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by benoau 10mo ago
I wish the EU would hurry up and decide if up-to-20% fee for using external payment services abides with their April instructions "must be free". It seems like Apple needs a good nudge to move past rent-collector and now debt-col
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by benoau 10mo ago
The $20ish billion was revealed through Google's antitrust. That by itself accounts for a fifth of their total annual profit, ignoring all the App Store ads, News ads etc. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14&#x2F
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by benoau 10mo ago
Nobody would say they aren't in the PC, tablet or audio business, yet they make more off ads than they do off Macs, iPads, headphones, speakers... everything but iPhone.
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by benoau 10mo ago
A full 20% of their profit comes directly from Google Ads, then there's their own ads strewn throughout apps and the App Store on top so their total profit from ads is probably close to a quarter of all their profit.
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by benoau 10mo ago
I installed FirefoxOS on a phone years ago, it wasn't even bad really.
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by benoau 10mo ago
> While it is not prohibited to use AI as a learning aid or a development tool (i.e. code completions), extension developers should be able to justify and explain the code they submit, within reason. > Submissions with large amounts o
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by benoau 11mo ago
They can't with git by itself, but if you're also signed in to GitHub or BitBucket's CLI with an account able to approve merges they could use those tools.
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by benoau 11mo ago
You can set up your repo to disable pushing directly to branches like main and require MFA to use the org admin account, so something malicious would need to push to a benign branch and separately be merged into one that deploys come from.
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by benoau 11mo ago
He loved their policy. He wrote it. > “I think this is all pretty simple — iBooks is going to be the only bookstore on iOS devices. We need to hold our heads high. One can read books bought elsewhere, just not buy/rent/subscri
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by benoau 11mo ago
It's a little more nuanced than simply "some compensation" - and IANAL but it seems like the court is saying this fee should as Sweeney posits be very small: > Apple should be able to charge a commission on linked-out purc
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by benoau 11mo ago
The contempt and deliberateness of it was upheld, but the injunction was ruled to overstep in two ways: - Apple is now allowed to ensure links to competing payment services are not emphasized more-so than their own, which is reasonable enou
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Apple wins partial reversal of sanctions in Epic Games antitrust lawsuit(reuters.com)
4 points by benoau 11mo ago|1 comments
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by benoau 11mo ago
Big step forward considering Meta previously took an adversarial approach to this amidst all the ... generosity ... big tech were showing Trump to have him attack the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. Hopefully they show some t
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by benoau 11mo ago
It's not widely recognized because you are still netting the most cash by earning the most you can.
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by benoau 11mo ago
Section 230 immunity for doing whatever they want, as long as they remove it if you complain.
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by benoau 11mo ago
Firefox. If it weren't for them the entire internet would be controlled by Google and Apple, who have an ad-revenue sharing agreement that perhaps has already influenced ad blocking in their browsers, who keep mobile browsers ten step
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by benoau 11mo ago
God yes. > Ten years ago they started to build apartments just across the street and I had to get used to close neighbors, about 10 meters from window to window. Soon it became clear that my closest neighbors had roller blinds which the
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by benoau 11mo ago
Starting to feel like we need a revamped C&C Generals: Zero Hour.
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by benoau 11mo ago
No good answers. You can either find someone who's more experienced at that side to handle it for you, accrue that experience yourself the hard way, or skip iOS jobs.
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by benoau 11mo ago
Yeah but the project margin on that is going to be negligible, whereas selling someone access to a jpeg...
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by benoau 11mo ago
He did not raise $230m for a wallpaper app, that is referring to Humane raising $230m and their failure supposedly being MKBHD's fault. > He’s so influential that some blamed his commentary on Humane AI and Fisker for those companie
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by benoau 11mo ago
Because today they're racing against regulators for the privilege of setting their own service as the preinstalled, exclusive, default with APIs only they are allowed to use. They already lost this superpower in the EU and I think Ja
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by benoau 11mo ago
I doubt it, for a start there's about 1.5 trillion days such a visit or occupation could have fallen on so the odds of it being any time this millennium or the last hundred are practically zero.
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by benoau 11mo ago
> I would argue that Airbnb/Amazon etc. also stop hosts/sellers from referring users to any other platform or their own websites. The difference is Apple's rule applied to your website and your support documentation an
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by benoau 11mo ago
There's really two different Steams, there's the beloved one with 30 - 50 year olds getting great value from good games and frequent discounts and bundles. Then there's the shitty stuff that the kids plow money into where th
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by benoau 11mo ago
I think you missed a key ingredient for Apple's ability to charge 30%: their policies banning developers from referring users to any other payment options in the app or on their website or in communications meant and in many places st
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by benoau 11mo ago
This was to patch an active exploit, but it highlights the difference between Apple and Android OEMs: once they've sold you a phone Android OEMs have no vested interest to ensure you receive updates because all of the services and reve
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by benoau 11mo ago
I like this, a long time ago there were quite a few multi-service messaging clients that tied into AIM, MSN, Yahoo etc it was very convenient. The downside is only the "gatekeepers" have to provide this interoperability, when it w
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by benoau 11mo ago
I don't think load balancing is a good example of overengineering, whether "they have 300k+ users, and I have none" you should build your service to be horizontally scalable anyway and probably use a cloud platform that will
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by benoau 11mo ago
You're welcome!

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