anonymouse

Grade 2 Ti is very soft and will scratch very easily, so this bracelet will look "worn" pretty quickly.

I'm sure Apple is thinking that the Ultra bands they are offering are much better suited to the activities they are targeting with the Ultra than a bracelet (and they are) but they should probably produce a matching Grade 5 bracelet for those who want to wear the watch in a casual, less active setting. It would probably be expensive, but they'd probably sell a lot of them.

rorschachai said:

hammeroftruth said:

rorschachai said:

JMaille said:

Without that revenue Apple will have to change it's business models.  Which means developer tools and interface access will be financed like on other platforms. 

Before the App Store, the annual fee for the developer program started at $499 and went up to, I believe, $1,499. Mac OS X upgrades also cost $129. People really believe they’re going to be able to have their cake and eat it too. 

Is it that much? I thought it was $99 and $299 for the two different developer programs. 

It used to be, before the App Store. There were multiple tiers. I forgot about the $3,499 tier, but a chunk of that was due to the WWDC ticket included.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070630060844/developer.apple.com/products/

Actually, since Apple made the switch to NeXTSTEP/OS X, I believe the developer tools (Xcode) have always been available for free. Initially, one may have needed a free developer account that really gave you nothing but access to Xcode, but I don't think there was ever a time when one couldn't get Xcode for free. (I think there was also a brief period when it wasn't yet called Xcode but may have still used the old names, but I can't clearly recall the chronology of that, whether that was only with the OS X developer releases, or also after.)

entropys said:

anonymouse said:

csimmons said:

I honestly don’t believe that Apple is all that concerned about desktop PC market share anymore ...

Sure, that's why they just invested in a multi-year effort with Apple Silicon and all these new Macs using it, because they aren't all that concerned about it. 🙄

The same chips go in laptops, the vast majority of Mac sales.  

There are no laptops with M1 Ultra, and whatever goes into the Mac Pro they told us is coming, and likely won't be. Sorry, the comment is still worthy of an eye roll.

The EU is getting a bit carried away with itself and these issues, and a lot of their "enforcement" does seem to be ideologically based rather than otherwise.

It seems they are getting involved in this NFC/ApplePay issue because it works better — more reliably and more simply for users — than on Android where other payment systems are allowed to use the NFC chip. That just seems crazy — go after it because it's better.

Then there's the whole USB-C nonsense: Say goodbye to innovation in ports and connectors if USB-C is mandated by law. We'll be stuck with USB-C forever because what will be the point of developing something better if you can't use it.

I don't really think they understand what they are doing.

Ordinarily, I might object to the word 'refutes' in the headline, suggesting that 'disputes' would be more appropriate in the context, but, in this instance, 'refutes' appear to be the correct word choice.