What a click-bait headline. The title suggests Apple was involved in a large effort to silence the negative coverage. The article lists only one instance where they asked the website to pull down the video because it infringes copyright! The article is still up, right?
Also, do people really believe that Apple makes their billions by selling dongles?
"Sign In with Apple" is top post right now so I should I have figured this would not get much traction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Link to the original reporting, instead of some other web site re-writing someone else's work:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/05/apple_stand_copyrig...
One of the many reasons I will not buy Apple. You're buying the brand, the name, not actual quality.
I dont know what the exact percent is, but you're paying a significant markup on hardware for Apple vs, say a Dell, for the same hardware. Yeah, OS X is BSD based, but Dell will sell you the equivalent hardware for about half the price and guarantee it works with Linux (with support).
I'm not a Dell fan, despite most of my prior purchases being Dell, but they dont do an insane markup on Linux installs.
Tangent: I've also seen devs work on Macs have their code fail when dployed because they assume OS X is nix and Linux is nix not recognizong that by default, the MacFS is case insensitive, like Windows, but Linux is case sensitive by default.
Is it really ridiculously priced though? As if such a price is unheard of. A bang & olufsen TV starts at around $1000, and can easily be $2000.
I think it is pricy but not when compared to the kind of things apple likes to compare themselves with.
Their watch is expensive, but not compared with a Rolex.
The WWDC2019 video literally starts with the text:
"All Rights Reserved. This Broadcast and its contents are the sole property of Apple and are protected by Federal Law and International treaties. You are strictly prohibited from making a copy or modification of, or from rebroadcasting, or re-encoding, this broadcast without the prior written permission from Apple Public Relations, excepts as may be permitted by law."
The whole video is published on YouTube, they could have just linked to the timestamp of the official video on there or on Apples own website.
This was such a monumental marketing fail. If they had just said the price of the monitor was $7000 none of the target audience would have blinked.
Then when it went on sale, they could have quietly added in their configuration when you buy it: