Probably worth nothing that in the absence of information from Apple the claim that the Watch doesn’t have a
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Being able to shoot ProRes is impressive. It’s not going replace pro gear but it speaks to no Apple’s proc
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The health updates seem to come every other year or maybe I’m imagining it. I’d imagine watch owners updat
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I feel like every time Apple releases a product we have remind folks that the prices in the U.S. don’t inclu
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I was pretty happy they didn’t change the form factor of the watch, the rumored iPhone shaped one sounded pr
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Except a federal judge ruled otherwise.
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“Can we have a quote on that? Because I sincerely doubt that Epic said precisely that “I quoted the j
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I think I see where the disconnect is here. You see the 30% cut as being a commission on just the transaction
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“I think they were hoping to replicate how the current pc world operates. The pc world is wide open, Mi
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”I don’t understand. Why some people ever thought Apple’s right to be compensated for its IP was in ques
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Yes and I never said otherwise. My comment that you responded to was in response to a person claiming there wa
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The judge found that Apple was not a monopoly in the market in question and that they hadn’t broken any anti
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I’m going to quote the ruling here:“Under all models, Apple would be entitled to a commission or licensing
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I am not a developer and freely admit I have a lot of blind spots in this area but I struggling to think of wh
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An additional way Epic bungled this was trying to get the 30% lowered to 0%. In her ruling the judge said Appl
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Yes, the lack of evidence is why she ruled there was no monopoly. But I don’t think that is the point you ar
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A couple of things:You profound misunderstanding of how the American judicial system works. The judge wasn’t
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This quote from the “Wins Big in Case Against Apple” aged particularly poorly;“Naturally, Apple will app
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Quotient the judge here:“While the Court finds that Apple enjoys considerable market share of over 55% and e
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Well, a federal judge ruled otherwise. “While the Court finds that Apple enjoys considerable market share of
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I think it is fair to say that the press at large completely bungled the reporting on this. I listened to a la
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If you look at the actual ruling the judge made two points:Apple’s commission on purchases is payment for a
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Thanks for mentioning this, it was super informative.
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If this were the key one Epic wanted then they would be adding Fortnight back in the App Store, they have said
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The ruling allows for IAP by Apple or leaving the app and paying elsewhere. There is literally no evidence tha
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Scratch that, it doesn’t require other IAP options.
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“And as many are pointing out, this is Apple: it will find a way to recoup any losses it incurs if and when
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That isn’t what the ruling was. Developers can’t offer their own IAP. They can direct customers outside of
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The ruling says that developers are allowed to offer their own IAP options along side Apple’s. Apple is stil
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It’s weird, in over two decades of work I have never had an employer that doesn’t offer this benefit. Furt
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First off, they aren’t funding education for 750k. Most of those people will never use this program. Second,
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I’m in my late 40s and have been working for well over two decades. I have never had an employer that doesn
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Commendable? The vast majority of the those employees work in fulfillment and delivery which makes it virtuall
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From the press release:“Once added to Wallet, customers can present their driver’s license or state ID to
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It’s an open standard, lobby your maker of choice to adopt it.
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That isn’t how it works. You swipe the device by a reader not hand it over.
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“This absolutely should be an open standard.”It already is. This isn’t something Apple created it’s Ap
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Do you even know what health insurance is? The entire purpose of group health insurance is to pool money to co
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By this reasoning, it is really a struggle to call in it reasoning, Microsoft should let people smoke at their
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It feels silly pointing this out but an employer requiring a vaccine is no way comparable to performing surger
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You could call it a unicorn dance party or anything else but In the U.S. assault and battery have legal defin
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HIPPA regulates how healthcare providers and health insurance companies can share patients data. Since Microso
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It’s totally about the type of work. My daily (home + office) is a 15 inch MacBook with an external display.
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Having the Wearables, Home and Accessories move into Apple’s third largest market segment is pretty entertai
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On the contrary, perception means a lot. My kid has a Chromebook issued by their school and hates it. Every ti
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For uses that mostly just need email, web browser and basic office needs (word processing, calendar …) iPads
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Which is most important? If the intent is to simply have your OS on more tablets then having the largest OS ma
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Sorry, but all I got from that is people intentionally spreading misinformation that causes others bodily harm
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This misinformation has a body count. It isn’t a benign thing.
