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by kemayo 3y ago
> If for example the marketshare of Edge and Chrome suddenly traded places, very little would change in terms of Google’s control of the web. I think it'd make a bit of a difference, because Microsoft would now have the threat ava
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by kemayo 3y ago
Apple doesn't break it down, so this is all analysts-guessing, but the guesses I've seen for the share of Services revenue that App Store represents have been in the 25-35% range. e.g. https://www.trefis.com/data&#
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by kemayo 3y ago
That's a strange characterization given that when you see a green bubble there was literally no way for them to have made it private. Even if Apple had jumped on RCS at the same speed as Android did, and assuming that absolutely every
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by kemayo 3y ago
I guess rephrasing it to a practical limitation of MMS would be fair, though? Insofar as it’s not something we’re blaming Apple for.
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by kemayo 3y ago
That is, indeed, a technical limitation of MMS. The newer RCS standard would be better, but Apple has already announced they're going to support it this year (after dragging their heels for a few years).
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by kemayo 3y ago
> Apple itself offers a "super app" of course, which is the Apple ecosystem of apps. ...if that counts, is the suit claiming that they somehow don't let other developers have multiple related apps? Because it seems that so
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by kemayo 3y ago
You can bypass the Steam fee as the publisher. Steam's rule is that you can't sell a Steam key for your game somewhere else consistently cheaper than it's sold on Steam. You're free to go wild with pricing, so long as
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by kemayo 3y ago
In fairness, from everything I've heard the Mac App Store is really not doing well.
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by kemayo 3y ago
Yes, piracy is admittedly very popular. (And maybe 0.02% of said custom software isn't piracy, but...)
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by kemayo 3y ago
I'm sort of skeptical about that being a major factor, though I'll admit I've not seen any good surveys about it. (My money is on "I already have this computer for work" being the single biggest factor, with "t
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by kemayo 3y ago
Siri does let you send messages with other services these days. (I think it got added in the last year or two, and those apps need to be updated to support it, but it's there!)
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by kemayo 3y ago
I doubt that a regular user has any opinion on whether Safari "just works". Some developers care about Safari vs Chrome vs Firefox browser engine features, but the average end user at most is just going to think some website suc
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by kemayo 3y ago
> Apple's App Store might be Walmart, but the phone I bought is not Walmart. I don't know if that's inherently correct in people's eyes. For a counterexample, note that video game consoles are very popular, and I don&
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by kemayo 3y ago
Worth noting that Anker's 150W charger[1] isn't quite as fast as the 140W Apple charger, because the Anker will only deliver up to 100W to any single port (even if it's the only one being used) whereas the Apple can pump the
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's repeating what the GP said, but: exercise. Your bones are strengthened by use -- put them under mild stress by doing load-bearing exercise and they'll get stronger. (Getting plenty of calcium and vitamin D probably helps, but
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by kemayo 3y ago
The license does allow for it, but it's actually sort of tricky to do if you want to import it into a non-mediawiki system. Wikipedia makes really extensive use of templates in wikitext, which can be complicated nested things that can
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by kemayo 3y ago
My understanding is that the person creating it is also the person who made Lemmy, which is a somewhat-successful federated reddit-alternative. Existing notability translates into more interest in otherwise uninteresting things.
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by kemayo 3y ago
I think the bit that makes it "federated" is that they want to use ActivityPub to synchronize articles between servers. Based on https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis#federation I think the practical impact of this
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by kemayo 3y ago
Automatically merging updates between different variants of the article, in fact, seems like a terrible idea. This is because resolving conflicts between edits is easy, but making sure that (for lack of a better word) semantic conflicts d
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by kemayo 3y ago
I'm not talking about whether there are scandals about Wikipedia. I'm saying it's weird what the article chose to use as a demonstration.
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by kemayo 3y ago
…they couldn’t think of a good Wikipedia scandal from within the last decade? (The "why wikipedia is bad" bit at the start talks about things from 2005, 2007, and 2012.) Anyway, this might be pretty "it's hard to make a
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's a slightly-tasteless joke resting on two facts: 1. The [King's / Queen's] Head is a common pub name in the UK. 2. Several queens have been executed by beheading at the Tower of London.
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by kemayo 3y ago
He's pretty critical of them in some areas. Mostly in developer-relations these days -- he doesn't like the anti-steering App Store rules, and Apple's general "we provided the successful platform; your apps contribute no
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by kemayo 3y ago
The email I've seen from Schiller presents it as a combination -- it says that Epic has previously broken its agreement with Apple because of disagreements about the rules, and that Epic has publicly disagreed loudly with Apple's
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by kemayo 3y ago
If that's Apple's motivation, why have they been implementing PWAs at all? Killing them would be even simpler if they just weren't on iOS in the first place.
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by kemayo 3y ago
I don't know enough about battery chemistry to say one way or the other there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by kemayo 3y ago
Yeah, worth considering that Musk has been regularly saying that full autonomous driving will be coming "in 6 months" since 2016-or-so. Assuming that he and Apple were both equally confident in this being a problem solvable in the
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by kemayo 3y ago
I want a self-driving car. I'd love to never have to steer a car myself again. I'd need to be very impressed by the technology to go along with not having a fallback steering wheel for edge cases, but I would absolutely want a car
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by kemayo 3y ago
That actually seems like a reasonable thing to do. Early-on going "assuming that we solve the technical issues with self-driving, can we make this into a product that works for us?" makes sense to me. After all, if they found that
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by kemayo 3y ago
> Apple’s dead car project will be survived by its underlying technologies. The company plans to take what it has learned about artificial intelligence and automation and apply it to other technologies that are being researched, includin

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