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by haswell 3y ago
For sake of argument, if they acquire the Beeper team and continue supporting it, there is no further incentive for more Beeper-like apps to emerge. Apple would at that point have a leg to stand on when they go after non-native apps, and I
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by haswell 3y ago
> What Microsoft did with IE isn't really analogous to Apple refusing to let another company free ride on their infrastructure. Zoom out for a moment and take Beeper out of the picture. The issue is not Beeper specifically, it’s t
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by haswell 3y ago
> iMessage's lack of popularity everywhere else in the world is proof that competition is able to flourish. I truly do not understand the reasoning behind this. A product doesn’t need to be popular world-wide for behavior to be an
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by haswell 3y ago
> So, uh, factors that have zero to do with Apple are evidence that it is… abusing… the… market…? How does this have zero to do with Apple? It has everything to do with Apple, because it’s ultimately their product decisions driving use
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by haswell 3y ago
If Apple had implemented RCS sooner, I don’t think we’d be having this conversation. While a lot of emphasis has been placed on the desirability of the blue bubble, I think it’s important to focus on why : interoperability is artificially
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by haswell 3y ago
Tech journalists have noted that this kind of reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is specifically covered (allowed) by applicable laws. I’m not well versed in the related laws, but it at least seems on the surface that l
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by haswell 3y ago
I don’t believe every chat application should be required to have completely open APIs. Key factors in my mind: - iMessage isn’t a chat app. It’s the default experience for sending the equivalent of text messages from the Apple ecosystem. T
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by haswell 3y ago
> "Making a product that people like and use" is abusing market power? This is a very one-sided framing of the situation and leaves out quite a few factors. People aren’t just buying Apple products because they like them. The
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by haswell 3y ago
If the only thing Beeper does is continue to make Apple look anti-competitive, they've succeeded as far as I'm concerned. I'm deep into the Apple ecosystem and don't see myself getting out anytime soon. But I think their
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by haswell 3y ago
That depends on what they’re trying to address. If the issue is primarily the presence of the vehicles themselves, it makes sense that larger vehicles take more space and cause more congestion. If “congestion” also factors in pedestrians, t
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by haswell 3y ago
Apple announced RCS support in 2024, so they’re doing more than nothing. Don’t think we know yet how fully they’ll support it though.
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by haswell 3y ago
Even if this was a meme at some point in the past, it’s a very real issue now. I know multiple people who have switched to iPhone just for iMessage. And the kids these days won’t accept anything but the blue bubble. This is no longer a meme
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by haswell 3y ago
An android user in an otherwise iMessage only group chat tends to mess things up. Those Apple users tend to get frustrated by it and group chat exclusion is a real thing. It’s less about a specific feature set and more about inclusion and a
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by haswell 3y ago
I should warn you now. That lens will definitely get you started and you’ll get some great shots. It’ll also make you want something even longer if you’re anything like me. Still seems like a good place to start because it’ll make you extre
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by haswell 3y ago
Part of the reason I started photography is because I have Aphantasia, and when I learned that other people had visual memories, it cemented photography as an important hobby for me. Without the photos, I only take home a sense of knowing w
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by haswell 3y ago
I went with the Fujifilm 150-600mm F5.6-8 and I’m shooting on an X-T5. Because it’s an APS-C sensor, it’s a 225-900mm full frame equivalent focal length. I had tried the Fuji 70-300 with a 1.4X teleconverter before that, and while it’s a ni
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by haswell 3y ago
The Merlin app has transformed my nature/photo walks, and got me interested in birds. I never realized how many unique birds I was hearing as I’d walk through an area until I turned this app on. It opened a whole new awareness, and hel
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by haswell 3y ago
> Isn't that a manifestation of risk aversion? If you're risk-averse, you tend to play it safe. If you're not, you're eager to try risky things for the possibility of big rewards. The point is that pessimism directl
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by haswell 3y ago
I also started digging into this as part of a depression journey. One of the things that persistent pessimism also leads to is the concept of “learned helplessness”, which could be described as a kind of pathological pessimism. A state wher
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by haswell 3y ago
I see pessimism and optimism as default orientations. The deeply pessimistic person sees an opportunity and only sees the risks and chance of failure. They pass on a lot of opportunities, but at least they don’t fail often, by some definiti
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by haswell 3y ago
Pessimism can be a tool but I think using it comes at a cost. Pessimism may lead to some kinds of action, but also leads to missing out on good opportunities. Over the years, I’ve started to look at it like a poison. In the past, it has dr
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by haswell 3y ago
> Software development is about doing the things the right way, not exercising in futility. I strongly disagree on the first point, and mostly disagree on the second. The first point is antithetical to the hacker mindset. Software deve
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by haswell 3y ago
And the twisted thing about all of this is that when we start seeing large numbers, humans tend to stop caring. We care about an individual's story, but our ability to care diminishes the moment there are two, and all but vanishes when
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by haswell 3y ago
If you find these ideas bizarre and impossible to accept as useful as I did when I first encountered them, it's well worth a deep dive into the subject. And I think it must go hand in hand with a deep dive into the oddity that is our e
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by haswell 3y ago
This is just it. When the subject is children with cancer, cancer is the enemy. A faceless threat that everyone can stand “against” without hesitation. And this completely misses the critical fact that cancer is often a downstream effect. I
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by haswell 3y ago
> They didn't drink or do drugs or consider themselves victims, and it didn't help one bit. I think this highlights the culturally ingrained measures of success that most of us default to reflexively. In a world where most of
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by haswell 3y ago
I’ve worked with many of the largest companies across quite a few verticals in a product management capacity. Many large enterprises (think 200K+ employees) still have pockets of tool building and automation springing up everywhere. Big nam
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by haswell 3y ago
I’ve been the person in a position to recommend enterprise solutions and have those recommendations taken. I’ve also been the person on the other side of that relationship, helping potential customers make a case that my product is worthy o
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by haswell 3y ago
> If AGI was to arrive it would potentially remove those frustrations, right. We don’t really know what happens next. There are optimistic outcomes that AGI could enable, but this tech is ultimately being built and distributed by human
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by haswell 3y ago
I think the issue here is that it is both reasonable for the government to have a photo to facilitate some services, and also extremely dangerous for a centralized database to exist due to the kinds of surveillance this enables. If we could

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