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by ece 6y ago
Intel has been behind on process before and come out fine. They've been ahead on process and technology, but at those times should have been able to capitalize on it to get into mobile and GPUs early on I feel. They couldn't/
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by ece 6y ago
Buy an Android One phone that provides updates, install F-Droid, use the open source maps/etc.. with minimal play store use and disable every thing else you don't need. There clearly are choices, though at varying levels of conven
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by ece 6y ago
In case someone is wondering about the brand Sceptre, it's relatively old, and I've had Sceptre monitors (22", 24") for a few years now without problems. The colors and latency seem fine to me too, though I'm not a
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by ece 6y ago
I think he's talking about companies that don't know what they're doing. Keeping track of changes is one thing, but even if it takes companies like Tesla years to become compliant, it's seems pretty clear that companies
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by ece 6y ago
Linux is GPLv2, is there something GPLv3 they use that also needs them to disclose the signing keys?
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by ece 6y ago
I don't need to be a lawyer to see that a case which determined that users can sue Apple because Apple is the direct seller, and in the dissent said developers would have an even better standing to sue Apple leads us to where we are. I
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by ece 6y ago
You should learn about Apple vs Pepper.
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by ece 6y ago
There is some hope from Europe, but I agree with the rest of your comment.
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by ece 6y ago
People also didn't think Apple would just stop updates to a game they paid Apple money for.
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by ece 6y ago
Let's define innovation here, for iOS it would be the A13 and widgets, while for Android it would be folding screens and a modular Android that's easier to update. But you know, this thread is about Fortnite not being on iOS, and
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by ece 6y ago
I think you've ignored my main point, which is Windows, Linux and MacOS kept innovating by being open and iOS and Android can do the same for phones.
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by ece 6y ago
Carrier appstores aside, you could download apps directly from Google or any other website on any Symbian phone.
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by ece 6y ago
If you have a company phone you have a different type of walled garden than even what the iPhone provides through some MDM layer. Apple could offer such a separate MDM-based consumer product and also allow side loading. Microsoft was forced
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by ece 6y ago
On phones, Symbian and Blackberry were about as open as Android is currently (though signing apps was partially required IIRC). iOS/iPhones has always been closed except for the web browser. I think there are completely valid cases for
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by ece 6y ago
I think the relevant market here is phones. Anything that can substitute for a phone and reduce sales of phones. Within this market, devices have long been able to run whatever apps were compiled using relevant free SDKs and downloaded from
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by ece 6y ago
No walled gardens should be beyond reproach IMO. I think Epic has it's work laid out for it, and they would definitely have a shot with a jury trial, and likely at the Supreme Court given Apple vs Pepper.
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by ece 6y ago
Anti-trust is about anti-competitive practices and consumer benefit. Carterfone and Microsoft are possibly the most relevant examples. Google and Apple are a duopoly in the phone market, and Apple's (and Google's in the case of Ep
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by ece 6y ago
“Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing.” - Halt and Catch Fire
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by ece 6y ago
Oh what I wouldn't give for small screen phones that do just enough on the go. I had a 6301 which had Wifi with good enough maps/email/audio that I kept using well after Android/iOS came out. Add a GPS and a better camer
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by ece 6y ago
I think Android manufacturers need SoCs with 16MB L3 shared across the CPU+GPU+DSP+NN like the A13 more than they need RTX in a GPU.
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by ece 6y ago
To help convince you that Apple is a kind of monopoly, I found this article to be illuminating: https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/09/apple-goes-to-war-with-the... If you want to get a game on iOS today, you have
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by ece 6y ago
To add something else, POSS focusing on developers (Tidelift, L0) instead of just user freedoms, seems completely the right thing to be doing.
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by ece 6y ago
I should've used the correct (or neutral) pronoun in the second last sentence: herself.
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by ece 6y ago
I think the author made some good points worth thinking about, but I would somewhat disagree with the conclusion. Some of the bigger FOSS projects left out of the write-up would be Chromium which is BSD+others, and Java is GPL, so it should
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by ece 6y ago
There's a Gap Dream song called College Music which goes: Too many soft machines / No relation to the world / Unnecessary wall / ... / It makes me sick sometimes. These are literally all the lyrics I could find, but
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by ece 6y ago
I think it works similarly well even for newer Twitch streamers from anecdotal evidence. It's really the variety on Patreon, from a podcaster/youtuber to a Twitch streamer to even open source devs, which kind of shows how well it&
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by ece 6y ago
Usually with real time OSes in my experience on Linux (preempt rt), throughput performance tends to drop a bit because now the processor is responding to inputs ASAP and so other tasks need to wait. Inputs can be network/file I/O,
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by ece 6y ago
I believe Stallman said "digital handcuffs."
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by ece 6y ago
This is pretty much the only way you can read the last poll in the article. Not sure why you're being down voted.
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by ece 6y ago
While this is even more true for consoles, the difference is in a specific purpose vs a general purpose. General purpose platforms that become overly closed have roundly been rejected or been forced to open up: Carterfone, AOL, Windows, car

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