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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> out of the EU would kill Apple. It wouldn’t. It would still be an immensely absurd thing to do. I assume Apple is not run by 12-year olds, why would they lose 15-20% (probably closer to 20%, EMEA seems to be ~27% and besides Britain t
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
IIRC you weren’t affected if your revenue was under $100k and you couldn’t use the free version before the change anyway if it was over that. I might be wrong but I’m almost sure that that proportion was close to zero. > it as a complete
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> That's how 70% of apple's revenue is gained That’s factually incorrect and a completely absurd figure. The make way more money from device sales
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
It’s not necessarily obvious that “normal” humans would have recognized them as a different species. Might have just seen them as a different tribe/race with different facial/etc. features
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> It's kind of crazy It’s crazy that Unity’s PR people (and the CEO himself) were so objectively dumb and incompetent while being paid that much. The retroactive part was probably indefensible but they did such a horrible job at exp
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Unity, these pricing ding the smaller people the most I don’t think that’s true. A very small proportion of smaller developers might have been disproportionately affected but Unity was just complete garbage at communicating the changes
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
And Unity’s terms were/are much more generous than Apple’s
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Android doesn’t seem to be a complete disaster in this sense? > and need to protected from harm Yet Apple has no issue working for authoritarian regimes like Russia and China to protect those regimes and fuck over their users. Is that wh
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
No, it’s still a problem for apple because they won’t leave. Even in the absurdly inconceivable (to an extent that it’s not even worth discussing) case that they did losing a significant proportion of their revenue would be a much bigger pr
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
I think that’s pretty rare in the EU these days and seems to be restricted in some countries at least. You might get some nominal discount but you’re still being billed separately for the device/contract each month
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Ehhhhhh. Kind of. Maybe. Certainly not always Certainly always, in the case of companies like Apple. They either lose > 95% of their sales in the EU or comply with their regulations. > porn Is not sold on physical media these day
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> they might. Let’s not get silly and totally absurd. Also it’s the cost of compliance that has to surpass their profit not the fines which are entirely optional. In any case Apple is still making a lot of money from selling the devices
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Apple still makes significantly more money from selling the actual iPhones than from the App Store. This such an obvious fact that anyone even mildly interested in the topic (i.e. commenting here and making such strong, yet silly, claims) s
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
So instead of losing 5% or so of their revenue in the EU they’d rather lose > 80-90% seems like a smart business decision… In any case (not quite the same but gives a glimpse into their mindset) they have zero issues with kowtowing to au
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
So people who don’t want to be contacted by others don’t get an option for password recovery? Interesting perspective…
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
I was mainly thinking about Europe (with all the controversy about new regulations), you certainly do have a valid point, though.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> The primary issue is that there is no means to correct the situation non-violently I think that’s a rather absurd claim. The real problem is that most people couldn’t care less, they neither understand the issues and/or are in the
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Back in 2007 to early 2010s? Sure. Certainly not these days though they more or less reinvented themselves (e.g. Windows is basically a side gig at this point, much like Android is for Google).
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Some types of apples can last through winter if stored properly (even without refrigeration), I would assume it would depend on the climate though. IIRC they tend to be quite a bit more sour so probably not to popular just because of that.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Is it though? Certain types of fruits/vegetables are of course somewhat pricey. But buying the same ingredients (legumes and stuff) Huel/etc. are made from would certainly be reasonable cheap and probably way cheaper than the hype
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Yeah, sounds pretty silly. Also eating too much fruit isn’t the best idea either.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Meloni’s party in Italy seems to be anti Russian, so presumably they’d rather give money to their competitors / coalition partners like Lega. I’m sure they’d be supporting far left parties as well (they probably do to some extent) like
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Large eruptions probably would. Short term anyway, they don’t really happen often enough.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Presumably that would result in massive amounts of air pollution (much of it probably heavily localized) which would be pretty awful.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Which isn’t necessarily that great when that judicial system is throughly and entirely openly corrupt even at the very top
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Because it’s rather obvious, how else would you describe it?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Human populations can survive just fine with low/minimal growth and average life expectancy of 30 or so for thousands of years, just like all other animal species, we aren’t that different after all.. You don’t need basically any acces
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
I’m not sure that’s true. They are also mainly going to Northern Europe
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Or you can just move to a country with no/extremely low income taxes (well at least if you aren’t an US citizen..)
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Winning elections? There was only so much they could do without cooperation from the other far-right parties and especially Hindenburg.

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