Apple Deserves to Get Sued 

Same. I love my iPhone, AppleTV, and my AirPods Pro… but I also recognize we need 3rd party App Stores and that it is MY IPHONE that is not letting my brother’s Samsung phone receive a good quality video from me 🙄

Every piece of tech I use is apple besides my flatscreen and gaming pc, and I agree 100%

@@matthewjalovickwe don’t need any other App Store though

​​It doesn't even have to be 3rd party app stores. Just let me install a open source app from a file.@@matthewjalovick

I agree with that they need side loading, but I’d rather my company spend on R&D on how to make things work within the system rather than with everything. Trying to figure out how to make a system work with x amount of configurations is stupid

The worst part about airpods on anything but an iPhone is simply that they refuse to tell you the battery percentage natively. That's complete anti-consumer BS. Apple is trying to tell us they can't figure out how to report a stat on a non-iOS device that every other bluetooth device can do.

Apple sure has A LOT of that

It is always weird when they restrict stuff like that. I purchased some $7 Bluetooth earbuds (aliexpress style junk) the frequency response range is bad but it is good enough for vocals. I used them while using an air based paint sprayer to paint my basement after DIY remodeling. Since the paint particles get everywhere , I didn't want to get paint on my good earbuds, but still wanted to listen to podcasts. The craptastic earbuds showed their battery life on the android status bar. It seems like the cheapest available SOCs for earbuds simply offer all of those basic functions as a standard, such that there is no minimum amount that you can pay and not get something with those features. It is shameful for apple to not offer it if their earbuds are used on android.

tbh i wish my airpods would have never updated their firmware then i at least would still have good sound canceling…… with them gotta love that they change the product down the road

That’s the headphones manufacturers fault for not having an app on iOS

Apple has mastered malicious compliance.. there's just way around that fact.. just look at how they handled the USB-C port situation

It’s easy to defend Apple. See I just did it. If you don’t like what they offer, you don’t have to buy it.

@@hvanmegen no they hasn't, everything they do is illegal, they only bought the politicians so that those in power get a share from them and protect them.

​@@dannygavin9458sounded better in your head, right?

@@chriscab47 nope sounded just fine. If you can’t handle how they want to construct their business, you don’t have to buy anything they produce. Capitalism is great isn’t it. Furthermore, if you’re itching about their prices, stop being a poor.

If Apple gets fined a significant amount I still wont be happy. Theyl just make it a Tax write off somehow. I want their business interfered with under threat of prison time.

they should be fined 75% of yearly average revenue per offense. Fines need to *hurt* the company.

The fine needs to be e.g. 10% of the annual revenue and 10% of their revenue UNTIL IT IS FIXED.

Not true! They innovate lots of ways to keep 3rd party repair shops from fixing their hardware. Like marrying a common voltage regulator chip to another chip on the board & the whole thing won't work if you replace it but don't have the proprietary Apple software to re-marry the new chip to the other. Zero benefit to doing that except for forcing the user to only use Apple repair services.

apple is the lead innovator in the field of consumer-hostile design.

​@@goldenheartOhinnovative in DRM 😂

people like you are the reason Apple is like it is.

No, it's the monopoly

And if the US Government bends to Apple, then the EU needs to sue harder.

u didnt need to censor "fucking"

literally why? if you don’t like apple products, don’t buy them. there are plenty of equivalent products that do not come with the downsides of apple products.

@@supitschillbro Because I fight for the weak (Apple customers)! No, really, I just can't stand any company that does what Apple does (to it's customers), and the more money Apple makes, the more power and influence they have on the industry, and I absolutely don't want that!

@@jgorres what does it do to its customers? from an outside perspective, apple seems to be delivering a premium product experience that satisfies consumers. nobody complains that their devices are underpowered anymore. it is a decreasingly small number of people who want or need to tinker with their devices to get a desired outcome: the devices work for 99% of consumers. that level of polish and finish, on top of being a status symbol product, costs money to produce and maintain. i don’t understand how apple customers are losing in this situation at all.

what was the feature?

