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thedba said:

GeorgeBMac said:

For all those defending the "Everything Glued together & soldered together" assembly of the MacBooks by saying "Nobody ever upgraded a computer", Andrew just called bull!

His biggest (only?) complaint about his M1 MacBook Air is that it can't meet his needs because it is frozen in time with what it came with when he bought it -- versus his MacPro which grew and developed with enhancements as his needs, wants and requirements grew.

Likewise, my 9 year old i7 Thinkpad runs perfectly well and meets all of my needs -- because it's been upgraded to a 500Gb SSD, 16Gb Ram and an internal harddrive used for ongoing, real time backups.  Without those cheap and very simple to install (5 minutes or less) upgrades the machine would have been scrap

Statements such as this remind me of my now deceased father who used to long for the days of when he could service his car himself. 
I sometimes wonder what he would say seeing today's Teslas or Priuses. 

Either way, all technology will move towards this way of doing things with ARM architecture taking up more space. Apple is just ahead of the curve on this. 

sflocal said:

If Epic wins, it will turn Apple's App Store into the wild-west, malware-ridden infestation that is Android.  I can't believe that anyone, including the government can force any company to open their all-in-one product to allow other companies free reign.  

This is not anything remotely similar to what Microsoft did with Windows.  Microsoft owned the software, but not the hardware that vendors were loading the OS onto.  Microsoft was forcing PC makers to submit to its will.  The iPhone is owned and made by Apple, for Apple.  It's a toaster.  Critics can say whatever they will to suit their narrative, but when it comes down to it, this is Apple's exclusive product and it can do whatever it wants with it.

I'm embarrassed to be a developer, with these crybabies feeling entitled to barge into someone else's house and give orders.

red oak said:

Epic signed a clearly worded contract.   Then, snuck and enabled new payment code in their app.   All while working in parallel putting together a lawsuit and PR campaign including the video to be in hand when Apple expectedly pulled the app 

At a minimum, Epic is morally bankrupt and has no ethics.    Who in the world would want to work for a company that does something like this?