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by lm411 3y ago
I lived in a small community / somewhat resort town on Vancouver Island a couple of years ago. Population less than 15000. Typically there would be less than 3-4 residential long term rental units available in the whole town. And ther
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by lm411 3y ago
I don't disagree. Given the barrier to entry and cost, with little benefit, if I were to guess, the Epic store might be the only "third party App Store" to ever see the light of day. And the way that's going, even that i
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by lm411 3y ago
Unless I misunderstand, the apps still work? They just can't be updated after 30 days and you can't install new apps from the third party stores.
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by lm411 3y ago
Yep. But not rights.
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by lm411 3y ago
> Apple's walled-garden approach is innovative especially on the security and stability fronts and anyone who doesn't like that or wants alternative launchers should jailbreak their ios device or just use Android, which does fi
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by lm411 3y ago
Ahh, the good ole days. I remember having an IRQ conflict between my 2400 baud modem and my serial connected mouse. I had to keep moving my mouse to use the modem until I changed one of the IRQs.
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by lm411 3y ago
For 10,200 people it also had the nice feature of erroneously telling them they had to quarantine or risk fines up to $5000 per day. Oops.
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by lm411 3y ago
"It's a chalet! It's not a cottage." These guys are so dirty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwHLN-clXQ
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by lm411 3y ago
Why would that matter in this case? Apple has a 12 month warranty on this and most of their other hardware. Also, I expect most people shelling out $3500 for a headset are going to get AppleCare+ which also covers accidental damage.
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by lm411 3y ago
Not a consumer router, but the cable modem / gateway provided to me by Shaw Cable (now Rogers) in Canada does not allow me to shut off DHCP or customize the DNS servers it provides DHCP clients. I can and do put it in bridge mode and u
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by lm411 3y ago
Not just games, iOS App Store revenue is far higher in pretty much all categories vs Android.
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by lm411 3y ago
I must say, I am very happy with my 16" M3 MacBook and iPhone 13. The new 16" MacBooks are the nicest laptops I've used since the old 17" MacBooks. I guess enjoying quality products makes me an idiot to some people. I
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by lm411 3y ago
I think you mistyped the URL - this is Hacker News, not Slashdot. Let's keep the discussion intelligent and not bother with the mud slinging or other insults. An interesting observation is that users of Apple products rarely go out of
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by lm411 3y ago
What are these new roadblocks? From a North American perspective, the only thing I can think of that has changed is Google now requiring DUNS numbers for business accounts (while Apple has required them for a very long time, for business ac
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by lm411 3y ago
Apple used to push web apps pretty hard. E.g. if I recall correctly, in the early days of the App Store, the guidelines were that if your app could easily be a web app, it should be, and you could have your app submission rejected for that
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by lm411 3y ago
Regardless of these changes or the pricing, I expect there will be very very few third party app stores created. For a simple reason: Most iOS users don't want it and won't use them. If your app isn't available in the main
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by lm411 3y ago
Indeed, "Guidelines" is also how Apple refers to them. For good or bad, they are flexible - and that is frustrating at times trying to get Apps approved. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guide
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by lm411 3y ago
> ... nobody is piggybacking on their network. I would suggest that is exactly what Beeper is doing. Not the end users ISP / WAN connection obviously, but certainly Apple's iMessage infrastructure (servers, switches, bandwid
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by lm411 3y ago
It's not the equivalent. If the third party phones allowed users access to Ma Bell's network, switching systems, etc, without paying Ma Bell - then it might be equivalent. I'm pretty sure that would be considered theft of com
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by lm411 3y ago
I used to upgrade my MacBook every year. I'm not sure if this is still true, but I found the resale value great enough that it was almost the same cost over time to upgrade annually vs every 3-4 years. Of course if you're only upg
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by lm411 3y ago
That Lowrance is a monster. Pretty cool though. My first GPS receiver was an old Magellan. I can't recall the model, but mid 90s, very basic features. Eventually after turning it on it would get a fix, and give you coordinates &#x2F
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by lm411 3y ago
Right. But there have been changes in the Android API that have been non-backwards compatible and if your app is using those API's, they will break when run on newer versions. Same as for iOS. Many simple apps targeting very old versi
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by lm411 3y ago
Google is worse, in my opinion. "Currently, existing apps (across mobile, Android Auto, Android TV) must target API level 31 or above by August 31, 2023 (target API 30 or up API level 33 for Wear OS). Otherwise, they will stop being di