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These aren’t experimental. Experimental medicine is referred to and regulated as “Compassionate Use” by
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The vaccines aren’t made with aborted cells but the development if the vaccines used a cell line that dates
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You literally have encouraged people to lie about their health status and potentially put others at risk. With
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Oh Jesus, quit insulting everyone’s intelligence and just say “I’m a bigot” rather than trying to tap
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My apologize, your cousins doctor made shit up that you heard secondhand and repeated as fact without taking a
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Actually was in San Diego California all of last week visiting family. California has no requirement that you
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For work? In the state of Texas (where I live) the list includes but isn’t limited to MMR, Influenza, Vari
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That’s a neat trick. You show up, say things that are untrue and then absolve yourself of accountability. Wh
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Then we are in agreement. Ivthunder was making shit up.
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You must not see waethorn’ non-stop parade of bullshit.
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“Pregnant women are advised not to get the vaccine.”Stop with the fear mongering, this is totally untrue.
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“Are flu shots next? What about the other vaccines?”Most hospitals, assisted living and other office requi
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The majority of side effects (short or long term) are found in the first two months of a vaccine trial. This i
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Vaccine records, “passports” as you dumbshits like to call them, already existed and were required for any
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Paul, Brad anyone that moderates…Can we get the metric ton of vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories
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I disagree on Universal Control being some sort of compensation for not having a touchscreen or pencil support
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Somewhat myopic view. Apple is a software company, a hardware company, one of the largest retails in the world
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Yes, in the 10 years that Tim Cook has made Apple one of the most profitable companies in the world with a 2
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In reply to codymesh:I’d guess there are a lot of upgrades due to the inclusion of 5G.
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There are some math issues in when it comes to your growth percentages. Services Q220 13,348, Q221 16,901 tha
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In reply to Greg Green:Their products with higher margins were the one’s that grew the most.
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In reply to matsan:Markets are forward looking so the performance over the first three months of the year were
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The new iMac is probably the best example of why Apple is moving on from Intel. There is no way they could hav
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It’s kinda funny, when the Apple Watch came out a fair number of people derided it for taking into account f
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In reply to mattspeterson:What is weird is that it isn’t even the cheapest. It’s 70 dollars more than the
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Given that this is part of the MFi program I’d wager this is entirely about growing the services business an
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In reply to samp:They dropped the “i” branding on new products lines and services awhile ago. IPad and i
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In reply to jgraebner:I totally understand the point Intel is making and am not disputing their claims. You li
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I’m having trouble understanding who you think is upset here. I just asked where t
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Bluetooth Audio has some latency but I don’t know that it is the cause of what you are seeing. I think it m
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In reply to jgraebner:So your claims are :”Apple has pretty much continuously been touting their claimed sup
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In reply to jgraebner:Serious question, where has Apple done this? They talked about the performance at the la
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In reply to SvenJ:What’s funny is that during the entire time those ads ran Macs had intel processors so the
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In reply to bkkcanuck:Spot on. People really don’t get that one of the basic principals of advertising is yo
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In reply to dftf:I agree that there will likely be an uptick in upgrades but given how Apple is spreading out
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In reply to bkkcanuck:I’m not sure if you are including AMD in the not having competitive chips or simply me
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The only messaging I’m getting from this is Intel is truly rattled by Apple Silicon but for the life of me,
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“And this isn’t even Apple’s first smart speaker failure: The firm introduced an iPod Hi-Fi in 2006 and
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In reply to SyncMe:You are right, nor did Apple say that they cut iPhone mini orders. Both what I said and the
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In reply to james.h.robinson:Number two isn’t correct. While Apple Music is the default users can switch the
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So “self-serving” is fine because that is what corporations do then how is using the word to describe Micr
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In reply to dftf:Weird that a comment on the quality of journalism somehow made me looking for “good Apple s
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In reply to dftf:Yes, I know what the headline says and my comment doesn’t say that Paul is claiming the iP
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So Apple is still planning to sell 230 million phones in 2021 but they are now planning for the ratio to skew
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In reply to nbplopes:“The idea that the App Store legitimizes legally your business to operate indirectly in
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In reply to nbplopes:Dude, all I did was point out what the App Store policy is with respect to physical goods
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In reply to nbplopes:I quoted part of the article where Paul said prices for customers would be lower. So, tha
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In reply to dftf:I was pointing out two things that wright_js got wrong about App Store policy, i wasn’t def
