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tmay said:

avon b7 said:

tmay said:

avon b7 said:

thrang said:

avon b7 said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Apple should just. let it crash and burn.

And them make a detailed video campaign about how the EU is taking away users freedom to choose a platform that is closed and secure.

I really wish someone would survey this and plunk the truth on the table. 

I'll set out my stalk. 

IMO, virtually no iOS user is remotely aware of the limitations Apple imposes on them. 

They are unaware of the wallet/NFC limitations. 

Unaware of the Web Kit restrictions. 

Unaware of the App Store restrictions. Both in terms of content and actual stores. 

Unaware of the commissions. 

Unaware of the harm that is being caused to them.

That is what 'closed and secure' means, does it not? 

Now. Why not be up front on all this? Why not explain these impositions, simply and clearly, and ask consumers to sign off on them prior to purchase?

I think you will see a massive change of heart from these people and of course that's why Apple would never ever be up front about it and would rather comply with the EU stance. Even if signing off on the restrictions might conceivably get them off many an anti-trust hook. 

What do you smoke? If you own an iPhone or iPad (for example), and have so for years, you know EXACTLY what you can and cannot do. Your position is not comprehensible.

NO USERS (as a meaningful percentage of installed base) are complaining at all about Apple's approach. I would suspect most desire and appreciate the semi-walled garden approach. I find it reprehensible that governments would force businesses to change its model (short of legitimate antitrust, which I've yet to see Apple commit). 

I personally DO NOT WANT Apple to open critical systems to third parties at all. I deeply appreciate the clear hard divisions the platforms provide.

If you or others don't, you should choose to leave Apple and use Android. That's a free market choice.

If enough people felt like you, the free market forces would compel Apple to make changes. Which is precisely how it should be - NOT government entities making private firms bend. That is horrific if you pause to think about the precedence these intrusions set. Be careful what you wish for.

My whole point is that iPhone users do not know 'EXACTLY' what they can or cannot do.

I even went further and said if they did know, things would be very different. 

Lack of complaining does not mean, in any shape or fashion, that users are aware of the limitations. 

Your personal want (or mine) is irrelevant here. 

Everyone here knows that you do not regularly use an iPhone, sure, your wife does, so it isn't hard to imagine that you are invested in a personal crusade against the iPhone. Everyone here knows that you are as well an ardent Huawei advocate, so maybe you need, to chill the fuck out about the iPhone.

Funny how most Apple iPhone users just want to be left alone to enjoy their "walled garden", without you interlopers.

My point doesn't change one iota. This is a general issue, not a user specific case. 

Or do you think that if the EU were to look into a survey they would require iPhone users to carry it out? 

That's nonsense.

As is this:

"Funny how most Apple iPhone users just want to be left alone to enjoy their "walled garden", without you interlopers."

See my initial post! 

You seem to be advocating a specific case, in a patronizing and authoritarian manner.

So, you would be fine with the EU conducting a survey, and then what?

If the result is that iOS users were happy with the status quo, would there need to be reeducation camps? Would you be unable to accept that the market has spoken?

Xed said:

dutchlord said:

Come on Apple, thinner and faster are no design goals. I never had a slow Apple device even after years of usage. Thinner is not appealing. We need real out-of-the-box innovation not more of the same. 

You don't think that a design of Apple's engineering is to make it lighter and to make it faster? I certainly do, and I know from experience that if you can make an object less heavy you can usually reduce its volume and if you can make it complete a given task more quickly you get it back to an idle state faster which will give you an overall better battery life. How are these not goals when designing a better device?

aderutter said:

“ We'll see in the fullness of time if the responses that ChatGPT change when logged into an OpenAI account. ”

I see that this article wasn’t proofread… 

Looking forward to a time when AI articles are proofread using AI…

ihatescreennames said:

AppleInsider said:

But, regardless of that wait list, we're not going to get it on our HomePods in 2024. And, probably not on the existing devices in the family at all. 

If you have a HomePod -- or multiple -- they won't have the benefits of Apple Intelligence or the updated Siri. That extends to other devices, too, like your Apple Watch or any unsupported Macs or iPhones.

Is that confirmed or is it possible HomePods will handoff queries to our iPhones like they already sometimes do. For instance, asking a HomePod where somebody is will use Find My on my iPhone to actually get the info from and then it will tell me. Maybe Apple Intelligence will work similarly with a HomePod?

indieshack said:

noun: vapourware; noun: vaporware

1. software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed.

jerm said:

This article could have been more interesting, informative and shorter if you had refrained from your usual bitterness at other journalists.
It’s not funny anymore, just boring.

pulseimages said:

Xed said:

pulseimages said:

Xed said:

pulseimages said:

Xed said:

pulseimages said:

Has Jony Ive entered the building again? How will battery life not suffer? 

Your comment assumes no other advances will be made in shrinking components, making more power efficient components, denser battery tech, better internal design of components, and/or more efficient SW.

Battery technology has been lagging for years and suddenly in two years time it’s dramatically going to improve? There’s only so much they can do via software manipulation. It truly would be a miracle if Apple provided real all day battery life in phones that aren’t the size of the Pro Max but then they would be losing out on the $$ they make from battery replacements. 

1) Things do advance, even if slowly. Sometimes, it's just the efficiency of the packaging, even if the density of the cells isn't changing.

2) You only addressed 2 things of many that can affect battery life.

3) You say "there's only so much they can do" and yet I can point to any number of iPhones, iPads, or Mac laptops to show how their battery life is considerably better while being much lighter and faster than they used to be.

Then my iPhone 12 Mini should be providing me with better battery life with the advancements in iOS technology yet with each iOS update I am getting less battery life. 

The OS generally gets more efficient but it also gets more features which use power. You can often disable many of these new features. Again, you ignore all the other advances that has led to far great batter life over the original iPhone.

You have an answer for everything, dink.