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by dnh44 6y ago
I suppose one reason is that the debt can sometimes come with a personal guarantee attached.
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by dnh44 6y ago
Some chairs have a position lock, meaning that they can be locked into a reclined position.
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by dnh44 6y ago
It could be WhatsApp but I think it would be trivial to figure this out any number of ways. You have a Facebook account, if you don’t check it on your phone presumably you do on your notebook or desktop. You probably browse the internet at
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by dnh44 6y ago
I’ve always found them to be really good about refunds.
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by dnh44 6y ago
That’s still going strong actually and a really convenient way to download things.
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by dnh44 6y ago
Can you go into a bit more detail about the blacklisting? I’ve never heard anything like that but it fits with something I read recently that the team that built Zelda Breath of the Wild had also been involved in making Majoras Mask.
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by dnh44 6y ago
That may be true but it’s not accounting for the iPhone and iPad developers out there that will be able to easily target macOS after the switch.
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by dnh44 6y ago
You're kind of making my point for me here. It sounds like you're saying the value proposition is so good that people are willing to risk $99 per year on the off chance their low-effort app might be a hit? They must know the chanc
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by dnh44 6y ago
Apple, as a distributor for DHH, has mentioned that they've provided value to DHH that helps him make money without having made any money from him directly. It's extremely charitable for them to do that. Even vendors at a flea mar
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by dnh44 6y ago
Yes and it cost apple money to perform app reviews each time the dev updates the app. It's a trivial amount of money for access to the marketplace.
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by dnh44 6y ago
Well the bookshelf analogy isn't perfect either because a bookshelf serves no purpose without books while most normal people just use the built-in apps plus a couple more. Also book authors would be really excited about paying only 30%
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by dnh44 6y ago
Xcode is free without the dev fee. And a years worth of app reviews for an active developer costs a lot more than $99.
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by dnh44 6y ago
Clearly Apple benefits from it too and it's mutually beneficial for Apple, developers, and users. But it's not without cost to Apple. I'm not sure how much Apple pays their app reviewers but I suspect it could easily cost mor
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by dnh44 6y ago
$99 a year for free developer tools and access to the marketplace is really good value. There wouldn't be 20M iOS devs if the $99 a year and 30% didn't represent a good opportunity.
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by dnh44 6y ago
That's only if you don't include the cost of actually building the digital marketplace and the free developer tools and the actual devices.
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by dnh44 6y ago
But you don't have any kind right to force either Apple or Google to distribute your services. You can choose to enter into a business relationship with them or you can choose to not do so. You neither have a right to force Netflix to
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by dnh44 6y ago
If the value proposition for iOS developers wasn't acceptable there wouldn't be any iOS developers.
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by dnh44 6y ago
How is the letter sanctimonious? It's acknowledging the fact that Apple has added value to DHH's business without actually having made any money from it. If anything DHH sounds a bit self-entitled.
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by dnh44 6y ago
It can’t be more of a monopoly because neither is a monopoly. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monopoly.asp I believe Apple has roughly about 15% of the global smartphone market.
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by dnh44 6y ago
We do most of our sales of physical goods we manufacture through a distributor. The distributor marks up the price they pay by 80%. Effectively the distributor takes over 50% of the profit. We think we’re getting a great deal. Eventually th
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by dnh44 6y ago
It’s a little bit like the story of The Emperors New Clothes though. Everyone knows Taiwan is independent but officially we all pretend it’s not.
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by dnh44 6y ago
I tried to opened a business at that time and they asked what countries we think we might have customers in. I came up with a list off the top of my head and on that list was a potential customer in Mexico (which has the 15th biggest econom
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by dnh44 6y ago
A few times a year I attend events where wearing a suit is expected. I quite like wearing suits occasionally because I feel good wearing them. Once I intentionally underdressed quite severely for the event. I can say that I don't think
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by dnh44 6y ago
About 10 years ago HSBC got caught helping drug cartels launder money and they got massively fined for it. In the subsequent years they made it really difficult to open an account, but they wouldn't tell people what the hold up was bec
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by dnh44 6y ago
Well that's the free market at work. If users are unhappy they can move to different platforms and Apple will have be forced to make things more attractive for developers and users.
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by dnh44 6y ago
Yes, Apple is both a monopoly and a monopsony for Apple devices. Just like Marks & Spencer is for Marks & Spencer products. But M&S isn't the only supermarket and Apple isn't the only smartphone manufacturer. In fact b
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by dnh44 6y ago
If regular users were clamouring to be allowed to install apps from places other than the official App Store I think your argument would carry more weight. It seems to me though that it's developers asking for the rule changes for thei
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by dnh44 6y ago
Yeah I use 1Blocker on safari for both iOS and macOS and I think it works pretty great.
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by dnh44 6y ago
I think you've remembered the name correctly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sainsbury,_Baron_Sainsbu...
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by dnh44 6y ago
The 30% IAP is only for digital services. For real world services/products you can use Apple Pay for which they take somewhere around 2%.

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