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  • New iPhone 12 owners bombarded with free Apple Arcade offers

    mr lizardmr lizard
    When your CEO sets a goal to grow services subscriber revenue, this is what happens. 

    Apple previously used to state that their goal wasn’t “most” of something, but the “best” of something. Sometimes it also happened that they sold the most, as was the case with MP3 players, sometimes not, as with personal computers. 

    I’m sure Apple’s always had internal revenue goals, but Tim’s subscriber goal marked the first time the company had ever publicly stated they were chasing numbers. 

    And now we had ads within settings. 
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  • Apple in talks to buy streaming rights to upcoming James Bond film 'No Time to Die'

    mr lizardmr lizard
    M68000 said:
    “To bring the movie Exclusively to Apple TV+“ ...   does anybody see a problem with this?  Can you say monopolistic ?    This is bad for consumers.  Really would prefer to see Bond in the theater first where it belongs.  If it must be streamed it should be available to multiple services.   I don’t have Apple TV or TV+ or whatever they call it these days. 
    This is how literally every single TV and movie production works. Netflix has a mountain of exclusives. So does Prime Video. We can argue the toss over whether this entire business model should exist, and who knows maybe there’s a case to say that Apple shouldn’t be allowed to do exactly what Netflix and Amazon do (a big maybe in my opinion)  but that’s a way bigger issue than a single Bond movie. 

    And if you’d really like to see Bond in the theatre first, you’re not alone. But, y’know, global pandemic...
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  • Woman sues Apple for hosting 'gambling apps' after spending thousands on in-game currency

    mr lizardmr lizard
    “Although gambling apps are banned on the App Store”

    Well, setting aside this person’s lawsuit (I have no interest in it) that statement is simply not true. The App Store is chock full of games where you pay to gamble on a chance to win something. I guess in some countries the term “gambling” might legally be quite narrow and only mean where you can win money. 


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  • Review: Hue's multi-color gradient light strip is great for the TV, but needs updates

    mr lizardmr lizard
    The colour changes look slightly out of sync with the on-screen image, according to this video. I would find that quite distracting. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apparent Apple Card snafu attributes AT&T charges to small Dallas accounting firm

    mr lizardmr lizard
    chasm said:
    Apple hasn't commented on the matter because this has absolutely nothing to do with Apple. This is a Goldman Sachs error.

    Apple provided the prestige name and the software for card management, and publicity for special offers it would seem. GS handles the entire business end of this card.
    When you partner with someone else and insist that your branding is the only one visible on the product, including the name of the product, and you’re even the public face of the product, then you assume the responsibility too. You can’t have just the good stuff from that arrangement and walk away from all the negative stuff.  

    What’s not helpful here is Apple’s ingrained policy of not commenting on anything that goes wrong with any of their products or services until they’ve identified the root cause and have a fix for it. No holding statements, no “we’re looking into it”. It leaves people scrambling around trying to work out what’s going on, doing all the work on their own, and other firms like this tax office end up putting out statements of their own. 

    All it needs is a call from Apple to Goldman to confirm that they’re looking into it, and a super short statement in the app and website that says “we’re aware that some customers may be seeing erroneous entries on their account. We’re looking into this and will provide another update shortly”. 

    That’s it. In a pinch everyone calms down. 
    CloudTalkingatorguyfirelock