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by concinds 3y ago
Right, more R&D and more CAPEX. The question is not whether shareholders deserve any return on their investment (yes), the question is short term vs. long term focus. Same with Boeing (161% of Boeing profits given to shareholders 2013-2
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by concinds 3y ago
Probably only the latter. My point was that executives (share sellers) benefit and it creates potentially toxic incentives.
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They're a means of "returning money", but they also pump up the stock price, to which managers' TCs are linked. Hence they are a form of manipulation. Unlike dividends, they don't return money to all shareholders, b
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by concinds 3y ago
New versions of AltStore and Spotify are both stuck in App Review since the DMA passed 3 weeks ago.
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by concinds 3y ago
Thanks to you and others for pointing these out. I want to make clear that this isn't the EU's list and is just stuff I could observe disregarding my default browser choice. But if there's good reasons, by all means, don&#x27
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by concinds 3y ago
The Apple Music app makes my 32GB iPad unusable. It takes up 10GB of my 32GB, despite having 0 songs downloaded. I have no idea what takes up that space (album art alone can't account for 10GB). There's no option to clear that &qu
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by concinds 3y ago
More: - you can't uninstall Safari. The DMA clearly requires Apple to allow uninstalling it. - the Share Sheet for in-app webview privileges Safari (Safari-specific "Add to Reading List", "Add Bookmark" at the top)
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by concinds 3y ago
*Terms and conditions apply: - must be submitted as a separate binary, no migration path from existing WebKit version of a browser - only available in the EU, unclear how non-EU web developers can test for compatibility - ban on non-WebKit
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by concinds 3y ago
Except Google isn't complying. Google charges 12-17% for "linking out" to a web purchase screen (aka "external offers"). > has opened proceedings to assess whether the measures implemented by Alphabet and Apple i
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by concinds 3y ago
They are "on both lists". The DMA is about platform gatekeeping, and the EU did designate Microsoft a gatekeeper with Windows. Microsoft's DMA changes include allowing Edge to be uninstalled, interoperability in Search and
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by concinds 3y ago
Not at all. The EU announced just days ago that they're investigating MS Entra+365 https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/22/eu_antitrust_microsof... They started an investigation on 365+Teams a year ago:
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by concinds 3y ago
> Article 5(4) of the DMA requires gatekeepers to allow app developers to “steer” consumers to offers outside the gatekeepers' app stores, free of charge. For permission to "link out" to a web purchase, EU devs need to opt
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by concinds 3y ago
Another anecdote: - 2012 MBP used by my parents, almost always plugged in. Battery died last year. Forgot the cycle count but it shocked me by how low it was. This was before they implemented the feature where it stops charging at 80%. - 20
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by concinds 3y ago
iCloud E2EE ("Advanced Data Protection") is far from perfect: - hashes of files and photos are not E2E encrypted even with ADP on, and are accessible by Apple, "so Apple can perform deduplication". It also means they sti
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by concinds 3y ago
See iFixit explain why parts pairing doesn't help reduce theft: https://www.ifixit.com/News/91648/banning-parts-pairing-wont... If Apple disagrees with iFixit and has genuine reasons to believe this will comp
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by concinds 3y ago
You should not have to send your personal data to foreign services in order to use government services. You don't know the retention policy, or data storage policy. Your elected representatives (supposedly) have no control over it.
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by concinds 3y ago
The company that claims to have "the highest standard everywhere in the world" for security and privacy, happens to run a major desktop platform (macOS) with only a primitive basic signature-based antivirus built-in. Instead they
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by concinds 3y ago
> The question is why is the scam app the #1 organic search result? The real answer is that this has been happening for years. You can pay companies to pump up your app to the top of App Store search results or "app categories"
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by concinds 3y ago
That's still a jump cut, it only pretends to show the click. Dodgy
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by concinds 3y ago
Do you mean ads or organic results? Apple should remove App Store search ads altogether (I'm sure they won't). By definition they won't give you the app you searched for, because the keyword will be bought by a competitor o
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by concinds 3y ago
Let me rephrase: "[if we didn't keep breaking apps with updates,] it would encourage devs to never update their apps"
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by concinds 3y ago
Linux is fragmented. Windows has shockingly few indie devs given its marketshare (compared to Apple: Omni apps, Structured, Day One, Session, Pixelmator, Fantastical...). The Mac has plenty of eager indies that care deeply about UX and desi
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by concinds 3y ago
True, but the world has changed and so have Apple's biggest fans (the ones that drive purchasing decisions for their social circles) and indie devs. They didn't mind back then, now they do. See the Accidental Tech Podcast guys for
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by concinds 3y ago
The third-party developers that built the platform are becoming increasingly resentful of Apple and of the platform. It hurts all of us if they switch, even if we just want to "never think about computers". This isn't 2012 an
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by concinds 3y ago
Easier for Apple, but worse for users. Apple's main argument has always been this: "encouraging devs to never update their apps", but I don't buy it. Active developers all update promptly long before any threats of depre
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by concinds 3y ago
They dropped that too. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/05/apple-tweaks-eu-app-sto...
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by concinds 3y ago
Don't overcomplicate it. They want to preserve their Services revenue, because Tim Cook is a bean-counter and wants to maintain the profit margin. "After Steve" by Tripp Mickle provides some background. Many Apple indie devs
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by concinds 3y ago
In other words, you're only "eligible" for web distribution if you meet the threshold to pay the Core Technology Fee tax? (on top of the other requirements). Sounds convenient.
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by concinds 3y ago
> It sounds like the journalist thinks it was murder but can’t write it It sounds like a basic and uncontroversial recitation of the facts. People here project their own psychology (and cultural imprints courtesy of Hollywood) onto it, w
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by concinds 3y ago
It means Apple would never have approved the Epic Sweden account if management had known, and for the past 3 weeks they were just looking for excuses to backtrack. Which is supported by the fact that they justified the new ban with "th

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