I thought the warranty reduction was due to the chip shortages, switching from TLC to QLC?
Posts by gjmartin
5 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Sep 2020
Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe
Water's wet, the Pope's Catholic, and iOS is designed to stop folk switching to Android, Epic trial judge told
Thursday 13th May 2021 09:27 GMT
What about others....
When talking about apps that are cross-platform, this is where I get confused.
Take Office 365, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon & others, they all state in-app purchases when viewed through the iOS app store, and the subscription price they state is the same as if I went direct to the vendor's website, i.e. Spotify £9.99 subscription is the same if purchased through app store or through Spotify website. Are they paying the 30% fee to Apple, does that mean they lose money for every subscriber that purchases through iOS?
Times are changing from when you had an OS specific application or game, it is moving towards the subscriber model, you are not paying for the app you are paying for the service through an app. So I can understand why Apple is getting concerned about their revenue stream, especially if you can download a free app and pay for the subscription/widgets/gadgets/power ups (whatever they are called nowadays) on a website or different platform. But that is what is available with the names above, so again I can understand why Epic want the same for their app.
Disclaimer, I have never played Fortnite, so no idea if that is how it works, but from all the articles I've read that is the picture it paints!
Internet Explorer fails to make the cut, banished from Microsoft Teams for good
Tuesday 1st December 2020 09:36 GMT
Microsoft should be looking at their own applications...
Using the latest Outlook 2019/386 Desktop app, and if you view an email and then "click here to view it in a web browser", it insists on opening up Internet Explorer 11. Looking at workarounds to get around this highlights that they are using MSHTML to encode the webpage, so it doesn't really view any better in other browsers.
OnePlus to drop slightly better version of latest flagship next month ... and that's the T
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 13:33 GMT
Quite a few phones are coming out (in the Western world) with Dual-SIM variants, now that Apple has jumped on that bandwagon with Dual-SIM since XR (Physical & eSIM), I hope more will follow.
It's much nicer only having to carry one phone around. Although, as far as I am aware, so far nothing exists in the Apple world similar to the built-in separation you get with Android, between Personal & Work Profiles.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
