JAlexoid

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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Replace it with iMessage then.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
You're stretching the term "same" to mean "new products created for a different use case". (5G is a net loss to a consumer, because you need to buy a new phone to access "same" product.) Same products are
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Yes, commercial games have been a race to the bottom for a long time. In spaces where casual gaming dominates - exploitative games are top of the "charts". I'm not an enthusiast gamer - I don't have time to search for in
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
So what you're saying is that consumers aren't loosing access to games at all. They aren't forced to choose one to the exclusion of the other. Other consoles aren't forced out of the market. And other console manufacture
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Which is not the argument that you originally posted. You repeated an old cliche(which is false) and now you moved goalposts. PS: I've tried to run multiple Windows apps that wouldn't run on Windows 11. I have an older In System P
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
That is factually untrue. https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/xbox-phil-spencer-bethesda...
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Commercial games aren't made to make everyone happy. No game release is a "positive for everyone" and never will be. I can equally argue that my neighbor baking bread is not positive for me, because I don't get to eat it
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
And they don't have to spend billions on building and maintaining their own platform.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
What does this have to do with competition? Console platforms have not competed for games to be on their platforms for.... ever.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
IP laws already prohibit competition. There is only one maker of Diablo, and no Torchlight is going to replace Diablo. Games aren't going to get pulled from other platforms. New games may not come out on (insert-your-preffered-console)
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
I don't know about you, but I have to tinker with Windows way more than I have to with Ubuntu. My terminal usage on MacOSX and Ubuntu is equal - only running git commands and AWS CLI. And I play Steam games on my Ubuntu Thinkpad P1.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
No. It's not. Apple is not obligated to invest into building Apple Music app on Android or Windows. Just because Apple tied Apple Music into their own ecosystem, doesn't mean you are owed anything.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Passion projects cannot be described as "loss making". When passion projects become "loss making", then people loose their passion for it.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
And you weren't aware of the potential risks of a closed ecosystem before? It's not like you bought into an open ecosystem, but now they closed it off.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Consumers loose literally nothing from Microsoft's acquisition of Activision/Blizzard.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
It's already a race to the bottom. It has been for a while. Don't blame mobile games - they got those exploitative ideas from PC market. The upside of a PC market, is the lack of a centralized authority to tell you what games are
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Not really. It's only an issue if this negatively. affects the competitive market. And since games are a creative market - there's hardly any reason to fear that Microsoft can restrict access to new players. This is not like a uti
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
I don't think they will. There's no point. There is a stable duopoly, where Microsoft can reap the benefits of competition between the two, without wasting any resources. May not be best for consumer - really great for business. (
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
I sell some nick-nacks on Amazon and eBay. Considering how much eBay charges for less - Amazon's eCom is not going to fold, if AWS was separated.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
If they don't get an idealistic visionary, they will probably just follow the best course for doing business - serving as many people as possible.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Microsoft isn't Apple, they have been much more open as of late. I doubt that existing franchises will become exclusive.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Extending laws to apply to all in the market is not "favoring local entrepreneurs".
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> You mean EU politicians decided. And it was an abusive decision which hurts more than helps. I want the right to use my data as I see fit, including exchange it for "free" services and products. Did someone ban it? Last I che
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
It's called hypoerbole and kmix's position is laughable. No one is banning ads, targeted ads or data collection.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
The primary reason to collect personal data is retargeting, which is a massive waste of money. (Have you ever heard of the game theory?) Google(search) and YouTube Ads rely on content you're being served to actually target ads, that&#
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
That's unfair assessment. While I find it hard to believe that European countries are that much more privacy focused... the reason for the divide is that European countries, in or outside of EU, have stricter rules on user data... and
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Do we start with a handshake then?
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
My Verizon Router resets and defaults to it. (Oh.... and it resets randomly...)
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
That's 100% what people are missing. I lived in NYC till 2021. It's a global city, unlike SF, where COVID hit early and hard. It's a highly concentrated city as well, that few other places can rival. It's not a car town,
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
It's inherently unlibertarian to reject unions.

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