Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem...
by scarface74 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:24PM
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So Apple is “abusing the hardest” even though to develop a first class console game you have to pay much more to develop on it up front than $99 and you have to pay a license fee for each game sold either physical or digital? All of the console makers make it much harder to develop than Apple or Android - yet you bought an XBox One from Microsoft.
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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem...
by smoldesu on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:29AM
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In the eyes of the Supreme Court, games consoles are not general-purpose computers. Even if they were, Apple still drives wider margins than any of these console manufacturers do. The cost to manufacture an iPhone is about 40% it's retail price. The cost to manufacture a game console is ~90-105% it's MSRP. Without the ability to drive hardware margins, they stand a lot better chance in court than Apple does.
Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem...
by scarface74 on Friday October 29, 2021 @05:16PM
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There already had been a court case. Epic vs Apple. Epic lost on every point showing Apple to be a “monopoly”.
But it wasn’t about court. It’s about you selectively choosing who to have moral outrage against. So Apple makes too much money as the most valuable company in the world. But Microsoft and Google are the good guys even though they are also making obscene profits and are worth a trillion+ dollars?