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by Despegar 6y ago
>(If this is correct, and I were Epic, I'd be looking to partner with other very large and peeved developers, and create a de facto app producer strike... but maybe they think they have enough market clout to go it alone.) This woul
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by Despegar 6y ago
>Instead Epic decided to sue Apple in court. This gives the impression that suing them is what led to Apple terminating their relationship, but that isn't the case. Epic could have sued Apple without the theatrics and they'd ha
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by Despegar 6y ago
>I believe Epic's entire case revolves around phones being a general computing device Legally this doesn't matter at all. It's just something for people to talk about on Twitter.
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by Despegar 6y ago
Epic's antitrust case against Apple is very weak, but they're well within the right to sue Apple to resolve their dispute. The developer agreement actually stipulates the venue, Northern District of California, for any lawsuits. H
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by Despegar 6y ago
>Nope. If a person "owns" a piece of hardware, it should be legal to jailbreak it without any consequences (except perhaps lack of support for 3rd party software) and companies that sell products that build off of jailbroken pr
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by Despegar 6y ago
>That means, for example, allowing purchases via webviews, particularly for products and experiences that are not zero marginal costs. Sure, that could mean less App Store revenue in the short run, but Apple would be well-served having t
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by Despegar 6y ago
Epic is going to lose this case.
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by Despegar 6y ago
>It’s possible that this is a temporary situation. One source in the mobile marketing industry who requested anonymity said that Apple is using an “archaic” attribution engine they built years ago, and they are currently upgrading their
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by Despegar 6y ago
This piece is interesting because Apple was saying this all along but no one really believed them because it sounded like excuse making. But here JG is basically saying the same thing: >Yes, I understand this perception of bigger models
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by Despegar 6y ago
Phil Schiller, and the whole marketing group, are an underestimated part of Apple's success over the past 20 years. It's why there's no company like Apple in the tech industry.
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by Despegar 6y ago
They can file complaints but that's not going to change much. If the EC decides to bring a case against Apple they will have the herculean task of arguing to the courts that Apple is dominant with less than 25% share of the smartphone
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by Despegar 6y ago
It might not have been Amazon but HBO. This story related to the Apple TV was in 2015. https://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/11561392/how-to-beat-apples-30...
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by Despegar 6y ago
>They could have done useful contact tracing at the press of a button, even historically, for every major event such as large concerts, churches, night clubs which we know were the most important situations to contact trace. They could h
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by Despegar 6y ago
The most likely outcome for ARM is that it goes public again rather than being bought out.
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by Despegar 6y ago
Apple's lawsuit is about infringement of their copyright. And that gives them exclusive rights over their intellectual property without any conditions. Legally, their case isn't better or worse because of this program. The likely
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by Despegar 6y ago
It doesn't seem likely that this case will get past Section 230, which may be an argument to further chip away at it's broad immunity from liability. YouTube shouldn't be allowed to profit from Wozniak's likeness in sc
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by Despegar 6y ago
In what way do they not "own it"? They've been owning the fact that it's a closed system for 40 years, when tech nerds complained about their products being "appliances".
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by Despegar 6y ago
It's not illegal for you to do security research and Apple is not attempting to make it so. You'd like it to be more convenient to do security research and that is what this program is designed to do. I don't see why it'
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by Despegar 6y ago
>Apple is dictating what I can tell my customers in "general communications" where Apple is not involved. That's not a free market, it's abusive. If a customer comes to my site from a search I should be able to say &q
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by Despegar 6y ago
Your point was that smartphones would have existed without Apple making the iPhone but it doesn't make any sense as a response to what I said. I'm not making an argument about market definitions that would concern an antitrust reg
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by Despegar 6y ago
>I'm pretty sure if Apple hadn't created the modern smartphone someone else would have Whether they would have or not is beside my point. The app marketplace for Apple's platforms is inextricably tied to their technology.
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by Despegar 6y ago
That doesn't change the fact that you're able to do security research on Apple products without their permission.
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by Despegar 6y ago
When I say "tools and technologies" I'm not referring to just Xcode but all the SDKs and APIs as well.
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by Despegar 6y ago
>that they are even working right now on suing Corellium, a company which makes an iPhone emulator (which again, has strong legal precedent), in order to prevent anyone but a handful of highly controlled people from being able to debug t
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by Despegar 6y ago
No, but the market wouldn't even exist if not for Apple creating it. iOS apps by its nature depend on Apple's technology. It isn't the same as restaurants or hotels that acquire customers through GrubHub or Booking.
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by Despegar 6y ago
I think this is mostly a response to David Cicilline's comment that Apple's 30% is "highway robbery" [1]. It compares it to other marketplace take rates showing that Apple's 30% isn't "highway robbery&quot
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by Despegar 6y ago
When people refer to "offsets" they're talking about buying renewable energy credits (RECs). Funding new renewable energy projects, and thus putting renewable energy onto the grid, is not that.
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>We launched the Supplier Clean Energy Program in October 2015 to advance those goals through our manufacturing supply chain. Since then, we have made strong progress toward our initial goal of bringing online 4 gigawatts of new clean en
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Keep reading from page 18. The good news is that they're using the same strategy for all their suppliers, which is putting renewable energy onto the grid.
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by Despegar 6y ago
>The problem is, I'm sure "carbon neutral" means they're using carbon offsets to a significant degree. They aren't. See page 18. https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental

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