Grustaf

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by Grustaf 3y ago
Shit or not, if new APIs require swift, it’s more of a practical question than an ideological one.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
This is objectively false. It's first and foremost an app development language. In fact this is a common complaint, that Apple pushes too many features that are specific to app development and now SwiftUI.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Honest question: what exactly did you expect when adopting a brand new language? Apple were explicit that they would make breaking changes. Besides, would you rather be stuck with Swift 1 forever? It was pretty meagre in retrospect.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I started using Swift right away in 2014 and worked on several large projects written in Swift 2, 3, 4. Of the three or four large migrations I had to perform, the worst one still took less than a day - unless your Swift 4 project is enormo
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Isn't the fact that the platform vendor very clearly promotes Swift and makes most new APIs swift only a "practical reason"?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
This is an interesting review about a great book. I was once holed up sick in the country side with no books left except Demons, and ended up reading it twice back to back. It is in some ways one of the darkest of his books, and one particu
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by Grustaf 3y ago
If you’re not a veteran wine drinker, which few adolescents are, then it takes real effort and dedication to get crazy drunk on wine. If you pass out it’s because you wanted to pass out. With distilled spirits, and especially cocktails, it’
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Yes but you can’t fault Apple for people freely choosing to use one app over another, especially when they do nothing at all to discourage whatsapp and the other third party alternatives.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Whatsapp is universally available as far as I know. If people choose not to use a universally available, free and secure alternative, it would seem that universality is not the main driving factor.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Has anyone ever claimed that iMessage is some kind of open network that anyone can build apps for? I think most people presume it's just as closed as the rest of iCloud. I don't know what the legal status of the protocol per se is
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I did ask for clarification, that's what the interrogation mark is for. But it seems that your argument is exactly as subtle and indirect as I proposed. It’s not that Apple are stopping or even discouraging you from using third-party c
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by Grustaf 3y ago
How exactly?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
The point is that I don’t care about doing these things specifically over SMS. I send photos, voice memos etc over apps like whatsapp. It wouldn’t improve my life one iota to be able to do that with some legacy protocol.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I never once wished I was able to do that, the only application for that would be to communicate with android users that for some reason refuse to use whatsapp, fb messages, telegram or any of the numerous cross platform that do that. Why w
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by Grustaf 3y ago
They have raised $16m, and I am very aware of who they are. I have talked extensively with both Eric and Brad. They are nice guys, but Beeper is definitely based on a delusion, Beeper Mini even more so. Some people said it was 4D chess, a b
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by Grustaf 3y ago
So because of a combination of social pressure, app inertia and that people let their chat ups run up lots of unread notifications, there are situations where it's inconvenient for some people to use Android phones in groups with iPhon
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by Grustaf 3y ago
That’s great for you, but none of that contradicts the fact that he is deluded. And also, they are not doing it for free, they have taken in and burnt millions of dollars of investor money.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Sure, there are all kinds of people in the world, but would that group represent more or leas than 1% of users?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
99% of people don’t care about what you call a “walled garden”. They have no more desire for that “freedom” than you yearn to install third-party firmware on your dishwasher. Go up to a random stranger and ask how much it would be worth to
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Sure, when it comes to things like pollution, or for Apple, child labour. But the broader industry is not harmed by Apple not releasing the Messages app for Android, that’s just silly.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
That is simply objectively false. They can’t make the experience any better than it is. In a mixed group, they have to resort to the greatest common denominator which is SMS/MSM. They literally can’t do anything else.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
So Americans hate the iMessage experience, but for some reason they refuse to use any of the numerous free alternatives? And that is Apple’s fault.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
> and if they don't want their service to be accessible to third-party clients, they are more than welcome to just not build such a service That is exactly what they did. Or rather didn’t. They haven’t sued beeper, or retaliated in
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by Grustaf 3y ago
That’s the thing, nobody is forced to buy an iphone.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
This only changes today. Until now they have used various workarounds to avoid this.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Yes, there is only the official app to send sms. Do you think anyone cares? Have you ever heard anyone yearn for a third party app to send texts?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Does their behaviour with beeper mini instill great confidence? Will you trust them with your credentials to all your chat apps?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Have you heard Eric talk about beeper? He genuinely believes that beeper is the future of message apps. He keeps saying that beeper is the only company that is completely focused on building a messaging app, and thats why they will win. He
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I’ve had iPhones for ten years and never once cared about RCS. Never even heard of it until recently, and I don’t think anyone I know has ever heard of it. It’s very very niche to care at all about it.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
If you do don’t like mms, don’t use it, there are tons of alternatives. I have half a dozen chat apps.

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