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by benoau 8mo ago
Competition is absolutely going to crush the concept of mooching off a simple app costing $6/week or $10/month, but it doesn't matter where that competition comes from the problem is a guitar tuner shouldn't cost $100&#x
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by benoau 8mo ago
> to some shared utility and then just pushing all of your interactions through this Yeah that's basically what Playwright is doing under the hood, your click is more like "wait for the element to exist and then click". B
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by benoau 8mo ago
There was a browser-streaming app that would play them remotely, can't remember what it was called. There was an official plugin by Adobe on Android but it was awful, I remember watching them showcase it at a conference it was tragic e
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by benoau 9mo ago
I think testing via browser automation is fantastic, API-driven web browsers are just amazing tools, but it's also the source of a lot of the flakiness because of the inherent difficulties determining when a page is completely in a sta
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by benoau 9mo ago
A desktop version wouldn't have a "kill switch" that online services intrinsically have, but the ability to become deprived of security patches is effectively the same thing.
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by benoau 9mo ago
Not just teens, addiction has been weaponized and monetized relentlessly - the whole concept of "whales" is contingent on fostered addiction.
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by benoau 9mo ago
No. The "competition" is artificially limited to buying an Android phone, and mobility between platforms can be very complicated, not by accident, while apps like Patreon can simply be forced to comply with massive fees even if i
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by benoau 9mo ago
They'd see a 200x smaller villain that didn't cause 1/2 the world to rewrite competition laws and has only been fined $100s of millions for deceiving consumers, not billions.
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by benoau 9mo ago
Not a huge surprise, there's an iCloud antitrust alleging a 78% gross profit margin: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.42... The Epic legal case ruling cites a 75% profit margin on App Stor
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by benoau 9mo ago
Good question considering apps unequivocally have the right by court order to use their own billing, and considering the contempt ruling and referral for criminal investigation Apple already got for violating that order.
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by benoau 9mo ago
Like Apple subverted the court order to allow apps like Patreon to use their own billing.
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by benoau 9mo ago
Just take the top ticket, thanks.
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by benoau 9mo ago
They are not designated gatekeepers. It is unfortunate because interoperability should be its own objective for its own sake.
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by benoau 9mo ago
Some people just see it as a cost, one "tech" startup I worked at I got this lengthy pitch from a sales exec that they shouldn't have a software team at all, that we'd never be able to build anything useful without spen
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by benoau 9mo ago
> Reddit revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2025 was $1.905B $5,219,178 per day $214,765 per hour $3,580 per minute
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by benoau 9mo ago
One minute of their downtime loses about $5k - $10k of ad revenue. One year of massive redundancy costs (tens of) millions of dollars, and will always be slightly susceptible to failure anyway.
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by benoau 10mo ago
> Now it feels like you're saying "this is anti-trust because someone accused them of anti-trust before". No it's antitrust because they have a failed product, but purely by virtue of shutting out competitors from the
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by benoau 10mo ago
> So because Apple chose not to spend money to develop it's own AI, it must be punished for then choosing to use another companies model? And the reason that this is an issue is because both companies are large? No they were already
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by benoau 10mo ago
Gatekeeping - nobody else can be the default voice assistant or power Siri, so where does this leave eg OpenAI? The reason this is important is their DOJ antitrust case, about to start trial, has made this kind of conduct a cornerstone of
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by benoau 10mo ago
Enemies? Google contributes about 20% of Apple's profits annually through their default search engine deal, that's more profitable than just about everything they do or make except selling iPhones. > The U.S. government said
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by benoau 10mo ago
> "Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do
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by benoau 10mo ago
14 years ago I wrote a node module that did this in 100 lines of code, to improve the throughput on another node module, both of which were just performing lookups on MaxMind's GeoIP data.
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by benoau 10mo ago
It will be interesting to see how they approach this, producing open source software "at scale" come with all the costs, difficulties and high mortality rates of any other startup or business trying to successfully and sustainably
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by benoau 10mo ago
A contrived error-ridden, disastrous SaaS with barely functional registration, broken features, requiring invasive permissions and with no customer testimonials. But good news - their SaaS, which they neglect to link to in their article - c
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by benoau 10mo ago
Second this, I enjoy using it coming from a Flash then HaXe background. It's very robust and mature and great with Electron and Capacitor packaging it up for various platforms. I really like being able to stick with the "web sta
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by benoau 10mo ago
Microsoft Plex has a ring to it.
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by benoau 10mo ago
Quite a few people report their results on r/gamedev if you sift through the postmortems although they're a bit tough to find, some recent ones I've seen: > Reddit ads for Next Fest. $100 spent, 230k impressions, 1k clicks
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by benoau 10mo ago
There's lots of little annoyances like this, but I just gave up and accepted it. I think this kind of highlights what is actually right about it: it lets everyone move past discussing such details in perpetuity.
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by benoau 10mo ago
Japan reportedly can build those weapons any time they feel like it... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_latency#Nuclear-thresh...
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by benoau 10mo ago
The maze has no viable path either, and odd half-drawn lines.

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