Some of these people they hire nowadays don't know half of what they're talking about. Honestly my best experience in the store has been talking to the ones who have Android phone on them along with an iPhone.

Yeah, that still doesn't make it a monopoly. It's a scumbag company that people should avoid. Going after them for a monopoly is insane and it's going to negatively impact GOOD companies that AREN'T scumbags. I've never owned an Apple product. They're a shit company that I've never supported. Until now. The DOJ going after them is BLATANTLY about Apple not giving them a backdoor into their encryption. And Linus saying "Who cares you've already sold the iPhone". They're not just selling iPhones. It would be like claiming Xbox shouldn't make money off games because they already sold the Xbox when in reality they actually sell hardware at a loss in many cases. This is SO BAD for American businesses in general, and again, I fucking DESPISE Apple.

I respect samsung even more just reading these comments.

​@lukenaegle5014 , that's a traP. Samsung is very bad too

@@ibitorucookey-gam7503 Been using Samsung exclusively for my phones since the first Note came out. Never had a real complaint. I've also purchased a Samsung laptop several years back and it was the best laptop I've ever owned. Had a Samsung surround sound system several years back too and that was solid. I still have an old Samsung SSD for well over a decade ago running as my boot drive in my PC. I don't get it, what is so bad about Samsung? I hear it often enough, I just don't ever see it first hand.

Apple is extremely PRO-EWASTE with how irreparable their stuff is.

@@goldenheartOh they didn't even replace them for me. They just said "nope were not supporting you" on 2 month old $650 headphones with apple care plus added.

omg wait what happened to your airpods that they would help you with??

@@grouchyfluff left earcup started to buzz. They had me send them in. They sent them back with a ticket saying "unrepairable and if I sent it in again, I would be charged $100." I tried to call for clarification and they wouldn't tell me anything.

​@@cgwworldministries83yup... that's apple 😂

This is horrible for consumers. Sueing a company that doesn't have a monopoly for having a monopoly is bad for business in general. So why should anyone try to create their own platform if the Government can step in and force you to allow other people to undercut you on your own platform that you invested billions of dollars in? I hate Apple, first of all, they're a bad company and sell bad products. And that's why they should fail. People should stop buying their products. Not because the DOJ wants a backdoor into their encryption and Apple refuses so the DOJ makes up an excuse to sue them... And that's what's happening. Because they simply don't have a monopoly.

This is true! I've personally viewed Sony as "The Apple of gaming" despite loving my PS5. If you look at the launch of the latest generation of consoles, Microsoft really tried hard to be pro-consumer. Better backwards compatibility, auto-HDR, Quick Resume, and Game Pass...

@@DarthJarJar10 Personally, I'd say Sony is getting there, but Nintendo is hands-down the "Apple of Gaming". with major anti-consumer movements, the army of meatriders, the highly restricted device app market (Google had to push HARD just to get RU-vid on Switch), and the complete disrespect of developers and consumers alike. Oh, and a half-measured attempt at VR. They really check all the boxes...

@@SentryDoesRetro, thank you! A lot of what you've said news to me but I actually agree... Various parties have called out Nintendo for its behaviour.

Most companies are trying to emulate the apple approach, and why shouldn't they. Apple is worth trillions and until now had virtually zero regulations or challengers. This is why it's so important to make an example of the biggest model for this business practice.

Yeah I feel for you. Thankfully 80% of the stuff I do is on Linux, Gaming is the last thing stopping me and tbh that is on a game by game case.

@@adem1781 The gaming still kills me. I play so much online stuff with my friends and it so often just doesn't work I can never justify moving completely over on my desktop. My laptops been on it for years, it's my preferred OS by miles, but until modern gaming works as well as windows on linux it's just a pipedream for my desktop.

