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by jsnell 3y ago
The obvious answer is that they are not lying. You're making three assertions, none backed by any evidence. That this is a tracking vector, that it's primarily intended to be a tracking vector, and that they're lying about th
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by jsnell 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606464
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by jsnell 3y ago
Dupe from two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39440503
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by jsnell 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576200
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by jsnell 3y ago
Yes, Microsoft had 90% of the desktop OS marketplace, and did use that dominance to gain an edge in other markets. But despite that large market share, their leverage was kind of limited by the platform being open. Apple, on the other hand,
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by jsnell 3y ago
Apple is predatory on a level that 1990s Microsoft could not have dreamed of, which is all enabled by Windows being an open platform while iOS is locked down with strict technical measures. Microsoft would make competition harder by bundlin
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by jsnell 3y ago
The share price isn't doing well though. Their peer companies have been growing in value faster on both short and long timescales. Their P/E is also quite low compared not only to other big tech companies, but even large companies
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by jsnell 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252801
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by jsnell 3y ago
But this isn't a comparison on a straight line, it's a comparison around a full lap with the drone not cutting corners (though also not staying within the track limits).
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by jsnell 3y ago
As has been demonstrated, removing PWAs wasn't actually an option. Apple tried it and backed down without a fight. The options are to comply with the DMA, not comply with the DMA and be fined increasing amounts of money until they star
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by jsnell 3y ago
65 allows asking the EC for clarifications. But that process would (very explicitly) need to be public and allow input from third parties, there's no process for private feedback. In addition to that, the EC might choose to ignore the
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by jsnell 3y ago
The ROI is the approximately $100 billion they make in the EU each year. If that doesn't matter to Apple, I guess they could leave the EU market? The security issues with PWAs were a fabricated excuse. Apple has already mandated securi
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by jsnell 3y ago
That's not true. The section the blog post is quoting is saying that the EC can ask another regulatory body to make a decision specifically on whether the technical implementation of interoperability requirements is sufficient. So it
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by jsnell 3y ago
I mean, of course he isn't going to resign. There's no personal gain in that; no other company sure isn't stupid enough to pay him $100M/year. He should, however, probably be fired by the board. His primary selling point
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by jsnell 3y ago
It's obviously not exclusive (it's available hosted from both Mistral themselves and Azure). I guess it could possibly be exclusive within some smaller scope, but nothing in the article suggests that. Azure is described as the &qu
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by jsnell 3y ago
I mean, obviously Apple wasn't surprised by their own plan. They wrote it. It's probably true that the EC had gotten information on Apple's plans in advance, and wasn't surprised by it. That doesn't mean that they a
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by jsnell 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39475610
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by jsnell 3y ago
There have been a bunch of reports that a Reddit IPO is imminent.
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by jsnell 3y ago
What press noise?
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by jsnell 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450669
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by jsnell 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39440503
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by jsnell 3y ago
I've linked to public documentation that is pretty clearly in conflict with what you said. There's no wiggle room in how AWS describes their service without it being false advertising. There's no "ah, but what if we defi
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by jsnell 3y ago
I think you're wrong about that. AWS calls this class of storage "instance storage" [0], and defines it as: > Many Amazon EC2 instances can also include storage from devices that are located inside the host computer, refer
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by jsnell 3y ago
According to the submitted article, the numbers are from AWS instance types where the SSD is "physically attached" to the host, not about SSD-backed NAS solutions. Also, the article isn't just about SSDs being no faster than
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by jsnell 3y ago
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39368859
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by jsnell 3y ago
Apple has been abusing their dominant market position for more than a decade, blocking browser competition with security being one of their excuses. They can't be trusted to be honest about what's a legitimate security issue, and
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by jsnell 3y ago
If it was a newly created account, it seems to make it far more likely that the suspension was done by their normal anti-abuse automation than being targeted.
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by jsnell 3y ago
I think this discussion was about switching a pooled model to one where a user's subscription payment is directly split according to that user's listens. That requires unaggregated and unanonymized listen data.
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by jsnell 3y ago
There's no chance that this is blocked by data protection laws. This is looks exactly like the kind of case where data can be collected and processed without consent, since it's needed to operate the service and meet the contractu
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by jsnell 3y ago
Thanks for digging up the details! Digital sovereignty might have been the initial reason (and a sensible one). What's actually being delivered seems to be a DNS service for blocking malicious sites with real time threat intelligence f

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