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by _qulr 6y ago
Please check the App Store before you make obviously false and easily refutable assertions.
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This feels to me like Apple creating a convenient Orwellian enemy. They're not even competitors, because Apple doesn't have a social network, Facebook doesn't sell computers, and indeed Facebook is currently among the grossin
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> Capitalism is simply an economic system where the means of production are privately owned. Growth is not a requirement or even feature of capitalism. The problem is that private ownership leads to the classic collective action problem,
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> I think programmers in general have an overly optimistic expectation of the lifespan of their works. I think programmers in general have an overly pessimistic expectation of the lifespan of their works. They write temporary, ugly hacks
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> I once worked at a company where I didn't understand why they took certain decisions. In the end, it all became very clear. My mindset from "these guys have no idea" shifted towards "wow, they are smart, I didn&#x27
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Is it? Earth is, or was, extremely hospitable to humans. Mars is, and will be for a very long time, extremely inhospitable to humans. If we can't even take care of the Earth, what hope is there of taking care of Mars? The more likely s
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> This person is kinda suggesting that companies should have some noble higher purpose. Not necessarily. There's nothing inherently wrong with making money. What's wrong is never being satisfied no matter how much money you mak
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> So Mac sales are up from 2019Q4 by $1B. Technically, up $1.7B from that quarter, but why are you comparing 2021Q1 with 2019Q4? 2021 Q1 $8.675B 2020 Q4 $9.032B 2020 Q1 $7.160B 2019 Q4 $6.991B Clearly the uptick in Mac sales is due to th
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macOS Big Sur 11.2 Release Candidate 2 was released Monday to beta testers, but 11.2 has not yet shipped to the public. iOS and macOS share a lot of code, as you can see in the security release notes for previous OS updates, so it's li
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> This article is completely hypocritical to be coming from Tom Friedman. True, but I would say better late than never.
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> ObjC is a "child" of the 1980's when verbosity was considered a merit and a norm in programming. It's still considered a merit by some.
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Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807114
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> Yeah, it's annoying that neither Google of Firefox stores have easy payments — it makes taking payments less accessible for developers. But obviously it's still possible to roll your own payments or using things like my own
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> there's nothing inherently hard about monetizing extensions Over 95% of Chrome extensions are completely free, as in no form of payment whatsoever. This makes extensions one of the worst of all software markets. Users just expect
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> It's actually not that hard to monetize browser extensions It's actually not that hard to become a billionaire [points at some billionaires] By the way, here are some stats on Chrome extensions: https://www.debugbe
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> And yet, MS Office, Lightroom and others are on the App Store. Microsoft has received special sandbox exceptions from Apple that are not available to other developers.
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Keka: 11 years old! https://changelog.keka.io/ Bear: 1) Bear is not Mac-only: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bear/id1016366447 2) Bear is more than 4 years old 3) Shiny Frog, the maker is Bear
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> Apple tho wants macOS developers (and users prefer apps from people dedicated to macOS). This is a very strange argument to make in the context of Safari Web Extensions. Safari already had its own Apple-specific app extensions API, but
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> A lot of people? Name them. This is a serious request. I'm a longtime professional Mac developer who knows a lot of other Mac developers. > There are more Mac users (and thus app buyers) The premise is true, but the conclusion
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> unless this is waived for these kinds of apps, I couldn’t tell when trying to dig up an answer Mostly, no. "You can request to have the annual Apple Developer Program membership fee waived if you’re a nonprofit organization, accre
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> There's both the clear vision of conservative values and ideals... and Donald Trump. I've lived long enough to see the terms "liberal" and "conservative" morph multiple times. (You will too eventually, j
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by _qulr 6y ago
Bring back matte screens too. Glossy screens have been a disaster, not only ergonomically but also in terms of the never-ending "staingate" scandal of antireflective coating peeling off the screen.
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> what is the actual reason? The reason is that many developers were already selling native Mac and native iOS versions of their apps, and who opted out of providing their iOS app in the Mac App Store — because they already had a Mac app
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> What about the end user who paid good money to own a computer and run whatever he wants on it? You paid good money to Apple. You didn't pay good money to the app developer. iOS app prices are ridiculously low because of the crap s
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> The author's point seems to be that it is toxic to a person to (try to) exist in permanent state of positivity. Yes. The article started out with the psychologist explaining how the client was looking for fake doctor's notes
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> Isn't it also tiresome when people on HN assume we know who they are from their handle No, I don't expect people to know who I am. However, I do expect people to avoid assuming that I'm ignorant of the subject at hand. T
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> You're assuming that changing that list is the only thing they needed to do. No, you're assuming that I'm making that assumption. Why would you assume that? > Most MacOS users by far probably don't care. It'
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> doesn't mean it was done as a quick and dirty implementation or that it's hastily made feature done via cutting corners. I wasn't implying that. The ContentFilterExclusionList was already present in the first WWDC beta a
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> What I'm saying is "why this took 6 months" doesn't make much sense as a question. Why wouldn't it? For the 2nd or 3rd time in this thread, I have to remind that I was replying to a comment saying this: "T
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> from the perspective of Apple this must've been a non-critical issue at best. From the perspective of Apple, this wasn't even an issue at all. It "behaves as intended". https://twitter.com/david_ddw&

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