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In reply to nbplopes:I specifically said that my experience with the App Store doesn’t apply to all business
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In reply to wright_is:Two corrections to your post. Apple doesn’t require use of their payment system for ph
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In reply to nbplopes:Please re-read my comment. I am not assuming anything, I’m providing a first hand accou
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In reply to Calibr21:Where did I say users didn’t have the right to care?The article and my comments were sp
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In reply to dftf:Apple has argued that they do have costs that brick and mortar stores don’t and there is so
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In reply to HellcatM:What do you think it is about to the developers? The current slap fight between Apple and
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“Prices to consumers would be lower if developers weren’t charged up to 30 percent for all paid apps and s
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Ohh... we are opening a can or worms now, also I have had a few beers that makes me pron
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I have loved the resurgence in vinyl of over the last decade and a half. It’s mostly nostalgia on my part bu
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In reply to sevenacids:The renewed interest in vinyl has come with an uptick in band recording forging digital
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In reply to paul-thurrott:That was weirdly defense for a comment that said nothing negative about you whatsoev
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In reply to SvenJ:Well he is just a tech enthusiast :)
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Nothing Essential ..... That is a tough marketing sell.
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In reply to Mcgillivray:RIM is still around, somehow. They did change their name though.
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In reply to MikeCerm:I guess the difference is the HDMI is actually supported by Apple.
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In reply to MikeCerm:Yeah, not the case at all. As my longer post above points out, I’m happily living a USB
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In reply to MikeGalos:Current iMac: USB Type A , Thunderbolt 3/USB-C, SDXC slot, EthernetCurrent Mac Mini: US
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“M1-based Macs can only work with a single external display, and not multiple external displays.“This isn
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The problem with ads like this is you are ceding that whomever you are attacking is, at a minimum, perceived t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Huh? If you thought the product line was “a waste of time and money” and you now
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In reply to b6gd:Huh? I have re-read my comment and I am missing where I said or inferred Apple, Intel or AMD
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In reply to toukale:True story, a few years ago I was on a trip and sat next to an intel employee on a flight.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:That is a head scratcher of a comment. We are saying the same thing here. You didn
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Well before you it was released you declared it a failure because Apple said it wasn
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Wanting to know the source is totally reasonable. But there is a world of a differen
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In reply to scovious:I don’t think the issue is that companies don’t want to compete with the Apple Watch,
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In reply to Jim_Lewis:To be fair to Paul, he has moved away from his initially stance on the Apple Watch and h
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In reply to bkkcanuck:Yeah, people seem to remember the cash investment part of that deal and forget that it a
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It’s funny, every produce that Apple has released that falls into the Wearables, Home and Accessories (Apple
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” Why? Did Microsoft run into issues porting the suite to the new Universal app format? Is the performa
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In reply to JG1170:That is no way answers the damages question. What tangible damages can Spotify point to? Al
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In reply to codymesh:What are the damages? To date Spotify has yet to show damages from Apple’s alleged abus
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In reply to glenn8878:Yes, that is what I said in my initial post.My point is and was that your initial commen
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This is the smart way to address Apple's exorbitant pricing. Man-child, Tim Sweeney, could learn from thi
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In reply to pecosbob04:I don't think there was an issue with what Michael Dell said, he didn't see a
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In reply to Minke:That isn’t accurate. Both set pricing prior to the market being a duopoly and neither has
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This makes more sense than that rumor that he was going to join Apple.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Divisive is probably a bit strong. But really, what pitch person from a major compan
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In reply to navarac:Again, the debate about the price is legitimate. Saying Google and Apple are simply sittin
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In reply to Usman:I think there there is a reasonable argument that 30% is high for what Apple or Google offer
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In reply to openmisere:If it's deliberate then that is even worse of a decision. I watched the first few
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I'm super curious about what Epic's strategy is here as it is bigger than simply suing Apple and Goo
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In reply to murray judy:Yep, totally different reactions for sure. I'd say at the point that you post it
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In reply to pecosbob04:Meh, I see most of Paul's writing as editorials vs. news. So there is a lot of lee
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In reply to wright_is:I understand due process and my comments actually is in favor of it. You seem to have en
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Who decided to let Panos wing it for his parts? The other folks presenting were polished and solid which only
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So a lot/most folks have already made up their mind on what the legal outcome should be in both of these cases
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The outcome of this one will be interesting and not just for the legal outcome. Epic could have sued Apple wit
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In reply to yoshi:iSub was an actual product by Harmon Kardon. It was subwoofer add-on for iMacs in like 2000.
