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by Gorbzel 6y ago
B/c in that case Apple would be doing what the haters erroneously claim they do now: making 100% arbitrary/capricious decisions when it comes to the App Store walled garden. As those of us who target iOS know, they're not tra
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by Gorbzel 6y ago
PWAs are terrible, but that debate has nothing on the real gem here: > ...Then why does Apple advertise its products using Google Ads? Congratulations, this cracks top 5 oddest Apple hater argument ever posted in this land of many of &#x
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by Gorbzel 6y ago
Come oooonnnnnn... Obligatory disclaimer for everyone else: IANYL. Mostly, because armchair lawyering on the internet is the worst. That said – sure, estoppel is absolutely an important part of the judicial/common law canon. It's
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by Gorbzel 6y ago
Actually, it very much is a valid reason. The hubris of those who believe other people should be forced to release their (not already subject to a copyleft license) work is the very antithesis of FOSS principles.
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Sure, keep your (likely crummy if you’re OK with Citrix as a primary use case) Windows and Android apps. The market will decide. Your comment is just on the user-hostile side of assuming it will prefer your technology choices.
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Nice writeup. Too many startups and founders out there w/ no idea about the industry. Thus, excuses of the type you mention ("sluggish, tech-averse, etc") predominate over critical evaluation of the extremely sticky and compl
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Put another way, it was doomed (good riddance). I've mentored aspiring entrepreneurs in the legal tech + services space for a number of years now and go out of my way to provide additional guidance (and some well intentioned ribbing) t
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
How odd, I was all prepared to come in and find other folks excited about callAsFunction. It seems rather straightforward, although I will admit Swift is my daily driver. Think most agree expressive syntax while minimizing boilerplate is at
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
The developers of Little Snitch have explicitly said they favor this move: >Using the Network Extension framework instead of an NKE very likely allows us to build a version of Little Snitch which requires no Kernel Extension at all. That
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Apple is not inserting itself as law enforcement, nor does your comment provide any justification as for why you think that'd be the case here. Now, I could point out that absent any rationale, your comment fails to make the conversati
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Why is Apple required to act as law enforcement? Moreso, even if they could, why as consumers and technicians should we want them to? HNers go on and on about big brother Cupertino all the time, but ooh some (well intentioned but misguided)
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Chris Lattner
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
False equivalence
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
The number of Apple haters on Hacker News is also really jarring indeed. One might accuse me of being the “apologist” you speak of (IDGAF), but if you’re correct we live in bubbles even here on HN, it’s much better and more honest if we don
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
While the article makes some good points, it conflates the variety of distinct components that comprise a truly sherlock-proof product/application/codebase. Better to build full native but rely on cross-platform architecture, desi
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Why does what seems likes every commenter / blogger on this site feel the need to write a think piece about how they no longer trust Apple and all those other times they weren't the one complaining? (Hint: they were.) It's al
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Apple can and should block this by fixing the bug allowing rotating provisioning profiles to bypass the three app limit. Nor do I expect they would or should try to "let this slide" due to the fear of antitrust investigation. Hack
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Unclear why one needs kiosks when the user's device is much more compelling. While there are some (very good) exceptions, many remain yesteryear's technology and meh to outright garbage UIX. The only reason is to maintain some loc
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Also a F/T developer on Apple platforms for about 10 years. Obligatory disclaimer been a fanboy (and called much worse things ) for much longer than a decade. More of the same, was also doing Java-based web dev until the iPad came out
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
You want $25/GB for your phone?
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Nope, your comment is just rationalization disguised as exasperated criticism. When a given product/technology just fundamentally doesn’t work, or even worse is a security nightmare, you don’t get to write it off as a risk that didn’t
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
Sad to see so much gaslighting regarding processor speed. Of course SoC performance matters! The Verge has already reported a Pixel 3a “feels noticeably slower” than a Pixel 3. For years Android devices have lagged Apple’s mobile offerings
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by Gorbzel 7y ago
> These are some of the nicest restaurants the average citizen can hope to afford to go to more than once in their lifetime. This is almost undoubtedly untrue. There are many independent or local restaurants in most regions that cost the
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by Gorbzel 8y ago
That'd be the best move here. If the author wants Apple to operate according to their (US-based) ideals in China, that's a perfectly valid argument to make. So make it. Instead, the author does some overly verbose and hot take dan
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by Gorbzel 8y ago
It's not his morality unless he works at Facebook.
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by Gorbzel 8y ago
Reporting as spam for Blue Oak
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by Gorbzel 8y ago
File a Radar.
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by Gorbzel 8y ago
Thank god one's civil liberties aren't dependent on whether or not you are convinced by them.
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by Gorbzel 8y ago
> You can’t do that on any modern smartphone with the UX most have come to expect of their devices. FTFY
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by Gorbzel 8y ago
This might be the stupidest rationalization ever posted on HN.

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