I really get it, My job is a linux sys admin so naturally it's pretty useful for me as a daily driver for work stuff.@@SaddisticSpeller I have a steam deck and I can say that proton keeps getting better, the online stuff is the killer but I'd never feel comfortable giving someone like EA root access lol Windows Ameliorated as your "just for games" OS could be an answer but even that can trip some anti-cheats. (Had to mess around getting the anti-cheat working for EA with Ameliorated, it can be done though) Or... and interesting video idea for linus (I'm sure they have roughly done this before but an updated idea) Run your choice of Linux flavour ; create VM ; Windows 10/11 ; passthrough GPU Success ?

@@adem1781 I hope that in the future more and more people leave tech altogether instead of just shifting sides.

@@linkfreeman1998 leave tech ?

Great comment.

You mean apple copies everyone else. They do occasionally come out with useful tech innovation but most of the time it's just do what Samsung or another competitor did 1-3 years ago and call it our own.

@@nickna7387 Hold your horses: Apple Copies Good Idea's, and implements really good versions. Then, they take away quality of life features that actually don't cause issues like... 3.5mm headphone jacks. You can have water resistance, without gutting features like physical ports for physical connections. But, if you have a 3.5mm jack, you can't con people into buying absurdly priced mid at best listening experience products.

Ah yes everyone copies apple, that's why apple uses Samsung components. Hell until a few years ago macbooks/mac stationaries ran on Intel chipsets. Apple fanboys never seizes to amaze me with their ignorance about their own favourite products. Apple has always been behind techwise, they've only very recently begun actually producing their own components (limited mostly to PC chips, yes Macs are pc's) they don't produce their own screens, they don't produce their own cameras. What they have always done is design things, they barely produce anything. Also no, barely anyone has ever commercially copied Apple's design.

@@nickna7387others start, Apple refines, others copy. Historically this is the trend, saying otherwise is just being blindly mad at a company

Nintendo too

What percentage of desktops is Windows installed on? What percentage of cellphones is iOS installed on? The two examples can't be compared. I fucking hate Apple, but they're not a monopoly. If we let this stand, it's bad for ALL tech. And the reality is the only reason this is happening is because Apple won't give the DOJ backdoor access to their encryption without warrants lol.

On that note, even the people who wanted that lawsuit the happen the most were like "uh, this is over the wrong thing... we don't care that deeply integrated, it's their contracts with OEMs to not offer anything but IE that we have a problem with." or something along those lines. Been a long while since I read up on that case.

No, the IE incident is much worse. At that time, entire companies developed browsers where you’d have to physically drive to the store to purchase a CD to install it. Microsoft took advantage of Windows being 95% of all PCs out there and packaged a free Internet browser to completely crush that market. That is so far and away worse than any of the allegations against Apple.

@@Bloooo95 Bundling a browser with an OS in a way that is a paradigm shift with how the internet was at the time, versus Apple making it so every web browser on iOS is effectively just Safari with a different skin... and somehow Microsoft's disruptive model is worse... Get bent.

@@ZeldagigafanMatthew Microsoft’s actions effectively rendered entire companies moot. While, yes, you might not like that all “alternative” browsers are a skin on top of WebKit, no company has ever been threatened or had their businesses harmed as a result. It’s materially very different.

Samsung is another example of why big tech companies need to get their wrist slaps. they start out with a product that has a wide intercompatibility with any other product to close it off after certain amount of time. Samsung watch for example - worked fine with any ole phone until version 4, since then it only works with samsung phones. so v3 is compatible with anything v4, 5, and 6 with nothing else. and that is extremely anti-consumer.

​@@inkredebilchina9699and they did this cuz Apple got away with it.

​@@inkredebilchina9699I have a galaxy watch 3 and a pixel 8. I went from previously having a note 20 ultra. Guess what BS Samsung does for no reason whatsoever? If you don't pair the watch with a Samsung phone, the ECG feature (which is 100% on the watch, has nothing to do with the phone) is not available. Like why? Samsung also does this with the blood pressure feature (it's still not available in the US but is in south Korea): you can only use it if it's paired with a Samsung phone.

