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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 | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.303s | 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. lowbloodsugar ◴[12 Dec 25 19:33 UTC] No.46247813[source]▶
>There is no excuse for making people pay

I know! I was just out shopping for a towel and these armed gunmen grabbed me and pulled me into this store and held a gun to my kids head until I bought them a new iPad Pro M5. I am traumatized.

Oh, no, wait, I remember, my kid wanted an iPad Pro for their art and for school. They liked their wacom, but the iPad was more portable, and with the keyboard, it was perfect for taking notes.