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Apple announces App Store changes in the EU

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79 points saubeidl | 4 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.875s | source
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lofaszvanitt ◴[26 Jun 25 20:22 UTC] No.44390917[source]▶
Apple is already a big, festering, malignant growth. The EU needs to jump in with both feet to let all that pus out.
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1. scottyah ◴[26 Jun 25 21:24 UTC] No.44391581[source]▶
But they're basically the only large scale consumer computational hardware company driving actual, stable innovation?
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2. simplyinfinity ◴[26 Jun 25 21:55 UTC] No.44391876[source]▶
What have they innovated in the last 10 years?
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3. saubeidl ◴[26 Jun 25 22:35 UTC] No.44392153[source]▶
I'm not an Apple fan by any means. But I think it's fair to say that Apple Silicon and actually useful ARM-powered laptops was a major hardware innovation.
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4. bigyabai ◴[26 Jun 25 23:24 UTC] No.44392428{3}[source]▶
It kinda feels like Apple Silicon was the exception to the rule. And even then, a lot of the innovation is hardly Apple's to claim:

- ARM is not Apple IP, it's owned by SoftBank and licensed to Apple at rates low enough that it's impossible to undercut them.

- TSMC's 5nm manufacturing capacity was entirely bought-out for Apple Silicon, blocking other OEMs from competing on equal footing.

- The SOC team, who arguably did the most innovation of all, was gutted with the founding of Nuvia immediately after Apple Silicon's launch.