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Apple had an easy day overall
Is it me or Apple had a pretty easy day today? Seems all the attention went to Google, Facebook and Amazon. My guess is that it reflects a fact: Apple is not in a monopolistic position like the other three. www.cnbc.com
Live: Big Tech testifies: Bezos promises action if investigation reveals misuse of seller data
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Let’s see if Tim Cook is also a good politician. #apple #testimony #appstore
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A byproduct of the coronavirus pandemic: traveling apps like Flighty won’t get my renewal this year. Sad for the developer. Really nice app. See you next year, maybe.
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Highly doubtful that Apple already has the date set for the September Keynote in current context. Even more for October event. Take this with a grain of salt. ‘iPhone 12’ event Sept. 8 with ‘Apple Glass’ & Apple Silicon Mac reveal on Oct. 27, says leaker - Appleinsider
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Is this really surprising? It’s not. Apple saw the virus coming - Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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Here is a bunch of Apple inconsistencies in design. On macOS Big Sur: you can add a widget by clicking on it, but not on iOS. Still on Big Sur, notifications are stacked on top of the widgets space on the right while on iOS they get their own space. Explain this to me, Apple.
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Interesting summary on Apple’s move to its own silicone for the Mac product line in light of recent Intel announcement of delays affecting 7nm chips. twitter.com/neilcybar…
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If anyone had doubts on why Apple is transitioning to its own silicon for the Mac: Intel is (again) delaying it’s 7nm chips to… 2022 or 2023. www.tomshardware.com/news/inte…
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After 14 major iOS release... and yet...
Everybody is talking about Apple Music new icon since Beta 3 but, think about this: after 14 versions of iOS, and here we are: the “More” “button” lingering bad design. How many times I try to hit this and I bring the detail view of the app instead. Frustrating.
Let me be clear: wrong place, too small, text overlapping, not a real button.
Come on, Apple!
My suggestion: add a “Details” button accessible when sliding the table cell to the left (the same gesture that reveals a Delete button).
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The race for the bottom of everything
On Apple’s 30% cut. Again.
We all know where this all goes. Yesterday it was a deal. Today, 30% is way too much. So, let’s fight and try to force Apple to set the cut to 20%. No, 15%. That is way better, right? A few years down the road, a well known developer comes out and complain about 15% being way too much of a cut. Poor guy. Let’s start a fight and bring that down. Apple respond and set it to 10% because they are forced to. And the story continues.
Let’s face the reality. We don’t like to pay for something. We want it all. We know the price of everything but the value of nothing. How do you think China came to be so powerful? How do you think Amazon or Costco is sucking air from small local businesses in our communities? Why do you think our life is full of shitty ads are everywhere? Why do you think we are the product of Google, Facebook? Because we don’t like to pay for something, anything. We want it all free.
There is a pattern. There is a race for the bottom of everything. And I don’t agree in Brent’s views on what would happen if Apple lowers their demand from developers. I certainly don’t believe developers would lower the price of their apps.
Remember what capitalism is all about?
Change my mind.
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It is easy to forget what it was before the App Store and now complain about the 30% cut by Apple.
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The iPad still held back with iPadOS 14
iPadOS 15 concept imagined by Parker Ortolani certainly looks interesting. I’m not sure about some ideas put forward but it certainly shows how the iPad is still held back with iPadOS 14. The lack of flexibility in widgets placement is, put mildly, baffling. I love those widgets on my iPhone but the lack of space forces us to create tons of pages. And the problem will only get worst this fall after developers start adding widget support in their apps. It will be crazy. #iPadOS14 #apple
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If blog post from Readdle’s is any indication, expect a LOT of widgets to be available when iOS 14 launch this fall. In fact, more widgets will be available than any number of home screen pages can accommodate. #ios14 readdle.com/blog/ios1…
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Beta 3 will be like a fresh coat of paint.
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Can’t wait for beta 3. Tomorrow. #ios14
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Is TestFlight for iOS 14 widgets available yet?
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When Apple was advertising their value for businesses, in a world where working from home wasn’t really a thing. twitter.com/vanlancke…
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Interesting comparison between macOS Catalina & Big Sur system sounds. You don’t change something like this often. That is something new in Big Sur. I didn’t play long enough with Big Sur to notice. Apple did the same with iOS 7. www.youtube.com/channel/U…
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This blog post on Apple’s latest betas pretty much sums it up for me. More to come in my own blog post about my own experience.
