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by emsy 5y ago
I will think about it the next time I buy an old lawnmower on craigslist.
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by emsy 5y ago
Not only that, but you can see why places like Twitter need 4 years to change a font. It looks like tech in general is undermined by highly unprofessional people and this whole thread is a testament to that.
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by emsy 5y ago
At least they would be rowing, but political activism is not work. Imagine going to the barber and instead of cutting your hair he would lecture you on the hardship of Guatemalan shepherds.
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by emsy 5y ago
That’s actually an insightful comment. Of course if you do sports, eat and socialize at work so that the company can keep you there for 12 hours people have no other possible outlet for their political activism.
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by emsy 5y ago
Why do people think work is an appropriate place for political activism?
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by emsy 5y ago
> Wouldn’t the taxpayers foot the bill for whatever the price is? Certainly doesn’t work that way in germany where college is free. But then again, the US have an odd relationship with tax funding, to say the least.
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by emsy 5y ago
There’s a lot of room for compromise between „you are not allowed to even mention external payment systems“ and „everyone has their own IAP system“.
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by emsy 5y ago
It didn’t have to be that way. If Apple had sensible policies that stand the test of regulatory scrutiny this wouldn’t happen. Now that lawmakers get involved I will expect the worst outcome for customers, or as you succinctly put it „we lo
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by emsy 5y ago
I think it’s reasonable to expect a lot of people to follow Netflix outside of the App Store. Therefore Apple would have to make an offer that is competitive enough for them to stay. I would argue that’s fair competition. Unlike their curre
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by emsy 5y ago
You said it's naive but didn't actually present a reasonable alternative.
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by emsy 5y ago
The problem here are not the special deals, saurik commented he cut special deals in the Cydia store occasionally the last time this topic came up. The problem is that there is no alternative to Apple when it comes to publishing software an
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by emsy 5y ago
That phrase is so overused in light of massively over engineered solutions that are created every day in our industry . Let’s face it: this project loads some data via http and displays some text and primitives on a display. This can easily
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by emsy 5y ago
I remember reading somewhere on HN that it‘s a patent/monopoly issue but I didn‘t verify.
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by emsy 5y ago
Do the drive with 130mph constant speed? People with race cars easily reach this velocity on the Autobahn.
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by emsy 5y ago
A racing car doesn’t belong on the streets in the first place.
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by emsy 5y ago
Did you just question the "correct" media's authority!?
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by emsy 5y ago
The problem is not that cyber-security is hard, but that a trillion dollar company is incapable to handle security disclosures.
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by emsy 5y ago
>Unless you were already near the top, climbing rapidly up rankings (in a 3rd party ladder) is going to be very suspicious. smurfs are as old as competitive games, so I doubt it.
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by emsy 5y ago
No Apple is definitely not abusing their market position by controlling (and taxing) the access to millions of customers.
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by emsy 5y ago
No I think there are certain aspects about Apple products that are definitely not throwaway culture, mainly software support. The hardware is also holding up really long (I also use a MBP 2013, I have several iPhone 6s users in my family).
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by emsy 5y ago
>I'm a bit conflicted about this, because on the one hand: yeah being unable to work for a week is obviously bad, but, devices are going to fail and it could sometimes be the difference between _you_ wasting a week debugging or not.
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by emsy 5y ago
Do you mean the criticism is reasonable or 1 week repair time? Because the latter is absolutely not for anyone that uses their laptop as their primary working device. A week downtime is completely unacceptable.
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by emsy 5y ago
I’d recommend to get a fitness watch then. The Apple Watch is so much more, but for fitness enthusiasts the battery life is probably more important than the smart features (which fitness watches mostly lack).
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by emsy 5y ago
I think the reason is that US-Americans are really into pretending they care about their veterans.
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by emsy 5y ago
Think of parents buying "Gameboys" for their children for example ;)
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by emsy 5y ago
Downvoted for truth basically. When it comes to bread and cheese, trust the US to get it wrong :P
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by emsy 5y ago
> I did this because my friends who were already there advised me that the company did not supply phones but did expect you to load a crapload of apps on to do your job. Serious question: what if you don’t have a smartphone (I know sever
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by emsy 5y ago
Not going to walk with it doesn’t seem very …erm animal friendly.
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by emsy 5y ago
In the article, 2 of 3 examples are about consumption. This just reinforces my opinion that the iPad is primarily a consumption device. My wife is a teacher and I asked her if her students, the so called „digital natives“ hold up to their r
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by emsy 5y ago
Finally my iPad may actually be useful for more than just a really expensive web browsing machine.

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