Daily Tech News 17 January 2024

• Apple has unveiled its response to the Epic lawsuit that ended with the company being required to allow developers to use third-party payment providers. (MacRumors)
  
  Some notable features:
  
  1. Developers are only allowed to use third-party payment providers with the express written permission of Apple. Requests for permission may be filed by registered mail that must be sent and received on the sixth Sunday of any given month.
  
  2. When a user is redirected from the developer's application to an external website to process a payment, the application is required to warn in 40 point text that the user "will probably be devoured by wolves" upon leaving Apple's walled garden.
  
  3. Apple still insists on a 70% cut of any payment made by any means at any time, from anybody, to anybody. Bobby didn't forward Apple their cut, and Bobby's store burned down the next day. While he was in it. Don't be like Bobby.
  
  I am exaggerating only slightly.

• Nvidia's 4070 Super is in the hands of reviewers and it's not awful. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It would be a great card at $399.
  
  It costs $599.
  
  That's just the way the graphics card market is right now.
  
  Also, groceries.
  
  
  
• I'm not saying Microsoft's latest version of Outlook is spyware, but... (Proton)
  
  I mean, it says up front that it's going to share your data with Microsoft and 772 other companies. Would any self-respecting spy tell you that?
  
  And this time, I am not exaggerating.
  
  
  
• Google search really has gotten worse. (404 Media)
  
  Perverse incentives. The longer it takes you to find what you want, the more ads you are forced to scroll past.
  
  
  

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