Readit NewsAs a user, I just need stuff like this to be standard, and work for every participant regardless of what client they use.
My suggestion: https://threema.com/en/products/work (hosted) or https://zulip.com/ (OSS self-hosted).
When I open a meeting invote from someone else the first 1/3rd of the screen is occupied with "Prepare for your meeting" nonsense. The "insights" button just provides general knowledge akin to "read the documentation".
Solution: Add MCP to MS applications, then isolate Copilot to its own app.
And if you're suggesting Digital ID (EUDI style); showing ID at the store doesn't share metadata of that purchase with the government.
Revenue $32 B
Operating Costs $7 B [1]
Estimated Profit $25 B
Operating Margin ~78%
Apple could take just 7% cut and still make 20% profits.
Fun Fact: During the Epic trial, it was revealed that Apple's profit margins on the App Store were so high that even Apple's own executives were sometimes surprised by the internal financial reports.
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edit: There is no ideological argument for voluntary action here. The entire goal is to force regulators to step in. The debate over 'good vs. bad companies' is just online noise and rhetorical trik, no one on either side of the political spectrum wants these systems to be fixed voluntarily with corporate altruism.
Regulating the fees for one central app store is no solution.
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(The name "Obamacare" was applied by Republicans, because "Affordable Care Act" doesn't elicit knee-jerk negative feelings.)
If supporters have changed their minds about that, cool; they're entitled to. But I'd be interested in whether they have any opinions positive, negative, or otherwise.
What detestable is when dictators consider themselves a supreme leader of a country, like in North Korea and Iran, and they put up statues and portraits all over the place to mark the entire country as theirs.