited about that "4% increase in the cash dividend," we're talking about a 1 penny increase here, and that increase is no different than previous increases, as per Apple's Dividend History here:
https://investor.apple.com/dividend-history/default.aspx