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Another angle on this is how people are saying it's like, boy, if Pixelmator can't make it as an independent Mac software developer, how can anyone? Because they were so good at what they did. They were, again, award winning. They made amazing apps. Everybody loved them. And they can't survive as an independent company. And I don't think that's the case.

Another angle on this is how people are saying it's like, boy, if Pixelmator can't make it as an independent Mac software developer, how can anyone? Because they were so good at what they did. They were, again, award winning. They made amazing apps. Everybody loved them. And they can't survive as an independent company. And I don't think that's the case.

I think they could survive as an independent company. But when Apple comes knocking with a giant bag of money. If you want a giant bag of money, you take it. Like everyone has their price. I don't think Pixelmator was like, at least I hope, or if it was on the verge of like financial ruin, it was mismanaged because they made really good products with a not too big company.

I think they could survive as an independent company. But when Apple comes knocking with a giant bag of money. If you want a giant bag of money, you take it. Like everyone has their price. I don't think Pixelmator was like, at least I hope, or if it was on the verge of like financial ruin, it was mismanaged because they made really good products with a not too big company.

They should have been profitable and sustainable. I think they were profitable and sustainable. But Apple can solve that problem by showing up with a sufficiently large bag of money and saying, you know. So I don't think this is a condemnation of the Mac market.

They should have been profitable and sustainable. I think they were profitable and sustainable. But Apple can solve that problem by showing up with a sufficiently large bag of money and saying, you know. So I don't think this is a condemnation of the Mac market.

It's bad for the Mac market because I liked them being an independent company that caused Apple to have to compete and caused Adobe to have to compete and gave me an alternative to an Adobe subscription. I loved it when they were independent. So I feel for the people who are like, oh, that's one of our last great –

It's bad for the Mac market because I liked them being an independent company that caused Apple to have to compete and caused Adobe to have to compete and gave me an alternative to an Adobe subscription. I loved it when they were independent. So I feel for the people who are like, oh, that's one of our last great –

independent Mac software developers gone because they got absorbed by Apple that does suck but I don't think it says anything about the viability of making good software for the Mac I think if you make good apps like Pixelmator did and sell them on the Mac platform you can make money if you do so in a way that doesn't require like 10,000 engineers or whatever the hell Twitter used to have right so overall I think this is bad news it's bad news for me because I like Pixelmator Pro it's bad news for the Mac market

independent Mac software developers gone because they got absorbed by Apple that does suck but I don't think it says anything about the viability of making good software for the Mac I think if you make good apps like Pixelmator did and sell them on the Mac platform you can make money if you do so in a way that doesn't require like 10,000 engineers or whatever the hell Twitter used to have right so overall I think this is bad news it's bad news for me because I like Pixelmator Pro it's bad news for the Mac market

Because I took a great player off the table. It's bad news for Apple's awards because who are they going to give them to now, right? But maybe it's good news for a bunch of really good developers inside Pixelmator.

Because I took a great player off the table. It's bad news for Apple's awards because who are they going to give them to now, right? But maybe it's good news for a bunch of really good developers inside Pixelmator.

This is what we kept asking. What is Apple going to charge for that? They're like, oh, it's free for the first year, but now it's free for another year. And now it's like, yeah, we're part owners of the company. So I guess this will continue to be free. Like it's not like this is one way to resolve it. It's, you know, we keep saying like it's difficult for

This is what we kept asking. What is Apple going to charge for that? They're like, oh, it's free for the first year, but now it's free for another year. And now it's like, yeah, we're part owners of the company. So I guess this will continue to be free. Like it's not like this is one way to resolve it. It's, you know, we keep saying like it's difficult for

them to charge for this emergency type feature and we came up with all sorts of schemes and how they could like charge for it but retroactively after you've been saved right so they'll charge you at the time of using it but if you live through the thing you can send you a charge or something but it's like actually maybe we'll just invest 1.1 billion dollars and get a 20% stake in the satellite company and this is one of those situations kind of like tsmc and other things where it's like

them to charge for this emergency type feature and we came up with all sorts of schemes and how they could like charge for it but retroactively after you've been saved right so they'll charge you at the time of using it but if you live through the thing you can send you a charge or something but it's like actually maybe we'll just invest 1.1 billion dollars and get a 20% stake in the satellite company and this is one of those situations kind of like tsmc and other things where it's like

you can shop around for somebody who has a bunch of satellites circling the earth or around the earth if they're stationary. But anyway, there's not a lot that there's not a lot of options, right? There's, there's this, there's Starlink, I guess, like how many choices do you have? And if you're Apple and you want to essentially protect yourself from,

you can shop around for somebody who has a bunch of satellites circling the earth or around the earth if they're stationary. But anyway, there's not a lot that there's not a lot of options, right? There's, there's this, there's Starlink, I guess, like how many choices do you have? And if you're Apple and you want to essentially protect yourself from,

Both by making sure that you can continue to offer this feature on your product because there's a lot of iPhones out there. And so you need a significant amount of capacity potentially. So you want to say, we don't want to stop shipping this feature. We build it into our phones. We want to keep shipping the feature. You can sign a contract with them or something.

Both by making sure that you can continue to offer this feature on your product because there's a lot of iPhones out there. And so you need a significant amount of capacity potentially. So you want to say, we don't want to stop shipping this feature. We build it into our phones. We want to keep shipping the feature. You can sign a contract with them or something.