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mrd10 said:

The people would have no platform without Apple. Period. You rely on Apple’s infrastructure and that is why they take 30%. You don’t like it? Get off. I’m so tired of these people stomping their feet and complaining like children. This is the reality. Accept it or move on. 

I 100% agree. That's why whatever ISP the user is using to make this purchase should get 30% also. So at home it might be comcast, when on mobile then at&t etc.. Only makes sense since if the device can not get to the internet there is no way for them to access apples or anyone's  platform! Every time I buy something on the app store, iTunes, subscription etc ISP's should get a cut! Pay up APPLE!!!!!

sflocal said:

I just don't get this.  If Apple buys chips made by Broadcom, and those chips are found to be in violation, why should Apple even be involved? Did this company go after other phone manufacturers using their chips?  

Yeah makes absolutely no sense. Are they going to start suing owners of the devices with these chips too?

Edit: Wow I didn't know that you could sue end users. This is just plane nuts! https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/patent-infringement-lawsuits-against-sof-08530/
https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1799&context=facpubs

Interesting that the A chip looses on GPU speed, which was has always been touted as one of apples A chip strength.
3DMark's Slingshot Extreme graphics benchmark :

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Reference Device

Snapdragon 855

5,603

iPhone XS

A12 Bionic

3,660

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/snapdragon-855-benchmarks,news-29129.html

 This is important for AR where rending 3D stereo (2 separate images) at 60+ FPS is important. 

I think they should change this to two streams if one of the streams is streaming from a home pod. Seems a little to restrictive to me.
I guess people who really need this can just go to the $15 plan, but $60 extra a year just to stream another stream seems like too much $$

If only i could get my apple watch to even transcribe my question and not say hold on a minute, i'll tap you when I'm ready. then do nothing. This happens over 50% of the time now with my series 4 and its making siri useless.