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Apple tells EU to forget about getting all the new iOS 26 features
I'd side with EU monopoly claims if the EU had companies that competed with Apple but they don't. They're just doing this because any companies they had that might compete, screwed the pooch and ended up in no-man's land... here's looking at you Nokia. And in all reality it was Microsoft NOT Apple that killed Nokia.
Linux doesn't even come anywhere close to macOS and there is no EU version of anything that competes with Android let alone iOS.
Maybe the EU should concentrate on solving this before raking Apple over the coals for making products that no one competes with. Through no fault of Apple's I might add.
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Apple devices in EU getting repair scores & battery life labels
I guarantee consumers won’t save any money.
All that will happen is the power companies will raise their prices due to consumers using less power.
It happens here in New Zealand where power companies increase prices in winter to rort the consumer claiming we’re using more power than they can generate. Except New Zealand can produce more power than it actually needs.
Welcome to the wonderful world of markets. Don’t even get me started on how we pay international market rates for New Zealand beef and lamb internally.
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Prepare for a scam gold rush with the App Store changes
None of this will happen. No one is going to read the terms and conditions because no one reads terms and conditions. There’s no evidence people read terms and conditions on Android.neoncat said:Good read, but this line stands out as the real takeaway:
And instead of just downloading an app when we need it, we will have to vigilant — and finally read those terms and conditions.
Anything that teaches, by hook or by crook, by reward or by cudgel, the "general populace" (waving hands around) to take their security into their own hands and balance petty wants against risk will only benefit them in the long term. Because guess what? Apple itself is only motivated by its desire to make money, as much of it as possible.
Given how the App Store is packed full of scam apps, gatcha games, quickly-approved apps that are little more than rip offs of existing IP, and apps with privacy reports cards that don't actually match the data that the apps collect (not to mention Apple's strong-arming developers into adopting subscriptions again in order to feed its rapacious desire for recurring revenue), the blind trust placed in Apple to assume guardianship of our security, privacy, and the overall experience of acquiring applications is misplaced, as it is always misplaced when we abdicate our personal responsibility.
Whether one central app store or dozens, assume none of them are looking out for your best interest. Because they're not.
However, for Apple they can simply state that it wasn’t their AppStore and get out of a court case as a result. Apple can prove 100% they had nothing to do with the sale and so walk away.
Apple can then simply state that it was the courts that forced this hell hole and so it’s up to the courts to deal with the ramifications, leave Apple out of it.
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Underwhelming performance of Apple Intelligence will hit iPhone sales, Kuo claims
Why do we keep listening to this idiot? What has he actually been bang on the money of?
He seems to be a tech Nostradamus. Everyone thinks Nostradamus was right about so many things, but of the 900 or so predictions he made, only about 90 of them came true and that was with massive amounts of twisting information to make it fit.
I can't actually remember the last time Kuo was accurate on something related to Apple and yet tech publications keep reporting on him as though he's some sort of oracle.
Stop it. Do your own research instead of blindly listening to someone who I'm pretty sure is trying to game Apple's stocks.
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Apple could have sold me an iPhone SE 4, but it won't sell me the iPhone 16e
“Intelligence” is what the “i” in “iPhone” is. After all, the iPhone has ALWAYS been the most intelligent phone on the market since it came out and it gets more intelligent with every model.AmberNeely said:
Ohhhh, I thought it stood for Apple Entelligencelowededwookie said:The “e” clearly means “Entry”
