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  • Apple's 'F1' ad in Wallet won't hurt you, but it might save you $10

    mikethemartianmikethemartian
    Cash: It doesn’t send you ads.
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  • Apple shareholders sue over Siri delays and massive losses

    mikethemartianmikethemartian
    If Apple doesn’t settle then they take the risk of going through discovery.
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  • Apple's continued lack of native apps on Vision Pro isn't a good sign for the platform

    mikethemartianmikethemartian
    I'm not sure you're much of a fan of the platform at this point -- you seem about 3/4 of the way toward it being doomed, meaning you don't believe in it anymore. Also seems like most of the Appleinsider contributing staff also isn't that into Apple anymore. Getting pretty "The Verge" around here lately, and choosing this hill to die on as far as Vision Pro feels a little weak this early on.
    Being critical of poor decision making by a company is not the same thing as hating a product. Considering I wrote this piece from within Apple Vision Pro and have spent multiple hours testing the new features this week just for the fun of it, I'd say I'm still rather invested in the platform.

    I'm not sure what you expect us to do, praise Apple when they're doing a poor job at something? You should try listening to the podcast sometime, I'm continuously accused of being too defensive of Apple. lol

    If anything, me wanting the platform to be better should be an indicator of how much I care about it.
    Being critical and concern trolling are two different things. You know full well that if you write stories with incendiary headlines like this one what kind of traffic it attracts. It's quite obvious that you wanting to make money trolling Apple supersedes you "wanting the platform to be better". Please. This is the oldest trick/excuse in the book.
    Incendiary?
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  • Apple's continued lack of native apps on Vision Pro isn't a good sign for the platform

    mikethemartianmikethemartian
    Does Apple charge the same percentage fees to developers of the Vision Pro apps as the iPhone?
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  • Craig Federighi says macOS would ruin what makes the iPad special

    mikethemartianmikethemartian
    mfryd said:
    However, this is not a reason to prohibit running Mac OSX on an iPad.   Users should have a choice as to which OS they run.

    I have nothing against the iPad OS.   It's a great solution for many (but not all) users.   Why not allow users to choose which OS they are running?    

    The iPad OS can be the default, but please allow power users to install OSX.  iPad apps already work inside of Mac OSX, so no functionality is lost.  

    An iPad with an M4 processor, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Thunderbolt 3, and a Magic Keyboard Folio (Keyboard and trackpad) would make a damn fine portable Mac.
    They want you to buy both devices.
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