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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
To apple, there are 2 customers. Device owners and developers. If device owners choose to buy ios, developers are forced to build for ios. There is no "just don't buy from apple" from the developers pov. A quick google says t
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> If Apple abuses its power, there are plenty of alternatives that customers can switch to This is just not how the 3 party markets work. For there to be mobility, both the users and developers have to move. Good luck convincing users to
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
Is it though? Before the iphone desktops were king. On desktops - developers could use any programming language and there was a standard language that was well supported on pretty much all systems (C), so no need to learn 4 different langua
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
If their bad choices have negative effects on others, for example developers being exploited, then yes the choice should be made for them. It's the same as smoking or drinking. When you smoke, there are harmful effects to third parties
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> alignment of laws with our actual desires as a society. The fact is, people desire different things from society. Some people want to have other people take control, because they believe it provides them with security. Others want tota
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> Honestly, it makes sense to charge for the bandwidth Apple provides The bandwidth that everyone is forced to use. The web has shown that decentralizing distribution is not only possible but works well. This is just another way for the
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> Over time you start realizing that there are no silver bullets I hate to be that guy, but there is 1 silver bullet. Erlang. Whether you are writing code for a cluster of machines or a single node, the developer experience is the same.
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
I bet Uber and instacart have proof of you 'explicitly' opting in /s. The world we live in is such a joke.
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
The two examples were self driving and VR. > The point was he seems to consistently grossly underestimate the difficulty of problems outside of his domain expertise. Carmack made 3d games and game engines. I don't think VR was outsi
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
The situations are nothing alike. At the time bell labs was making all of its world changing inventions, AT&T was a regulated monopoly that was only allowed to live if they made their research open and not compete in adjacent markets.
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> I wonder what it is about leaders like Steve Jobs that makes them popular despite how programmers working for them know the guy in charge has never written a line of code. People want to believe in the genius that conquered the world,
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> At this point the only reason I keep an iPhone is I really like my Apple Watch With LTE smart watches starting to get good, the dream for me is to just lose the phone. Hopefully whatsapp makes a client for the watches someday and I wil
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> distrust amongst "techies" is a bigger problem than it might otherwise appear because of how disproportionate an influence we have If this was true, everyone would be using linux. The "techy" market is completely di
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
Reddit is also orange though...
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
This type of language is used everywhere in the gaming hardware segment. I think it is kinda tacky, but it has to be working if the entire industry adopted it.
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> Microsoft have a diverse range of revenue This is probably the bingo statement. Everyone has seen the layoff's recently. Markets are expected to take a turn for the worse. In such a situation, a highly diversified company would be
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> does Wall Street care? Some people on wallstreet do. In Mckinsey's book Valuation, they make it pretty clear to the reader that companies who spend a lot on r&d tend to have outsized returns compared to their counterparts, who
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by ephemeral-life 3y ago
> Of course investors aren't rewarding them for an upcoming VR headset which is yet to be proven. Why would they? In ~theory~ such an announcement would be priced into the markets since market capitalization is also dependent on fut