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by mythz 6y ago
> Apple has a monopoly on iPhone software Monopoly's are whether or not a product or service dominates a specific sector, industry or market. A company can't have a monopoly over its own products which by definition would cover
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by mythz 6y ago
Everyone seems critical of this sale as some sort of imploding canary for their impending financial doom but if they don't see a lucrative or competitive future for this business than I don't think divesting from it is a bad idea,
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by mythz 6y ago
A bit of both, from their announcement [1]: "For Intel, this transaction allow us to further prioritize our investments in differentiated technology ... and deliver attractive returns to our stockholders." [1] https://n
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by mythz 6y ago
The "intel view" of this announcement can be found on their newsroom [1], its justification for this sale is basically this PR spin its CEO: "For Intel, this transaction will allow us to further prioritize our investments in
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by mythz 6y ago
Don't try this [1] in Firefox, from the article: > Unfortunately, Mozilla still hasn't fixed the performance bug 1190398 around ShadowBlur, filled for BLCK4777 5 years ago > Therefore you need to use a Chromium or Webkit bro
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by mythz 6y ago
Not optimized, Blink/WebKit doesn't have the Firefox performance issue emphasized in the article: > Unfortunately, Mozilla still hasn't fixed the performance bug 1190398 around ShadowBlur, filled for BLCK4777 5 years ago
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by mythz 6y ago
Very simply, most of the value of Open Source is being collected by major tech conglomerates leasing computing that's freely running OSS software without cost or licensing, of which they're the #2 biggest collector & thanks to
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He's just talking about California State Taxes, not Federal Income Tax.
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by mythz 6y ago
You can put together a competitive package to attract talent but there's no reason to be offering the current CEO and board more money whilst FF market share & revenue is declining & are having to make huge redundancies. Their
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by mythz 6y ago
He would've had an iconic brand, elite staff, an established business model & userbase, etc. I'd posit he'd have been a much better technology focused CEO then the leaders of Mozilla's current titanic trajectory into
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by mythz 6y ago
Seems to be a heavy "all modern software development sucks" vibe in this thread, when the issue is more "software I get paid to write sucks". What software would you write if you could write whatever you wanted using wha
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That's correct, the ruling was for the TRO. But this still doesn't answer why "They needed to do it this way", i.e. why was their willful subversive violation a prerequisite for their lawsuit against Apple & how can
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by mythz 6y ago
There's no "special deal" for large companies because of who they are, there are multiple exemptions [1] for which types of Apps are free, what sales are exempt and which are subject to Royalty, e.g. "Reader" Apps l
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by mythz 6y ago
This is untrue. Their harm was of their own making which was why the Judge dismissed their injunction: > The Court finds that with respect to Epic Games’ motion as to its games, including Fortnite, Epic Games has not yet demonstrated irr
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by mythz 6y ago
Epic went this route to inflict maximum PR damage, they could've sued without willfully violating their contract which hurt their legal case as they've now entered into the lawsuit with unclean hands which was one of the considera
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by mythz 6y ago
This wasn't some random ToS violation, this was a willful egregious violation done with subversion & malice to undermine the App Store's revenue model. I don't fault Apple for wanting to sever all ties with bad actors. &g
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by mythz 6y ago
> Apple takes 30% off all purchases upfront, and maybe they'll cut you a deal if you're Netflix-size. Netflix, like Kindle & Spotify are "Reader" Apps which pay 0% Royalty. [1] https://www.apple.com&#x2
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by mythz 6y ago
I much prefer Google Play's UI & did not experience the "riddled with bugs" you speak of. Just because it has the same content does not mean it's the same App or offers the same UX, it going away does not make me ha
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by mythz 6y ago
> This is false; the new policy dates from today and Epic's ToS violation was several weeks ago. This policy is clearly in response to the negative publicity and the judge's ruling barring Apple from ending Unreal Engine acces
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by mythz 6y ago
This was announced before Epic violated the ToS whose account was terminated after the 14 days to comply with the App Store rules had elapsed. This has an exception that still wouldn't allow Epic's games to remain in store: > b
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by mythz 6y ago
ASP.NET Core was a rewrite. None of the previous .NET Framework or HttpListener HTTP classes or Abstractions are available in .NET Core which were rewritten to use newer HTTP Abstractions from scratch. > The main differences are in start
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by mythz 6y ago
ASP.NET Web Framework is the Windows only 18 yo Web Framework based on .NET Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET It could run on Mono/Linux, but did so very slowly & buggy and possibly what the slow
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by mythz 6y ago
"Free with advertising" is tenet of Apple's App Store policy, i.e. Royalty Free for everyone: https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/
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by mythz 6y ago
> Microsoft... because they want more clients for Azure Why spend 50B to buy it then? After owning them they'll be the ones paying for hosting costs. IMO they want it for the same reason as Minecraft, a cultural phenomenon and acces
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by mythz 6y ago
> The VCs and record labels must be madly trying to get their investment back out of this. TikTok are suing the US Administration so they're not forced to sell their US operations [1]. From what I can see TikTok have only had a rece
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by mythz 6y ago
> what was the purpose of the free lunch then? A completely irrelevant point, just like this tired cliche. > Not sure why you are looking at download costs, how about the employee costs who develop IOS. The cost to the end user is how
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by mythz 6y ago
> Have you never heard the phrase "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"? Yes, it's a meaningless cliche which is often untrue (I've had many free lunches myself). But "free/gratis" does have

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