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  • EU companies are complaining that US big tech is ignoring a new antitrust law

    jrg_ukjrg_uk
    Never heard of any of those companies. Are they ad networks, per chance, or do they have other hustles?
    baconstangwatto_cobratimpetus

  • Valve kills CS:GO on macOS, won't launch Mac Counter-Strike 2 either

    jrg_ukjrg_uk
    There’s a sentiment in transport, “Why build a bridge? No one is swimming across the gap”, that seems quite appropriate here.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple expected to invest in Arm ahead of possible September IPO

    jrg_ukjrg_uk
    tham said:


    ARM is/was a British company.  In fact, it started as a contest on show on BBC (or was it iTV) in the late 70s on how to make a low powered computer chip.

    Acorn Computer were involved in bidding for a microcomputer design to be used on a BBC educational tv show in the early 80s, and their design was eventually picked: that became the BBC Microcomputer, which later sold to lot of UK schools, and also led to Acorn’s designing a RISC chip (the Acorn RISC Machine, of which v2 went into the Acorn Archimedes models).

    Some other posts have correctly explained how ARM Ltd was later created, and how Apple’s investment in ARM came to be. Though Wikipedia is probably a better place to read the full story, assuming someone isn’t actively messing with it.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Pencil functionality compromised with third-party iPad parts

    jrg_ukjrg_uk
    “They have a memory chip that sits on the screen that's programmed”

    Sure, that’s exactly how memory chips work... and, I get it, the quote has probably come from some simplified report given to some non-tech journalist somewhere and then misreported further for some good ol’ anti-Apple click bait. I’m sure the repair guy could have had a career in integrated circuit design and consumer product development, but chose to work in a repair shop instead.

    But, you know, it makes me question the veracity of the whole claim.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingamFileMakerFeller

  • Alternative App Store payment service in holding pattern, waiting for Apple to change

    jrg_ukjrg_uk
    It’s like they don’t remember as far back as the mid ‘00s when companies were still charging for software updates, because “accounting rules” required allocating the development cost to, well, some revenue. Clearly one of the solutions is to fund it from income from running the App Store.

    Not to mention apparently assuming that because development tools, SDKs, simulators, etc are “free” (the yearly developer registration fee is only going to go so far…) that they must cost nothing to develop.
    watto_cobraDetnator