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Captainant

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  1. Apple is gonna get its peepee whacked pretty hardfor acting in bad faith with the courts. Their business model relies on the revenue stream from the captive transaction processing on their platform, it'll be interesting to see how this shakes out through appeals https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-violated-injunction-antitrust-case-judge-finds/ Although Gonzalez Rogers had rejected the monopoly claims, she ordered Apple to lower the barriers protecting its previously exclusive payment system for in-app digital transactions and allow developers to display links to alternative options. The Supreme Court rejected Apple's appeal in the case in January 2024. "In stark contrast to Apple's initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option," the judge wrote on Wednesday. She accused Apple's vice-president of finance Alex Roman of "outright" lying under oath. "Internally, (longtime Apple executive) Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the injunction, but (CEO) Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly," Gonzalez Rogers wrote. The judge referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.
  2. This is predatory against idiot executives who don't know how genAI technology works but they're staking their market positioning on it
  3. Along those lines, Sabrina Carpenter showing up in ads with the Empire is pretty funny
  4. The supreme Court that presides over our entire court system was certainly receptive to Trump's bullshit. They made him untouchable
  5. It's two parts: antitrust suit is reactive, and the data privacy is proactive
  6. True to form, DOJ is about a decade late to the party to prevent the actual market harms. Much of the erosion of our fundamental privacy has been driven by their need for user data to enable finer and finer microtargetted ads. Goddamn we need a US GDPR so badly
  7. And yet, the entire legal profession takes him at his world and treat his words as serious, even when it's clearly a lie. Thats how we got into this mess
  8. He's just gonna keep repeating #bothsides like he did in the article
  9. Man your dad is missing out if he doesn't like Halal Guys. A gyro sandwich with jalapenos added is 10/10
  10. Moving this to a different thread - crazy timing but Jeff Gerstmann just happened to already have a podcast lined up with VGBees. He talks pretty in depth about what's going on, from his perspective.
  11. I wonder if she's going to end up being a sleeper agent, along the lines of Ysanne Isard's antics in the old Rogue Squadron book series. Thematically it would line up, right down to a loved one being forced to put them down
  12. Not sure if serious - Ryan Hall (yall) would be a semi-competent hire, so I doubt you
  13. Journalism was co-opted by the infinite growth movement. It doesn't lend itself well to a financialized model, there's better profit margins in just advertising without actually doing any original journalism. When Sinclair bought up all the terrestrial TV news channels a decade ago or so it was the harbinger of what was to come: consolidation and profit extraction in journalism in general. Just as happens in every other industry. Gotta pay back those investors that bought your company and then transfered that debt into the company they bought!
  14. Jeff Gertsmann is still a threat. And Jeff Grubb too. It sucks that for all his effort the corporate overseers still killed GB. Jan Ochoa is an absolute badass too, I hope he lands on his feet. Giant bomb really had something special with their live studio production quality and the level the write and discussed at. There's still Nextlander and reMap with a bunch of the OGs that left over the years, if you yearn for GenX and millennial editorial on games
  15. [Wulaw]You can never trust those goddamn liars at the jobs report desk! They're all market manipulators trying to hurt my quota!!! They're just gonna revise down in a couple weeks!!!!!![/horn]
  16. When the Astros won the 2017 World Series we knew about 60 seconds before we saw it, because the Little Woodrows down the block was going fucking ballistic
  17. negative, ghost rider. The replies had the original photo
  18. In the ongoing clown fiesta that is Luigi's trial, a prosecutor has recused himself after one of his paralegals listened in to a call between Mangione and his attorneys. https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-prosecutor-recused-2066624 They got their hand caught in the cookie jar
  19. If yall have not yet been watching the "Andor Declassified" behind the scenes videos they've been making, you're missing out. They also leave some nice little hints for what's to come, Gilroy calls Tarkin's incident a "mini-massacre" which certainly indicates a much larger event that is soon to come. They said that Palmo is somewhat designed after Italy, but that set is incredible. It's all real food and each of the shops and cafes and hotels are actual real sets all built into one giant toybox. It will burn brightly.
  20. Pretty cool docu-flick about the making of the John Wick movies - loads of behind the scenes and stunt footage
  21. Yikes - tariffs continue to send their regards, nearly a 20% price bump across the board. https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-raises-the-price-of-all-xbox-series-consoles-xbox-games-confirmed-to-hit-80-this-holiday
  22. Phone companies literally make a profit every time you get a scam call. They sell their phone number spoofing service as a business feature so that outbound calls from an office can all show the same number. But they don't give a single flying fuck about guardrails or governance on using that feature unless a court tells them to do so. So many of our social problems are induced by private interests making public things shittier for their private gain
  23. There's quite a lot of being able to dish it but not take it from the trumpers. I've been looking at "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" flags goddamn EVERYWHERE for the better part of a decade now, they're really sowing the wind in terms of community
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