Senators work for citizens. Citizens pay them their salary.
Anyways, it's smart for Tim to call. These senators probably have huge egos and getting a call from Tim Cook pulls way more weight.
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Anyways, it's smart for Tim to call. These senators probably have huge egos and getting a call from Tim Cook pulls way more weight.
Thankfully, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act makes crap actions like this illegal.
I’m not denying Tim is a citizen but it’s disingenuous to cast him as “just a citizen” and not more importantly the CEO of said company under scrutiny for their policies
Senators have grossly inflated egos, I would argue- as does Tim. So doesn’t seem relevant, As much as I find both rather reprehensible on average.
Agree to disagree
I don't understand why many people are opposed to the idea that the real option is to buy something else. I also don't understand why people don't understand that companies are not obligated to make the product they want.
Maybe it shouldn't be. If you make a dumb decision and **** up your phone doing something you were told could compromise it...that's your own fault. You were warned of the risk and did it anyway. Actions have consequences ?♂️
This is fascinating. People are using an infrastructure that Apple built to make money and at the same time are complaining to Apple about said infrastructure and what Apple charged for the developers to make money….go figure
That was pointed out in the insanely long (180+ page) ruling of the California judge as one of the many reasons Apple was not a monopoly (Case 4:20-cv-05640-YGR Document 812 Filed 09/10/21)
Epic in their case wants to force Apple to support independent app stores.
Also, having options isn't always good. It adds complexity which is bad.
That something else is Android
In a given area you have Comcast and Verizon ISP for example. Don’t like Comcast’s draconian data cap? Well you’ve got Verizon’s egregious data privacy policies to contend with.
Going with “mums and pops” google and “voting with your
Dollars” isn’t really going to show Apple anything in terms of the way of being open. Alternatively going with Apple isn’t going to show Google anything in terms of squashing bugs and a higher quality homogenized UI experience
A duopoly is just a dressed up monopoly layered with a cat and mouse game of one leads and the other shuffled into following bad policy that people will eventually if not immediately be numb and indifferent too.
Funny thing is if even just ONCE...if I were to hear someone...ANYONE outside of MacRumors complain about this...I'd be more inclined to believe it's actually an issue. This is being made into a far bigger issue than it actually seems to be.
There's a lot of irony in this. All you have to do is listen to how many people complain about how much more complex iOS has gotten over the last few years!
All the average consumer has to do is stay in the Apple App Store. If they are not smart enough to do this, then they deserve to get what they get. After all, people have learned to not walk out in front of cars on the highway. This is the high tech version of that. We need to quit dumbing down users. To learn users have to experience. Let's smarten up the users and get rid of all of the tech nannies.
Right, when Apple lobbies they’re “just doing their job.” When other companies lobby, they’re accused of bribing and being underhanded. No double standard there.
Looking forward to day when my family and friends are actually in danger of scams like this because Tencent Tim wasn’t making as much money off of children as he wanted.
Society has gotten more complex and our dependence on these devices to do anything (shopping, bills, communication, photography, etc etc etc) has ramped up.
Complexity should be simplified without foregoing what’s needed to be an adequately sufficient tool. It’s not our job to streamline and simplify the complex, it’s Apple’s and if they haven’t done it well it’s fair to call it out.
The problem isn’t features, it’s implementation.
Then why did you have cable in the first place? TV shows and movies have been available to purchase long before Netflix.
But but you’re forgetting we all like our iPhones (as if we needed to be reminded being on MacRumors) so that’s the presiding nuanced argument. Even though that’s entirely besides the point. Just like it's besides the point that 'Fortnite is a trash game I will never be interested in playing'
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That assumes the voting districts are not so gerrymandered a brain damage chimp could run and get elected; though considering the intelligence of some state legislatives that would be an improvement.
Apple's stayed out of gaming in any meaningful way so as not to compete with all the free-to-play games on the App Store – the overwhelming bulk of their App Store revenues (and, in turn, a giant portion of their $19.5B services business).
If Apple is forced to give up their giant cut of every in-app purchase, they'll want a piece of that sweet gaming industry money – as a software, services, and iPhone/Computer/AppleTV maker, they'd be crazy not to. It's far bigger than anything AppleTV+ or AppleMusic could net them. And they'll no longer be constrained by not being able to compete with their IAP cash cow. Further, they'll have all the other games companies – competitors like Microsoft – making lots of gaming money on their devices. They'd be free to buy up companies like Nintendo (and whoever else isn't owned by Tencent, Sony, and Microsoft at that point. In fact, I think they'd be compelled to.
Apple might get dragged by this, kicking and screaming by anti-trust, into being an actual big player in the games space.
If Apple is forced to give up their giant cut of every in-app purchase, they'll want a piece of that sweet gaming industry money – as a software, services, and iPhone/Computer/AppleTV maker, they'd be crazy not to. It's far bigger than anything AppleTV+ or AppleMusic could net them. And they'll no longer be constrained by not being able to compete with their IAP cash cow. Further, they'll have all the other games companies – competitors like Microsoft – making lots of gaming money on their devices. They'd be free to buy up companies like Nintendo (and whoever else isn't owned by Tencent, Sony, and Microsoft at that point. In fact, I think they'd be compelled to.
Apple might get dragged by this, kicking and screaming by anti-trust, into being an actual big player in the games space.
Apple is successful, therefore we have to take Apple's technologies and give it any to others. Forcefully.
You have it in the first place because there weren't other options. Netflix gave a large back catalog all in one place with shows you wanted to watch at the click of a remote. DVDs of the time could not compete with that nor could cable.