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by dwaite 3y ago
Sure, but does side-loading or alternate app stores of notorized apps mean that you'll be able to ship arbitrary JIT-enabled apps and apps which allow arbitrary execution of downloaded native binaries?
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by dwaite 3y ago
I think it's just different math. The 15 basis points Apple supposedly charges for with card payments from Apple Pay is meant to come from the fraud budget; that a biometric-based authentication is consider both more secure and easier
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by dwaite 3y ago
> I am very well cognisant of this fact, but this bears absolutely no relationship with async await vs fibers The ruby environment does not have async/await, and has a desire for experimentation with user mode concurrency systems du
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by dwaite 3y ago
> I think it makes a good case that async/await is infectious and awkward, and fibers (at least as implemented in Ruby) is quite simply a better paradigm. As someone who has done fibers development in Ruby, I disagree. CRuby has the
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by dwaite 3y ago
For rust, fibers (as a user-space, cooperative concurrency abstraction) would mandate a lot of design choices, such as whether stacks should be implemented using spaghetti stacks or require some sort of process-level memory mapping library,
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by dwaite 3y ago
> It wasn't permitted for music apps until a few years later, by which time Apple Music was established. My understanding - Siri is at its heart a command and control system. It was able to do Music (and iTunes before) because it kn
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by dwaite 3y ago
Yep, not the full Prime account, but a cheaper video-limited one.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Forcing Apple to allow third party payments without Apple's cut would improve market opportunities for many businesses. It would, but that is how Apple collects their commission. Where regulations where Apple has been forced to pr
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by dwaite 3y ago
It'll just transition to bias based on race, toward prejudice against people with the "wrong" number of fingers.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Passkeys have been heavily pushed by major tech companies as a replacement for both a username, password, and 2FA method - but (assuming proper 2FA) it's a strict downgrade with serious drawbacks. It's really sad to see compa
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by dwaite 3y ago
Google and Facebook are among others now regulated as well. The European Economic Zone sets regulations around economic policy. Their creation of the DMA was that while the markets did not have monopolistic abuse, that there were areas that
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by dwaite 3y ago
> There is nothing wrong with breaking an illegal contract. It is not an illegal contract. It is a contract that Epic _hopes_ is illegal. I don't get to ignore my home mortgage payments without consequence even if I believe in my tr
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by dwaite 3y ago
So are you saying that Apple is not providing the same API to third party marketplaces as they leverage in their own App Store?
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by dwaite 3y ago
This is hardly out of the blue. Epic's CEO testified how they not only premeditated breaking their contract with Apple, but arranged a PR campaign around it and orchestrated a 'grass roots' effort at the same time. Blocking F
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by dwaite 3y ago
They aren't banned from the App Store. The agreement that Epic's Swedish subsidiary is the standard developer agreement, and they can publish whatever they like in the App Store as long as they follow Apple's guidelines. Appl
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by dwaite 3y ago
Apple's stock dip is mostly unrelated to the EU - it is primarily related to Apple losing double digit percentages of sales to Huawei in China, after they had disappointing numbers in the prior fiscal quarter reporting. 2 bil € is a fa
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by dwaite 3y ago
We won't know, because just one side is releasing selective communications as part of their PR. There was communication before Apple approved Epic's Swedish subsidiary to get an account, and there could very well have been other o
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by dwaite 3y ago
However, there wasn't a flag by Microsoft to give applications this implementation rather than the one they requested.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Consoles are so ephemeral in the grand scheme of things, and lawsuits take so long, that it's not worth it. SOME consoles are sold at close to margins or even a loss at launch, making up for it later. Other companies like Nintend
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by dwaite 3y ago
and all Epic has to do is commit to honoring a contract (this time) to do that.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Take it to the other extreme: what does a PC manufacturer do that Apple does not? Why not let Windows close down and take 30% on any program installed on Windows? I mean, why not? They did so in the past (Windows 10 S). I think it turn
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by dwaite 3y ago
> They create dedicated hardware designed to excel at gaming and then sell it at or near cost. In a very real sense they create the market that games producers sell into, and the business model is explicitly centered around those softwar
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by dwaite 3y ago
Do you think this is a viable distribution model for web extensions, e.g. an alternative to the Chrome Web Store?
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by dwaite 3y ago
Yes, such as MacPaw's SetApp marketplace. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/29/24086792/setapp-subscript...
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by dwaite 3y ago
I suspect if the disagreement is in Epic refusing to commit to honoring a contract and the CEO referring to it as requiring "sworn fealty", the actual resolution would be for Apple to show the actual harm in a marketplace violatin
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by dwaite 3y ago
I do not. Tim Sweeney testified that had Apple offered a special deal just for Epic, they would have taken it.
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by dwaite 3y ago
Apple is asking for a clear commitment to honor its contract this time. I'm pretty sure a court ruling on reinstating the account isn't going to also require a clear commitment to honor the contract.
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by dwaite 3y ago
Alternative app marketplaces are required to accept an agreement including payment terms to Apple. It is still a business relationship in Apple's DMA implementation.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> If you can’t win in the marketplace of ideas, just ban walled gardens entirely. Flip the table and ban your competitors’ business model, bioshock style. But the DMA doesn't ban walled gardens. It requires the availability of compe
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by dwaite 3y ago
Myself, I'll use PWA to mean "promoted web app" - since it is closer in this context, and 99% of the market gets "progressive" wrong anyway. I believe that third party browser engines will have the same privileges a

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