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by lapcat 1mo ago
> housing and food for everyone This obviously won't happen, because we could do it now, could have done it already, long before AI. Let me know when AI solves greed and cruelty.
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by lapcat 1mo ago
> Whatever line you think is reasonable to draw here, would you trust a bad president with it? I don't think this is a good argument, because it's oddly specific. You can't trust a bad President to properly enforce any l
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by lapcat 1mo ago
I think you may be taking for granted the political dupoloy and candidate equality. Third-party candidates are almost always unknown and remain unknown to the public, because they have no money to advertise and achieve name recognition, get
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by lapcat 1mo ago
> "It's part and parcel to a system that fully embraces free speech," said Tom Garrett, a vice president at the Institute for Free Speech. "All Americans have the right to express themselves and exercise their right
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by lapcat 1mo ago
> Comments can veer wildly off the original topic I'm not complaining about tangents, though, but rather about dismissive insults. A tangent is a conversation starter, whereas a knee-jerk dismissal is a conversation stopper.
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by lapcat 1mo ago
Thank you. I appreciate the comment. It's just frustrating that knee-jerk reactions are ubiquitous in the Hacker News comments, on every popular submission, despite the site guidelines urging the opposite.
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by lapcat 1mo ago
> It's in vogue to rag on Apple because of its size/influence/market cap. Article author here. I've been a Mac developer and blogging about the Mac since 2006, before iPhone was even announced, when Apple was much sma
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by lapcat 2mo ago
(2016)
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by lapcat 2mo ago
Just briefly during the challenge.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> This is a huge stretch This is nonsense. Safari also supports Web Audio. Safari does not, however, support Microsoft Windows, which is why the article author didn't mention it. Moreover, all web browsers on iOS have to use Apple W
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by lapcat 2mo ago
It's the website. The title of the article literally mentions "WebAudio", and the first paragraph states that the author is using a PC. The second paragraph mentions Chrome and Firefox. Apple and the App Store have zero invol
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by lapcat 2mo ago
Cloudflare challenges also use Web Audio, by the way.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
My point is this: you can charge for API use. You can set terms and conditions for API use. You can charge some API users and allow others free usage. That's up to the API vendor. I simply don't accept your dubious claim that one
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by lapcat 2mo ago
Suppose that a developer discovers a bug in the Apple Music API that allows songs to be played without paying for the Apple Music subscription. Are you claiming that if a developer writes an app to exploit this bug, they're not doing a
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by lapcat 2mo ago
The dominance of Microsoft actually depended on openness. The IBM PC commoditized hardware and software, which facilitated PC clones. When IBM licensed DOS from MS, it allowed MS to license a version to non-IBM computers too. Thus, IBM ende
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> The curated experience on iOS is a feature, not a bug. Which experience do you mean? The crApp Store full of obvious scams? The abuse of the built-in push notifications and apps to advertise Apple "services" on every device?
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> I was referring to the distribution of the licensed technologies by Apple to the hardware purchasers. I know. My point was that distribution of the licensed technology by Apple to iPhone purchasers does not thereby allow third-party
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> This point was never raised in any of those cases. Apple just did aome hand-waving "IP compensation" justification and everyone just went along with it, because the case wasn't about that particular point. I strongly dis
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> Right, and my point is that the technology is already fully paid for by the user. That's your claim. Neither Apple nor the EU appear to agree. Nor do US courts appear to agree in the Epic v. Apple trial. Apple itself has to pay li
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by lapcat 2mo ago
This is not a useful distinction. The API existed and was used by Apple apps and by jailbreak apps. In fact Scott Forstall intentionally prepared iOS to have third-party apps. The API was just not public yet. If you think the header files a
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> I think you're just going to argue point-by-point literally anything I write. What's wrong with arguing point by point? > I'm pointing out, as someone very familiar with Wisconsin, that coming onto this forum and maki
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by lapcat 2mo ago
I asked a question: "How do you not use their SDK?" Your answer seemed nonsensical to me. What I meant, though, is that I'm not going to argue about a specific point, the viability of "some FOSS SDK that perfectly replic
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by lapcat 2mo ago
I'm not going to argue with you, because I continue to suspect that you have no iOS development experience and are just making hand-wavy claims with no empirical basis.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
No, those are the qualifications to run an app marketplace. Independent web distribution of an app requires only notarization.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> I didn't mean to imply that this would be a vibe-coded slop project. That's not really the issue. LLM participation is a red herring. The issue is "replicates the original's functionality".
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> Nowadays with LLMs people could probably patch up some FOSS SDK that perfectly replicates the original's functionality without infringing Apple's copyrights. I don't intend to insult you, but as an iOS developer myself I
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> there's no way to signal to Apple that you have opted out of using their SDK How do you not use their SDK?
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> What I don't understand is how Apple will track the new 5% commission for web distributed apps. My understanding is that it's based entirely on self-reporting by developers.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> WRT union-blue presence, I'm speaking from a position of firsthand experience: friends and family who are union-blue and not public sector workers. Paper mill workers and railroaders, specifically. I'm certainly not denying t
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> It’s not as uninteresting as you imply. Uninteresting? > There’s also a strong union-blue presence The largest number of union members in Wisconsin may be government workers. (Incidentally, the outgoing Governor was originally a pub

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