#Apple challenges the courts again on payments processing.
You can now show users an external link to process the payment outside of Apple’s platform.
But that comes with a new “external link fee” of 27% - to be paid on top of the fee you pay for users who still make their purchases through the App store.
I’ve said it several times, I’ll repeat it: companies like Apple can get away with such parasitic rent-seeking behavior with no added value, and with challenging courts all over the world, because they are practically above the law.
They can afford to create their own taxation system as if they were an independent country, but without being accountable to voters, and without losing a single percentage point of market share if they behave like jerks.
And any fine thrown on them by courts around the world is likely to be only a tiny part of their revenue - unless we get the balls of fining them for hundreds of billions and use that money to support more competition in the market, which would be an act of redistribution long overdue IMHO.
Apple can treat fines as small operating costs because their monopolistic behaviour is still profitable enough to pay those one-off fines many times over.
And if they are above the law, it’s because too many people bought their crap and gave them power that they didn’t deserve. And they’ll keep buying their products even if Tim Cook starts wearing a Darth Vader mask during interviews.
If you use anything made by Apple, you are part of the problem.
@fabio I am not a fan of #apple, however the issue here seems not to be that their behavior is illegal, but that their customer base have chosen to voluntarily self-jeopardise their bargaining power. 🙄
On my little corner, I shall continue my personal apple-free life.
After watching the decidedly poorly thought out #Apple iPad commercial, I kind of suspect it was a set up. It's so bad, it looks intentionally bad.
Like some business guy thought up the idea and told his creative people to do it. His creative people told him it was a bad idea and the guy made them do it anyway, so they said "We are totally going to make that jerk regret this!"
There is another explanation for why the commercial was so bad: It's it's gotten more people talking about it than any other ad I can think of and is probably the most watched, most successful iPad TV ad ever.
The M4 Geekbench 6 scores are out for the new M4, and well benchmarks don't exactly translate to real life performance, it's interesting how much performance increase there is.
Also, the M4 is slightly faster as an M2 Pro. However, I think the GPU scores is a different story since the M4 has fewer GPU cores, although it beats the M1 Pro.
@yon I have to agree. GPUs, especially on the highest end just use rediculous amounts of electricity. Even the RX 7900 XTX can use a lot of power, especially the one with more than 2 8 pin PCI-e, which is basically the non reference models. Also, GPUs are getting too big too.
@chikorita157 Feels like they are out of ideas and are just pushing stuff at an unreasonable pace. Doesn’t help that all completion is virtually gone:/
Still curious about those Chinese ones. Could end up being endlessly terribad. Or we get something we’d never expect and a leap. Time will tell.
The ironic thing is if Apple did anything else, perhaps a magician covering a box with the stuff with a curtain, then whisking the curtain away to show the iPad, it wouldn't have made such a negative impact, but the destruction of creative stuff just echos a world that is like the first Mac ad, except without someone cool slinging a hammer at a screen... a world Apple has helped make.
@bodomenke Dieser Clip wird Apple noch jahrelang leid tun. Und es werden viele Artikel darüber geschrieben werden, wie sich ein Unternehmen vom „1984“-Clip bzw. der „Think Different“-Kampagne zu diesem Schrottpressen-Schrott entwickelt.
@Linkshaender Sehe ich genauso. Insbesondere weil Apple ja praktisch schon selbst als Kreativladen gilt und bislang eher eine recht glückliche Hand bewiesen hatte bei ihren Commercials.
Das Schrottpressen-Ding ist ein echter Faux Pas. Denke, dass wird der Grund sein, warum man das nicht noch mehr “streisanden” wollte durch Kommunikation durch Tim. Stattdessen lieber tief hängen, um möglichst schnell wieder aus dem Shitstorm rauszukommen. Mal sehen, ob der Plan aufgeht…
@craiggrannell I get why Folium is having issues, but they must have known about Provenance and others before.
Otherwise I feel like they're shooting themselves in the foot. Again.
@darylbaxter But iDOS is being put through the ringer for reasons that make no sense whatsoever. and MAME4iOS is being repeatedly rejected for spam. None of that really looks good.
I’d also love to be a fly on the wall when someone submits mini vMac. I’d say there’s zero chance of that going through.
Apple pulls the controversial "Crush" ad and apologizes.
"The ad, posted on social media Tuesday by Apple CEO Tim Cook, was met with backlash from internet users who felt that the ad celebrated technology’s destruction of human creativity and art."
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