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Apple is 'ungodly well-managed,' says Berkshire Hathaway vice chair
There are some things about the app I don’t like, but bugs? I’ve never detected a bug in iTunes. It’s always just worked.jschussler said:And yet somehow, 20 years later, iTunes/Apple Music still a bug-ridden, poorly designed app you can't avoid if you have Apple devices.On the other hand, since I finally upgraded to the latest version of MacOS, I had to upgrade from Office 2011 to Microsoft 365. And it’s a piece of crap. I don’t understand how an app gets worse after 12 years.
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Apple, Broadcom win new damages trial in $1.1B Caltech patent case
That’s not quite accurate, IMO. Most “known” colleges (aside from the ones that advertise on TV) are non-profits and yet tuition has skyrocketed at many multiples of the inflation rate.joekewe said:
I agree with your comment when applied to FOR-profit universities, but NON-profit universities are not designed to be businesses. Yes, they charge tuition and have huge budgets, but they are not intended to generate profits. Most are focused on their "educational aims" while generating enough income to stay afloat.sbdude said:
That said, all universities in one form or another are a business pure and simple; their educational aims these days are questionable at best.Many of these schools are more interested in increasing the size of their endowment and many have highly paid, top heavy administrations filled with people who don’t teach. That’s especially true at most of the Ivy Leagues. And many are more concerned with expanding the facilities than education.My first year at college cost $1300 in tuition. That’s $10,000 in today’s dollars. But that school today charges over $50,000 and it certainly doesn’t come to mind as one of the great educational institutions of our country.The big ripoff were schools that closed during the pandemic, but didn’t reduce tuition - trying to claim that an assignment sent via email or a Zoom lecture (when the professors even bothered to do so) was the same as in person instruction on a fully functional campus. My granddaughter dropped out of college for a year because it certainly wasn’t worth spending something like $70,000 for half-hearted remote learning.
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Apple files a lawsuit to stop upcoming indie 'Apple Man' film
A film is not a trademark and if the film has nothing to do with computers or phones, there’s no confusion (as long as the film doesn’t use anything that looks like Apple’s Apple logo) and IMO (I’m not a lawyer, but I have a great deal of professional experience with rights management) Apple has absolutely no case. If we’re getting the full story, this is ridiculous overreach by Apple’s lawyers.JWSC said:
True. Regardless of whether they win or lose, the lawsuit will put Apple on record as attempting to protect their trademark, which could come in handy in future lawsuits that may be more applicable. Nevertheless, actions like this tarnish their reputation in the public eye. One can only hope that Apple weighed the costs and benefits carefully before making this decision.foregoneconclusion said:Trademark law requires you to actively protect your trademark. This is just another example of that. Regardless of the outcome, it serves the purpose of showing Apple is serious about its trademark. I would guess that this particular example is due to Apple being in the tv/film business now.The film will probably disappear quickly. But if this lawsuit gets publicized, Apple will look bad for a long time and at a time when Apple and other tech companies are considered to be too powerful, it’s an especially stupid move by Apple, IMO.
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Apple sues NSO Group over Pegasus iPhone spyware
Good for Apple, but unless NSO was violating copyright or parents or Apple’s licensing agreements, they might not have a case (unfortunately).
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Developers get day in court over 'tyrannical greed' of Apple's App Store
These developers should be careful what they wish for. I presume that they’re young and have no idea how “open sales” work.darelrex said:I think some people are just enamored of the idea that iPhone and iPad should function the same as personal computers in the '80s and '90s: a free-for-all where anyone can install anything — piracy, malware, funky system mods, you name it. And they're hoping that the courts will force that to happen.
Also, are these plaintiffs even suggesting why their requested ruling should apply only to Apple, and not also to all other companies' locked-down platforms, stores, etc? Why should any other company get to have tyrannical, greedy, anticompetitive control of its own thing?When software apps for computers were mainly sold in physical retail, most retailers bought the products from distributors, like Ingram Micro-D. You had to sell to Ingram at a 52% discount. Apple’s 30% take from large developers and 15% from small developers (has that started yet?) begins to look pretty good, especially since Apple absorbs credit card fees and fraud.A small company can pay as much as 6% for credit card processing, so Apple’s fee is closer to 24%.Also, why do they say they want access to the App Store? They have that. Seems to me they really want to sell outside of the App Store.Do they really think they’re going to be taken seriously by the court by asking for elimination of the $99 developer program fee? What company can’t afford that?And $400 billion? I’m surprised they haven’t been thrown out of court yet. They can’t rationalize that. They couldn’t even rationalize $400m or $40m.Having said that I think that some future court will force Apple to permit sales outside of the store. At that point, Apple would probably have to implement some sort of certification for apps sold in the store so people realize that apps sold outside the store are not so certified and might be a security risk or could violate Apple’s programming guidelines.
