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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Following your logic, Apple should somehow bite 30% of that yearly subscription, when in truth, I am a customer of JetBrains, not of Apple. No, that’s not even remotely close to what I said or implied. > In the Steam case, especiall
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> I welcome all the downvotes, facts are long gone To be fair I’m only downvoting because you couldn’t provide any coherent or rational arguments or claims (and to be fair it’s not even clear what are you trying to say) and not because o
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Why? Is MS expected to do this for Windows or Apple for macOS? Obviously they can still charge the 30% for their own app stores and use that money for moderation. Why would anyone expect them to be responsible for 3rd party stores? > als
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Well it is for most developers on Steam. Small/medium developers of course benefit much more from the increased reach/discoverability and PC games have a very different business model than mobile ones of course. But even for iAP,
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
What do you mean by “only”? You can really expect companies to behave irrationally. Pretty much every company funding Linux development do it because they expect this to benefit them somehow.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Steam Deck is mostly standard Linux (although most stuff Valve does is gets merged into the kernel/free packages etc. so it’s hard to disentangle the these, but not exactly comparable to building a platform almost from scratch) > t
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> You think Steam puts in more effort than providing graphics APIs, system frameworks for everything from networking to controller handling, UI libraries, educational sessions and security critical updates? Sure. But this has absolutely
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
I’m still not sure if GC is the police (i.e. returning the money/memory at an arbitrary undefined point in the future) or me trying to take it back. The topic at hand is pretty straightforward and easy to understand, not sure what’s th
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Exactly, but paying 30% stills seems like a very good deal for most developers.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
But overall isn’t it cheaper now than it was before? e.g. if you don’t like monthly fees it’s still possible to “rent” movies on Apple TV, Amazon etc. for $5 (so cheaper than BB inflation adjusted). Movies hardly make any money anymore outs
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Not really. They still take “only” up to 1-2% in the US
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Steam also takes 30% despite all platforms it operates on being entirely open. So it doesn’t seem to be that unreasonable
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
So police is the VM/programming language and you’re the program? Person writing the program? Or is it the other way around?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> There's never really an explanation as to why "we have to treat these things like infallible perfect works" when they're not, and even their authors told us they're not. They are not, though. The constitution c
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> anyone with half a brain can see the problem with that ruling. If the definition of the word “reasonable” was left in the other half then sure. It’s the job that of the court to define what is “reasonable” on a case by case basis and
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
So exactly the same as saying that you will get your money back at some undefined point in the future whenever the police agency you’re dealing it will find it convenient?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Presumably much better than a language which would free all memory after 46 minutes in all cases regardless if that makes sense in the given context. Also not sure why people like coming with analogies so much, they very rarely are useful
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
You’re not, though. Or at least didn’t provide a single argument..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
It’s just a bit over $100mil. An insignificant on the grand scale of things. Also ARM’s valuation is not exactly rational (their business model is pretty poor) so it seems like a reasonable time to sell
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Maybe it's time to buy puts on INTC. Just as likely that it’s way too late for that now… Also is ARM really a good investment? They are massively overvalued and don’t have a very good business model. ARM makes peanuts compared to
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> So Qualcomm's Arm-based laptops that last 2-3 times longer than the equivalent x86 laptops Do they though? Anything to back this up? They seem to last 10-20% than Meteor Lake chips with somewhat better CPU performance and worse GP
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> But did you know there are many new core designs every year, and that very few of them are from ARM? Really? It took years for Qualcomm to become competitive with ARM’s cores again. Besides them and Apple what else is there? (Ampere I
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Does Intel have a competitive microarchitecture in Pc chips at the moment? Arguably, no Their last gen laptop chips seem to be pretty competitive both with AMD and Qualcomm. They moved some of the manufacturing to TSMC though… Intel se
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
What would they ever gain by that? If they can’t build decent x86 chips when they only have a single competitor switching to an inferior architecture (in the sense that it would require massive investment for it to catch up with x86) with n
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Too late for that. Smartphone SoCs is a low margin business that controlled by Qualcomm (or in-house like Apple, Google and Samsung to some extent) on the high-end and it would absurd for Intel to try and compete for the low-end/budget
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Freedom of speech and press are principles that are in the first amendment but also exist independent of it, and are older than the US The constitution was written by the same people who brought you the Alien and Sedition Acts. It’s ra
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> also have monopolies over a certain kind of power But they don’t. Or at least these are completely different types of ‘monopolies’ that don’t necessarily have that much in common > Freedom of speech and press are part of the first a
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Ordinary developers are effectively just construction workers with a bit more creative freedom. In al critical systems they are just one part of a chain and all their work has to be verified/validated by at least a few additional actor
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
It’s almost like blaming Glock for police shootings… It has nothing to do programmers and everything to do with Post Office’s management. If they bought buggy software they had years to seek recourse for that.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Apple is about as far from a desperate Yes but Google’s payments still make up around 25% of their net income which is pretty huge. Losing that would have a very significant effect on Apple’s margins and stock price

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