You forgot the sarcasm tag.

Societies have always struggled with gender, it's just that only in the last few decades have we really started addressing it openly. The idea that gender was always "simple" and universally accepted is a myth. For most of history, the rules around who could hold power, make decisions, or even express emotions were heavily skewed by gender expectations.

Take leadership, for example, women were rarely allowed to rule, not because they were incapable, but because society deemed them "unfit" based on arbitrary beliefs. If a woman defied expectations too much, she was more likely to be institutionalized or even lobotomized, while the same behavior in men was often accepted or even celebrated. And when it came to female health, the uterus was treated like some mysterious, dangerous organ that could supposedly cause all kinds of psychological instability.

The truth is, gender norms weren't always "easy" or universally understood. They were just enforced without question until people finally started challenging them.

Yasuke was a real person.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fbiography%2FYasuke

It seems to me that the description of Linux pretty much applies to macOS as well. At least Windows offers implied backwards compatibilty.

And don't take my word for that, here is Slashdot's take on modern macOS:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F28%2F0634230%2Fapple-needs-a-snow-sequoia

>> I don't know the details of the arrangement between Microsoft and EA Games, and it probably isn't a full 30%, but I can pretty much guarantee you that Microsoft's Xbox store isn't providing those digital codes and download bandwidth for free.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2a.com%2Fbest-deals%2Flist%2Fxbox-one-game-codes-keys%3Fmsockid%3D11b838ad6357606733582b1d62286112
It's not just EA Games, and I can assure you that every store that is selling Xbox Game Keys isn't giving Microsoft 30% of each of their sales. And each different store can and will sell them at different prices, allowing for competition. (Your own comment was "Microsoft is phasing those out, at which point they will be taking a commission on every sale, and they're doing it so that they can take a commission on every sale.", you are trying to move the goal post, we are talking about commission on every sale, and not if they deserve any fee. And no, no one claiming Apple should be doing this stuff for free. You have to pay Apple $100/yr to be in the App Store)

>> The iPhone is sold as a device for running apps.

They haven't done that for a long time. They show that the iPhone is now much more than just running apps, and with more and more people only using their smartphones as their only computer, the whole way the smartphone OS's have to be handled by law is changing. This is like claiming Standard Oil shouldn't have been broken up because gas/petrol is only sold as fuel vehicles and there are other types of vehicles/modes of transportation.

>> Consumers buy apps from third parties to run on the iPhone.

Ok, show me these third parties that consumers can buy apps from. I've shown you Amazon, and now g2a.com, I could also add Walmart and at least a dozen others. These third parties can and do all charge different prices which helps foster competition and a more robust market. Apple is trying to prevent that.

>> Again, marketing has nothing to do with antitrust except as an additional illegal act that can contribute to an attempt to monopolize.

Again, you are trying to move to goal post here. The Apple TV was to show that devices that are designed and sold as limited usage devices aren't going to be viewed the same way as a "Do everything" device. You are now trying to turn this into a debate strictly about marketing. Niche devices that are designed for niche markets won't be viewed the same as markets that aren't niche. The iPhone isn't a niche market, as a computer like device is becoming a needed in the modern world (like how most would say Internet access has become a necessary, and these go hand in hand.)

Most places don't accept AmEx because their merchant fees are over twice anyone else (last time I dealt with them).

>> Only if your Xbox has an optical drive and supports optical drives.

Wrong again, right out the door.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEA-SPORTS-FC-25-STANDARD%2Fdp%2FB0DG427QJ6
One of many different places, that sell for different prices, that MS doesn't get a percentage cut from the seller.

>> Of course, ultimately, the impact on commerce is still mostly the same whether you're talking about a device that only plays games or a device that you use for other things, so while from a consumer perspective, the harm is greater from Apple doing it, the harm to the free market is similar, just at a smaller scale.

