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by fossuser 5y ago
If Spotify is $10/month and paying $3 to Apple they get $7/month. If Apple enters with Apple Music and charges $10/month - they're undercutting Spotify while charging the same.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Apple bans app devs from linking to sign up via the browser or even mentioning its existence. They also started to prevent apps that don't have IAP for subscriptions.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Not really - it's 15% if you register as a small business and it changes to 30% once you hit $1M in revenue. That's probably technically 'most', but it's not the large sector that matters. Also 15% is still quite hi
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by fossuser 5y ago
Ah - I think that's a fair point. I would have to think about it honestly, I don't know what I think. It's a little funny because I think someone reading my comments absent context would think I don't care about general
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by fossuser 5y ago
What happens when they start leveraging their power to hurt their customers rather than to benefit them? That’s when they’re actually in violation of monopoly and consumer protection laws. Consumer harm is part of it.
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by fossuser 5y ago
The web exists, android exists, etc. I like local control, I think urbit is cool and hope they succeed. I'm a little disturbed by the need for mighty and how we've ended up in a such a messy state of things with modern computing.
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "I realize that it is a benefit for older computer illiterate people." It's a benefit for computer literate people too. - IAP allows easy tracking of subscriptions and cancellation. You don't have to call and argue
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "Subscription services like Spotify only pay 30% for the first year of each subscription. After that they pay 15%." That's still pretty extreme imo when you control the only store and you directly compete with them/
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by fossuser 5y ago
I agree - Apple needs the control to have the leverage that makes their ecosystem better. It's in the interest of their customers for them to have this leverage and it requires that their 'store' is the only available store s
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by fossuser 5y ago
I understand it, I just don't find it compelling. Second order effect arguments are often weak, in this case - not using a cleverly designed system that doesn't track them because it could make some theoretical person more comfort
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by fossuser 5y ago
You'll be tracked, it'll just be worse and not in a way that protects your privacy. You'll also be generally ignored by people that care about solving these problems. You'll also make it harder for people that care about
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by fossuser 5y ago
There's a political element too (though Elon's Twitter behavior has helped reduce this somewhat - I suspect maybe intentionally). I lived in Western New York suburbia at the time and there was a strong anti-ev anti-liberal tribal
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by fossuser 5y ago
Agreed - the cold calling was a joke and only really started after community transmission was super widespread anyway.
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by fossuser 5y ago
The Bluetooth contact tracing would have been amazing, the design was smart, privacy preserving, and worked. The issue was a few things: - Opt-in instead of opt-out - People (even those on HN) not understanding how it worked and loudly and
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by fossuser 5y ago
Agreed - most people use their computers as web browsers to access social media and shopping. The performance boost there is extremely noticeable on new M1 chips.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think the lesson they took away was "these don't sell" when the lesson they should have learned is "the dealerships are an existential threat to our business". Even now, they've bought Cruise and relegated th
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think this is really GM's fault mixed with the broken dealership model. I went in to ask about them early on and the people knew nothing. I was confused by ads about them that talked about 'range' I thought maybe the car co
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by fossuser 5y ago
I love this - fun design with the jack connectors, it just looks really cool. The thermal paper messages are neat too.
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by fossuser 5y ago
It's one thing for a school to exercise editorial control over a student paper (previous SCOTUS case), but it's quite another for them to try to control student speech outside of school. A lot of public schools in the US are miser
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by fossuser 5y ago
If I was Apple getting out of the Chinese supply chain would be a priority - if only to have some leverage with a second option. It seems like a pretty high risk situation for them and has chilling effects elsewhere (content restrictions on
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "The CCP is so insecure that they banned broadcast of oscars because of Chloe Zhao, because she mentioned CCP as failing one time in 2013" They're even here downvoting you. When they're willing to censor pooh bear t
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I basically agree with this framing. I think Lessig's talk is the best summary of this: https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_... Lobbying itself is fine - we want experts with deep do
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "What can twitter do? Close the site in India? That accomplishes nothing." Sure - if it came to that, try and get Indians access anyway via VPNs, making it easy to access over Tor, helping them get on Twitter anyway. You can
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "some argue that US is no different than North Korea" I'm not sure anyone actually argues this? If they do they're not really worth your time. This isn't "US superiority" it's about rights for in
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by fossuser 5y ago
It has a lot to do with federation issues on the modern internet. - Version mismatching and updates - Running the servers (admin, setup, config) - Spam and problematic users Urbit ID fixes the spam issue, Urbit OS fixes the admin and versio
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is a pretty good one: https://www.hyperstition.al/post/urbit-an-introduction/ There's also a podcast called Understanding Urbit that's a decent introduction.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Just because it's not always easy to get consensus doesn't mean all positions are equally valid. In countries with rule of law, elections, and free press, the law in that country holds more importance than unelected dictatorships
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it definitely is currently, but it doesn't need to be. The design is such that it's possible for it to be as easy to use as FB. Running your own linux server will never be. The urbit tooling still has a way to go, but it&#
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by fossuser 5y ago
Maybe because it's wrong to actively help suppress speech in a hostile country regardless of its legality in that country? Legal and ethical are not the same thing - something can be legal and unethical, or illegal and ethical.
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is a warped framing. I don't buy moral relativism, it may be legal in China to put the Uyghurs in camps but any company helping to enable that is on the wrong side of history - legality is irrelevant. Stuff above that threshold (k

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