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by gress 12y ago
You have proven the point. If Apple allowed sideloading or rooting, nobody would accuse them of anti-competitive behavior. Therefore you are asserting that what you are calling 'anti-competitive' behavior is precisely what limits
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by gress 12y ago
Given all the malware on Android, including giant botnets, it would seem that poor sandboxes are the current state of the art. The difference is that Apple is willing to recognize this and protect their customers from the shortcomings. Andr
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by gress 12y ago
What does this even mean? The restrictions are on what runtime you are allowed to use to run downloaded code.
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by gress 12y ago
Android is vastly less secure than iOS, which is why there are millions of android devices participating in botnets, and millions of users having money stolen from them by malware on Android. Apple is cautious about allowing their consumer
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by gress 12y ago
Or, more sanely put, Apple's multi-year investment in engineering allowed WebKit to be secured sufficiently for all apps to benefit from the Jit. All this talk of anti-competitive restrictions doesn't reflect the reality of engine
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by gress 12y ago
This one has both.
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by gress 12y ago
It may be a power grab, but it also provides protection from malware that customers value.
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by gress 12y ago
False. You can build any UI you want, as well as any feature you like. The restriction is that you must use WebKit as the rendering engine for content that contains JavaScript.
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by gress 12y ago
I know there are reasonable arguments on both sides - I'm really wanting to understand your personal view. It sounds as though you might think that ideas about ethics or good societies are things you prefer not to hold a view on given
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by gress 12y ago
I'm disappointed you feel justified in your rude and dismissive behavior, but since you don't see any need to examine it, I request that you refrain from challenging my comments on that same basis in future.
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by gress 12y ago
There is no character assassination going on here. I'm simply pointing out the incentives. Bear in mind that DannyBee is also engaging in what you call 'character assasination' on the same basis. You, on the other hand, are
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by gress 12y ago
Surely you can't be this blind to the power imbalance. A Googler defending Google on HN has the backing of one of the most powerful corporations in the industry, and no risk to his future career. Calling out this bias or even being cri
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by gress 12y ago
Assuming you're right and it's not a recognized antitrust harm, what's your opinion of it? Do you think it's ethical or good for society simply because it hasn't yet been ruled illegal?
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by gress 12y ago
Are you saying that HN is less influential than newspapers and journals? Are you pretending to be unaffected by the incentives you have to defend Google?
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by gress 12y ago
You are part of Google, an you are paid by them. You are invested in Google, and your interests are heavily aligned with them. Claiming that they don't pay you for your views may be true in the sense that this is not an official assig
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by gress 12y ago
Are human conflicts solvable by changing the laws of physics?
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by gress 12y ago
By 'lost faith in this world', you mean they don't understand how to solve the problems they see. If they don't understand how the solve the problems of this world, what makes them think they'll be able solve the pr
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by gress 12y ago
Search is a public utility, just like the Internet itself.
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by gress 12y ago
Another example of why Google's amassing of personal information is dangerous for society.
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by gress 12y ago
Yes, but they seem to have given up on organizing the world's information.
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by gress 12y ago
It's certainly a design fault: 1. How can the user know how much battery power is required to complete the update? If they don't know, they can't utilize the option effectively. 2. If the system knows, why not let the system
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by gress 12y ago
So you're suggesting they just give up?
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by gress 12y ago
So they're just giving up on organizing the world's information having failed?
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by gress 12y ago
It is with human intervention, so please consider it far more evil. Each individual search is of course determined algorithmically, but the criteria for relevance that the algorithm applies are chosen by Google employees.
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by gress 12y ago
There are some tell-take signs that this is a cursory inspection by soemone who is not familiar with the iOS security environment. Firstly, the statement that the passcode is only 4-digits. Not knowing that this can optionally be switched
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by gress 12y ago
Powering off is not the same as putting the device to sleep. Windows offers a menu option to the user to sleep the device during the update. That is a design fault.
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by gress 12y ago
You are going to need to explain. Those statements are definitional. If you are trying to assert that scientists also seek to preserve their own power, this is true. However the point here is that social conservatism is opposed to the pr
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by gress 12y ago
> The notion that conservatives would indeed be biased against an independent, non-statist academia, simply because they are -as is often implied- biased against knowlege itself, is not convincing. This is a complete straw man. Nobody is
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by gress 12y ago
What you are saying here implies that Republicans are biased against academia, not the other way around.
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by gress 12y ago
One could equally ask the question, "Are Republicans Biased against Social Psychology"? Social conservatism generally seeks to preserve existing power relationships. Science is about discovering new understanding. Unless we&#x2

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