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iOS 26 en iPhone 12 REVIEW 😎

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Is the iPhone 16 Upgrade Worth It? Here’s Why You Might Not Need It

Apple recently launched the iPhone 16. Is the iPhone 16 upgrade worth it? And do we really need it? After years of minor upgrades, the differences between each model seem less significant. In this article, I’ll explain why I chose not to buy the new iPhone 16 and how it reflects Apple’s success rather than failure. The iPhone 16 Launch The new iPhone 16 launched at the Apple Store in…

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Apple 蘋果公布 WWDC 2025 活動內容，揭曉新一代作業系統與五大重點活動

距離 WWDC 2025 正式登場還有三週，蘋果公開這一屆開發者活動的詳細安排，除了主要的 KeyNote 主題發表會之外，還包含線上 Lab、全球社群活動與一系列進階技術課程，讓全球開發者都能同步參與。 Continue reading Apple 蘋果公布 WWDC 2025 活動內容，揭曉新一代作業系統與五大重點活動

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i just think it’s funny that raspberry pi seems to plan their releases around that of apple’s

[purplecompound]

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Le correctif du DAS de l'iPhone 12 : Une mise à jour attendue pour les utilisateurs français

La question du DAS (Débit d'Absorption Spécifique) de l'iPhone 12 a suscité de vives préoccupations en France ces derniers mois. Apple, dans une tentative de répondre aux inquiétudes et de respecter les normes sanitaires européennes, a annoncé une mise à jour imminente pour ses utilisateurs français.

Le correctif du DAS de l'iPhone 12 : Une mise à jour attendue pour les utilisateurs français - LaRevueGeek.com

[ruben-tech]

iPhone 12 vs iPhone XR SPEED TEST en 2024 🔥

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[ricisidro]

Vive la France ! 🇫🇷

#Apple's #iOS update meant to appease #France over alleged radiation issues with the #iPhone12 has been approved, so the ban on sales will be lifted.

📸 Lockdown selfie on iPhone 12

#technology

-https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-authorities-approve-apples-software-update-its-iphone-12-2023-09-29/

-https://www.anfr.fr/liste-actualites/actualite/telephone-apple-iphone-12-validation-de-la-mise-a-jour-proposee-par-apple-a-la-suite-dun-depassement-de-la-valeur-limite-de-das

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Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order

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Epic, makers of the wildly popular Fortnite video-game, have waged a one-company war against the "app tax" – the 15-30% rake that the mobile duopoly of Apple/Google take out of every penny we spend inside of apps.

Epic's own digital practices are hardly spotless: just this year, the company was caught cheating players – many of them children – with deceptive practices and had to refund over $72m:

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/fortnite-refunds

But in this fight, Epic is on the side of the angels. The 30% that Apple/Google sucks out of the mobile economy is a brutal tax, and not just on app makers. Patreon performers recently raised a stink when the company announced that it would be clawing back 30% of the money pledged by their supporters – that 30% surcharge is passed straight through to Apple/Google:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24218629/patreon-membership-ios-30-percent-apple-tax

From independent news outlets to crafters selling their work out of small storefronts, all the way up to massive entertainment services like Disney Plus and Fortnite, the mobile cartel takes 30% out of every dollar, a racket they maintain with onerous rules that ban apps from using their own payment processors, or even from encouraging users to click a link that brings them to a web-based payment screen.

30% is a gigantic markup on payment processing. It's ten times the going rate for payments in the USA, already one of the most expensive places in the world to transfer money from one party to another. In the EU, payment processing typically runs 1%…or less.

But crafters, Patreon podcasters and small-town newspapers are in no position to fight Google and Apple. Instead, we get Epic, a multi-billion-dollar company that's gone to the mattresses to fight these multi-trillion-dollar companies. Personally, I dote on billionaire-on-trillionaire violence.

Epic was wildly successful. It mopped up the floor with Google, securing an especially punitive award from a judge who was furious that Google had destroyed evidence:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/12/im-feeling-lucky/#hugger-mugger

Epic also won against Apple, though not as thoroughly as it had with Google, because Apple had the commonsense not to get up to the kind of shenanigans that make federal judges very, very mad. In the Google case, the court found that Google had acted as a monopolist and ordered it to open up the payment system in Google Play, a direct blow to the Android app tax.

