Porn or not, I have no idea why anyone is spending $3500 for these things

Exactly. With Apple products, there’s a definite sense that the company has decided there is a right way to use their products, and that it is constantly annoyed that customers refuse to comply.

VR porn aside (because... why?), this is the attitude that makes me not like Apple. They just fundamentally don’t think that the devices you buy are really yours. They still see them as extensions of their own marketing.

They should investigate what they can learn in order to make the next Pokemon game better.

I’m hopefull that all the kids who bought Palworld, see just how rogue and awful Pokemon has become.

I’ll never purchase another Nintendo product again, as they’re only doing this because of the Twitter Psycho mobs who harassed and sent death threats to Pocketpair. Imma assume those same people, sent the same death threats to Nintendo unless they “Attack the game” signaling their agenda. They did this exact same…

I’m pretty sure watching a billion dollar corporation bully a small indie studio of less than a hundred people. Will ingratiate people into liking The Pokemon Company more.

If we’re talking about the Pokemon Company in Japan, and Pocketpair being a Japanese developer, if the Pokemon Company finds reason to pursue a copyright violation lawsuit, it’s good to note that the only way Pocketpair is getting away with it is if they can prove there were no violations at all, not even reference,…

“public health crisis” in this being shorthand for “other people are doing things that I don’t approve of, and I want this to stop”

pornography is creating a public health crisis

I thought that at first too. There is a video on YouTube showing it’s quite a bit more complex than that actually, you can also see he topped out the score long before the crash. Here is the link, at 7:55 they explain the math to the crash.

i dont understand the (really!) the verge has pretty good tech coverage and has poached multiple former giz writers

I read it as a ad for iTunes. Since what google is being accused of and then suggesting people will run to apple as if they are better and a more open platform lol. Last i checked, apple also charges a flat rate on items sold through their store.

Apple is doing the exact same thing, but worse... You can’t even develop iOS apps without shelling out $100 a year for the privilege of developing iOS apps alone, regardless of wether or not your app is offered for free. Heck, you can’t even develop iOS apps without also owning yet another (recent enough) Apple device…

True, but this shouldn’t have been directed at Google, but all storefronts (if it’s wrong for Google to do it on android, then it’s wrong from Apple, Sony Microsoft et al to do it on all their closed systems.....

While I agree with the sentiment, in reality that’s nonsense sadly

So you didn’t read the article, or you like the idea of potentially more haphazard updates, having to go to some random website to install an grab an apk, or more spam thrown at you?

It focuses on the POSSIBLE anti-consumer impacts of the ruling.

Google allows sideloading, and loses the suit.