Yes. Apple invested billions that Epic did not, and they should rightly be compensated. People act like iOS and XCode and the App store came into being through magic. They did not. It's tens of billions in investment that made that come into being, be maintained and improved, and marketed to a group of desirable, affluent users who spend 50% more than Android users. That's 100% Apple's doing, and getting free unfettered access to that market isn't reasonable or fair.

Epic is not a client or a customer anymore. They had their account deleted by Apple.

Apple is not a monopoly. There's no chance the court will say they are, with less than 50% marketshare in the US and less than 20% worldwide. The reason they sued Google too is because they are arguing that Google + Apple is a duopoly on mobile operating systems, which is an argument that might have merit (or not -- does Apple consider Google their competitor, or Samsung/OnePlus/Nokia/etc?)

Apple doesn’t compete with “Android”, they compete with companies that produce Android phones.

https://www.idc.com/promo/smar...

Apple’s market share worldwide is about 13%. That’s not a monopoly at all.

Apple’s US market shareworldwide is much less. This site suggests 13.3%

https://www.idc.com/promo/smar...

Just like Apple, Walmart has no monopoly on anything.

Literally anyone can side load an app on an iPhone. You can do it from source code in Xcode, or using a developer build via Xcode or via TestFlight. For developers this covers every need.

However, Apple doesn't allow this as a distribution mechanism to a broad audience, and if they ban a developer account then the builds generated by it will not install or run.

Regular users don't want to side load apps because the Play Store has everything that an average user should ever need or want. That's a power user feature that much of the time is just to load pirated software, and the rest of the time is a trick by someone to compromise the phone of someone's grandma.

I have three keyboards on my desk for three computers.

Razer Huntsman Elite keyboard labels this as "Enter"
Amazon Basics extended USB keyboard labels this key as "Enter"
Old Mac USB keyboard (circa 2006) labels it as "Return"

Wasn't return a reference to typewriters?

Apple explicitly forbids people who buy the developer kit from running benchmarking software (not that people are heeding that request). It seems sort of weird to suggest that they would do that and then secretly optimize for that software.

Given how many competitors have gotten in trouble for exactly this (looking at you Samsung and Huawei) it would be pretty foolish for Apple to do that.

I thought it was the Powermac 6100, and indeed it was available for it, but it was originally the Centris 610.

https://www.engadget.com/2009-...

So you have no idea what it is or how it works, but you're sure the purpose of it is not security.

The truth is, Apple made this change because unlike the CAs, they do actually care about security, and this makes browsers more secure, and makes it when a CA gets compromised, that doesn't cause problems for 3,4, 5 years to come.

Lol, Microsoft is not doomed. They could cancel the Surface line and the Xbox line and all their mice and keyboards and it wouldn't even put a dent in their profits.

Microsoft makes money mostly from (a) Windows, (b) Office, and (c) Azure. None of these are targeted at consumers -- because consumers don't spend 7 figures on a deal like companies do. Microsoft is doing just fine.

People think Microsoft is a consumer company, because 20 years ago they were. Today, they only really have one consumer product, Windows, and even that serves the corporate world first.

And fine the officers personally for false arrests, and charge the department $50,000 per day for false imprisonment.

I'm starting to think the people who want to disband police departments have the right idea.

Well in French without the accent, Sur means "on top of" -- so if you are picking random crap in other languages at least go with the one that's mildly relevant.

Big Sur is a proper noun. It's a place name. No different than "Grand Canyon" or "Côte de Beaune".

I wish they'd move to AMD. Going their own way seems like a bad idea, and Boot Camp will cease to work. Being able to run Windows in a VM or via dual boot is a huge benefit.