assuming you don’t need it because you’re dry is a fallacy. Right now it’s been protecting us from the worst impulses of ISPs, if only by existing and keeping the conversation alive.

learning the wrong lessons, too late, since they entered the game console market. They’d make more stopping hemorrhaging money on Xbox hardware, creating an optimized streaming app in steam for Xbox subscribers.

...That the only companies the EU investigates are foreign. Example - Spotify seems to have a clear monopoly on free streaming music, which it uses to maintain outright abusive relationships with artists, but they're more often given protected status against other companies than investigated for the harm they do.

The reason I have a Steam Deck is not because it’s a handheld (Mine lives mostly “docked” to my TV or a monitor). It’s because it’s a Linux gaming device that nearly 100% Just Works. I’d prefer a tier of mini-PCs with the exact same specs but in a well cooled box and official support over potential community splits to other handhelds.

Apple Intelligence represents perhaps the best example of what their vertical integration allows. If they deploy it in the EU, they can fully expect that the DMA will require that any AI provider will use the law to allow access the same personal contexts that they’re using, and have none of the privacy commitment or design that Apple has obviously engineered in. Frankly if I were Apple I would turn off iCloud, their App Store, and anything else which could be considered vertical integration, then append the EU warranty terms that any leaks, loss, or damage caused by 3rd party software is entirely OOW damage. A few noisy evangelists would declare it a win, but most users would bring out their torches and pitchforks for the people who are trying to force Apple into a corner, not Apple itself.

. . . this is a development to enable their PCC environment that’s being back-ported into mainline macOS, not a relaxing of the existing security features And may well make hackintoshing harder rather than easier.

No - because the stunts in Fortnite that led to their ban in the US almost certainly were his explicit direction, thinking asking forgiveness later about violating clear App Store guidelines would work. Declaring that you are not a trustworthy partner then using Xitter to try to litigate it isn’t exactly screaming “Do business with us”

isn’t Apple, it’s Tim Sweeney and his adversarial voice of entitlement.

You can do this kind of thing pretty easily in macOS via the Services menus, Shortcuts, etc - which can easily route GUI objects or text through shell scripts, APIs presented by apps, etc. It’s a far more powerful construct, presented in a fairly friendly way most users can access with minimal experience but extensible enough to do almost anything (I had Shortcuts to hit the PagerDuty API to ack an alert, open a shell to the alerting system or closest jump box, start a tab to the ticket tied to the alert with a template to track findings, another to capture my logs from that shell, attach them to the ticket, etc)

I just bought Resident Evil 4 for my iPad, which also covers it for Mac and iPhone On my M1 iPad it looks better than my steam deck, and not noticeably different than PS5. Likewise runs just fine on my M1 Mac Mini, even using the full real-estate of my ultra wide display. Capcom got 3 platforms of customers with one port - One of which is possibly the largest install base on a single device series in the world.

I was on the beta for Warframe Mobile, playing it on the same iPhone, iPad, and Mac where it ran butter smooth doing things that made my steam deck fans scream for mercy.

The platforms are more than ready, at this point i think there’s more issues with exclusivity agreements than porting process (I’ll never know if Borderlands 3 runs well on Mac, that platform version is an Epic Store exclusive and I won’t pay for that kind of BS).

So - how many fewer people could they have laid off if they didn’t keep “giving away” loss leader games in hopes of increasing user share?

Why call out Apple in this? Epic’s “find out” phase of playing chicken with Apple is still in place, Fortnite is delisted. So they’re paying Apple 30% of $0, and making 70% of $0 Solid business plan there. Who knows what the profit sharing is with other storefronts, but the paying user base of every other platform is a rounding error on iOS install base, so Winning?

The raw cost of the package seems higher than the MSRP. Which means Meta intends to amortize the costs via the data they collect and services they sell to the users. This is wearable ad-tech, not a consumer product Following the trend with Meta Quest products.

I have had frequent outages while trying to work from home because they never followed through on trenching/burying their fiber, it’s still hanging along utility poles and badly at that. USI Fiber started by working with the city to get proper utility scale lines run to every boulevard in the neighborhood, and trenched conduit to the house before even starting to install equipment. I can’t wait to dump CenturyLink once the drop is terminated.

Until the recent UI rework across steam platforms, the mac version barely worked at all.

If valve put the porting toolkit Apple released a few months ago into their CI for any game that didn’t have a native version, pretty much every game that works with Proton would work on mac as well or better, though I don’t expect that to happen as it might convince some users to just game on their Mac Mini rather than buying a steam deck.