To be fair, Chromecast works with any Android phone.

In your comment summarizing Apple, you did not describe a monopoly or any illegal behavior. I despise Apple. I routinely convince people not to use Apple products. But claiming they're a monopoly is insane. I believe they deserve to be sued, but not for being a monopoly. Why would any tech company ever invest in making a good platform if the Government will just step in and force you to share your investments, R&D, and success with other companies that didn't assist with the creation of that platform? This is anti-consumer, and frankly I'd almost call it communist in nature. Apple doesn't owe us anything at all. They certainly don't owe other companies access to their ecosystem.

@DefianceOrDeath I think you might have accidentally commented on the wrong post. I never even insinuated that Apple was a monopoly. I would say that they have every reason to be sued for their anti-competitive practices, which I believe fundamentally go against the very idea of our free market economy in the first place. People would have had the same reservations and doubts about breaking up the robber barons back in the day, but I think in hindsight, most people would agree it was the right thing to do. Frankly, the only reason Apple has been able to get where they are is because something wasn't done about this sooner. They should have been sued 10 years ago. Either way, I'm not calling them a monopoly, and I'm certainly not a communist. I'm a small business owner down in Florida, which I think genuinely makes me one of the furthest things from a communist I could be. Hopefully, this response clarifies things. Cheers. Edit: If somebody is out there insinuating that they should be sharing their r&d, platform, or similar assets, then that person is insane. The majority of people I see advocating for this lawsuit are mostly in agreement that the main issue is intentionally degrading experiences for non-Apple users on their platform. It would be like if I owned a Tesla dealership and was willing to sell you a new car. But if you're not already a Tesla owner, you will pay the same amount of money for a car that is missing half of the features, and I also won't service the vehicle in the same way if it breaks. Also, you can give friends and family that don't own a Tesla a ride. However, any non Tesla owner that rides in your car with you won't be able to listen to the music, use the air conditioning, or operate their window. Being okay with something like that is just silly.

@@DefianceOrDeath they arent being sued for BEING a monopoly

@@cazmatism Look man, this is the DOJ upset that Apple won't share their encryption with them. Period. End of story. I despise Apple. I hate their products. I've NEVER owned one. They don't deserve this lawsuit though. They created an ecosystem that people want to be part of, and now they're being punished for that. And I believe that the only reason this is happening is because Apple won't hand the Government a backdoor into all their devices. Nothing else has changed. They've been doing what they're doing for decades, and it's been wildly successful.

@@jameslwjtoler So no response?

Flashbacks to getting a Virtual Mac just to release on IOS and xCode being a buggy mess

windows EFI handling is insanely stupid. Hey kid, we heard you liked bootloaders, so we just put it on a random fucking drive, hopefully you didnt have anything stored on that drive :)

@@killingtimeitself I had that one happen, even on ancient BIOS based systems that Windows couldn't easily tamper settings in. Every time I've ever installed Windows 10 on a dual-drive system, they put the bootloader on the opposite drive to what I put Windows on. Ergo when I removed that drive later, because it's not being used or in one case because it literally died, Windows dies. I ended up just unhooking the "secondary" drive during the install, it was the only way to stop this behavior. (I subsequently stopped this behavior by stopping installing Windows. :P) Also upvote to main comment as a fellow Linux user who also had an Xbox controller, which had the naughty firmware that didn't connect to Linux. oh, and apparently it was an intentional design decision to make the Xbox controllers not able to connect to Linux via Bluetooth. There was a DRM check that, if failed (because, say, Linux) the connection wouldn't work. I've since switched to an 8bitdo that actually works better for the gaming I do, after breaking the USB port on my Xbox controller (the Bluetooth had crashed quite some time ago).

have you tried turning it off and on again? :D seriously though - have you tried having windows on the USB drive without an install? if you use an ISO to USB tool like Rufus you can to this day create a Windows To Go install on any usb drive, as long as you have sufficient space on it - 32GB for example. edit: I get your point though. it should not prevent firmware updates just because you don't use the specific OS.

