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Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial

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112 points thunderbong | 4 comments | 21 Nov 24 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.632s | 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. bitsandboots ◴[21 Nov 24 09:09 UTC] No.42202452[source]▶
Relative to when Microsoft intentionally sabotages user experience, sure, but that's a low bar. I'll agree with you more whenever macOS allows me to open more than 1 calculator window at a time, cut files, stop hijacking bluetooth when the lid is closed, and other productivity killing nuisances that make me question if they ever do user studies.
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2. philistine ◴[21 Nov 24 14:29 UTC] No.42204624[source]▶
- Our user studies for our trillion dollar company is out Mr. Cook.We can finally discover why we're not really seen as a luxury brand sir!

- Please tell me, what's stopping us from being seen as a true luxury brand?

- More than one calculator window.

3. csh0 ◴[22 Nov 24 03:48 UTC] No.42211001[source]▶
I was curious about the calculator comment, so I looked it up. The following terminal command supposedly does the trick:

open -na Calculator

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4. fragmede ◴[22 Nov 24 03:52 UTC] No.42211022[source]▶
if you're already on a computer, http://sheets.new seems way more useful.