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by benoau 6mo ago
If blatant perjury didn't get anyone in jail nothing will... > “The testimony of Mr. Roman, Vice President of Finance, was replete with misdirection and outright lies. He even went so far as to testify that Apple did not look at com
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by benoau 6mo ago
The status quo is insanely profitable for Apple and Cook is still going to be "engaging with policymakers around the world" so I don't think they'll deviate from malicious compliance and stalling tactics any time soon. T
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by benoau 6mo ago
They're not fighter planes in Ukraine they're people with conventional weapons shooting at the drones when the planes get close!
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by benoau 6mo ago
It's not the brand - it's not like Apple's hit this valuation in isolation Meta, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft all enjoy similar. It's the cash-money value of putting a fee on all digital goods and subscriptions and cash tra
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by benoau 6mo ago
It's probably an even bigger reduction considering their growth. But it's still a net deficit of nearly 15 million tons of emissions of which practically none are offset. https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf&
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by benoau 6mo ago
Yeah but that drone swarm costs as much as the Cesna so it neutralizes the cost advantage / disadvantage.
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by benoau 6mo ago
What's crazy is there's lots of videos of Ukranians shooting drones from open-cockpit propeller planes that barely cost more than the drones! I think in a serious drone war we would just have fleets of Cesnas flying around with a
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by benoau 6mo ago
Time to shut down some routes (but fly the planes empty so the airlines don't lose their deals for those routes)
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by benoau 6mo ago
The equivalent reduction would be device consolidation, with the folding iPhone having the greatest capacity since it could replace an iPad and with cheap peripherals be at least as good a computer as a MacBook Neo. Of course, being Apple,
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by benoau 6mo ago
> The fact that a billing system didn't get switched off isn't so surprising; the internal architecture of their systems is so complicated that it would take multiple human lifetimes to explain how it all works. There was a law
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by benoau 6mo ago
> What does this one differently that the other thirteen in a dozen don't? Mozilla's a lot more trustworthy with privacy and data, and they're unlikely to sell the project to someone who only wants to stuff it full of ma
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by benoau 6mo ago
Your kid can do this in a smartphone game designated suitable for children, heavily optimized to exacerbate the possibility, and depending on where you live they can just choose not to refund you. When the FTC went investigating a decade-is
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by benoau 6mo ago
It's all just marketing fluff, their 2030 goal is carbon neutrality but their gross emissions are 15 million tons a year and they only offset 70 thousand . They'd probably achieve more just by putting HDMI, DisplayPort and Tar
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by benoau 6mo ago
That's too consumer friendly.
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by benoau 6mo ago
Fair enough!
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by benoau 6mo ago
Google and Apple certainly don't benefit from this - they can serve more ads, track more data, and assume you're authorized to spend a gazillion dollars in a game if they don't know you're a child. One example of this
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by benoau 6mo ago
Isn't this "illegal" for Apple?
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by benoau 6mo ago
You're not wrong that they collect a ton of rent off AI apps, rumours a few weeks back claimed $900m in fees last year with 75% of that just from OpenAI. But services revenue is: - their 36% share of Google Ads for being default search
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by benoau 7mo ago
(where "abuse" means using the hardware to run software)
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by benoau 7mo ago
Hasn't it already been decided that training on copyright material is fair use?
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by benoau 7mo ago
Yeah but the "hardware" in that sense is almost entirely iPhone and iPhone-adjacent, Mac is a trailing 4th- or 5th-place line of business... maybe 6th.
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by benoau 7mo ago
Why should they impose a limit at all? Your hardware is a natural limit, you'll stop of your own accord when you reach its thresholds.
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by benoau 7mo ago
GitHub Actions?
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by benoau 7mo ago
What is not substantiated? Practically everything the EU DMA/DSA addresses was highlighted in the "House Antitrust Report on Big Tech" back in 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/0
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by benoau 7mo ago
I don't think there is an incentive lawmakers could offer that is worth more to Apple than monopolizing fees and subverting competition, there is practically no limits they will go to to preserve that status quo around the world. The o
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by benoau 7mo ago
The DMA and DSA already allow fines up to 10 - 20% of global turnover (effectively 30 - 40% of annual profit) and breaking up noncompliant companies. The issue is nobody wants to pull the trigger because the companies that would get fined o
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by benoau 7mo ago
> Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg publicly voiced his dissatisfaction and sought support from Trump, while Apple’s Tim Cook reportedly asked the White House to directly intervene against EU fines imposed on his company. https://www.eur
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by benoau 7mo ago
The "Digital Services Act" effectively takes the divisive dark money out of advertising and requires more than minimum-effort moderation, affecting Meta and X: - bans targeted advertising based on a person’s sexual orientation, re
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by benoau 7mo ago
All this so Meta and X can sell politically divisive and hateful advertising with zero transparency.
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by benoau 7mo ago
It's not that they're out of funding per-se: > The discovery landscape is changing. AI-assisted research is expanding vulnerability discovery across the ecosystem, increasing both coverage and speed. The balance between finding

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