In fairness to Microsoft - that's quite a niche issue... But fair enough yeah it should be more compatible with Linux

I mean Apple has iTunes for Windows, which is able to update iPhones, why it can't do it for Airpods is bordering on evil. Microsoft does not have an Xbox app or Linux or MacOS at all, for prettyobvious reasons, i don't think Apple would want it or even allow it since it is selling gamepass. For Linux well Steam has that all sown up.

it's not laziness. The solution very likely exists somewhere in the Cupertino vaults. It's just that Apple has no incentive to release it. "Fuck you for not being a shill".

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As annoying as the forced updates are it prevents less tech savvy people from running an out of date version. A large percent of cyber attacks are based around systems on older updates with know security issues that where fixed in a later updates.

@@MavricMC forced security updates dont bother me as much, but its not just security. At this point i have to use a "riskier" version of windows (tiny 11) to have any control over what I paid for, even after I paid for both a licence and my computer. In win 10 I had ~14 hours of rendering ruined by windows force updating.

Ok, so don't buy their products, right? How is them not letting you customize their homescreen a "Monopoly" issue? It isn't. I fucking despise Apple and I could rant about them for hours on end, but they're not a monopoly and claiming they are hurts technology as a whole.

​@@DefianceOrDeath🤡

@@DefianceOrDeathso you basically do not understand the word Monopoly - one instead of many is what it means. how many home launchers are you able to get on your iPhone? one. the only one, the crappy one. and that my friend is why it is a monopoly issue.

​@@DefianceOrDeath What exactly would be a monopoly in your mind then? If Apple were the only company making smartphones, you'd just say "they're not a monopoly. They make computers that happen to fit in your pocket. If you want something else, get a laptop". This reasoning is very disingenuine. The truth is that you buy an iphone for the pretty UI and for integration with icloud or long battery or whatever, and then you are stuck with inability to install anything not approved by apple, with a lack of options in regards to NFC payment apps, with one single mandatory browser engine (even if you want to install chrome, it's still just a skin over ios's webkit) and so on. They abuse their power. It's that simple.

@@blank-404 So to be clear, they don't have a monopoly-- but yes, if they had a monopoly, I would acknowledge they had a monopoly. I'm not going to entertain the whole "if they were the only company selling" because they aren't. They just aren't. If they were, then yeah, that would be a monopoly. But that's not how it is. And everything else you described is 100% NOT a monopoly and is in my eyes absolutely legitimate. Like you want to be able to install whatever you want? Get a Samsung device. That's not what Apple is about. The thing is, as someone that hates Apple, I can respect that there are pros and cons associated with that. Not being able to install literally anything anyone makes helps ensure that the devices are far safer. That comes at an expense. Apple designing things this way is not a secret. They don't advertise otherwise. Apple has a ecosystem that is great for people who aren't tech savvy. Now they're being punished for it by the DOJ. Again, I hate Apple. I've never owned their products. I advise friends and family to avoid their products. But they're successful for a reason. "you are stuck with inability to install anything not approved by apple," Again, even though I hate Apple, I actually think what you described there is a net positive for many people. Do you really want your Grandma getting scammed into downloading a dozen viruses onto her smart phone? Stop pretending like everyone that wants a smart phone is a computer nerd. "with a lack of options in regards to NFC payment apps, " Again actually something I see zero issue with, and I can definitely acknowledge the benefits of that. Do you really want some sketchy third party app to handle your payments? I don't. I'm a Samsung fan because I can install whatever I want-- and I don't ever want to install sketchy third party payment apps. Ever. Don't fuck around with your finances and technology dude. Seriously. You'll have your identity stolen. "with one single mandatory browser engine" That's a reason to not buy Apple products. It doesn't make them a monopoly. I dunno. "They abuse their power. It's that simple." I disagree. If they abused their power they wouldn't be wildly successful. They just make choices you don't like, and you choose to subject yourself to what you perceive as abuse by continuing to by products that you don't like. Or you don't own Apple products and you're just complaining for someone else that is happy with their Apple products-- and that's a bit nuts dude. So yeah, if Apple was spending their trillions of dollars preventing Samsung from selling phones. If they were threatening vendors. If they were attempting to purchase Samsung, Google, and all other Smartphone vendors. Those are things that TO SOME EXTENT would make me more open to the whole monopoly thing. But that's not happening, because they're not a monopoly. And my personal belief is that this is STRICTLY because the DOJ wants unfettered access to Apples encryption. That's what I believe this is about. Apple has been in the news a few times over the past several years for not going along with law enforcement without proper warrants. The DOJ doesn't like that. We know for a fact that American Intelligence operations have backdoors in a lot of tech. They're now suing Apple for being a "Monopoly" to scare them into cooperating with what I view as an increasingly totalitarian regime. And this will have the added effect of scaring the shit out of every other tech company on the planet. Because if the DOJ will go after Apple, they'll go after any and everyone.

