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by cwhiz 6y ago
This is not correct. You can charge whatever you like. You just aren’t allowed to have line items like “Apple tax” or words blaming Apple for the price.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It’s not $99 per developer, either. https://developer.apple.com/support/purchase-activation/
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by cwhiz 6y ago
The most amusing thing about this is that the kids didn’t fail out. Kids couldn’t qualify to get in but they had no problem doing the coursework. Really laying bare that you’re paying for the diploma, and not the education itself.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I am not sure of the source of that link but it is the only one I can find on the first page of DDG that suggests Apple has more than 50% of the smartphone market. Even if we take that link as fact it is not enough to constitute a monopoly
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You cannot install Fortnite skins/characters/emotes/etc without paying Epic. Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite Store. It sounds pretty ridiculous to type that... but it's the same basic argument. Apple is a minority
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>So you would stay loyal to the product no matter what it evolves into? No. My line in the sand is Apple locking down macOS so that I cannot install applications outside of the Mac App Store. These "restrictions" that seem to
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by cwhiz 6y ago
To each their own. You should use what you like.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
In your opinion, what is making it less attractive?
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You obviously don’t own any of these devices. Seamless means I can call or text from any of my devices. Switch a phone call audio from my laptop, to my phone, to my AirPods. Go for a run and stream music from my watch directly to my AirPods
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Is it really that hard for you to believe that people like and prefer macOS?? I don’t want to move to Windows or Linux. The time sink is irrelevant. I am a software engineer and I PREFER macOS. So do my coworkers. So do many, but not all, o
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Sure they could. They could basically fork macOS and maintain an entirely separate version just for developing iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and macOS. I don't know why in the world they would do that. This whole "issue" is just Ap
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>It is a lifestyle brand now, people money because it is Apple, not because there is real value they gain for the higher cost. Oh come now, there are millions and millions of professionals using macOS to do work every single day. This is
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>They aren't even comparable. It is true. SpaceX has delivered astronauts to and from the space station, whereas Blue Origin has yet to achieve a single orbital flight. They are not comparable at all.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It’s not about choice. It’s about destroying Google as a company. They are a spyware business that have destabilized the entire internet economy.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
iOS is the minority smartphone OS in the US and in the world. In the world their share is under 20%. In the US it’s under 50%. In both cases, shrinking. If Apple/iOS is a minority that means someone else must be a majority. Who, exact
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Epic won’t let you do anything inside the Fortnite store. Literally nothing at all. Seems quite anticompetitive to not allow me to upload and sell skins to compete with the official ones. This is the problem with making absurd monopoly argu
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by cwhiz 6y ago
People just desperately want competition law to be something it isn’t. And armchair move the goalposts relentlessly to try to redefine literal law. Size of the business is not relevant unless: 1) The business has a dominant market position
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Send the executives to prison and shut down the company.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I am for any law or policy that hurts Google. And I really don’t care whether it’s fair or unfair. I’m not sure any two companies have caused more worldwide carnage, in the history of the world, than FB and Google.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You can’t effectively punish a company, especially not a company the size of Facebook. But if individuals go to prison for their actions, people will be more careful how they act.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Median and average income for Asians is significantly higher than any other race or group in the US.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
People don’t know what to do with Asians because, as a group, they achieve better than white people. However, this shouldn’t be possibly in systemically racist white America.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Apple having control of their own platform is only anticompetitive if they already have a monopoly or if having control is likely to achieve a monopoly. Apple owns less than 20% of the worldwide smartphone market, and its shrinking. So, bot
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I understand, but competition law in the US is based on companies who have a monopoly or companies who are likely to achieve a monopoly through their behavior.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
That isn’t how competition law works. From your own link: >the Clayton Act defined as illegal certain business practices that are conducive to the formation of monopolies or that result from them. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly so the lat
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by cwhiz 6y ago
We are essentially living under a Corporatocracy in America.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
If you want nonsense, go to an actual news site. This site was created for a specific purpose.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Why does this strongtowns crap keep showing up on HN? All of their "evidence" is just anecdotal information, none of their claims are backed by any actual evidence, and their whole site is designed to get you to pay money to beco
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by cwhiz 6y ago
There is no limit in the text but it has been limited by the Supreme Court. Supreme Court has the force of law.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You can’t have a fair playing field with China unless they also have a fair playing field with the US. That has not ever been the case. China wants to have cake and eat cake.

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