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by donor20 6y ago
I don't think you realize the permissions game makers need to even sell a CD that works on xbox. If that CD is not signed off on by microsoft - total control -> it's not going to work in your console - period. And the irony - E
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by donor20 6y ago
But the irony is that loss leaders are a sign of market abuse / market power. That's the normal anti-trust claim - predatory pricing. If anything, Apple is charging a premium price for their experience. Apple has become essential
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by donor20 6y ago
Xbox has a monpoly on their game store. Sony has a monpoloy on their game store. Come on - is this argument going to be used for all these too? Walmart has a monopoly on what sells in Walmart.
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by donor20 6y ago
Awesome service and app. The nuance here was there a fair number of bad players in this space and abuse was not uncommon. Ie, "ratings" apps that were not really ratings / user reviews were bogus / paid for etc. Apple ha
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by donor20 6y ago
It's not amazing. If the regulatory and govt moves against apple succeed apple will be shipping devices with back door / root access for intercept purposes within months. The idea that the govt is going to do more to protect your
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by donor20 6y ago
100% false. If you login to news.ycombinator.com it's unlikely you are logging into a fishing site for ycombinator. If you login to github.com - again, very unlikely github is running a phishing scam on you. Do folks not understand the
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by donor20 6y ago
People (at least some %) just trigger on see the company name in the bar - if I gave a pop quick to all your relatives do you think they could accruately manager to describe all the separators and what they mean? ?&/: etc? They&#x2
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by donor20 6y ago
Microsoft had IE as the DEFAULT - and did plenty of pushing itself. Across almost all dimensions chrome was better when it came out - people seem to forget how horrible browsers were historically (and how easily abused). I know ages ago of
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by donor20 6y ago
It did in a domain I'm familiar with. I think they were the first to have separate processes for tabs (?) which you could really see add robustness - when flash could blow up your session etc you could much more easily close out the of
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by donor20 6y ago
Exactly - also if you do any penetration testing of your staff side - the key to get something through is have the name of the company it seems anywhere in the URL. Literally - lkjljkdfskjfsd.com/bankofamerica/securelogin.do etc.
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by donor20 6y ago
Wow - top posts are conspiracy theories. "The only reason to do this..." "This is a security issue..." Google has millions / billions of users. From a security standpoint the focus should be entirely on the root dom
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by donor20 6y ago
You can distribute an app for free if you are part of their developer program - which is something like $99 for all the needed software and tooling (perhaps one of the lowest SDK prices historically?). They will actually subsidize all your
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by donor20 6y ago
Huh? If you can't engage the discussion don't engage. "Your spidy sense is screaming"... ? "Kudos for encapsulating all the arguments that don't need to take place...". I feel like folks don't have a
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by donor20 6y ago
Exactly this - I'm a "high spending" customer. Because they take pretty good care of their store, because there are no surprise auto-renewals and on and on I spend money freely - it's pretty safe to. I always seem to reg
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by donor20 6y ago
Good point - my mistake there for sure! I was also responding to a comment saying Apple should be broken apart at same time. I'm mostly responding to the strong comments - in this case "digging their own antitrust grave." Whi
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by donor20 6y ago
I don't have time to respond to every comment. The court case argues that apple monopolizes the iOS App Distribution market. So they claim a real monopoly. Similarly, I'm sure Walmart monopolizes the Walmart distribution market. A
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by donor20 6y ago
And walmart monopolizes the walmart store distribution market. Is this seriously the argument?
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by donor20 6y ago
I suppose the next case will be against Walmart for not allowing me to setup my own kiosk with my own payment processor in their store if you define markets in this way. They have a monopoly in their stores on sales of items.
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by donor20 6y ago
I have more confidence in Apple delivering privacy and security, a reliable product maintained over time that is not backdoored then I do in DHS or whatever other agency they'll put in charge of their app store. So "Don't wor
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by donor20 6y ago
Fantastic - this is long overdue. It's one thing to have a marketplace where consequences flow back to sellers. In amazon's case however, the sellers are always long gone (they don't even track who sold what) AND amazon provi
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by donor20 6y ago
Wow - HN reliably comes out with just incredible legal analysis, and not in a good way. Apple delivers products that are supported FAR far longer than android. Yes, they charge everyone a premium for this. One reason people don't mind
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by donor20 6y ago
Good lord - on HN the monopoly comments are so crazy sometimes. What is the monopoly issue Apple has? Use android if you don't like Apple's product line. Apple is at 22% share.
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by donor20 6y ago
Wow - strong language. Can I ask - do you contribute meaningfully to any open source packages? Do you buy software at a significant commercial level? I've noticed this sort of total absolutest, outraged, scorched earth style sometimes
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by donor20 6y ago
I'm curious if this ruling also impacts things like instacart and other delivery services?
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by donor20 6y ago
Yeah, the SELinux approach reminds me of IAM - both hard. They need to build in a run code path with full permission propose minimal policy based on accesses seen. The reality - everyone finds it MUCH quicker to give broad admin rights out
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by donor20 6y ago
I'm in the group of businesses that got handouts that the business didn't need to survive, but the handouts did mean folks were kept on staff even without work. This paid off big time for us (especially if covid had resolved by Se
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by donor20 6y ago
I've never felt tricked by RI. Is there some value to a cloud provider if I commit to three years of an instance type that might night have much new adoption after 1 or 2 years? I suspect so. They seemed to price based on that. What&#x
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by donor20 6y ago
It's not that bad. In the US there are 5 PROs which is better than a lot of places. And it does make licensing for users of music easier to have these societies. That said, in Europe these are more like monopolies. Still not bad it wil
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by donor20 6y ago
I'm no expert, but the mental model of an interface is so simple. The inheritance model I liked in school, but practically the payoff just never seems to show up.
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by donor20 6y ago
Uh, you do realize the monopoly here is Koda right? Google offers something many people would pay for, global distribution along with ways to monetize that content if desired (patreon links, ads etc). Your analogy is so tortured I can'

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