I don't think so... Xbox is in a weird spot financially, Gamepass being so successful probably has them asking a lot of internal questions about how they should evolve as a brand, I honestly would not be surprised by DRASTIC changes are made with the brand within the next few years, there are a few directions they could go in but I imagine they will look much more different from their current form in the next decade, they have been ripe for a drastic change in the ways they monetize themselves for some time already.

Right, so Xboxs get sold at a loss, and now they're being forced to allow others to sell products on their hardware that they sell for a loss. Why would anyone ever get into creating things when the Government can come in, STEAL THEM FROM YOU, and force you to let your competitors to use your platforms. This is fucking horrible for tech in general. This is some communist tier bullshit. Apple make SHITTY PRODUCTS. They should fail because of that. Not because the fucking Government wants to be communist dictators.

@@pptemplar5840 yeah, xbox is well on it's way to becoming actual Windows PC with slightly modified GUI. It's the best of both worlds, really. Standardized hardware, standardized API, minimal development cost, unprecedented compatibility, all for the benefit of the one product that actually pays the bills. Why wouldn't they?

If I may ask, why not just leave the phone open on google maps and clamp it to the dashboard? Or am I misunderstanding what a hands-free law entails?

@@Leffrey phone will eventually lock itself and then I have to unlock it to get back to navigation. I also have to then keep it constantly charging since the display is always on, vs the display only coming on when a turn is coming up. A nice indicator of “hey pay attention you need to turn soon”. Additionally having to keep it constantly charged like that while I’m driving is bad for the phone’s battery long term, and I’m a contractor so I’m using GPS all day long.

Yeah that's not how Google maps is supposed to work. It keeps the screen on while it's active.

Not to mention that you use picture in picture mode on Android. iOS is great in some places and severely underbaked in others.

I'm baffled by the fact that iOS browsers were mandated by Apple to use WebKit. Meaning that every browser was the same thing under the hood. Why even do that?

I mean Epic is losing a lot of money on trying to make their storefront relevant lol

Why did you want Epic to lose its lawsuit? If they won then maybe we wouldn't need the government, and thus our tax dollars, going to this lawsuit. This lawsuit will literally give Epic what they want if The United States wins.

​@@GrandpaBaner Because we all knew where Epic was going to take it....Epic...the company infamous for using their billions of dollars of fortnite money to buy exclusivity of third party games and effectively "gatekeep content via publishers/storefront level" wants a legal relief for apple to not "gatekeep via the OS/Device" level... It's 100% hypocritical.

