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by krger 3y ago
Exactly.
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by krger 3y ago
>Completely missing point of what I said and making a straw man out of it isn’t the gotcha moment you seem to think it is. Okay, so what's the point of what you said? For reference, you said: >Good, switch to it for a couple of y
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by krger 3y ago
>I’m not so sure that “I can choose” to stay in the walled garden, if, for example, Spotify decides to only be available through another App Store that I don’t consider trustworthy. Sure you can. You can decide which is more important to
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by krger 3y ago
>Good, switch to it for a couple of years, use multiple vendors and then let everyone know how Android is a viable alternative to iOS. "I want Apple to be forced into making the same choices that its competitors made because those c
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by krger 3y ago
>That still doesn't solve the issue that to get a blue bubble you must give up control over your mobile life to Apple. ...and if you "want the blue bubble" you must give up control over your messaging to Apple.
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by krger 3y ago
>This is a false choice - there's no reason the iPhone can't be both a walled garden-type device and support alternative OSes/software, just like a computer. Correct. There is no reason the iPhone cannot be both. There i
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by krger 3y ago
>In the case of epic it was not about the privacy settings but about the percentage they had to pay for on every transaction which is a different issue. The claim wasn't that nobody was sideloading for privacy settings . The claim
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by krger 3y ago
>Facebook doesn't use sideloading on the android platform, neither does any of the other big companies. 1. Epic. 2. Unlike Google, Apple each year pours thousands of hours of developer effort into making it harder for Facebook to tr
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by krger 3y ago
>I want a phone that is as fast as a flagship phone like an iPhone, with a keyboard, daylong or better battery life running fullblown Debian. What shall I buy? It doesn’t exist. Have you ever paused to consider why your mobile unicorn
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>Amazon has no right to disable an account or services unilaterally like that with little recourse from the user. Tell me you haven't read the TOS without telling me you haven't read the TOS. Some Amazon employees certainly ove
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>You do realise you're describing 99% of the iOS app store here right? I do. And I also realize how much worse it'd be if Apple didn't gate user data behind OS-level user consent dialogs.
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>Yes, yes, we know some Apple users are unable to see past the "you can't be trusted" that Apple keeps violently stabbing in your brain, you'll live in a company town with company stores and company credits and you&#x
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by krger 3y ago
>Of course it isn't, they want you to buy a MacBook alongside, that's my entire point. Hardware company entices consumers to buy more hardware. Film at 11. >If it were a Surface-like product instead, with full macOS, I'
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by krger 3y ago
>Apps will not have direct access to the cameras A restriction for which I am thankful. >Vision Pro is destined to keep being a toy fully steered by Apple. I trust Apple a lot more than I trust the "let's figure out how to f
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by krger 3y ago
>That's great for those people but yes, for devs, it's not a real replacement for a MacBook, even though it literally has the same chip inside. Good thing Apple isn't marketing it as a replacement for a MacBook then.
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by krger 3y ago
One main difference is that you could order a computer with an M2 Ultra last week, but you won't be able to order Reality Pro until next year. Apple doesn't talk about numbers until they finalize exactly what will be shipping.
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I watched the event. Timecode for this specific claim, please.
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by krger 3y ago
>that was how apple justified the cost of the device, so I think its a fair critique. [Citation needed]
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by krger 3y ago
>Every decent OS in 2023 should provide a method for this. Yes, that's rather the problem—there isn't just one way to do that, which makes it a portability issue.
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>The rest of your points make sense but I don't understand fully how this is an argument for monoliths? Isn't recovery from an unknown state an equally hard problem in both cases? He's not saying that monolithic kernels ma
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>It was said that they would replace laptops. By who? The iPad introduction explicitly presented the iPad as a complementary device situated between the smartphone and the laptop.
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by krger 3y ago
The Court of Public Opinion can't suspend or take away your law license.
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by krger 3y ago
Gatekeepers clinging jealously to their gates.
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by krger 3y ago
I, too, would like to pay Ford prices for a Rivian.
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by krger 3y ago
>Even though macOS is more polished than your average Linux desktop environment, it's really very hard to ignore the unjustified markup. It's justified if people pay it. >Nowadays I can buy a miniPC with a Ryzen5 and 32GB of
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by krger 3y ago
>It is the second most intelligent thing on the planet at creating text, even with its flaws. This also puts it in last place.
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>It happens to white people too and it's bizarre to think that it would not? I do not doubt that it also happens to white people. The point is that it happens to white people at a disproportionately lower rate than it does to non-wh
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>If a cop walks up to a car with the engines still running, they're right to be wary. Over the past 25 years, I've been pulled over maybe a dozen times or so for various things (speeding, headlight out), etc. Not once have I tu
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>I think Mark knew he had to get away from Apple as they are a horrific partner Facebook is the company that almost single-handedly gutted the media industry over the past ten years with such smash hits as "just post all of your new
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>if you don't use it for X amount of time, then it's lost Okay, now come up with a definition of "use" that effectively eliminates squatting-for-profit that doesn't also eliminate legitimate uses for having multi

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