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by dwaite 6mo ago
All three of those products launched with custom hardware made by partnered manufacturers. At iPhone launch, I seem to remember Apple still having quite a bit of the flash ram market tied up from their exclusive iPod contracts - Apple basic
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by dwaite 6mo ago
I wouldn't describe it as 'rushed'. Its integrated pretty much exactly the way they said it would be, as a fall-back from Siri when you ask world knowledge questions. The part that doesn't work is having Siri locally sma
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by dwaite 6mo ago
Yes. Apple put custom hardware support in the M series chips based on the needs of Rosetta 2. The x86_64 performance on Rosetta 2 was often higher at launch than the prior generation of Intel chips running those same binaries natively. Micr
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by dwaite 6mo ago
Their focus is investing in areas where they see something being a competitive differentiator, or where the market has failed to create a competitive environment. They do not make their own screens because they can source screens from multi
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by dwaite 6mo ago
Knowing the building heights around Chicago is not an OS feature. Even if Siri was perfect, they still aren't going to ship a wikipedia object graph on every phone. Likewise, the phone does not understand removing people from a photo.
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by dwaite 6mo ago
I would absolutely count blackberry and palm pilot, along with windows ce-based phones. Just because Apple leap-frogged them (and they all eventually folded those lines of business) doesn't mean they weren't existing products in t
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by dwaite 6mo ago
The text from images feature launched as a Pixel 2 series-only feature. There's a lot clearer message to consumers on iPhone, since so many features are available on "every phone made in the last five years, once you update the so
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by dwaite 7mo ago
You can also just open the old keychain using the old password.
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by dwaite 7mo ago
Yes, sandboxing is a technological protection, but once you have important data flowing we often don't have technological protections to prevent exfiltration and abuse. The global nature of the internet means that someone who publishes
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by dwaite 7mo ago
We already have that. The market for the "technophobe" (e.g. above average and below levels of security awareness) phone is 100x larger. That means the people who say "I can evaluate the intricacies and impacts of software au
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by dwaite 7mo ago
The coloring is a property of concurrency safety and whether the language enforces it. For instance, if you resolve a future in the wrong context you'll still have problems - the coloring is just a compile time error that you are doing
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by dwaite 7mo ago
This seems like a vehicle for complaining about a pet list of missing macOS features rather than actually being commentary about the Neo. For instance, they are arguing that Apple is pushing users toward a Thunderbolt dock - on a computer w
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by dwaite 7mo ago
However, Firefox also needs to use the closed source OS when running on Windows or macOS. There are also WebKit-based Linux browsers, which obviously do not use closed-source OS interfaces. My pessimistic guess on reasoning is that they sus
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by dwaite 8mo ago
> Years ago, they changed the behavior of the green button to be "fullscreen into a separate space." Not quite. It has the old behavior (grow to as large a window as supported) if the app does not support full-screen. For insta
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by dwaite 8mo ago
It is legit - with some pretty severe caveats. I am pressed to come up with an example that has more formal specification, published source implementations, and public unit test coverage than a C compiler. It is not feasible that someone wi
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by dwaite 8mo ago
If you can figure out a good way for Apple to eliminate the revenue model used for the most profitable games on the platform without getting slapped by regulators, I'm sure they would love to hear it.
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by dwaite 8mo ago
It's important to understand the timeline of the Steve Jobs open letter on Adobe Flash - at that point the iPhone had been out just shy of three years, and before the first public betas on Android. So for nearly three years, Apple had
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by dwaite 8mo ago
In addition, there is a clause added (IIRC because of the patent shield licensing deal between Novell and Microsoft) that third party patent licensing needs to cover downstream GPLv3 usage. You cannot simply license a patent for your binary
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by dwaite 8mo ago
Operating system files do not get stored in Apple's cloud storage system (without gymnastics like copying them into a user's Documents folder)
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by dwaite 8mo ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66283714/how-can-i-force... explicitly using vim (rather than the vi alias) is supposed to give the return code behavior you prefer.
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by dwaite 8mo ago
Supposedly when Michelangelo was asked about how he created the statue of David, he said "I just chipped away everything that wasn’t David.” Your work is influenced by the medium by which you work. I used to be able to tell very quickl
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by dwaite 9mo ago
> Xcode’s file associations are super aggressive. They are the same Info.plist format as every other MacOS application.
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by dwaite 9mo ago
It isn't a dietary heuristic, because there's little advice provided. The extreme is that it is advising people to seek treatment if they suffer from pica or bulimia.
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by dwaite 9mo ago
Apple doesn't do partner exceptions (one of the complaints Epic had about working with them is that Apple wouldn't negotiate lower rates with companies, unlike the game consoles.) They do have carve outs in the agreement, such as
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by dwaite 9mo ago
I've long believes that the requirement to use in-app purchasing was to make such revenue sharing easier to audit - if you can only use Apple's payment system to do certain things (or else your app isn't approved), then Apple
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by dwaite 9mo ago
I would expect also that there is a broader revenue sharing agreement for both being a system-integrated search engine and "world knowledge" chatbot (Google and OpenAI being the respective defaults)
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by dwaite 9mo ago
If Claude Code was in the Mac App Store, they would have signed an agreement to do so (offer an in-app purchase option and Apple gets a 30% cut of subscriptions for the first year, 15% after that). They would also be sandboxed such that the
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by dwaite 9mo ago
Working adjacent to such digital identity app development, they are unfortunately regulated to require such device integrity approaches. If Google Play Integrity didn't exist, the app would only be certified to run on e.g. unrooted Sam
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by dwaite 9mo ago
IIRC Premium Apple podcasts charge their standard subscription fees (eg 30% the first year, 15% the years after that)
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by dwaite 9mo ago
This is the model they have moved to in the EU - an annual per user-app core technology fee for apps enabled to be listed outside the store, and relaxed in-store rules (and reduced commissions) if you choose to still list in Apple's Ap

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