barelysapient

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by barelysapient 2y ago
I think Apple will need to make a new phone line. Call it the ePhone. In a few years we can compare who got it right.
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by barelysapient 2y ago
Does Tech for Palestine support equal human rights for LGBTQ+?
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by barelysapient 2y ago
Your barber has more licensing requirements than a senior software engineer. Regulations have not caught up with developers (yet).
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by barelysapient 2y ago
Well, unless there's a regulation against it, they're allowed to both 1) charge for the device and 2) charge for additional software / upgrades you want to set on the device. If Apple is banned from collecting revenues from t
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by barelysapient 2y ago
I think its fair to say that Microsoft Windows is a different product entirely. Microsoft's business model literally a monopoly (100% install base) and they were willing to make different trade offs to get there. Interestingly though
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by barelysapient 2y ago
Looks like Apple is forcing the question: Will the EU compel Apple to give away or license their software, apis, and technology at some price other than Apple sets? If the EU takes that position, I’d have to think the US and other governmen
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by barelysapient 2y ago
And then one starts to cry, and right or wrong doesn’t matter any more and the conflict ends. It’s the same with the countries. Standing up to bullies can work.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
> Yea that seems fine, no monopolistic behavior here, it's only 49% of the phone market so it's fine. iPhone marketshare in the EU is about 22%.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
By that logic, everything is a monopoly.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Probably because Microsoft controlled 97% market share, but Apple controls about 20%.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
But isn’t University of Nevada a simply a state school? I understand they have some research programs, but this primarily is a higher ed institution. If there primary focus was research I’d agree with you.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
But we’re talking about the office of the president. Isn’t this role more analogous to the CEO? The president isn’t researching as an individual practitioner, but rather as an executive administrator.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
> Unfortunately you're most likely right here in that Apple does not want to give its customers the freedom to choose to evade its toll booths by choosing free software - they want to remain in control. Yup. Apple is closed and for
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Apple wants to sell more phones, sure -- but not at the expense of their values or brand. So, say we get an amazing third party store. And its loaded with world class apps like "AR Butt Plug", "Is that a Jew?" and &quot
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Yes and third party app stores are happening. What's more likely to happen, is that those big apps will simply start to split into two apps. The basic one will remain at feature parity on both stores. Then app mfg will then make a ne
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Because there are phones for sale with more open and/or 3rd party stores are available. And most consumers don't buy those phones. So, said another way, phones with that feature have a competitive advantage, right? But the consum
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Apple's concerned that developers will use the Apple App Store as simple lead gen for the "real" app in 3rd party store. App quality in Apple's store would fall which would be bad for Apple's store. So publish the s
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by barelysapient 3y ago
What's the big deal? Don't sell it on Apple's store.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Apple "gets away with it" because it is what users prefer. These users are the same folks who prefer and pay a premium for Apple technology. If the market had a better product Apple's users would flock to it. But the market d
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Humblest apologies. I stand corrected. :)
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by barelysapient 3y ago
And yet, the company is one of the most valuable in the world. If consumers hated this, they'd vote with they wallets.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Right, you buy a windows device with that calculation in mind. Apples always has had fees and probably always will as long as they control the os.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
I mean, you're still running on Apple's OS right? So, unless Apple gets forced to open up their OS, all apps, side loaded or otherwise, depend on Apple Licensed software. Licensed software that Apple is free to set whatever terms
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Honest question: How do we know that this is genocide? Or said another way, what are the technical characteristics of genocide that we can apply to judge for ourselves?
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by barelysapient 3y ago
With enough litigation and legislation, we can make Apple products as amazing as the other competitors in the marketplace.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
I was pleased to see the nod towards Rust's option result and sum types in general. Hopefully these make it into Go someday.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Looks cool; needs more examples
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by barelysapient 3y ago
A big win for Canadian media company shareholders.
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by barelysapient 3y ago
Completely agree. It has its faults; but paired with skhd [1] it makes the mac usable for me. 1. https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
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by barelysapient 3y ago
No land-grab expanding empire from history has managed to survive more than a few hundred years. What makes us think that China would? Communism doesn't have a great track record of building empires that span a millennia.

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