@@GrandpaBaner Because they are just as scummy. Virtually all of the money that allowed Epic to engage in this little escapade comes from lootboxes and other microtransactions in a game that is unequivocally targeting teenagers. The only saving grace here is that in this case their goals happened to coincide with that of the general public.

@@Sett86 lol. people will hate on companies for literally anything. There isn't anything wrong with selling costumes in video games. Maybe the FOMO style battle passes are scummy but that is balanced out by the fact that the game is free.

26:41 this might help

A lot of companies seem to have the philosophy of annoying the customer until they do what the company wants rather than doing the best job they can to get the customer to buy more of their stuff. Pretty sad. My new Samsung phone kept pestering me for weeks to "finish setup" which the ToS explained was just letting them annoy me with notifications of apps to buy. I could only agree or exit out & it'd still be there pestering me. Now, I'm getting nonstop notices to allow email & calender more permissions. So annoying. I'm done with Samsung.

​​@@goldenheartOh that's odd. Never had that on a Samsung phone. I don't mean to be rude, but I don't think you're having the issue you believe you're having. There's something going on there. That's weird. You sure that's not your carrier doing that?

@hobosnake1 I had 2 Samsung phones before this & it never happened on them. It wasn't until the s24+ that it happened. I haven't installed any email or calendar apps, so they are only what Samsung installed. That 1st pesky notification was there before I installed anything. It's all on Samsung.

Same thing with me with the new A55. ​@@goldenheartOh

They're not being sued for complacency in innovation though. They're being sued for being a "Monopoly". This is bad for all tech and all consumers. And to be clear, I've never owned an Apple device. I think they're shit. I think they're a bad company. But they're NOT a monopoly and the DOJ claiming they are is insane.

Lack of competition = stagnation

Also with family communication. I got my family on signal because of the lack of social engineering spam that what's app had and the better attachments signal had.

Depends. I do think Apple should open their OS for 3rd party market places, but I don't think they should be forced to support connectivity to other platforms for their devices

Why do you support communist dictatorships? I hate Apple. Watching the DOJ be full blown communists is horrendous. I've never bought an Apple product. They DO NOT have a monopoly. Going along with this just because you hate Apple is BAD for technology as a whole.

I love how you’re saying how you don’t approve of how a company does things for the products you don’t even own. Also, your last example: MacBooks have HDMI ports and plenty of non-Apple laptops do not. 💀

Yo why are you guys so mad? Because Apple will lose billions of dollars with this suit moving forward? I just don't get the blind infatuation.

The messages is mainly an US issue because imessage is dominant there. In Europe it's WhatsApp, in Japan it's line, and I can message those just fine.

TLTC I guess??

@@PrograError yeah, I just find it funny how "clips" are not exactly clips :D

It's clipped from 3,5h WAN show

damn only if, I lean towards Linus to be honest but Im curious to see what FPT would say

Nah that's not the same thing. Sucking at games is not a disability, accessibility is for the hard of hearing, or the color blind, etc, you know, for people with real disabilities, and games usually try to cater to disabilities, within reason, for example I remember "World at War" had color blindness features, and this is 2008, during the height of "toxic gaming". Games are an exclusive club, games are for people who like them and are willing to actually play them. Trying to make "everything for everyone" is how a company or a video game franchise loses it's appeal to it's original audience. I've played games with a range of difficulties, and games with only "one" difficulty. It's just the way some games are, you're not being discriminated because of a disability, that game is just not for you. I don't disagree with the Apple thing, but why are you conflating two different things together?

First ipod compatibility would say least have an argument that it's easier for Apple to build the itunes on their own hardware/software than on Microsoft software and all the potential configurations of windows machines. So it would obviously have taken more time. But I'm general yes

@@h4tch3tt74, thanks for the confirmation! And to be fair to the Apple of that day, by the 2nd generation or so, the iPod was USB compatible and iTunes had a Windows version. Makes one wonder when exactly things tipped to the anti-competitive side of the scale, even if it's just philosophically.