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by SllX 3y ago
I remember we learned this about mitochondria and chloroplasts in 10th Grade Biology back in my day, but I think if I quizzed anybody I went to high school with today it would be a coin flip as to whether they remembered that as part of the
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by SllX 3y ago
When you’re in SF, you can go to the Pier and there’s a little coffee shop near the entrance near the aquarium-Biscoff Coffee Corner—where they will serve you one with every coffee drink you buy, unprompted. In truth the coffee there ain’t
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by SllX 3y ago
Outside the EU? Looks like they make it incredibly easy to pay with no pre-verification, so yeah, probably a lot of refunds.
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by SllX 3y ago
A bad product isn’t going to build a new category. Windows tablets had a 20 year history in one form or another before the iPad walked in and put tablets on the map. If there’s a new product category to be had here, Humane aren’t the ones b
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by SllX 3y ago
> All small stuff that could be fixed up. That this could happen is one of the most underrated aspects of the original iPhone. In June 2007, the iPhone launched without a way to buy music on the phone and download it yourself, without co
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by SllX 3y ago
> Looking at it another way, what's the American competition for Microsoft? Computers: Apple and Google (Chromebooks are big in education). Server operating systems: various flavors of Linux, but I guess basically IBM since they bou
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by SllX 3y ago
Your cited reason is because it’s antisocial? That isn’t something that is under a sane government’s purview to regulate. If you want to build a case against car ownership or pervasive car ownership, there are better foundations on which to
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by SllX 3y ago
I kind of wanted an explanation too so I looked up the law, but to be honest it’s dense and beyond me. [1] It reads like an anti-circumvention law to me, but I’m not clear on what specifically in there would make it applicable to modified v
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by SllX 3y ago
What are they still running OS/2? (they probably are…)
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Bringing them into the system would only bring costs in line with existing costs now. It's not that construction labor and materials are overly expensive, it's that union construction labor, materials, permits, inspections, lobbyi
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by SllX 3y ago
If you're looking to get between Oakland and Alameda and San Francisco on that day and avoid this and other events, I rather enjoy and can recommend the Ferry. It's slower and more expensive but also more pleasant. Go without hurr
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by SllX 3y ago
> Who will deliver us from this meddlesome law? Only voters can. Directly. At the ballot box. So don’t hold your breath. Any other remedy wouldn’t really be legal nor legitimate because of the nature of ballot initiatives, particularly o
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by SllX 3y ago
Great. AAPL Services revenue for that time period was $68.42B. Apple also launched the Small Business Developer program that year reducing their cut for qualified businesses down to 15% after the first year of an active subscription (it’s s
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WhatsApp had a much bigger user base but was still a small startup with about 50 employees and was losing money. The scummy thing was the role Onavo played in Facebook identifying it as an acquisition target, but that’s not the same as ille
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by SllX 3y ago
For what time period?
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by SllX 3y ago
Nah. That little slice of their P&L also includes a lot more than App Store revenue. AppleCare, Apple Music/TV purchases, rentals and subscriptions, Books, Apple Pay fees, Google Search revenue and whatever else you can plausibly c
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by SllX 3y ago
> Facebook buying Instagram 100% should have been blocked On what grounds? Instagram was a small startup with about 30M users when Facebook proffered a deal. People legitimately thought they were overpaying at the time and while it was a
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by SllX 3y ago
No. Apple moved to USB PD on their notebooks starting in 2015 with the 12” MacBook and 2016 in their existing products. Most phone lines that would switch to USB-C hadn’t even fully made the transition yet. Bringing MagSafe back was just th
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by SllX 3y ago
True. Something I used to do is go to a bookstore and if there was some new book that seemed like it had an interesting idea, I would look in the ToC for the chapter named the same as the book and just read that. I never felt like I walked
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by SllX 3y ago
You can skip the book and watch the TED talk[1]. It’s been a very long time since I watched it and I recall liking it, but I was also a different person back then, and nothing about it struck me as needing a full book to flesh his ideas out
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Correct. Except the part about waiting for Apple to implement WebUSB because they’re not going to.
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So do I, but that doesn’t negate my original point: for almost every category of App that comes on a stock iPhone, you can replace it with a 3rd party alternative. The exceptions are: SMS, Settings, and the Phone app for the numbers tied to
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Most browsers don’t have a rendering engine unique to them. Apple made that a policy for iPhones and its derivatives, but a browser is more than its rendering engine.
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Good for Peloton. Fairly certain you still need to use their workout equipment, unless that changed. It’s a different business model.
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The DOJ can’t really force Apple to do anything here without a consent decree, and with the case they just filed I’ll be surprised if they even get that much. Although, who knows, maybe a New Jersey district court will be a friendlier juris
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by SllX 3y ago
So IIRC, you need the Apple TV to actually participate in the Fitness+ workouts, this is used to display them and as far as I know this hasn’t changed, but if it has, someone else can chime in and correct me. The Apple Watch itself has WiFi
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Yeah but browser ≠ rendering engine. I know they get conflated a lot in tech, but when I’m using e.g. Arc on my Macintosh, I’m not using Chrome despite using the same rendering engine.
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by SllX 3y ago
This was more of an issue early in the App Store’s history than later on. Apple’s relaxed on that a lot a long time ago and you can use any number of contacts, calendars, email clients, browsers, camera apps, messengers, maps apps and so on
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Yeah but that’s a separate paid service tied to specific hardware, not so much an iPhone feature as an Apple TV and Watch feature. Garmin can integrate into HealthKit as well as any other fitness tracker.
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Not really. Apple had to build out the system of entitlements and new APIs for the EU but the segregation goes through the App Store and Developer Program which run on policy, not code. It’s not that the EU version of Firefox wouldn’t work

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