In the Apple case, the judge did not find that Google had acted as a monopolist, but did rule that the App Store's payment processing racket violated the law, and ordered Apple to end its own app tax:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/epic-games-just-scored-a-major-win-against-apple/

That's where things get gnarly. Apple is addicted to corrupt sources of income – like the tens of billions it illegally receives every year in bribes from Google make it the default search:

https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-search-engine-verdict-apple-319a61f20fb11510097845a30abaefd8

And it really, really loves the app tax. When the EU ordered Apple to allow third-party app stores (as a way of killing the app tax), the company cooked up a malicious compliance plan that was comically corrupt:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/#dma

So, the mere fact that a federal judge had ordered Apple to open up its app store to competing payment processors was not going convince Apple to actually do it. Instead, Apple cooked up a set of rules for third-party payment processing that would make it more costly to use someone else's payments, piling up a mountain of junk fees and using scare screens and other deceptive warnings to discourage users from making payments through a rival system:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied

That's the kind of thing that is apt to make a federal judge angry – and, as noted, angry federal judges can make life very hard for tech monopolists, a lesson Google learned when it destroyed key evidence in its Epic case. But Apple didn't just flout the court order – they lied about it to cover it up, and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is furious. She held that Alex Roman, Apple's Vice-President of Finance, "outright lied under oath," and she has raised the possibility of criminal contempt penalties for Apple:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/05/01/pacer_epic_vs_apple_injunction_judgement.pdf

The judge further wrote:

This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order. Time is of the essence. The Court will not tolerate further delays. As previously ordered, Apple will not impede competition. The Court enjoins Apple from implementing its new anticompetitive acts to avoid compliance with the Injunction. Effective immediately Apple will no longer impede developers’ ability to communicate with users nor will they levy or impose a new commission on off-app purchases

In other words, any junk fees, any impediments to opening up third party payments, will be switfly and harshly dealt with. As of right now developers can start to build third-party payments into their apps and Apple cannot block them. It's the end of the app tax, a source of about $100b/year for Apple:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/apple_epic_lies_possible_crime/

The world is on fire and everything is terrible, but we are also living through the most consequential season in the history of the war on corporate tech power. Google has been convicted three times of being a monopolist and is almost certainly going to have to sell off Chrome, most of its ad-tech stack, and possibly Android. Meta just put up a pathetic showing in an equally serious antitrust case that could see it forced to sell off Instagram and Whatsapp:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/11/it-is-better-to-buy/#than-to-compete

Countries around the world have passed big, sweeping, muscular antitrust laws specifically aimed at smashing corporate tech power, like the EU's Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act:

https://www.eff.org/pages/adoption-dsadma-notre-analyse

Most importantly, all of this is happening from the bottom up. There is no dark money campaign to fuck up the tech companies. The politicians and enforcers who are taking on Big Tech are being shoved from behind by billions of everyday people who are furious and refuse to take it any longer:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/10/solidarity-forever-2/#oligarchism

I am deeply grateful for the public servants who have championed this cause, but I also know that these people are the effect of our movement, not the cause. When Kier Starmer fires Britain's brilliant and effective top competition enforcer and replaces him with the former head of Amazon UK, that does nothing to tamp down the political outrage that Britons feel towards America's tech giants:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/autocrats-of-trade/#dingo-babysitter

All over the world, countries that passed IP laws to protect US tech interests in exchange for tariff-free access to US markets are grappling with the end of free trade with America. This represents a generational opportunity to pass laws that enable local technologists to jailbreak US tech exports and liberate their people from the extractive practices of Big Tech forever:

https://archive.is/CiBIz

There is nothing harder to stop than an idea whose time has come to pass.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/#its-the-coverup

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OKAY BESTIES, BUCKLE UP!

The first chapter of my S3 comic “Of Transformation And Liberation” (OTAL) is here to SLAY, and you can snag the PDF on my Patreon!

Still emotionally recovering from S2? This is your official sign to keep the trauma train rolling! For the low-low price of a Starbucks order (but way more fulfilling), drop $12 and get 77 PAGES of drama, trauma and Second Coming.

AND DON’T WORRY—I’m already cranking out Chapter 2 like a sleep-deprived gremlin. Weekly pages are dropping on Patreon *chef’s kiss*, so if you get hooked (no shame), I gotchu fam.

PSA FOR APPLE USERS: If you buy the PDF through the Patreon iOS app, Apple will tax you like it’s a Gucci belt. DON’T LET THEM FLEECE YOU and make your purchase using a web browser or the Android app

Go forth and stan responsibly!

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Reminder for all Patreon users:

New subscriptions made through the iOS app will include an additional 30% fee starting November 4

Creators can choose to either increase their prices for the iOS app or lose 30% more of their income on top of their existing Patreon fees which can range from 5% - 12%:

Creators will be automatically switched to Subscription Billing starting November 2024. Creators can postpone the change until November 2025 through the creator Settings > Billing

Additional Sources & Reading:

Patreon News: iOS in-app purchases FAQ

Patreon Support: Migrating to Subscription Billing FAQ

Patreon Support: How iOS in-app Purchases Work for Fans

Patreon Support: How in-app Purchases Work on Patreon

Patreon Support: Form to Submit Feedback regarding Apple iOS Changes [link sourced from this Patreon News article]

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Pokémon UNITE makes an appearance during the September 12 Apple Event

Pokémon UNITE is continuing to add new content, including new playable characters and in-game items, on a regular basis. Due to the game’s popularity on iOS devices, it was among the many app icons that were showcased during the Apple Event today: Blaziken Character Spotlight | Pokémon UNITE Blaziken is fired up to join the fight on Aeos Island on September 14! Get more UNITE details here:…