Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple is Trolling All of Us”.
Sometimes you choose the tech news and sometimes the tech news barges into your room and throws you into an unmarked SUV, and today was the second one for me. Apple finally addressed the question of what its compliance with the eu’s digital markets act. Rules will look like, and the answer is malicious. I was hoping it would be delicious, but we close, I mean it sounds good at first Apple announced that iOS will support third-party app stores. They call them marketplaces as well as third party payment systems and browser engines. Other than webkit, so you can actually use a browser that isn’t just Safari covered in chrome spray paint. But then you realize these delicious treats are only coming to the EU, because they’re actually really dangerous and you’re, not sure you want them anymore, anyways, because you think you saw Apple spit on them before handing them out alternative. App marketplaces must be authorized by Apple and all the apps that they host must be notorized. A perfectly dystopian sounding appal ISM for reviewed by Bots and humans prepare to be notorized, while many are repeating claims that iOS will support side loading installing Standalone app packages outside of any app store like you can do on Android Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
It won’t support that and it only gets Wilder in order for developers to distribute their apps on alternative app marketplaces or even use third-party payment processes. They need to accept the new business terms. This is the new business now get used to it. That includes paying a lower 10 % cut of the App Store revenue or 177 % for digital goods and services, plus an extra 3 % to use Apple’s own payment system, which will also spare users from the popup warning them that they may be about to hand Over their savings to a Nigerian prince, if they don’t use the right one, but the new terms also include Apple’s own version of unity’s scandalous per install fee from last year, once an app Hits, 1 million installs, its devs will have to pay a core technology fee Or CTF of50 for every new user who installs it annually, as in the app can be reinstalled by the same user for no charge for 12 months for some devs, this could see apple, taking something like a 60 % cut of their app Revenue.
Now, if you think crossing your fingers and hoping that your app doesn’t get too popular, sounds kind of stressful developers can always stick with the current business terms and swear off the cool new stuff. They could also Target iPad OS where first installs won’t trigger the CTF. Apparently, developers of app marketplaces, however, will have to pay the CTF every time the Marketplace app is installed, including the first million they’ll also have to get a letter of credit from an a-rated financial institution of a million EUR altogether.
The deal doesn’t sound too too good and in their explainers apple is making it clear. That’S by Design the company explained that it’s only making the new features available in the EU, because they’re actually super dangerous and in the EU they can take that weird. We’Re soft and vulnerable, I mean the app store’s harsh protections blocked $ 2 billion worth of fraudulent transactions in 2022. The same amount that Google blocked in the same year on the far less restrictive Play Store, but there’s way more Android phones in the world and they’re way harder to use for babies. The argument is confusing, but Apple did announce.
One thing that appears to be just straight up: good news game streaming: platforms like nvidia’s GeForce now and Xbox cloud gaming can now submit a single IOS app with the capability to stream their entire library of games, which is again how things already worked on other operating Systems, but not on the minimalist Fisher Price of phone os’s, your minimalist baby will love. It Apple previously wanted Nvidia and Microsoft to create an app store listing for every individual game in their streaming. Cataloges a request. The two Tech Giants responded to with interestingly GeForce now was the only way to play fortnite on iOS, since epic games removed it in 2020, when it started its whole App Store, mud fight with apple, but now that iOS will support thirdparty, app stores, epic games plans To finally launch the epic game store and fortnite on iPhone, even though epic boss, Tim Sweeney, thinks the new rules are quote hot garbage, whether they actually go through with that launch also depends on whether Apple authorizes.
Their upcoming app Marketplace, which I have a feeling, is somewhat unlikely. As long as Sweeney keeps characterizing Apple’s announcements, as a quote, horror show Tim Cook expects some level of decorum here. I do not suffer impudence from WI Jing, verman guards. Now it’s time for quick bits brought to you by manscaped, if you’re feeling a little overgrown trim your Hedges, the manly way with manscapes lawnmower 5.0, its trimmer blade and foil blade are interchangeable, letting you choose between buzzcut, bald or Mr Clean bald and to navigate through Those more voluminous spots, the lawnmower 5.0 – even comes with an LED light, so you can see right through the Shrubbery.
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That’S kind of creepy right, I’m still here, users of beeper Cloud, the service that lets you route iMessages to your Android phone through your Mac computer reported earlier this week. That Apple was blocking them from using iMessage even on their Macs, which were flagged for spam because, while Apple values, the user experience above all their other core tenant is nauy. Children must be punished after the New York Times reported on the issue and reached out to Apple Apple, did not respond to the New York Times, but suddenly started unbanning these users. For now, beeper has disabled beeper Cloud functionality anyways, while they apparently try to find yet another workaround. I don’t know if Apple’s compliance with the dma is any indication you might just have to get your mom and iPhone. I just thousands of users reported that Microsoft teams was down today, including many users from our own office, tragically blocking us from posting in the companywide short joke group chat, that is our com system.
Like a kebler out, I swear we’re a real company down. Detector reported nearly 15 ,000 outages as of noon. Pacific Time, Microsoft gave a vague statement on Twitter, acknowledging the problem and blaming it on a nonspecific networking issue. Rats got into the pipes, notably this outage comes less than a week after Microsoft disclosed an attack from a Russian sponsored hacker and underrated.
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So if you’re for in Florida, maybe now’s the time to become a LinkedIn influencer, it’s it’s going to be the hot new thing. Business. Google has released a research paper and a demo video for lumere something they’re calling a space-time diffusion model, which sounds like a teleporter that turns users into a fine Mist, but is actually an impressive text to video and imageo video generation tool. The output is surprisingly realistic and smooth compared to past attempts at AI video generation and just look at these animals with the correct number of eyes and limbs wow and these raccoons reading hovering books. Try it out be your guest Lumiere even has the ability to take the style from a reference image and incorporate it in a new video, as well as alter existing footage like this horrifying woman, flower homunculus, the future is bright and meta’s reality. Labs has created a way of allowing VR users, as well as virtual characters and experiences to appear to manipulate realworld objects. They demonstrated this concept in a video where a thankfully fake hidious monkey peanut monster thing grabs a very real drink, cart and throws it down the stairs before escaping Justice by taking the elevator, the user. In that scenario was moving real slow, they could have gotone it now.
In reality, the VR program creates a virtual double of the object and simultaneously erases the original from sight. It’S super cool though it’s feels like. Maybe they should be working on other things like how to get the quest 3’s pass through mode to work on a plane or even when you just decide to stand up or go downstairs, The Vision Pro can do it meta Honestly, though, check the video out for Yourself just be prepared for the nude minions streaking through the frame at 3 minutes and 45 seconds. I just if you’re not into that, maybe avoid and don’t break your streak ha come back on Monday for more Tech, nudes, no news, they’re, not nudes, no .