No, again, it's how they are marketed and advertised. You keep wanting to compare two very different things and somehow want them to be the same. They aren't. It doesn't matter how from a consumers perspective, or how ever you want to rephrase it. These aren't the same. Apple's marketing killed that option, you can't say X and then claim that it's not X at the same time. It's like asking how come my car drivers license doesn't allow me to fly a plane, both get me from A to B. These aren't the same, and never will, no matter how you try to rephrase it.

>> No one is batting an eye about Apple TV because it is a niche platform that almost nobody actually uses, which means it doesn't cost anybody enough money to sue over. Apple has a single-digit percentage of the connected smart TV market, behind Amazon, Roku, and Google.

No, it's because it's not being marketed as a do all, but privately not do all.

Turbo coding in Swift.

>> this is an area when GenAI could go a long way to enhancing that.

GenAI isn't ready for this yet. The last time Rockstar tried it was with GTA 3 Remaster, and we saw how that went. And yes, that was a while ago, but then there is the Quake 2 AI demo that showed what could be, but that will be years away, and the first games that do use it will most likely not being a crowning game like GTA6 that could crash and burn hard if/when it fails in real world settings. (I also don't think the newest Xbox/PS5 would have the power to handle that, and trying to offload it online with something like ChatGPT servers wouldn't be a reasonable expectation as sign-in servers already crash when a new popular game comes out. This wouldn't be even in the same league of expectations.)

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcopilot.microsoft.com%2Fwham%3Ffeatures%3Dlabs-wham-enabled Quake 2 AI

UnionPay is Chinese, and JCB is Japanese. These aren't American.

You mean like American Express, Discover, UnionPay, and JCB?

Not really, as from the article: "Most of Apple’s devices are assembled in the country, and investors are closely watching its efforts to shift final assembly of devices bound for the U.S. to India and other countries."

So India and Vietnam will do the final assembly of the devices. But I'm guessing from how this is worded that everything is still built in China, and then many the last minute gluing together/boxing up the device will be done in India/Vietnam so it can avoid the tariffs.

>> 2. It does not steal intellectual property that is of high importance to the United States as China has done.

Literally three days ago: The US on Tuesday again placed India on its 'priority watch list' stating that New Delhi remains one of the world's most challenging major economies with respect to protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.business-standard.com%2Fexternal-affairs-defence-security%2Fnews%2Fus-retains-india-on-priority-watch-list-over-ip-rights-enforcement-concerns-125042900780_1.html

"There's an app for that" defeated that agreement.

"Microsoft takes commission off of every sale, why can't Apple take?"

No they don't. Right out the gate, you are wrong.

I can buy Xbox games from Walmart, BestBuy, Amazon, GameStop, etc... And Microsoft doesn't get a percentage of that sale. This allows choice and price differences in the Xbox market, as the store selling the game box can set their own price. If a store sells an Xbox game for $40 or $400, they don't have to give Microsoft a percentage of the sale. These aren't the same thing, not matter how hard you want them to be.

Then there is the basic fact that Microsoft markets the Xbox as a very limited device, but Apple has done the opposite and marketed as a 'do all" device" ("There's an app for that', "Whats a PC?"). Again, this shows these are two very different matters.

This is why no one is batting an eye about Apple's control on Apple TV, because it's marketed and sold as a limited function device.

Ok, what does that that have to do with anything about any of this?

This isn't an issue with them saying Google shouldn't be dealing with issues/punishments about it's AdSense monopoly. No one is really complaining about that here. This is about why should the AdSense issue be dealt with by Google selling off Chrome, which has nothing to do with AdSense.

In your own example you made a comparison to Microsoft and Edge and Bing. This would be looking at that and saying "Ok, MS as punishment for this, you must sell off XBox." This don't help with the problem, and it really just hurts a completely different, and unrelated, market. (I'm sure that Sony and Nintendo would love it though. Which is in line with the point of them making of how Apple would love the Chrome selloff, because it takes out a competitor in a different market).

And if Google does have to sell off Chrome, how will that help deal with/prevent their AdSense monopoly? I don't see how it would do anything as these are, again, two completely and unrelated markets.