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by _qulr 6y ago
> Apple will never let them back on the AppStore. Apple's statement today: "We hope that we can work together again in the future". Also, Apple requested that Epic submit a new rule-compliant version of Fortnite. I think A
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by _qulr 6y ago
The case is not about closed platforms in general, it's about monopolistic behavior. In the US (the legal jurisdiction), Apple is the largest smartphone vendor by far, with ~50% market share. Epic is trying to show that Apple is abusin
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by _qulr 6y ago
The strategies on both sides are fairly obvious. On Apple's side, the strategy is to make an example of Epic, in order to dissuade other developers from becoming "rebels" too. It all depends on who ultimately wins the lawsuit
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by _qulr 6y ago
The iPhone is not a store. The App Store is a store. Epic wants to be on the iPhone, but not necessarily in the App Store. Ideally, Epic wants to run its own store on the iPhone. In any case, App Store is the only store in town, where the &
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by _qulr 6y ago
Epic's motion had several parts. The judge denied Epic's motion to be restored to the App Store. But the judge did grant a restraining order to prevent Apple from closing all of Epic's developer accounts. That was the retalia
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by _qulr 6y ago
The new Fortnite season 4, which should be very profitable, will not be available on iOS. Plus no new customers on iOS.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The app in question would presumably be denied by Apple. Why would you presume that? How would Apple even know? Many popular apps collect location data, and this is allowed on iOS. Once the location data has left the device and been tr
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by _qulr 6y ago
My feeling is that this whole situation is mostly going as Tim Sweeney intended. He was itching for a fight, wanted to sue Apple. The harsher that Apple retaliates, the better Epic's court case. Apple is playing right into his hands. D
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by _qulr 6y ago
"In the battle over the security and privacy of my phone, I am happy to pay a premium knowing that my information is safe and sound, and that it is not going to be sold to the highest bidder." Meanwhile, "Secret Service Bough
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The issue with deeper and deeper ad blocking technology is that you're going to end up putting more and more trust into your ad blocker. To be honest, I trust my ad blocker more than I trust Apple. This is not a joke. Remember tha
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The point is that you need to temper "ugh $thing is a turd!" when you're talking about fringe expectations I wouldn't call it a fringe expectation. uBlock Origin in safariextz format was quite popular for Safari, un
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by _qulr 6y ago
> People keep talking about the UI as being an important differentiator. But I don't believe that's true, because the UI of all major browsers is decent. UI is the differentiator of the Mac itself. Otherwise, why not just use W
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by _qulr 6y ago
NoScript and uBlock Origin will not be happening for Safari. The API is missing and won't be implemented. Safari does not have the same full API as Chrome or Firefox. Instead, Safari relies on a more limited, Apple-specific content blo
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by _qulr 6y ago
> For people blocking facebook I love that this is a category of people. (I'm one of them.)
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Why would Google have hosting everything on their domain be an end goal? To become the internet! Much like AOL was in the past, kind of like how Facebook is now. Each of the big tech corps is trying to set up a walled garden that you n
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by _qulr 6y ago
To me the key part is this: "Loads in the context of its origin when cryptographically signed by its publisher" Then it feels like a bit of misdirection to immediately pivot to "easy to share and usable without an internet co
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by _qulr 6y ago
2 things bother me about this proposal: https://web.dev/web-bundles/ 1) The use cases discussed by Google are largely offline. So how is this a "web" standard when it doesn't involve the web? If Google w
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by _qulr 6y ago
Are these "smart" TVs compliant with the GDPR, and if so, how?
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by _qulr 6y ago
I didn't say microtransactions weren't a thing. But clearly the App Store vastly expanded these practices. Pointing to Facebook just proves the point. Facebook is a walled garden, but does anyone think Facebook is a "healthy
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by _qulr 6y ago
Counterintuitively, the walled garden may make the problem worse. The App Store is a single target. It makes "discovery" easier for malware. Imagine if these apps had to get users the "old fashioned" way, one-by-one, wor
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by _qulr 6y ago
"For this reason, your Apple Developer Program membership will be terminated. This appeal decision is final, and any subsequent appeals you file will be closed without review." Just think about that. The developer can't even
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by _qulr 6y ago
The app is still in the store at the moment, which is even stranger. I know it can sometimes take hours for an app to propagate in the App Store after it's been released by the developer. No idea how it works for Apple pulling an app t
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by _qulr 6y ago
Before anyone starts speculating on what the developer did "wrong", keep in mind that the Mac developer Charlie Monroe was mistakenly flagged and then reinstated by Apple just a few weeks ago: http://blog.charliemonroe.
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by _qulr 6y ago
From the developer: Submitted a minor update for @AtticsApp after nearly two years on the App Store and @Apple has decided out of nowhere that I have been engaging in "a pattern of manipulative or misleading behavior" and has perm
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Apple terminated developer account for unstated fraud after minor app update(twitter.com)
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by _qulr 6y ago
I think this also assumes that the 2 major parties have coherent, consistent ideologies. On the contrary, it seems to me that each of them are fairly diverse coalitions with not a small number of fierce internal disagreements, who are force
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by _qulr 6y ago
I keep seeing "both sides". This whole schema seems to be based on the faulty assumption that there are only two sides. In the last US Presidential election, nearly half of eligible voters didn't vote for either of the 2 majo
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Random selection is important to know if your system actually improves anything, or if the results are only good because the input was good to begin with. Right, this is the scientific approach. You have to disprove the null hypothesis
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by _qulr 6y ago
Again, there's no such thing as a free developer account. Anyone with an Apple ID — which is not a developer account — can download Xcode from the App Store. However, this version of Xcode does not support prerelease versions such as i
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The developer tools are free for anyone with a free developer account. Developer accounts are not free. Of course $99 is not a problem for Epic or most game developers, but please be accurate.

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