CheeseFreeze

“We don’t have anything to show for in June in respect to useful AI, Tim. We now support a new cool cartoony variety in Image Playground, but that’s it.”

”What about Vision Pro?”

”We have 16 active users now. Not exactly great ROI, Tim.”

”What we could do is skin our operating systems with the Vision Pro OS look, to get some value out of the R&D. It’ll distract our user-base from the lack of innovations. Frosted glass, please.”

mark fearing said:

If that's true the tariff won't stand up in Court. You can't tariff people you don't like. The Constitution has a thing about Equal treatment. 

If one thing has been proven is that the US has very weak filters in place to keep a democracy, a democracy. I fear at some point a civil war may be the only option for true and lasting change. God forbid that ever happens. 

blitz1 said:

In less than a week, Apple has proved to be extremely vulnerable. 

Its supply chain is under attack by tariff's.

Its flagship product is under attack by its former star employee.

Its AI is nowhere to be found.

Apple is under enormous pressure and let's see how M. Cook can address it. 

There's a bunch of kids on this forum disliking everything they don't want to hear versus what they don't agree with. You are right, Apple is in a tough spot. Why would any adult user of this forum 'disagree' with a simple fact like this? No, instead they 'dislike' the comment because it's not the reality distortion field they feel comfortable with. That attitude feels very MAGA to me.  

This stupid idea of Vision Pro was DOA to begin with. 
Meta Reality Labs is being cut to the bone because it’s a loss leader. Quest is amazing for games but it didn’t catch on at scale. 

cessnapaul said:

"we love developers" as long as we get a 30% cut.

Just because Karl Benz invented the automobile doesn't mean he gets a cut of every toll road.

Saying Apple deserves a 30% cut of all digital goods because they built the platform is like saying a mall owner deserves a percentage of everything sold in every store, forever, even after the store builds its own loyal customer base and no longer relies on foot traffic.

Sure, Apple built the “mall” - the App Store - and they deserve fair rent for access and discovery. But when Apple blocks tenants from even telling customers that cheaper options exist outside the mall, or forces them to use Apple’s own checkout system, it stops being about fair business and becomes about control.

The real issue isn’t whether Apple should earn money - they already do, handsomely. It’s that they’ve positioned themselves as landlord, tax authority, and competitor all at once. Epic’s win doesn’t mean developers escape costs - it just means they can finally choose how to run their businesses. That’s not freeloading. That’s competition.

And let’s be honest: a free economy isn’t absolute. It needs guardrails. When two companies are the app economy, protecting free markets requires regulation - not just to stop abuse, but to keep the system open for the next generation of creators.