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by andersa 3y ago
Apple financial statements are public. We know the income from hardware sales exceeds all costs and R&D by far. The app store fees are basically stealing from society on top of that to enrich themselves.
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by andersa 3y ago
As if that cost wasn't included in the $1500 phone?
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by andersa 3y ago
Fines should exceed all revenue derived from illegal activity, not just profit.
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by andersa 3y ago
> I think it's wrong to legislate something just because it doesn't work how I want it to work What absolute nonsense is this? That is literally the entire point of legislation, to change things that aren't working how we
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by andersa 3y ago
What are you talking about? I care about this because I want to use Apple hardware, under reasonable terms.
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by andersa 3y ago
Apple does not have a right to determine what software people run on their general purpose computers. That is the whole point of the DMA. I apologize if you couldn't understand this. > No different to how supermarkets choose what it
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by andersa 3y ago
If the seller is voluntarily working together with Apple (i.e. purposefully selling the software through their store) that is obviously fine. The whole point of the DMA is we should not be forced to.
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by andersa 3y ago
No, this is not true. I do not care about what Apple does with their App Store. The point is they should not be allowed to insert themselves into a relationship between me trying to sell something and someone else trying to buy it from me d
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by andersa 3y ago
I do use an android device. Apple hardware is very good however, so I am interested in buying some of their things aswell.
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by andersa 3y ago
It doesn't matter what they "made clear". Apple is not the government. They should not have the ability to do anything.
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by andersa 3y ago
You can have this! Simply only download apps from Apple's store. Apple still has no right to interfere in any way at all, or collect a tax, if I want to sell an app to someone else outside of it.
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by andersa 3y ago
It's (to me) clearly non-compliant with its intention. It's now for courts to decide whether that is the case, or for politicians to fix the law to patch this backdoor if there was one. But it will be fixed.
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by andersa 3y ago
Good thing we know that Apple already makes significant profit on every sale of their hardware.
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by andersa 3y ago
The fee is paid by the user when they buy the phone. No additional cost to Apple exists because the user downloaded an app that I wrote from my website/store. Thus, Apple should not be paid for it. That's really simple - we'v
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by andersa 3y ago
Mass market adoption for general purposes, relevance in people's lives. Many EU citizens manage their entirely digital life from their phone, I do not know of anyone who uses an XBox 360 to do that. Not that I would be opposed to game
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by andersa 3y ago
I am not a lawyer and not interested in reading hundreds of pages to figure out whether this is already non-compliant with the DMA, but it is clearly non-compliant with its intention, so I trust it will be fixed.
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by andersa 3y ago
No, apple is not going to continue gatekeeping. However, it seems they will need a proper bitchslap to correctly understand their role here. This post (by apple) is actually ridiculous.
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by andersa 3y ago
It seems Apple has misunderstood their role here. They are to not be involved at all in transactions between other businesses delivering software to people's phones, just like we have done for every other general purpose computer. Th
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by andersa 3y ago
Hetzner Cloud
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by andersa 3y ago
Why doesn't it work to have the emitter and sensor together at the same location, synchronize them at that moment, and then move them apart a distance so large the initial delay no longer matters, before running the test? Do we not hav
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by andersa 3y ago
It will be released soon however.
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by andersa 3y ago
A better question is, why zig when you could use jai instead?
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by andersa 3y ago
I'd argue nobody is waiting at all. A tiny fraction of users split off to tiny communities on Mastodon with next to no traffic (probably exact what they wanted, to be fair), Threads would be dying if it wasn't propped up by Instag
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by andersa 3y ago
Hm, I think I misread the article. It just says it was accessing a database named after the client, not that the user/password suggested being specific to the client. So you're right, it being hard coded then suggests it can likel
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by andersa 3y ago
It does, many Americans like to defend it as "free speech".
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by andersa 3y ago
But in this particular case, it sounds like it wasn't known to him that it was an exposed credential. He thought it would just access his own data, so there would have been no reason to report anything to the vendor at that point. The
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by andersa 3y ago
Not having that issue here, seems to work fine in Chrome.
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by andersa 3y ago
It's incredible that there are actually people in this thread arguing in favor of Apple. You don't need to defend the trillion dollar company. They are not your friend, they do not care about you, your work or your life. All they
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by andersa 3y ago
I don't get it. Solving this is trivial. Simply display the url that the ad links to. Why the hell is it configurable?
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by andersa 3y ago
I don't understand how AWS can keep ripping people off with these absurd data transfer fees, when there is Cloudflare R2 just right over there offering a 100 times better deal.

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