darklion

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by darklion 3y ago
> Apple's seeking to comply with the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law in order to maintain their ability to extract rents from the App Store. Yes, because we can have a functional, productive society based on a legal syste
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by darklion 3y ago
> App developers want consistent look of their application across various OSes, be it Mac/Win/Linux. No, app developers want to write their code once. A consistent look is just a byproduct of that desire. I’m also glad you didn
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by darklion 3y ago
I’m not sure how you got 10 from “a dozen and a half”; 18/2 12 = $108. Also, to your second point, because of the EU, everybody* who currently uses Lightning will be replacing all of their cables eventually. That’s money out of pocket
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by darklion 3y ago
> this process is not finished until browser competition on iOS is deemed fair. But, by the same token, the laws as put into place outline none of the specifics of how that should actually function. All the EU did was wave its hand, sa
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by darklion 3y ago
> USB-C cables are ludicrously cheap Shitty USB-C cables are ludicrously cheap. Quality cables are merely not expensive, and when you have to replace them in quantity [1], it leads to a decent amount of money having to be spent to repl
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by darklion 3y ago
> when the checkout terminal asks you to round up your change for a donation to help kids, and the cashier is looking at you, nobody wants to feel like the jerk that says no. I find it helps to remember that the corporation is not in it
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by darklion 3y ago
> Is my phone a business, or hardware that I own? That seems to be in contention here. It's not in contention: it's both of those things. It's just that some people want it to be exclusively one of those things.
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by darklion 3y ago
I'm not sure how that has any relevance here. So to be clear: if Apple printed on every iPhone box, "This phone is 30% cheaper on Apple.com", you feel that Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, %LOCAL_TECH_STORE%, etc. should be legally
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by darklion 3y ago
> Apple doesn't have to tell about the competitions on their app store, but they should allow each app whatever they want to do. So you think it's OK that Walmart doesn't want to sell a product that says, "Hey, don&#x
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by darklion 3y ago
> Apps are not even allowed to link out to their website or tell users that Apple/Google is taking a 30% cut! What business in their right mind would want to sell or stock a product that comes with a label that says, in effect, “Don
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by darklion 3y ago
> it does benefit entrants. Which is why you don’t see successful messaging companies rushing to open their systems. What company wants to spend the effort to build a successful messaging platform, only to open it and see some nobody com
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by darklion 3y ago
> weaker protections against fingerprinting and ad blocking Citation?
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by darklion 3y ago
Ma Bell prevented anyone from using their entire communications network unless you bought phones from them. Apple lets anyone who buys their devices use any messaging service they want, with no OS-level restrictions on the capability of tho
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by darklion 3y ago
I just don’t get it. iMessage is a private service, run by a private company, exclusively for customers who buy physical products from them [1], which does not in any way, shape, or form prevent any other messaging services from working on
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by darklion 3y ago
Not to mention, Qualcomm has a pretty bad history of meeting its promised dates. In 2021, it claimed to be on track to shipping M-series-level chips in 2023. [1] In 2022, it claimed to be on track to shipping M-series-level chips in 2023. [
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by darklion 3y ago
> Snapdragon X Elite is faster than all but the M3 Max. > From what I've seen it actually beats the M3 series in single-core performance. Citations? Because from what I have found [1], Qualcomm only claims it’s 7% faster than a n
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by darklion 3y ago
> Anti-trust made it pretty clear you can't be the railroad company and the oil company that uses the railroad to harm competition. Your analogy is flawed. This is a private railroad company, who built their own private national rai
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by darklion 3y ago
> Is the "safety and curation" of the Play Store (or Apple App Store) worth 30% more to you? Yes, because as you said, there are knock-on effects. With a first-party app store, I know I can easily cancel subscriptions, and from
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by darklion 3y ago
Why is that scary?
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by darklion 3y ago
Just because everybody does something the wrong way doesn’t somehow make it magically correct. One study [1] in the US released in 2020 found almost 90% of people admitted to speeding, but I don’t think anyone would say that speeding is now
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by darklion 3y ago
> Apple seems to be the more actionable company to sue, since Apple actually controls the market of “default search engine on iOS”. Even in the absence of payments, Apple would still be entirely within its rights to set Google as the def
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by darklion 3y ago
Yes, a random off-by-one bug is a clear sign of massively deteriorating software quality. Clearly.
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by darklion 3y ago
Your last sentence betrays your entire argument. “Windows has a lock on PC gaming because macOS isn’t available for PCs. Of course, macOS would have to radically chamge to be even remotely usable as a gaming competitor to Windows.” If macOS
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by darklion 3y ago
Oh for fuck’s sake. Safari has had extensions since 2010, and uBlock Origin supported it until 2018. The problem vis-a-vis uBO that in 2018, Safari switched its extension framework. It no longer supports the WebExtensions framework, instead
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by darklion 3y ago
Citation needed.
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by darklion 4y ago
> nasty cross-platform tradeoffs You mean like web apps partially or completing ignoring platform-specific appearances, conventions, or behaviors? Let’s not pretend that native apps are the only ones that struggle to work correctly cross
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by darklion 4y ago
> Major cities are dictating policy for everyone else. Cities contain large quantities of people -- that's why they are called population centers. Large numbers of people generate lots of votes. As compared to locations with fewer a
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by darklion 4y ago
SpaceX was co-founded by Musk, not purchased from someone else. So ding him on purchasing Tesla all you want; SpaceX is homegrown.
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by darklion 4y ago
> As difficult as .NET has been Can you elaborate on the difficulty of .NET? (Purely curious!)
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by darklion 4y ago
UMass Lowell has a 1 MW UMLRR nuclear reactor: https://www.uml.edu/Research/Energy/research/nuclear-energy....

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