Yeah, Microsoft was far more interested in making Windows “mobile” than it was creating a separate platform that might, someday, sell better than their current one.
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Spotify Legal Chief: 'Apple's Ability to Strangle its Competitors is Unprecedented'
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Today the WWDC Keynote showed some new features of the Mac ecosystem.
Photos will use AI to put together a movie from your Photos library and set it to music. The pacing, cuts and dissolves change with the music. The app chooses the music.
Also new was Share With . . . allowing Apple users and their friends to watch the same movie or listen to the same music or playlist in real time.
While Share With will probably work with any text and photos, the above features seem to appear to require that both the user and their friends have the same streaming subscriptions. While streaming movies looks like it will work with Disney+ and Disney owned Hulu (all users having a subscription or a family subscription), I could only assume that to share music, all users sharing must be subscribing to Apple Music and no other service.
No mention made of Netflix or Amazon Prime.
It was a very slick presentation and went very fast, without many actual details.
Here's another Apple Dirty Trick that only make me hate Apple and Tim Cook.
www.ifixit.com
Cook is a bean counter whose sole responsibility is to the shareholders to increase revenue and profits. Cook doesn't care one iota about Apple users. Everything Apple designs these days is about competitive advantage and building a monopoly enterprise to maximize profit.
The only thing that saves users is that Apple makes mediocre Application Software (and outstanding Operating Systems and hardware). Apple doesn't have a single Best-in-Class application. I'm not going to start using a second class Apple app just to have better integration in Apple's closed Ecosystem.
I'd love to see Apple take 30% of the revenue from its paid competing apps in the App Store and donate it to some worthwhile cause other than profit. Put all Apps in the App Store on equal footing. Apple Apps should not have any advantage in the App Store. Everybody, even Apple, should pay the fee for the App Store. Except Apple's fees don't go to Apple's profits. Maybe to education, maybe to R&D or Design or some product area. Maybe to expanding broadband or making hardware available to the poor who could never afford to buy Apple products.
It's just a thought . . .
Photos will use AI to put together a movie from your Photos library and set it to music. The pacing, cuts and dissolves change with the music. The app chooses the music.
Also new was Share With . . . allowing Apple users and their friends to watch the same movie or listen to the same music or playlist in real time.
While Share With will probably work with any text and photos, the above features seem to appear to require that both the user and their friends have the same streaming subscriptions. While streaming movies looks like it will work with Disney+ and Disney owned Hulu (all users having a subscription or a family subscription), I could only assume that to share music, all users sharing must be subscribing to Apple Music and no other service.
No mention made of Netflix or Amazon Prime.
It was a very slick presentation and went very fast, without many actual details.
Here's another Apple Dirty Trick that only make me hate Apple and Tim Cook.
Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair
By activating a software lock on newer iPhones, Apple is announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries go in iPhones, and only they can install them.
www.ifixit.com
Cook is a bean counter whose sole responsibility is to the shareholders to increase revenue and profits. Cook doesn't care one iota about Apple users. Everything Apple designs these days is about competitive advantage and building a monopoly enterprise to maximize profit.
The only thing that saves users is that Apple makes mediocre Application Software (and outstanding Operating Systems and hardware). Apple doesn't have a single Best-in-Class application. I'm not going to start using a second class Apple app just to have better integration in Apple's closed Ecosystem.
I'd love to see Apple take 30% of the revenue from its paid competing apps in the App Store and donate it to some worthwhile cause other than profit. Put all Apps in the App Store on equal footing. Apple Apps should not have any advantage in the App Store. Everybody, even Apple, should pay the fee for the App Store. Except Apple's fees don't go to Apple's profits. Maybe to education, maybe to R&D or Design or some product area. Maybe to expanding broadband or making hardware available to the poor who could never afford to buy Apple products.
It's just a thought . . .