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AI has fallen into the same trap as other media with a poor headline. This was not a Windows update. It was a Crowdstrike update affecting Windows. Businesses that do not use Crowdstrike are not affected. By crying Windows, you lead the headline reader to believe it is a Microsoft issue.

Apple sells value, not price cuts. The iPhone became more essential and a better value proposition for the price by incorporating better cameras and taking over the pocket camera space. Apple already signalled the value proposition in professional spaces by emphasising the simulated dual and extra-wide monitor support - bringing Vision Pro close in value to something professionals could buy instead. I expect this to be the trajectory: constant price, better value. Concern over sales is misplaced; this is a technology development platform and what Apple showed at WWDC is that there are great products in the works right now. I would wait a year for those products and the dev platform to harden before looking at sales. 

Vestager’s comments were unhinged or unwise at best. In her role she should have limited herself to saying that her department needs to examine Apple’s questions more carefully. She is the one that has made a political snowball out of this which really underscores her agenda. I’m not saying it is, but Apple could be the most benevolent company in the world and she would still find fault with it, because her mission is to try and break apart successful American companies. It is not about competition and market access, Apple has in fact been responding to that. It’s all well and good to ask for “interoperability“ but where there is new technology and no establish standards, and standards take decades to evolve, it is pipe dreaming. The Commission’s methodology is incompatible with pace of evolution of technology.

This just sounds like very poor pricing on the part of the games. They can keep the all-up price but introduce progressive pricing at game-level breakpoints to make the game more attractive for more casual gamers. 

AppleInsider it’s a little too quick to defend Apple. Yes, the man brought his personal problems on himself, but under UK law there may well be grounds for legal action. The terms and conditions may be ruled unreasobable and unenforceable under UK trading laws. The apparent flaw may make the device “unfit for purpose” making the seller (not the manufacturer) liable for the failure and the article doesn’t mention whether his phone was bought from Apple or a third-party.