Christmas may have come and gone but there are still several pesky touch haunting Apple as it direct into 2024 .
( Look , you endeavor to occur up with a fresh vacation musical theme for a engineering science pillar . It ’s not loose . )
As we wind down 2023 , it ’s time to take a looking at Apple ’s problems head into 2024 . Because that ’s a affair that we do .
The Beeper saga
The David and Goliath story of Beeper Mini and Apple appeared to be winding down in the last weeks of 2023 . Beeper madea last - ditch effortto enable Android gimmick messages to seem in iMessage threads as aboriginal using jailbroken iPhones . It ’s very simple . You sign up with Beeper and they rent you a jailbroken for a monthly fee .
Sure , that will scale .
Given this honeyed root , you might have been excused for thinking we were done here , but now it looks like theU.S. government might get ask .
What ? What ’s next ? The authorities demand that fan - made episodes ofStar Trek Continuesbe made canyon in the main Star Trek universe ? Well , Beeper ’s argumentis that Apple ’s position in the U.S. is big enough to make it a de facto monopoly .
This might be true if Apple was a small caller . But they are n’t . They control more than 50 % of the US smartphone grocery store , and operate client into using Apple ’s prescribed app for texting …
It ’s not a terrible argument . And is being able to identify Android - substance abuser in your Message threads something you really need or need ? The Macalope does n’t .
The Apple Watch 9 ban
Last weekApple turned off the flow of Apple Watch9sas it faced an close at hand forbidding on the devices due to a ruling by the International Trade Commission that the blood oxygen sensor infringed on a patent held by Masimo .
Apple has said it hop-skip to get around the patent infringement by issuing a software update , but Masimo ’s chief executive officer seems to think it would have to be a magical software update that changes hardware since his party ’s patent is for both .
It was rather unexpected to see the airing of “ The Year Without An Apple Watch ” this holiday season , but if the Macalope had to guess , this issue will belike get resolved by Apple spray Masimo in the face with a hose that shoots cash alternatively of water . The Watches must flow .
EU and other governments
Like that kid in maths form who ’s always reminding the instructor he blank out to assign homework , the EU has been consistently on Apple ’s nerves about one thing or another for the last 5,000 years . The government of South Korea has also endeavor to keep up in the game but , let ’s face it , the EU has turned it into an art form .
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All these feat seem to be chipping away at things that matter to Apple – maintaining the non - steering provisions and keep back other app stores off iOS . But these are unlikely to significantly bear on regular users in any negative way at all . Quite the contrary . At any pace , the mode that Apple will enable these capabilities if it is indeed really force to , will probably be in the most grudging of terminal figure potential to deliver any business organization about a threat to the drug user experience moot .
So , while Apple would consider this a terrifying Ghost of Christmas Future , with the ignominious gown and bony fingerbreadth silently pointing at thing like USB C connecter , the rest of us consider it more of a jolly gun barrel - chested serviceman like the Ghost of Christmas Present or Titus Burgess .
Note for producers planning holiday yield for next class : Titus Burgess wouldnailit as the Ghost of Christmas Present .
Labor relations
It is a sad matter to have to say that Department of Labor coition will continue to be a trouble for the plenteous society in the world next yr . Not every problem faced by Apple can be solved by throwing money at it but this is plausibly one and it ’s a bad look on the company that it does n’t consider doing at least that .
Still , though , do n’t lease these ham - fistedly holiday - themed ghost spook you . Apple ’s assets manifestly outweigh its liabilities . Indeed , with problems like these , who needs concern ?
