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by darklion 7y ago
> Any chance Apple would make it possible to compile an iOS app without giving Apple any money? Absolutely! It's called a "web application", and you can write them in a variety of languages, including compiled ones. > I
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by darklion 7y ago
Yes. "Comparing data in the six months before and after Apple released its anti-theft feature, police said iPhone robberies in San Francisco dropped 38 percent. In London, they fell 24 percent. In New York City, robberies (which typica
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by darklion 7y ago
> Because they want to hold people exclusively on their platform for > upgrade & services revenue. Yes, so would any vendor, if there's more money to be made by keeping people in your sphere. I mean, there's a reason tha
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by darklion 7y ago
KHTML wasn’t anywhere near the same position as WebKit when Apple forked it. At the time, KHTML was niche beyond its use in KDE. When Google forked WebKit, Safari and Chrome combined were something like 40% of the market.
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by darklion 7y ago
According to this link: https://www.osnews.com/story/23133/apple-drops-webkit-2-code... Large parts of Chrome’s multi-process model were specific to Chrome, and not part into WebKit. Apple built “WebKit 2”, which
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by darklion 7y ago
Which Apple may keep private for any number of reasons, none of which have to do with hobbling competitors, nor is it proven that Safari uses these particular APIs to gain a performance advantage for itself in any way whatsoever. So you’re
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by darklion 7y ago
TBF, Electron doesn’t sell itself on performance. It sells itself of minimizing redevelopment cost to support multiple platforms. However, performance is not a “pit of success” feature with Electron, and Electron doesn’t exactly advertise t
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by darklion 7y ago
> discouraging cross platform software That is a patently ridiculous statement. Apple would obviously prefer you write apps for its platform only, but as long as you don’t _defect_ to another platform, why would Apple care whether an app
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by darklion 7y ago
> and it’s all managed at the pleasure of their bottom line. As if Android’s come-one come-all is done out of benevolence. Google doesn’t have a heart, it had a bottom line too, and supporting those tools makes dollars come its way. Goog
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by darklion 7y ago
> Cool, but nothing about any focus on making > the machine realistic for development. What are you developing? What would you need?
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by darklion 7y ago
> Go is a better Java / C#, while Rust is not. Mm, not really. Go is a less sophisticated Java / C#, in the same way that a bicycle is a less sophisticated motorcycle. There's situations to use both, and there's nothi
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by darklion 7y ago
> I ended up switching to Safari, to discover that it's just not quite as good an experience as Firefox or Chrome. IMO, I find it to be just the opposite--neither Firefox nor Chrome are as good an experience as Safari. Maybe the dif
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by darklion 7y ago
Can you point to fields where male under-representation is given the same weight as fields with male over-representation? This isn't a troll--I'm genuinely interested in seeing which fields and areas are trying to promote more bal
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by darklion 8y ago
Which raises the question: to what degree does a platform owner have a responsibility to support the businesses of others? Rephrased, Spotify seems to think it has a /right/ to run its software on Apple platforms in an identical f
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by darklion 8y ago
Have you confirmed this on any other system, or with any other user of Safari? Did you try anything to determine if there are settings that can disable it? Did you post the version of macOS and Safari that you are using, so that others coul