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Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

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432 points nobody9999 | 2 comments | 12 Dec 25 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.612s | source
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Bad_Initialism ◴[12 Dec 25 16:25 UTC] No.46245650[source]▶
Tim Cook has been absolutely fantastic for Apple shareholders and absolutely awful for anyone else, particularly the customers.

The walled garden has to end. There is no excuse for making people pay a premium price for an iPad Pro that can't run a third party web browser or do software development in any meaningful way.

Outside of a very narrow use case, the iPad product range is useless, despite the endless rantings of the brainwashed fanboys. Source: used to be one. Left the ecosystem when they started treating the RFCs like toilet paper.

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1. innagadadavida ◴[12 Dec 25 16:44 UTC] No.46245860[source]▶
Hard disagree. Tim should focus on fixing their software. It has become extremely buggy and it needs to be fixed. No one buying an iPad cares about running some custom browser and supporting it is pointless and is what makes the software emote complex and worse. He should take better care of his paying customers rather than engaging with opinionated activists.
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2. Barbing ◴[12 Dec 25 17:57 UTC] No.46246665[source]▶
You hopeful for this? Per Gurman:

>For iOS 27 and next year’s other major operating system updates — including macOS 27 — the company is focused on improving the software’s quality and underlying performance.

-via Bloomberg -18d

Edit: almost can’t be true if they’re going to try to push Siri hard :-/