Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…
What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
We work similarly to Alex, when it comes to tablets, our employees in back office and management get base model iPads, but the production gets single-app (or browser) Android tablets, and they are Samsung Galaxy Tab A series for $150 or so, because they will have a hard and short life, they are put in Otterbox or equivalent cases, but that doesn’t help, when they get dropped into a reactor.
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I’m currently rocking an iPhone 15 Pro Max. I’m debating if I wanna buy a new phone this year. I’m still happy with my phone, but my AppleCare runs out. My battery is good so far but I don’t wanna stick around long enough for it to get bad.
I’m going on vacation in October and it’s always fun to travel with a new phone….
I’ll probably wait for 2028, when the new designs have matured a bit. From the rumours I’ve see for the 17 range, I haven’t seen anything announced so far that would make me say it is worth upgrading a 14-16 series phone, if it is still working well.
The battery on my 13 Pro is still good (my daughter has had it for the last year) - her X died last year so I was “forced” to upgrade my phone and give her my old one; at least the pictures of our grandkids are no longer blurry! 
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That’s banana town!!! Living Leo’s wet dream though.
I had a big laugh when Jason told Leo it’s impossible for him not to buy the shiny new toy.
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(Sigh) I apologize to everyone who has to read my responses where I’m repeating myself from elsewhere.
The defense that Apple is not a monopoly is thin at best, especially if the lynch pin is that Google exists. Google has been found to be a monopoly, and clearly part of the remedy involves Android. Why would anyone believe that the same couldn’t happen to Apple? Monopoly isn’t just defined by the market, but how a company expands into other markets using the money get earned from the previous market. Apple’s expansion into entertainment, in the form of their TV shows and movies, could be seen this way.
Further, Alex always like to tout that Apple has 87% share with the “youth”. I’m not sure if that’s still accurate, but if we assume so - and define youth as ages 18-25, then that’s a market right there. And, not to put too fine a point on it, older people tend to pass away, so that percentage is unlikely to get lower absent any countering effect.
And let’s not forget that Apple has been found by a judge to be a liar., and that judgment has not been overturned or countered. That’s going to be damning in any examination of Apple executives on the stand, because all the attorney has to do is lead with it in questioning and close with it.
Apple has control over every aspect of the market for iOS (and iOS-derivatives, like iPadOS, tvOS, etc) - development, approval, pricing, delivery, revocation, etc. Regardless of whether or not you think this is acceptable - there is no denying it this aspect of the discussion. Can a prosecutor make a case that the monopoly is illegal - I think it’s possible, with a double-digit percentage of being probable.