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by dwaite 3y ago
> Last month I finally gave in and made my Mac and iOS apps a universal purchase instead of separate purchases, but to me it's ridiculous to give away a new version for free on Vision Pro when consumers are giving $3500+ to Apple f
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by dwaite 3y ago
It is a give and take; governments can give requirements to do business but can't mandate business is done.
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I think if the price comes down there will be a low double-digit percentage of people who have a Vision Pro and no television. This would not be too surprising based on the portion of people who do not own a TV today, watching media on lapt
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by dwaite 3y ago
> The mere threat from the EU, and anti-trust hearings in the US has already benefitted you by reducing the commission from 30% to 17% for apps with revenue under $1M. The old terms had it at 15% (small business program).
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Streaming services ARE paying TV manufactures for using their IP. Thats why all the TVs are becoming smart TVs - because someone signing up for Max (or Apple TV+) nets them a fairly profitable commission when you see how slim margins are fo
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by dwaite 3y ago
> But Apple owns one of only two global mobile app, service and info platforms, and so has tremendous power to limit and veto other businesses opportunities. Few businesses that need to operate in those ecosystems can be viable only oper
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Can I publish an application that does not use Apple IP, let’s say something written in ARM assembler? Or am I forced to use Apple IP? Not sure what you mean by forced to use Apple IP. You are running on their ARM chip under their kern
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by dwaite 3y ago
secure storage/secure boot while acting as the SSD controller, crypto functions via the Secure Enclave with TouchID processing. Video codec for encoding/decoding H.264/H.265. Also handled the hardware for the microphone/
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If they had 100% capture of the current consumer VR/AR market it would still have a tiny impact on their overall numbers. They use a new term because they feel the only way to succeed is to create a new product category. And that is pa
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by dwaite 3y ago
Google got slapped in their case with Epic because they offered inconsistent terms, and promoted the idea of alternative app stores while taking business measures on the back-end to prevent them. Apple gives much more consistent terms. The
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by dwaite 3y ago
Again, this is what I think people get wrong when they talk about anticompetitive bundling. Apple will continue to take a cut to make apps for the phone. The App Store and in-app purchases are how they take their cut today. The bundling is
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That has been the style of argument made to regulators so far. However then people get shocked that Apple says ok, we've rolled out the ability for third party app stores, we still review all the apps before signing, and the store owes
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I'm not quite getting your point. The parent seems to be saying that when you take the difference between physical and digital goods into account, that Amazon is leaving him with a similar slice of the revenue. You seem to be arguing t
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React Native is a (sophisticated) Javascript wrapper around Apple's platform.
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> Apparently the courts don't believe this is a monopoly, presumably because you can also choose to toss your iPhone and buy an Android phone instead. You also have the entire internet, no tossing required.
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What would the suit entail? That Apple is giving a new option where they charge less than the previously agreed upon percentage?
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> Apple has not chosen to re-enter a business relationship with Epic, and has rejected Epic’s offers to do business with them. It’s a simple as that. Apple's public comments to the point have been that Epic is free to resume publish
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> ... this seems worse than the original restrictions. This is worse from the original restrictions _specifically_ because the original restrictions were chosen to simplify from this sort of scenario. If Apple says all app purchases and
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The internet?
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> And do I have a choice to use a non Apple App Store? No! On Mac? There's many of them, the one which springs to mind most quickly being Steam.
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I'd be curious to see single/multi benchmarks of Rosetta 2-emulated code running across the various Apple Silicon CPU. My impression from the M1 was that only P cores could go into the stricter memory mode used for Rosetta 2 emula
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by dwaite 3y ago
No real justification for conspiracy theories. We have already seen a company fail when betting on PWA to fill in gaps in native app support for their platform - it was called Windows Phone.
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> Letting a webapp capable webpage have an in-page "install this app" button that added it to the home screen would wipe out 50% of app store usage I can hardly wait for my entire Saturday to be taken up by my father being clic
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by dwaite 3y ago
> I also believe that a lot of APIs in iOS are not available from PWAs. The security model of a store is delegated trust and stewardship. There is someone who will review if applications need capabilities, and will provide business penal
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> It's wild that I can use a full-featured spreadsheet instantly on the web on my laptop, but on my phone someone wants me to download a 100mb binary to order a pizza Google Sheets is now basically a window-sized canvas element, wit
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by dwaite 3y ago
NSPredicate is a rather old system which is (or at least was) extremely open. I suspect few developers realized just how much they could get out of NSPredicate across sandbox boundaries when mediated by the OS. However, that also means lock
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> Revoking a bearer token for multiple services is an open loop problem, where you can't know if all services... What is a service here? A bearer token is meant solely for the AS. Revocation of a bearer token only means something in
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by dwaite 3y ago
In Google's sort of environments, access tokens have to be interpreted by the world (e.g. a zillion geographically distributed Google nodes), so it makes sense for them to be self-contained bundles of authorization policy decisions and
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I suspect Apple considers developers ignoring a five(?) year notice period that 32 bit compatibility will be dropped a sign that the publisher has already abandoned their software.
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I would argue VR is not a neutral example. In the physical world, space is a limited resource that sells at a premium. You have benefit from things being in a reasonable distance for walking/traveling. Being near water has real-world b

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