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Selling children's data and tricking them into buying crap.  Stealing from children.  Lovely man, that Sweeney.  

The verdict is that Apple is correct in throwing Epic out of the App Store for violating the terms of the agreement.
Also there is no judgment that says Apple has to allow them back in.
Epic does not get its own separate payment store in App Store.

Apple is not behaving in an unfair monopolistic way.
Apple is not allowed to prevent developers and their app from directing the customer outside the App Store.
But there is no judgment that says that Apple cannot charge extra service fee if a developer promote outside exchange.

There is nothing about the construction of EV that is particularly unique or difficult.  As a reference, 30 years ago my friend, Robert, who has an engineering background, single handedly took out the ICE engine of a used MG convertible and placed a fleet of lead batteries to make a very functional, surprising quick EV (albeit quite heavy with only 15 mile range). If lithium batteries were readily available then, he would have built a very effective vehicle.  

Since Tesla is using commoditized lithium cells made by Panasonic, others can make a similar product.  There are a number of start ups making a claim including Fisker, Rivian, Nikola, Faraday Future, Byton, Lucid, Lordstown.   Traditional car makers are slow to follow due to investments in ICE (innovators dilemma), but will be forced by environmental and policy regulations that are coming down (i.e. California zero emission mandate in 2035, British ICE ban in 2030, Europe ICE ban in 2025).   The MIH/Foxconn Alliance promises the "android system of EV industry," which basically means commoditization of all the pertain parts, which would help undermine Tesla's dominance so far.  An EV is battery, electric motor, suspension, body, electronics, interior, safety system, steering, seats and wheels--which is what Bob built by hand 30 years ago.  Tesla's advantage is large scale production which MIH alliance threatens.  

MIH/Foxconn also announced they will commercialize solid state batteries in 2024.  With the promise of a solid state lithium battery with 2.5 energy density, we may be looking at lighter cars with twice the range and supercar performance.  When this all shakes out, Tesla will no longer be all the unique or special; certainly not in their crash prone autopilot technology (san Lidar) we hear about monthly in the news or their lack of QA with poor body panel fittings or loose seats.  

Since these EV are more computer than vehicle, I would think Apple would have an interest in software (autopilot and operating system in the care) but not the hardware.  They would not want to have "android system of EV."

paul turner said:

I don’t care how fast it is, without a identical functioning windows like  version of excel with same updates  its useless to me.

Did you miss the memo?  Window is porting their Window Office suite to the new M1 chip computers to run native, but for now their Office suite is compatible with Big Sur.  Microsoft says that the Apple Silicon updates have feature parity with the previous versions.

kpom said:

 DuhSesame said:

I wonder how much difference we’ll see for the Air vs. the Pro.

I assume it’s just the long-term performance.

I agree, but this is still very impressive. Something like Cinebench will be better for judging the difference in sustained CPU tasks. 

This is an industry changing moment.  Base MBA with no fan, just crushed the laptop world as we knew it.