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by Despegar 6y ago
The specifics of their business arrangements aren't relevant to my analogy.
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by Despegar 6y ago
I suspect that's an oversight by the App Review team.
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by Despegar 6y ago
Netflix counts as a "Reader" app. >>3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, access to pr
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by Despegar 6y ago
Protocol just updated their story with this paragraph: >Apple told me that its actual mistake was approving the app in the first place, when it didn't conform to its guidelines. Apple allows these kinds of client apps — where you ca
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by Despegar 6y ago
That's always been a rule but apps like Netflix count as "Reader" apps that are allowed to do that. >3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifical
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by Despegar 6y ago
Does the Walmart that has a McDonalds within their store need to charge themselves rent because McDonalds has to in order for it to be "fair"?
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by Despegar 6y ago
Distribution isn't free in any business. Spotify and the like might not be as profitable paying the 30/15%, but that's a Spotify problem not an Apple problem.
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by Despegar 6y ago
DHH is very good at marketing and the theatrics are part of their roll-out strategy. It's also coordinated with this story [1]. The screenshot he posted from Apple actually undermines the whole thread because it makes it clear why it w
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by Despegar 6y ago
There's basically nothing new here that couldn't have also been said on day one of the App Store in 2008. It's just the standard App Store grievance regurgitated to market their new product.
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by Despegar 6y ago
This antitrust case is the most straightforward one for prosecutors to win. It's been a long time coming and the FTC would have brought one during the Obama administration if they weren't so captured by the tech industry and Googl
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by Despegar 6y ago
It's been that way for the past 40 years or so, but I think that's starting to change.
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by Despegar 6y ago
>Google and Apple need to get their act together though, and just provide a contact tracing framework as part of the OS that is compatible That's exactly what they're doing.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Why haven't you gone public yet? Airbnb raising money from private equity who undoubtedly wants to loan-to-own them should have discredited the idea that staying private longer is better than being a public company.
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by Despegar 7y ago
That was also the period when NAND/DRAM prices were up. They've lowered the price after their costs have come down.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Households wouldn't feel like they have to save so much if they felt their economic situation wasn't so precarious. If their incomes were growing faster and they had more safety nets they'd be consuming more.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Household savings would be lower if governments take on more debt, but they insist on running surpluses. Germany in particular has kept wages for workers depressed as part of their "economic model". Germany should be cutting taxes
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by Despegar 7y ago
That's why Bernie needs to be elected so he can bring the neoliberal age to an end. Your career might be over by the time you're 45, but at least you'll have Medicare.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Of all the Big Tech antitrust scrutiny, this one seems like the most straightforward case.
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by Despegar 7y ago
This extremely poor misunderstanding of macroeconomics is likely to lead to the outcome you're supposedly trying to avoid.
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by Despegar 7y ago
And I really hate the moralizing as if the national economy needs to be run like a household budget.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>The German Saver knows better than most that inflation destroys savings. Yeah this is not the outcome Germany or the EU needs to worry about. It's experiencing Japanese deflation for 20 years. >This is a looming political issue
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by Despegar 7y ago
This is absurd in the context of Germany. They have a fetish with "fiscal responsibility". It'd be the natural inclination of every politician to cut back on deficits (and I imagine within a few years there'd be pressure
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by Despegar 7y ago
The crazy thing is that Germany is killing their own banks. They refuse to run fiscal deficits while at the same time they criticize the ECB for lowering rates and hurting the German Saver, when the German Saver is who would benefit if they
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by Despegar 7y ago
Huh? A few years ago Obama/Biden were considering what to do about the "entitlement crisis". The famed Simpson-Bowles commission (unsurprisingly they suggested cuts to Medicare and Social Security) [1]. Only Bernie Sanders an
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by Despegar 7y ago
>We took away your unions and safety net, but by golly, we'll protect your "dignity." Organized labor may not have been targeted explicitly like by Republicans, but Democrats haven't really been a friend to them eithe
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by Despegar 7y ago
That really just says it all doesn't it? It's basically an admission that the use of cross-platform frameworks is worse for customers/users, but they're going to ignore that to optimize for their own software engineering
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple really needs to start using the stick more with respect to the inferior-to-native cross-platform frameworks. I hope that's the strategy after SwiftUI matures.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>Imagine if someone comes along and takes away Google's search business? At this point, their results are such a trash fire it can't be that hard. This is not going to happen unless antitrust regulators deal with what reinforce
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by Despegar 7y ago
I think Pichai is Google's Ballmer, but I don't think that applies to Apple at all. The better comparison for Cook is Bob Iger.
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by Despegar 7y ago
I think the continued underestimation of Apple since Tim Cook became CEO really just comes down to this: people desperately want a Great Man to worship. Tim Cook isn't revered in that way like Steve Jobs was.

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