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In reply to pecosbob04:I looked at the Apple website and it said 1 yr free with a new device otherwise a 7 day
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The math there seems off. If the bundle is going to family sharing based wouldn't you start with the Appl
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In reply to pecosbob04:Just flag the clown for Spam and Abuse. No need to engage with a dinosaur.
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I don't find the pricing tag shocking or maybe I should say that I expected it to be expensive. This is a
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I feel like the most interesting part is missing, from the ruling not the article. I want to know what the rem
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Weird, by the looks of it he made his accusations to a tech news site who’s audien
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Hubris is excessive self pride and confidence and I don't think that is what's happening here as tha
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A monopoly is more about influence and control than market share. That said, I personally feel like Paul often
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Right, but when Sonos claims Amazon is using abusing their monopoly it is a reasonab
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In reply to msorrentino:The definition of monopoly is the tough bit. A monopoly is defined as possess sufficie
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:Yeah, I get that it is smart speakers but the claim is they are selling smart speak
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I buy the argument that it could be predatory pricing but what is the monopoly that speakers are tied to? Amaz
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In reply to Stooks:“NPR is going to say the government has no evidence because they hate the man running it.
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In reply to Stooks:Yes, we have established NPR doesn't have access to information from the NSA and other
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In reply to Stooks:No one, including NPR, has said they know what the NSA or other secret government agencies
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Nothing wrong with the phone but why? From a business standpoint Google is still largely based on revenue. The
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In reply to Pbike908:Google doesn't make money off of Android phone sales, or at least not the one's
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After buying TikTok they can bring back the Kin and have it just boot directly into the App. Maybe include a P
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So asking an Invoke to do something will be a lot like talking to my ex. MS is missing rebranding moment. "Our
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In reply to Waethorn:I might be missing something here but how would they be in competition?
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In reply to trparky:I get the desire to compare the two but their revenue streams are so different it really d
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In reply to paul-thurrott?
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Revenue was 59 billion not 46 which would make iPhone 40 something percent not 57. also it’s apple’s q3 no
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In reply to brduffy:Poor wording would explain the first quote but not the second.
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I can't but help but think that the EU is inadvertently keeping Google from wasting it's money.
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I think there is certainly debate for if Apple should be held accountable even if they are to the dominate pla
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In reply to billreilly:Yeah you could upload to Strava, but Strava doesn't offer the detail that Garmin C
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"the functionality of Garmin products was not affected, other than the ability to access online services."I ha
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In reply to solomonrex:What does that to do with if TSMC would take Intel's business or not?
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In reply to shameermulji:An intel doesn’t make chips for fabless designers. So, they aren’t really in dire
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In reply to proftheory:what does that have to do with the question about TSMC taking intel’s business? ?
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In reply to shameermulji:Part of TSCM’s model is making chips designed by other companies. They make chips d
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In reply to codymesh:Comparing the stock price of two companies is a meaningless unless they both have the sam
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In reply to paul-thurrott:To be clear, I'm not saying AMD is doing poorly "bad", the chip market isn'
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For context, AMD made 6.7 billion in 2019 or less than half of what Intel makes in a single quarter. So any te
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In reply to Waethorn:MSFT is up 25% for the year even with today's 3% job. It's doing just fine.
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In reply to pecosbob04:It must have been wishful thinking on my part.
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In reply to pecosbob04:These results are already baked into the stock price. The market is forward looking and
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In reply to paul-thurrott:My comment was directly related to what you were talking about. And saying that I’
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In reply to Truffles:Exactly, and for the amount of time Paul spent writing about the case I’m surprised he
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In reply to nbplopes:I don’t know what that has to do with what I said.
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I had to register just to comment on this. Why is adding a sim to a PC so expensive? It isn’t. Your answer