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The law definitely is not code, but the law could require Apple to follow the same requirements they set for others. Then the government could sue Apple (or otherwise enforce this behavior.) It's not the worst idea I've heard, tbh.
Sure, but that’s not how it works. And it’s a pretty bad idea. It basically means that no apps that ship with an OS can be available in the store.
Apple Wallet is in the App store, and the F1 ad debacle directly violates App Store guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ ) > 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information. Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly…
> Apple Wallet is in the App store, and the F1 ad debacle directly violates App Store guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ ) It would only violate App Store guidelines if Apple forces itself to agree to, and be bound by them. I think it's arguable that they probably do not, and so they didn't violate the guidelines because they're not bound by them.
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This is the reason why anti-trust agencies don’t like this. Apple (with its App Store) is a gatekeeper and in Europe at least it should not favor its own apps over the others(i.e maps, payments, AI integrations etc). It should play fair.
“Fair” meaning that an app that was designed from the ground up by the same people that created the device and operating system should get the same attention as a malware-ridden hack from six years ago? What does fair even mean here? Ensuring the advantages of vertical integration can’t be enjoyed by users?
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Things like Daylight could be really great if the software was more tailored to the device. And even then, you are right, I don't think it will ever be anything more than niche. It is the kind of product that if it absolutely struck a chord would be 10% of the market absolute tops. Nothing wrong with that though. It is good to be a part of stable but solid market rather than trying to dominate it and fail.
What would be awesome is to have a double screen device. OLED on the front, eink on the back. So you could operate in simple mode if you want or use the sharp screen for photos when needed.
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/yotap...
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2015 Nvidia GTX 970 is such a piece of shit card, no you couldn’t do modern gaming. It has relatively few pipelines, low bandwidth and has no frame generation capability to make anything new playable.
Op said "if you started with a high end card". The GTX 970 was Nvidia's mid-range at the time, and not a great one at that. A 980 Ti or Titan X can still perform reasonably well for a 10 year old card. Even with the 970, the real problem is its low VRAM (and the 3.5+0.5GB fiasco). The AMD RX 480 8G which was comparable but with much more VRAM can still run most games, even if you have to make some compromises.
Especially since in 2015 that likely still meant FullHD in SDR, while in 2025 high end would be UHD-1 with HDR.
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Nobody I know buys a new phone until the battery dies on the old one. Are you saying that modern airpods don't do bluetooth? And aren't supported on the iphone 11? People have used bluetooth headphones for 20 years. Why would apply regress? > Yea man. That feature existed on Windows 3.1, ergo nobody should or would want to buy the next iPhone. The point is it's software, which will run just as fine on a supercomputer…
> Nobody I know buys a new phone until the battery dies on the old one. Ok, well now you know one. I buy new phones even when they work just fine. > Are you saying that modern airpods don't do bluetooth? And aren't supported on the iphone 11? People have used bluetooth headphones for 20 years. Why would apply regress? You're not familiar with the products, are you? Folks buy products like AirPods Pro ( https://www.ap…
Well, yes, I guess it would be safer to delete them, but I presume most people just forget about having them once they stop using it (like you just reminded me that I do have several Facebook accounts).
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My PS5, iPad, MacBook, Kindle all use USB-C. It sure would be nice to have just one charger.
My ipad uses ligtning, my kindle uses usb-mini, as does almost every other rechargable thing I have, from torches to portable fans. My headphones are USB-C and by far the most unreliable. The switch uses USB-C too, but that sits in its dock. My laptop will use USB-C, but only for some combinations of cables and chargers. If USB-C was as reliable and dependable as USB-A I wouldn't have a problem.
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Apple is basically a smartphone company at this point, and smartphone sales are plummeting. And I think they're plummeting for the same reason desktop sales plummeted. We went from a time where a new PC was a bit dated in 3 months and obsolete in 2 years, to modern times where a desktop from a decade ago is good for pretty much everything, even including high end gaming if you started with a high end card. The exact…
> I have a 6 year old phone that was cheap when it was new, and it still runs 100% of what I use my phone for, and most people use their phones for, perfectly. Just to be clear your suggesting that your 6 year old iPhone runs a suit of social media apps, full graphics games like Minecraft (or whatever the hell people play these days I don’t know), fitness apps, connects to the latest audio devices like Apple’s AirPod…
Lol, this is a terrible example. Have you *seen* Minecraft ?!? (A game that came out 16 years ago and could already run on cheap hardware back then.)
> or whatever the hell people play these days I don’t know
Well, better, but then this will still be mostly simple 2D games like Candy Crush or Balatro :
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You're 100% right, Apple as a fast-follower "getting it right" tech company, and there's nothing to fast follow right now. IoT/smarthome has been a niche/fad going nowhere since day 1. Smart speakers are commodities. They dabbled in an EV project, canned it. They've dabbled in AR with the VisionPro but really it's too early, if it will ever work. AI is software not hardware. Apple smartphones/tablets/watches have ess…
>> They sell a lot of headphones I guess. If you are still using bluetooth headphones as they existed 10+ years ago, and haven't tried using apple headphones with an apple computer/phone, you are missing a massive quality of life upgrade in terms of basically never having to do the pairing dance again after your initial purchase.