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by chj 7y ago
It's a currency, but I don't see how it is crypto. No mining, centralized control by a few validators. Old wine in new bottles.
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by chj 7y ago
If you don't need offline solution, I think you can use them even without iOS13.
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by chj 7y ago
TeX Writer developer here. Very flattered to be included in the author's workflow. Sitting at the core of this process is WorkingCopy, which has the most sensible integration with Files app that it simply keeps all files local. After o
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by chj 7y ago
You can't see the source code which I think is a huge step backward.
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App makers sue Apple and claim it uses ‘monopoly power’ to charge fees(cnbc.com)
30 points by chj 7y ago|31 comments
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by chj 7y ago
Over the years, I have moved most of my VPS to vultr, and now only 1 droplet left in DO. This story again proves my mistrust towards them. I don't like AWS because it's too complicated for my use, but now I think we better have so
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by chj 7y ago
They can charge anything they want as long as third party appstores are allowed.
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by chj 7y ago
This is indeed the elephant in the room. All app developers, except spotify, are too terrified to directly confront with Apple. That's the chilling effect of a true monopoly.
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by chj 7y ago
A very good read. I didn't expect a court opinion could be written in such clear language.
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by chj 7y ago
No, you can't distribute apps directly to customers. That's why Facebook's certificate got revoked by Apple. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
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by chj 7y ago
Sorry I have to ask, what are the checks on judges? What if you change judge every time?
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by chj 7y ago
Given what she went through in her own trial and jail, when she said "nothing more to offer", I think it's not hard to believe that they already got everything out of her. How the grand jury could think otherwise is beyond me
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by chj 7y ago
In that case you need to pay those spies, while at this moment you just run a database query.
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by chj 7y ago
> PARC had computers where multiple programs were on the screen simultaneously in "windows", and there was a pointer device used to control them—so cool. Doug Englebart was inspired too; he went back to Stanford Research Instit
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by chj 7y ago
This is a shock. I have been following his twitter and all is looking well. Learned a lot from his erlang paper. Wish I had the courage to write him an email and thank him. I can't believe it.
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by chj 8y ago
Here I am using Macbook with a good old mouse.
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by chj 8y ago
Apple doesn't have to pay because Google is so generous as to allow them to link to their own payment method.
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by chj 8y ago
Well, why don't Apple Music pay its "fair share" of 15%~30% to Google since it's hosted on Google Play? They are also using Google's tools and ecosystem.
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by chj 8y ago
> In either case, it's Apple yard, they set the rules and charge what they want. Don't place your main source of income in another person's yard. It's too late. Had people known it would become what it is today, nobod
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by chj 8y ago
We can also say Apple Music wouldn't be the business today had Spotify not explored the business of music streaming years ahead. Now they just took the idea themselves and pretend that Spotify contributes nothing.
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by chj 8y ago
> Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store ecosystem — including the substantial revenue that they draw from the App Store’s customers — without making any contributions to that marketplace Wow, Apple's response is ra
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by chj 8y ago
I believe that's Enterprise certificate, internally use only, can't distribute directly to customers.
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by chj 8y ago
From what they posted, 30% is not the main reason of their complaint. I guess it's more about that they now have to face Apple Music, which has such a huge advantage over them, no fee, better OS support, .etc.
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by chj 8y ago
Kudos to Spotify! Somebody has to do this, and from the time line posted, they really suffered. Amazon's Kindle team probably should chime in too..
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by chj 8y ago
Warren's Amazon coffee maker argument is pretty convincing, but the author focuses on the history of bing and google, that's a big turn off. Shouldn't the author come from the perspective "Where Warren's Right"
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by chj 8y ago
OK, I see that we have different ideas of protection. When you are selling pet food, surely you don't want the delivery company steal your customers, right? Now if government says that delivery company can't sell user data, that&#
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by chj 8y ago
Well, I think all businesses grow from small ones. They do need some kind of protection while they are developing.
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by chj 8y ago
There are quite some shady stuff going on in the App Store. People have to live with that, because there is no alternative. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/sneaky-subscriptions-are-p...
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by chj 8y ago
The author is nitpicking. Warren may be wrong about the history of bing and google, but that's not really important. She's 100% right about Amazon, and the author conveniently forgot to mention. Most people in tech industry always
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by chj 8y ago
All those people laughing at her proposal, they have no clue that this lady understands tech perfectly well, and sees the problem of centralization in tech industry more clearly. In an interview at SXSW, she addressed to the people working

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