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Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial

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112 points thunderbong | 5 comments | 21 Nov 24 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 1.216s | source
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lokar ◴[21 Nov 24 03:44 UTC] No.42200889[source]▶
I see apple as like LVMH, but for phones. It has a minority of overall sales, but a majority of the “luxury” part of the market. This gives them influence over the whole market, but not a real monopoly.
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dismalaf ◴[21 Nov 24 04:19 UTC] No.42201067[source]▶
It's strange how they've convinced people that, considering there's nothing at all luxurious about their products, not even the price...
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bobbylarrybobby ◴[21 Nov 24 05:35 UTC] No.42201442[source]▶
What's luxurious about Apple products is that they tend to respect your time
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1. fragmede ◴[21 Nov 24 09:02 UTC] No.42202412[source]▶
Of all the things they do, that is not one of them. How long does it take from pressing a folder to showing its contents on iOS? How much faster would all of it be without a fancy fade in/out animation? or shrink to dock, or anything else in the UI that takes longer than it has to because it looks cooler that way.
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2. satvikpendem ◴[21 Nov 24 11:27 UTC] No.42203211[source]▶
It's funny because in Android you can set animation speed to 0.5x or even turn them off entirely, it's an option in the developer settings. Apple would never let you do that.
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3. sethjgore ◴[21 Nov 24 12:32 UTC] No.42203684[source]▶
I find that there’s always an option in accessibility settings to reduce the overall fanciness or anything that I find jarring on iOS. Here I believe settings > accessibility > reduce motion will apply.

Nevertheless it’s nowhere near the powerful experience that was palm OS when it was selling palm pre and the like

4. beardbound ◴[21 Nov 24 15:37 UTC] No.42205380[source]▶
You can set them off in accessibility settings https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/reduce-onscreen-motio.... I agree it's not something they make easy though. A lot of cool features/customization like that is in accessibility settings.
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5. makeitdouble ◴[22 Nov 24 00:42 UTC] No.42210164{3}[source]▶
On a side note, they (Google included) really should drop the "accessibility" naming.

I don't know how much it made sense when it was to allow blind UI navigation (could have been a "navigation" or "interactions" setting).

But nowadays with the amount of stuff in there, including permissions for password managers, animation reduction, audio EQ etc., it just makes less and less sense.