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  • 2022 Mac Pro said to use Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 CPU

    maximaramaximara
    One Idea I have is that the coming Mac Pro will be some form of x86/Apple Silicon hybrid with one of the CPUs on a card.  Sort of like the old Apple II cards that existed for the LC units only in this case the card and the main CPU can run simultaneously .  That way Apple doesn't have to have two separate designs.
    welshdogwatto_cobra

  • European Commission says Apple is in breach of EU competition law

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    xyzzy01 said:
    stuke said:
    No one forced you to buy an iPhone nor iPad since 2007. No one also forced you to purchase any smartphone application on the App Store if you did buy an iPhone or iPad.  Get off your high horse and innovate something out of the EU that the rest of the world finds useful, helpful, and or impactful, and is willing with their one free will to pay for that value. 

    @Apple, quit selling in the EU Block. It will last for 3-6 months before the findings are negated. . 

    Innovation? Spotify invented the music streaming service as we know it today - just as Apple was the catalyst of the generation before, the digital music store. My first Spotify receipt is from 2009, Apple launched their service more than 6 years later. (Disclosure: I'm a customer at both - or rather, I have the Apple family membership and my wife has the Spotify family membership due to needing playlists at her job)

    "The music store launched in 2003 but iTunes started life in 2001, when the first generation iPod MP3 player - which stored 1,000 tunes - transformed the world of digital music."  A brief history of Apple's iTunes  (BBC)  Last time I checked 2003 is before 2009.  More over according to wikipedia Spotify as a company didn't exist until April 23, 2006 some three years after the store Apple Launches the iTunes Music Store (April 28, 2003) and some five years after "Apple Introduces iTunes — World’s Best and Easiest To Use Jukebox Software" (January 9, 2001).


    danoxericthehalfbeewatto_cobra

  • Discord reverses course on iOS blanket ban of NSFW content

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    darkvader said:
    Once again, Apple's illegal abuse of their monopoly on app installation rears its ugly head.

    As with the Epic case, the solution is obvious.  It's past time for Apple's unlawful app store monopoly to be broken.

    If you want to remain within Apple's walled garden for all the apps you install on your iPhone, that's absolutely your right.  But Apple is abusing their app store monopoly to force everyone with an iDevice into that walled garden, and that is an abuse of their monopoly.

    It's past time for governments to step in and force Apple to allow users to load apps from any source of their choosing.

    There is nothing illegal about Apple taking masures to limit NSFW content.  Heck, in some localities not doing so could land Apple in trouble.
    Detnatorwatto_cobra

  • Apple kept iMessage off Android to lock users in to iOS

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    thedba said:
    avon b7 said:
    williamh said:
    So a former employee claims Apple was trying to keep a competitive advantage? That’s shocking. Not.

    I don’t understand why Epic thinks Apple had any obligation to do anything differently. 
    As Apple (and others) are put inder the digital age microscope, it is these scenarios that take on more significance.

    Where is the line between 'competitive advantage' and 'anti-competitive advantage'.
    ? 

    Over the coming months and years we will surely find out and I wouldn't be at all surprised if platform providers are forced to provide a 'key' to their 'locks'. 

    Perhaps not necessarily in the form of forced cross platform use but in the form of a way to export everything in a way that can be imported into alternative systems. 




    Disagree with that because if we were to follow that logic, then Epic Games should be forced to port their games over to the Mac. And not some cheap feature reduced version of their games, because that would offer an  anti-competitive advantage to Apple's competitors.
    This is why I have been saying Epic is short sighted fools.  If one follows their loopy logic (if it can be called that) to its ultimate conclusion there can be no exclusives period,  No console exclusives, no platform exclusives and the like.  The total absurdity of this position is obvious to anyone with a functioning brain...which seems to leave Epic out in a lurch. :-) 
    watto_cobra

  • US official calls Cook's idea to vote on iPhone 'preposterous'

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    soundsinmotion said:
    Problem is iPhone technology, votes could be hacked in the cloud server.
    Sounds like the stuff Trump tried to claim and no one found a single measurable thing.  It is largely a non issue.  The reality is the republicans know that if the country is largely in favor of more things in the democratic camp then theirs and that is why they gerrymander districts into oblivion and are trying to pass a bunch of laws to inhibit minorities to vote based on non existent fraud.
    Dogperson