HatchedLake721

8 ms·

91.
by HatchedLake721 2y ago
Because companies chose to not be profitable and invest all their money into growth.
92.
by HatchedLake721 2y ago
?! Telegram is often praised here for their features that helped them to grow and made people keep using it. Something that Signal should consider doing. They have 900million monthly active users.
93.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Didn't https://www.glideapps.com famously start with Google Sheets backend?
94.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
This a worldwide phenomenon, nothing to do with American suburbs.
95.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
People who knew about it, hidden it and in result destroyed 700 lives deserve the book thrown at them.
96.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
I was looking at https://www.onedoclabs.com/pricing which says $0.005 per document, not page.
97.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Curious, with ~$0.005 per document, what volumes do you do that pricing becomes a no-go for you?
98.
British monarchy rocked by a bad Photoshop job(theverge.com)
5 points by HatchedLake721 3y ago|0 comments
99.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Apple makes both the hardware and software, it’s their device, hence they can do almost anything they want. Microsoft at the time provided only software and put legal and technical restrictions on PC manufacturer’s ability to uninstall Inte
100.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Why recreate device that died because less and less people wanted or needed it? There’s no demand for it in the market. We have “supercomputers” in our pockets or on our wrists, we don’t need another device to carry in our pockets.
101.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Until you need to scale horizontally and have more docker containers spin up
102.
Authy Is Sunsetting Its Desktop Authenticator Apps on March 19, 2024(macrumors.com)
1 points by HatchedLake721 3y ago|0 comments
103.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
> but starting charging us for IOPS if high I/O is an issue, AWS announced I/O Optimized just last year https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-au... > Also self host db
104.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
> iPhone 1 was the effectively the first mass market smartphone ... no? Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Palm, Nokia, Symbian, Maemo?
105.
Amazon abandons $1.4B deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot(theverge.com)
4 points by HatchedLake721 3y ago|0 comments
106.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Any interesting links or suggestions on critical thinking activities? Thanks!
107.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Possibly, but at the time Windows Phones were snappier and often had better hardware than Android. For me, developers played a huge part. There were a lot of popular and new apps missing in the windows store. Microsoft had to even co-fund a
108.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
And who played part in Windows Phone demise? Epic? Which never released the Unreal Engine for Windows Phone and now cries the loudest about the status quo. Or the 1000’s of developers who abandoned pre App Store distribution models in favor
109.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Yes, let’s teach one of the most successful companies in the world how to price their products and do business.
110.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
I mean the sellers side of the marketplace, not buyers. https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/store/revenue-share
111.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
It's ironic for you to call me "low-information consumer" and "shame me" when you don't even look further than the first Google result to Tim Sweeney's tweet. Epic Game Store is unprofitable and losing mon
112.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
And Epic admitted that 12% is unsustainable. The rest of your comment is baffling to me. I assume you're neither a shareholder or employee of Steam. But you count their money, you decide for them that their own money is pointless to th
113.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Because it's Apple's marketplace and Apple's customers. They spent billions on hardware, software, R&D, marketing and operations. Why would they give another business a free access to a billion of their customers? You wan
114.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
It doesn't matter if you personally agree or not how marketplaces monetize. It's up to the people who created these marketplaces to charge what they feel is fair and/or financially sustainable for the value they provide. If i
115.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
> like every other services ever Apple didn’t invent a marketplace. Please have a look how other online and offline marketplaces work and how they monetize access. You can look at anything from Salesforce, Shopify, to Microsoft, Epic Sto
116.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
There was side-loading on Symbian and Windows Mobile phones before iPhone and the App Store existed. You know what the experience was in one word? Shit. For both developers and consumers. Then comes Apple with amazing hardware, software and
117.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Doesn't matter where it's sent from, GDPR still applies. A legal business targeting people in the EU must still comply with GDPR, hence still have to tell you where they got your data and consent from. Personally since GDPR got in
118.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
It’s already the case with GDPR. (B2B spam is different) If you get a random sales/marketing email, you have the right to find out where they got your details from and where did they get your consent to email you.
119.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
BBC explains why it’s hard to overturn the convictions: The scale of the Post Office scandal means that there are no easy and quick solutions for the government. Ministers could advise the King to grant Royal Pardons, once reserved for the
120.
by HatchedLake721 3y ago
Came looking for new comments on this post, and couldn't find it. Any reason this dropped from front page with 232 points and 271 comments in 2 hours to page 3?

More ›