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  • Apple TV+ to release 'CODA,' its prize Sundance acquisition, August 13

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    dewme said:
    Not wanting to sound like a curmudgeon ... but there is a part of me that wishes Apple would spin off all of its media production stuff into a separate company, like Apple Media Group, Steve Jobs Studios, or something. The cognitive slew rate between thinking about M1 chips and XDR displays and movie production and licensing stuff like this is rather jarring. Apple is starting to look and feel more like a conglomerate, which in my mind trends a corporation towards behaviors that are the polar opposite of agile, edgy, and thinking different. Just my $0.02.
    I would also say that Apple is stretching Apple’s brand too much... Nowadays almost any new thing gets Apple in the name!!! Just look at Apple Music... I bet that if it had kept the Beats brand, it would be far more successful on other platforms.
    People will start to get tired of so much "Apple"
    flyingdpBeats

  • Tile bemoans Apple AirTags launch, raises antitrust concerns

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    Funny how Samsung is already selling a similar product and service and Tile didn’t complain! Is Apple forbidden to compete with Samsung?
    DnykjpRfC6fnBsJapheyn2itivguypulseimagescaladanianBeatschaickajony0applguywatto_cobra

  • Docker Desktop now available for Apple Silicon

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    Is it too much of a coincidence that several major professional tools came out the week before Apple’s new announcement?
    watto_cobra

  • Apple witness says company would need to modify software, hardware to support third-party ...

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    Mueller is at least knowledgable about this sort of thing, but he comes from an open source background. He has declared his intentions to only publish Android apps because he disagrees with the Apple approach. He's right that the MDM approach isn't suitable for widely-distributed software (this is by design!), but I would have expected him to recall the Facebook brouhaha involving their "Enterprise" software certificate being used to bypass App Store restrictions (e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/facebook-paying-users-to-install-app-to-collect-data-techcrunch.html) - so it's definitely possible if the end result is valuable enough to you.

    And, oddly enough, I agree with Tim Sweeney on this single point - it is technically feasible for Apple to allow Third Party App Stores by using the Enterprise Developer Program. But I wouldn't want Apple to be forced to change that Program because of the safeguards it provides - the user must explicitly accept that they do not have full control over their device with respect to the apps that can be installed on it. Ironically, users need to implicitly accept that they don't have full control over their device anyway when they buy it. But the key point is that users make an informed choice, both at point of purchase and at the point of profile installation (although, frankly, for corporate use it's far better to have the corporation own the device and simply make parts of its functionality available to its employees).
    Sorry but what you are describing uses only Apple’s cryptographic keys and certificates that Apple distributes to each developer in its developer program. A new store cannot operate using only one app developer certificate, it would have to have its own set of keys and different certificates for each app on their store, different from what Apple uses; which means that the system would need to be redesigned in order to recognise and trust apps from different stores, and each store app management implementation, if we want to maintain an identical level of security. We can argue wether it’s a lot of work or not, but the fact is it isn’t like what these guys are describing, just remember that the system was designed with only one entity that could be trusted - Apple. MDMs and everything else rely on that!
    Apple would have to completely review the system security to account for these kind of changes, since a lot was done without accounting for this level of flexibility!
    applguyroundaboutnowwatto_cobra

  • Apple witness says company would need to modify software, hardware to support third-party ...

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    Being able to install apps outside of the AppStore  doesn’t mean that the System supports another store from another company, it only means that Apple supports some of its signed developers doing distribution, with Apple keys.
    Another store would have its own security mechanisms and its own keys, which means that Apple would have to make sure that the system supports different app management, keys from different stores, etc! Probably Apple would want to change hardware to make sure that its own keys aren’t compromised.
    cornchipwatto_cobra