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  • Apple considered making a cloud gaming service alongside Apple Arcade

    mr lizardmr lizard
    So, Gurman had this exclusive info, but didn’t break a story about it, and instead waited for the off-chance that a reader would ask him a question about it so he could mention it in an email newsletter?

    Okay. 
    watto_cobra

  • iPhone gets USB-C thanks to creative robotics engineer

    mr lizardmr lizard
    omasou said:
    Agreed, Apple could do it. They just don't want to. Like I have said before, I think it is related to keeping the phone waterproof.

    Nah. Other device manufacturers make waterproof USB-C devices just fine. 
    nadriel

  • More evidence surfaces of 5G 'iPhone SE 3' coming in spring 2022

    mr lizardmr lizard
    Plausible. Apple clearly sells a nice amount of these devices and there’s an entrenched user base of Touch ID fans that Apple wants to keep serving. 

    I like the idea of Apple being able to offer those customers the best of the iPhone 13 whilst retaining a form factor and industrial design that they like. 

    So… SE now presumably stands for Spring Edition! 
    Fred257

  • Ireland joins OECD tax agreement, ends status as tax haven for multinationals

    mr lizardmr lizard
    Moving from 12.5% to 15% is hardly ending tax haven status. This headline is nonsense. 

    Unless every loophole is closed then companies can still be clever and legally funnel money around to escape most taxation altogether. It’s that web of loopholes that makes somewhere a tax haven, not that the published rate of tax was 12.5% and not 15%. 
    muthuk_vanalingamronn

  • Android executive offers to help Apple deploy RCS messaging

    mr lizardmr lizard
    Maybe RCS genuinely is the future of messaging on Android. But…

    1) Google has a long history of dumping services when they get bored of them. Unless RCS is going to be a big income driver for Google I wouldn’t be surprised to see them walk away from it several years down the line. 

    2) RCS has been under discussion for what feels like forever and it’s still not the default on Android. If it takes this long to roll something out, how long is it going to take to add new features? How are Apple expected to maintain parity with RCS if Apple’s ready to launch support for a feature and RCS isn’t ready?

    3) Control of iMessage is of obvious strategic importance to Apple, but it also lets Apple set and control the direction and feature set of its default messaging service. If the RCS folks decide they want to take RCS in a new direction (say, adding send money features), and that direction isn’t where Apple wants to go, then we end up breaking parity again. Apple doesn’t want some other consortium of companies setting the strategic roadmap for iMessage features. 

    There’s lots of good reasons for RCS and customers of both platforms for this to work. I can see very few reasons for Apple wanting to do it though.  


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