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by damnyou 6y ago
Duopolized. The rest of the argument still holds, and a weaker form of it holds for Google as well, since stores like F-Droid can't do everything that Google Play can. Please steelman the arguments you disagree with.
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by damnyou 6y ago
If the developer was worth over a trillion dollars, or if the app was used by 20% or more of the global population, absolutely.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The current level of "regulation" in iOS is very bad for society, so of course I want it to not be "special" any more. When you have the level of power that Apple does in society, different rules apply.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Wow, this site has completely given into the cult of Apple. Thankfully the judge is a reasonable person who is interested in actual harms more than the letter of a TOS.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Forget percentages, even the raw numbers show a mismatch between official and Telegram results.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Certum seems to be reasonable for open source code.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Correct. The VP is also the person who wrote the "Ugly" memo that was leaked: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-c... Hardly a surprise.
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by damnyou 6y ago
This is not true. Managers are considered to be agents of a corporation and are held to different standards than other employees. (This is also true for SWEs, where SWE manager is fundamentally different from IC.)
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by damnyou 6y ago
What you're saying is that critical thinking is required to determine morality. That is indeed true. To oppose a wealth tax on majoritarian grounds you need to demonstrate that the wealthy are oppressed in some way. Simply saying &quot
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by damnyou 6y ago
Indeed, meta-level reasoning is insufficient to determine morality. The object-level facts matter most.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Majoritarianism is bad because it can oppress powerless minorities. The wealthy are not a powerless minority.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The decisions should be transparent and subject to review and appeal by an independent board. Zoom should be free to appeal Apple's decision to the board, yes. Checks and balances are not a new concept.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Is it truly a surprise why I keep being downvoted for pointing out abuses of power by Hacker News's favorite megacorp?
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by damnyou 6y ago
Suffering a harm is how one gets standing to sue.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes, Apple should very obviously not have a completely unchecked right to disable arbitrary software from running on millions of computers for whatever reason they want. This is so obviously an abuse of power that I can't believe I h
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by damnyou 6y ago
That is the only correct state of affairs for corporations (and governments) as big and powerful as Apple. Constant criticism no matter what they do. It's the only way to hold them even remotely accountable.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, as Kierkegaard said. But freedom is an incredibly worthwhile thing, so much so that anxiety is the cost society should for it. The costs of Apple's walled garden have become so obscene at this point
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yeah, I'd rather have an affordable restaurant with good food instead of a "nice" one with $20 entrees.
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by damnyou 6y ago
This is silly at the best of times, but saying it in the middle of a global pandemic is truly absurd.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The way I think about it is the engineers Mozilla hires could almost all get cushy jobs at a FAANG, but it pays tier 2-3 salaries. Mozilla doesn't just build CRUD apps. The problems its engineers have to solve are really hard ones, oft
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by damnyou 6y ago
For the quality of people that work at Mozilla, going rate for a senior dev is more like 350-400k in the SF Bay area. Mozilla pays well below 90% of going rate.
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by damnyou 6y ago
> I don't know how effective something like this would be, wouldn't this just incentivize hiring people that fit your political agenda? That's what all companies already do: the political agenda of every publicly held larg
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by damnyou 6y ago
Hmm, social networks are not mere frivolities. They are the very basis of humanity.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Epic Games Store charges 12%, not 30%. This would probably not be nearly as big a concern if Apple charged 12%. There are many people in this world who think they would pay a steep social penalty if they switched away from iPhones. Now part
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by damnyou 6y ago
I use Android with alternate app stores everyday, so I'm intimately familiar with the issues with them. The most prominent ongoing issue is that they can't auto-update apps the way Google's can. It's not a level playing
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by damnyou 6y ago
I've been very critical of Apple, but Google deserves the same as well. Hope Epic files a lawsuit against Google too.
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by damnyou 6y ago
And then be ostracized from your social groups because no one wants to see green bubbles in their group chats. Not a problem I personally experience but one many people have reported. This may also be less of a problem with COVID, I'm
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by damnyou 6y ago
Far from it, I'm thinking more in terms of Liz Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountable_Capitalism_Act
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by damnyou 6y ago
If it were made impossible for businesses to be solely profit driven, then there would simply no longer exist any businesses that are solely profit driven.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Businesses are legal fictions. There is no inherent reason shareholders should be the only constituency businesses serve.

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