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by cmsj 6y ago
I understand some of the reasons why some managers think that way, but you can't have such simplistic rules. An ultimatum like this is an opportunity for a responsible manager to talk and rethink, but it seems like Google jumped at the
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by cmsj 6y ago
"Imagine if this were Facebook" and there you pretty much defeat your own argument - Apple isn't Facebook and people are generally fine with the way Apple is treating its platform, otherwise they wouldn't keep buying iPh
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by cmsj 6y ago
Yep. IMO the mistake that a lot of people are making here is to think that iOS devices should be more like computers. They are popular and successful because they are less like computers. They're arcade machines, VCRs, appliances, an
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by cmsj 6y ago
Not to nitpick, but the current CEO has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and started working at IBM Research in 1990.
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by cmsj 6y ago
> Apple Macintosh? PC as in Personal Computer, which includes Macs, but even if one were to take the strict interpretation of "IBM Compatible PC", that also includes the current x86 Macs, at least until the first Apple Silicon
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by cmsj 6y ago
I didn't create them, but I believe they are for sale - I noticed in the Gallery section of the site that some things are listed as Sold/Available.
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The Pen Plotter, the Rust, and the Shed(blog.pzs.me)
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1.3 billion Android devices sold last year worldwide.
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by cmsj 6y ago
Firefox made the right call, they were never going to succeed against Android. Looking at statcounter, Kai has not been able to resist it either, dropping from somewhere over 4% to under 1%, while Android sits at over 95%.
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by cmsj 6y ago
This is obviously very sad for the folk being laid off from Mozilla, and they have my sympathies and best wishes for finding alternate employment. Separate to that, and I realise I'm shouting at the sky since this is just one comment a
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by cmsj 6y ago
It might have had some neat technical designs, but it is not a good idea to try and launch an OS into a maturing market, which the smartphone market clearly was by 2013. It never works.
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by cmsj 6y ago
Because some angry people seem to believe that no action should ever be taken, under any circumstances, to limit negativity.
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by cmsj 6y ago
HEIF/HEVC aren't completely open formats though, AFAIR. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of patent royalty involved in some things people might want to do with them. That alone makes them incompatible with GNU's id
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by cmsj 6y ago
I'm not sure why y'all are surprised by this, it's been the GNU/FSF schtick for decades and it's not going to change ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by cmsj 6y ago
Apple actually worked against Dropbox a few times in recent years, and added a bunch of APIs for annotating files in Finder, to stop Dropbox from monkeypatching it. More recently Dropbox has started using a kernel extension to support its S
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by cmsj 6y ago
There's no "if", notarization has already happened. As of a few months ago, macOS Catalina warns users if an app hasn't been notarized. It's the latest step in a multi-year effort to make macOS a little less of a wi
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by cmsj 6y ago
Let's be very clear, this is from gnu.org, so this is not "open source crusaders", this is "free software zealots". There are no compromises when it comes to Free Software, no pragmatism and no leeway for choices to
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by cmsj 6y ago
> The solution is obvious. Stop making apps for iOS. Sure, you’re going to take a huge hit without access to those consumers The solution is obvious. Sabotage your own business. Sure, you're going to go out of business without any c
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by cmsj 6y ago
(in the case of Hey, Apple said it had reviewed the decision internally)
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by cmsj 6y ago
Apple ships close to 200 million iPhones a year all with their custom ARM CPUs, fabricated by TSMC. They ship about a tenth as many Macs. I'm pretty sure they can handle that growth, especially as one of TSMC's biggest customers.
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by cmsj 6y ago
> podcast If it's exclusive to Spotify, it's not a podcast anymore. That's fine, but it's just not a podcast, it's a show on Spotify.
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by cmsj 6y ago
I have something similar that shows when the next bus is leaving our nearest stop. I really like it, and I would be tempted to invest in something larger for putting my calendar on the wall in my home office, but the big problem with this s
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by cmsj 7y ago
I apologise for being rude, but IMO you didn't build an app, you built a web page. Web pages are things people look at one time or maybe many times, but they are just web pages that exist in a web browser for the lifetime of the tab th
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by cmsj 7y ago
You want all your important apps to migrate to a platform where their data is all tucked away in inscrutable filesystem locations that don't expire ever?
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by cmsj 7y ago
> deleting all local storage (including Indexed DB, etc.) after 7 days effectively blocks any future decentralised apps using the browser (client side) as a trusted replication node in a peer-to-peer network Sounds good to me, I don&#x27
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by cmsj 7y ago
> I don't know anyone that isn't aware that the clitoris has this structure I commend you for conducting extensive surveys of your peers' knowledge of the internal anatomy of the clitoris!
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by cmsj 7y ago
Usenet somewhat has that division of space, in that it's divided up into thousands of individual newsgroups, each of which is (ostensibly) about a particular topic. It's more like having thousands of parallel NYCs, each one focusi
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by cmsj 7y ago
That may all be true (and it does seem to be), but it doesn't necessarily mean Brexit is a scapegoat. With an EU-wide banking license, N26 can operate in any territory it chooses to, for relatively little marginal overhead. Once they n
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by cmsj 7y ago
Kudos to natwest for adopting things like TouchID for authorising app logins, much earlier than anyone else. I still ditched them for Monzo though, mostly because natwest's anti-fraud system was reliably triggered by my mostly-online t
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by cmsj 7y ago
Trivial anecdote: My wife is with HSBC and the iOS app doubles as both a banking interface, and the authorisation code response generator. When she's in a web browser and needs to generate a code for the HSBC website (eg to add a new p

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