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by dwaite 2y ago
In late 2001 (in the US) I switched off of desktop Linux to a used iBook G3, and have never really went back. We were a small company and I switched to using that iBook for some work (C++ development for *nix-based systems). I felt I was an
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Same in the United States. Outside of schools who got the machines for a substantial discount, they were bought for specific professional use cases like electronic publishing. Steve Jobs saw that it wasn't just the Mac but the entire
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True, but the ramifications can be really harmful. We have two generations now who have born thinking online services and software are supposed to be outrageously cheap or free, just because of companies who have used such services as loss
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Apple has a business agreement to use Google search, and it seems it is a similar agreement to what they made to OpenAI - we as Apple will use your service by default, we pay you nothing, and we take a percentage of your monetization.
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> And by no surprise, their browser is the only major one that has no privacy protection features and last month decided to abandon the plan to deprecate cookies and tracking. Oh they didn't abandon the plans, they chose something w
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> How does your rationale explain Internet Explore/Edge and Safari which both have abundance of money and still can’t outcompete Chrome? Google justified a huge investment in Blink by making effectively making it the application pla
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The most significant reason there is that the license must be taken under the strictest interpretation without a more specific business level agreement between the two. Apple for instance forbade GPLv3 because the anti-Novell clauses, which
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> That might be exactly your point though? That Apple has multiple tools to leverage to make sure that it's impossible to compete with their payment processor if you're building an app? Apple wants you to use their payment proc
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PWAs are only able to be limited by technical measures, not business measures. For instance, anti-fingerprinting logic wouldn’t be needed in an App Store. There, Apple can say if they find out you are fingerprinting users without going thr
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I’ve been trying to figure this out. Just guessing since I have limited Patreon usage. They don’t want to just be a payment middleman for creators, they want to be “sticky” like Facebook. So they might add things like chat, media playback (
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If you sign up for new service via the app, it does in-app purchasing. After that you can maintain your account via the web.
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Apps in certain categories (ebooks, music, video, news) can choose to not support purchasing at all in apps, or to use in-app purchases. Outside these categories (eg a email account as a service, group classes) you are expected to always ha
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I don’t know if that link supports your point?
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There are several vendors who do this, for instance 1Password and the Omni Group both do. You have an in-app purchase option that is unlocked by a previous receipt. The challenge is that Apple does not provide tools to help or guidance. The
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> Does Apple's refusal to allow apps to tell users about lower prices elsewhere make this claim more likely to be true or less likely to be true? If this is a free choice that consumers are making, why does Apple need to hide it fro
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> Apple seems to be very invested in forcing Patreon to either not be in the app store at all Does it? It seems like they are enforcing their developer agreement as written, and likely have been advised they need to enforce it uniformly
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Adobe absolutely supports in-app purchasing for Creative Cloud. So does Microsoft with O365. These conversations often seem to miss that Apple’s requirement is that consumer purchasing be presented as the singular option in-app, not that yo
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As a technically minded person, I must say I don’t know how to protect myself from secretly malicious apps. A weather app needs my location and network access. It doesn’t need to sell ongoing location tracking information associated with my
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by dwaite 2y ago
Are you implying a significant portion of the population who stop paying things like their water bill when they find no hits within the iOS App Store?
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Apple Pay and in-app purchase are different. Apple Pay is a percentage paid by the bank, not the merchant. In-app purchase is for an app being used to buy digital goods and services consumed in-app. The agreement for publishing apps says th
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by dwaite 2y ago
The list of issues with the Apple/Google relationship has a lot of unsubstantiated claims, such as sharing full web browsing history. Does anyone have a reference to where that claim comes from? Their claim that Safari has gotten slow
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There's a lot of press about the revenue sharing deals that Apple has with Google (and soon OpenAI on the AI query front). I think from there that a common assumption formed that Apple does _not_ have a revenue sharing deal required by
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This is a problem I've heard from most large tech companies, most notably Google. Do you have an example of a company which has been successful with an alternative incentive structure that doesn't have these issues, perhaps one th
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PWA is a "progressive web app" - a normal web app that can use additional features when available. Everything beyond straight HTML (including CSS and Javascript) is considered "progressive". https://en.wikiped
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What good would that be without the information backing it? (The DarkSky API server) And if that information does still exist in the (public) Apple Weather API, why hasn't anyone (not just some Apple Engineer) just created an app with
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I imagine because it operated counter to basic meteorological theory. The difference is that 15 minute rain forecasts don't need that to be usefully accurate. A model of equivalent simplicity would be about as accurate as the farmer&#x
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What were you using for hyperlocal projective forecasts that far in advance?
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Weather has hyperlocal precipitation alerts. I don't believe Weather or Dark Sky have had hyperlocal weather forecasting. I would absolutely love such a feature (since I live far from the center of town in an area with microclimates);
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You only need to cross-navigate detail views (via the drop-down) if you start by looking at some other piece of information. 1. Scroll to the "Feels Like" tile 2. Tap it
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And mass transit you have to deal with line failures, the inability to transport more than you can reasonably carry, and the curfew created by the end-of-line time for the evening.

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