No Convergence of iOS & OS X

[Chris Kenny]

[Tim Wilson] “And we have Apple to thank for it. They very explicitly conspired with publishers to raise prices. This isn’t some shadow theory. I’ve read the emails and with a quick Google search, you can too. Raising prices was Steve’s explicit goal from the beginning. Again, not a shadow theory. He said so. That part is public even outside the DoJ’s filing. Look it up.”

The DoJ’s case against Apple is widely considered weak. There’s no need to invoke collusion to explain either why Apple would offer publishers a better deal than Amazon was — it’s the same deal Apple offers app developers, and Apple is less interested than Amazon in making money from content sales. Nor is there any need to invoke collusion to explain why publishers would all accept this deal and try to use it to impose similar terms on Amazon — you don’t nee to collude to decide to accept a better deal. Nor is there any clear reason why Apple would want ebooks to cost more.

The ‘collusion’ narrative makes little sense. As far as I can tell, the only thing Apple has done with respect to ebooks that is arguably anticompetitive is its ‘most favored nations’ clause, but this isn’t strictly related to high prices on the iBookstore.

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[Andrew Kimery]

[Jeremy Garchow] ”
Don’t worry, the internet will fix it.

https://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-57420950-243/kickstarter-project-aims-...”

Ah, god bless the internet.

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[Joseph Owens]

[Tim Wilson] “Not that they’re lying today (or then), but none of these guys are obligated to tell the whole truth. No disrespect intended but it’s more like they’re obligated NOT to tell the whole truth.”

There was a famous baroque Venetian politician who’s favourite epithet was something like,
“Non dico bugie, ma la veritá, non á tutti.” if you can forgive my written italian.

It sort of translates as “I never tell lies, but the truth is not for everyone to know.”

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Mark Suszko]

I have to chuckle at Apple Prognosticators because they remind me of the “Kremlinologists” at State, NSA, CIA, etc. who’s job was to use whatever ouija boards and other data sources they could find, to interpret what was on Moscow’s mind from moment to moment.

And only in the light of history, as some of those cold war records open up, do we see how far off some of those predictions were because the blank slate of a faceless giant organization is really a mirror, held up to the mind of the people trying to penetrate it. We tend to see what we want to see, and follow their logic by modeling it on our own.

[Mitch Ives]

[Andrew Richards] “If that means losing the bulky optical drive, good riddance. I’d rather have room for more storage or more battery. But I don’t think it is in any way suggestive the MBP line is being killed of. The question named the Air specifically, so Cook answered about the Air specifically.”

My crystal ball is all fogged up, but elsewhere yesterday someone was suggesting that the 17″ was on it’s way out. Apparently it only sold 500K units, which is considered too small for Apple. The 13″ MBP sold the most (over a million)… with the 15″ behind a bit…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Paul Dickin]

[Mitch Ives] “someone was suggesting that the 17″ was on it’s way out. Apparently it only sold 500K units, which is considered too small for Apple. The 13″ MBP sold the most (over a million)… with the 15″ behind a bit…”
Hi
Worse than that.
50,000 for the 17″ – the 500K figure was for the 15″…
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/23/apple-predicted-to-discontinue-17-inch-macbook-pro/

[Thomas Frank]

You guys realize that Apple or and Steve Jobs said certain things to make them believe the opposite?
So they can work away with compitition and make it a bigger surprise?

[Mitch Ives]

Thanks for correcting my typo… yes 50,000… which really is a small amount.

I can see them canceling it… too bad, that’s the size I always buy…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Tim Wilson]

[Mark Suszko] “I have to chuckle at Apple Prognosticators because they remind me of the “Kremlinologists” at State, NSA, CIA, etc. who’s job was to use whatever ouija boards and other data sources they could find, to interpret what was on Moscow’s mind from moment to moment.”

We’re all the equivalent of Kremlinologists re Apple, no? Applogolists? Certainly in this forum.

One of the fun things about watching this is that Apple has a habit of making EVERYONE wrong, no matter what they guessed about what was coming. I’m okay with that. It’s kind of comforting to find myself so wrong about so much, so often. All is right with the world.

I mean, seriously, what would happen if I was right any meaningful percentage of the time? What would my kids say? What would my wife say? The wheels would fall off my entire world.

Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou

[Herb Sevush]

[Tim Wilson] “I mean, seriously, what would happen if I was right any meaningful percentage of the time? What would my kids say? What would my wife say? The wheels would fall off my entire world.”

Beautiful.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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