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by mantap 6y ago
In the formative years of PCs the support life was really low because of the fast pace of hardware improvement. Now support times are much longer because hardware performance grows much slower. The same is true for smartphones. The original
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Nobody walks in Indonesia, it is too damn hot. That's why traffic is such a big problem, a lot of the walking traffic is replaced by vehicle traffic and so the cities are starting at a fundamental disadvantage.
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You can read Epic's court filing but the tl;dr is that Epic alleges that the terms of the contract restrict Epic and other parties from competing with Apple, that Apple uses their market power in one area to get an unfair advantage in
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by mantap 6y ago
Unless you are Epic of course :)
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China is acutely aware that banning the iPhone is likely to send Apple into meltdown and by extension the US stock market and presidency. If they perceive that to be in their political interests then they will do it, otherwise they won&#x27
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by mantap 6y ago
Contracts are not laws, if you breech a contract then one of the possible outcomes is that you will end up in court arguing whether the contract is valid. That is what happened in this case. The law would be especially toothless if you had
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by mantap 6y ago
The only people who are upset about naming something after a sword are those who want to be upset. If someone desires to be upset and you make them upset, is that not a service?
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by mantap 6y ago
How many western social networks can you name that work in China? Zuck literally asked Xi Jinping to name his child he wanted to be in China so much and he still got denied.
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by mantap 6y ago
In many parts of the world Apple maps is incapable to even give directions. I kid not. Go to e.g. Colombia and try to make directions between two places. It won't let you. It just seems that Apple doesn't invest much in maps if th
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by mantap 6y ago
Apple maps is probably a good example because outside the US it is still useless, 8 years later. I don't expect an Apple search engine to be any different.
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Without the developer account Epic loses access to the Apple developer toolchain. While it's theoretically possible that Epic could continue developing UE for Apple platforms without a developer account, it would be extremely difficu
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by mantap 6y ago
Legally Epic would lose access to all Apple developer IP including iOS SDKs and Xcode. You have to click through an EULA to access this stuff. And you can bet that Apple would have sought a court order to enforce it, had they prevailed.
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The effects are similar. iOS 14 will be out soon. Epic needs to prepare Unreal Engine to be compatible with it. How can they do this without any developer tools?
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The word was actually coined for the purposes of mocking the concept of a 'meritocracy' in a satirical essay. Then people picked it up and started using it straight. Now it's come full circle again. https://en.m.wi
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I think most Americans do implicitly treat it as one continent because if you talk about Central America you kind of have to, otherwise Central America would be part of North America and that's just weird.
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If it's interpreted as permissible to threaten someone with prison if they don't do community service, then a constitutional prohibition of convicts being forced to work is nugatory. And if it's interpreted as impermissible t
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And what if they say "you can do community service or get 20 years in jail"? If you allow that kind of choice there's no difference to the status quo, it's just window dressing. Constitutions are not the right place to p
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by mantap 6y ago
To be fair if they didn't write that then forcing convicted persons to do any work as part of their rehabilitation would be illegal, for instance community service sentences. A constitution provides the bare minimum rights. The nitty g
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by mantap 6y ago
There's still some innovation that can be done in this space. The websites for supermarkets are clunky and the UX could be improved. When I buy things in a supermarket I use my spatial memory. I know the physical position of every item
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by mantap 6y ago
Real estate has intrinsic value but does it have returns? Residential real estate is fundamentally limited by wages but we are seeing huge unemployment. And demand for commercial real estate is low due to the whole pandemic situation. If yo
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by mantap 6y ago
Whether they want to or not is beside the point, which is to consider whether it would be anticompetitive for Google to ban other app stores from Android. As far as I can see, what distinguishes Apple from Google is status quo. Apple never
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It's technically possible yes, but Epic's position is much much worse than that. They won't be able to legally build any app because the SDK is proprietary and only available to registered developers.
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It's possible for one action to violate the terms in multiple ways. They probably mean the following two: 1) not giving Apple their 30% 2) publishing code without prior approval by Apple
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That's what they want you to think. Which is why they say it. Sounds better than "Tim made the order to retaliate, sayonara"
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Imagine if Google decided tomorrow to ban App Stores other than Google Play Store on Android. This would mean that there's only two app stores: Apple's and Google's. Google doesn't do that because that would be an abuse
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Epic's developer account will be suspended, meaning they can no longer use Xcode (!) or sign/notarize apps to run on the Mac.
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Usually when you fire a customer they can go to one of your competitors. This just proves Epic's argument. There is no competing App Store on iOS because it's not allowed. If Apple "fires" you then your users can no lo
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This is desirable and it's easy to explain why. For any student there will be a range of grades they could expect to achieve. The fairest grade to assign is the best case grade in that range (not the midpoint), because there is no
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by mantap 6y ago
Exactly this. Apple intentionally cripples MobileSafari to push developers to the App Store where they get 30%. They have contrived the whole system so that all roads lead to Apple getting their cut. No other browser engines. No sideloading
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Even people living in actual huts have smartphones now. Seriously. You can't meaningfully participate in society without access to the Internet, especially during a pandemic.

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