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The Massimo board approved spinning Sound United back out again in April but there has been no more announcements about what that might look like.

It’s an almost certainty it couldn’t be open sourced code bases this age tend to have all sorts of copyright issues and rights holders involved and it can be next to impossible track down all the right holders and to get the license changes needed. There are two relatively successful instances I know of which are Blender and Staroffice (which became open/libreoffice) I can’t think of any other successes.

For similar reasons it may be impossible to release a ‘sunset’ edition it’s very probable that they have third party licensed code or libraries which require periodic fees.

It’s very stupid but copyright law can make it prohibitively expensive or far too hard to allow software like Finale to continue vs forcing a hard end date.

VictorMortimer said:

Brexit was stupid.

If they'd just left well enough alone, they'd already be covered by the DMA.

But a few months late is at least better than nothing.  There still needs to be worldwide normal software installation and a band on Apple's extortionate 'core technology fee'.

So everything must legislatively work like a 'traditional' computer according to you?

What the DMA will actually cause is an increase in the number of people losing their shirts to fraud. It might as well be called the fund Russia and North Korea act.

Perhaps Apple should do what Micheal Dell advised all those years ago 'Shut down and give the money back to shareholders' just to put the middle finger up at the politicians telling them how to design their products.

Gurman doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. In order to maintain a yearly cadence Apple will have to have multiple design efforts at different stages of development running concurrently.

In order to hit a product launch in mid 25 volume production of the chip would have had to begin months earlier. Allowing for several revisions to fix issues before you go to volume means you have to have taped out that initial rev sometime in 24. That means the design must be well advanced now.

That makes sense as they must be at least in the test phase if not in production ramp up for the A18 in order to hit a product launch in sep/oct 24.

sirdir said:

This was 100% clear from the beginning. An Appstore is not “sideloading”, who would have guessed . Now just the fees have to go. If you don’t use any of Apple‘s services, why would you pay them.

To pay for the development of the platform, you want fee free AppStore then you get to pay $1000 per seat for XCode. Why should Apple have to give it to you for free?

This is exactly how Visual Studio works for Windows if you don't fall in to the carve outs for the community edition then you pay.