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by arvinsim 5y ago
> If you told this to an Apple Engineer, he'd look at you in the eye and tell you that the iPhone isn't for you and to buy an Android. You have that choice. The iPhone doesn't fit your use case and Apple isn't interes
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by arvinsim 5y ago
If they can’t make a Facebook App Store in Android with its more open platform, how much more for iOS?
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by arvinsim 5y ago
I honestly don’t get it. I thought that sideloading just concerns installation of the app, not accessing private APIs.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
Sadly, it can be summed in just three words, “it’s just business”.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
Textbook ad hominem attack.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
Sure but medium owns your content. Dev.to retains your ownership of your content. But I guess for the purposes of spam discussion, that is irrelevant.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
This is definitely news to me. Why?
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by arvinsim 5y ago
For some people, work is life. So it isn't surprising that one spills over the other for them.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
I have been trying to find split keyboards with function keys but it seems that most manufacturers don’t consider them important to add.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
The best way to produce smart kids is for smart parents to produce offspring. Unfortunately, most smart and educated people are actually doing the opposite. That is, not having kids.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
It's not a good look for them. It looks like they are afraid that Spotify will solidify its position.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
"Fix it or else" eerily sounds like an incompetent project manager.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
I mean, we can say that about any legacy software system, right?
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by arvinsim 5y ago
By the looks of it, we are going back to feudalism soon.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
I am pretty sure that the poster was referring to phones, not laptops, when he posted about computers that can fit in the pocket.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
It boggles my mind how developers bought the marketing that the iPad Pro can be a good for software development use case. Apple's marketing and distortion field is truly impressive.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
I really want to move out of Lightroom CC. However, there are no competitors out there that has cloud sync on my Mac and iOS devices. Hoping that Affinity can come up with something. Even if it doesn't sync, I would still get it.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
It must be alien to you that some people do like Chrome for what it offers.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
> I've seen this opinion all over the internet from techies and I'm just baffled. Why do you like a pocket computer that isn't actually yours to do with as you like? And why do you feel compelled to force others into this
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by arvinsim 5y ago
> By not allowing v8, we are least have some hedge against a… hegemony. I like Apple over Google for many reasons, and would like to see Googles extremely hostile actions towards the web curtailed. I’ll take the trade off. I’d be less h
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by arvinsim 5y ago
Dealing with food would be so much easier if it wasn't one of our main sources of pleasure and relief. Alas, it is not so. That's why adopting proper diet and nutrition is complicated.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
> I support you in whatever endeavor to which your muse directs you. Having a background in coding generally means you’re a good problem-solver, and good problem-solvers are valuable in any vocation. Ironically for me, the more I got int
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by arvinsim 5y ago
Can you cite big businesses that are successful that is Android exclusive?
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by arvinsim 5y ago
Yes, I agree that the price is a very big factor for mass adoption.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
On the contrary, a lot of people are fine with it. That's why most people don't think about it much.
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by arvinsim 5y ago
Who is us on that regard? Who decides the standard?
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by arvinsim 5y ago
So much for "the fee is needed to maintain the App store"
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by arvinsim 5y ago
If you sincerely believe that privacy is a human right, you wouldn't raise this argument. But then again, I am just talking generally, not you specifically.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
My only wish is that split mechanical keyboards be commoditized and be cheap. Right now, one has to pay a steep premium to get those.
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by arvinsim 6y ago
I think you are on to something here. I am a developer and I am more interested in the content than the aesthetics.

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