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by mythz 6y ago
Yeah that's right it costs $1249 for each download of iOS (Beta's are 1/2 price), but Apple gives you as many iPhone Max Pro's as you want, mailed along with your free sim! Which doesn't matter if you lose or break
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by mythz 6y ago
> If I buy a new TV and throw the remote in the trash, the remote was not part of the cost of the TV? A hardware remote is, which has an actual per unit cost (a software remote wouldn't be). The cost of Software distribution is effe
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by mythz 6y ago
That's nonsensical, if you could buy the hardware cheaper or iOS separate then you would be paying for iOS, you can't, Apple doesn't sell iOS, it gives it away. The cost for new iOS versions is irrelevant to the cost of hardw
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by mythz 6y ago
You're paying for the phone, there is no cost nor can you pay for iOS. The current and all future versions is & always has been free.
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by mythz 6y ago
iOS is a major cost to develop that's given away for free, continually invested in, advanced, developed & updated. Apple is allowed to have more than one business model on the platform they built, which was their primary focus that
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by mythz 6y ago
Of course a competing App Store can offer lower prices, they don't bear any of the costs for developing and managing the iOS ecosystem Apple spent billions over a decade building (that many other companies lost fortunes failing to comp
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by mythz 6y ago
The majority of the cost is simply for being able to participate in their market of 1B+ credit cards which lets ISV's frictionlessly sell Apps direct to consumers globally, it's not for the direct tangible benefits the App Store
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by mythz 6y ago
When leaving Australia in 2005, it had one of the worst value mobile/internet plans, was pleasantly surprised returning after 15 years to find it now offers some of the best value. Currently on a Woolworths no-contract pre-paid mobile,
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by mythz 6y ago
You likely want Apple News+ [1] at just under $10 USD /mo - a single cost for a la carte access to a large pool of publications, basically the only premium subscription model that's going to be able to gain mainstream adoption. [1
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by mythz 6y ago
Yeah though much smaller by today's standards, it was a different era where social networks weren't valued as much as they are now. I'm meaning to say the world needs more diversity of powerful tech companies away from US Tec
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by mythz 6y ago
This would be hugely disappointing, the first international appealing social network outside of US Tech giants and they're potentially being forced to sell due to US Govt political strong arming. The world could use some diversity away
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by mythz 6y ago
Interesting to compare Q2 2020 results between Intel & AMD: Intel Revenue: 19.7B, Net Income: 5.1B, Market Cap: 209.42B, P/E: 9.06 AMD Revenue: 1.93B, Net Income: 157M, Market Cap: 79.2B, P/E: 133.82 But by the sentiment of a
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by mythz 6y ago
Either way conceding manufacturing of their flagship products to their competitor is not without consequence, and shouldn't be their primary preference - it's their contingency plan, as it should be.
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by mythz 6y ago
That's fairly short-sighted, a 200B company shouldn't be protecting their core business by handing over their manufacturing reins to effectively create a monopoly that most of the world relies upon for chip manufacturing to make u
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by mythz 6y ago
Protecting its x86 business by outsourcing & relying on an external supplier for one of its core competencies? They've announced they have contingency plans to hedge against further schedule uncertainty (assuming that means using T
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by mythz 6y ago
There's plenty of native DB Admin UI's around, JetBrains Data Grip is my personal favorite. Some advantages of this is that it's highly customizable where you could quickly create a customizable queryable UI around multiple e
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Show HN: Instant Customizable RDBMS Vue UI in 20kb Gist Desktop App(sharpscript.net)
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Show HN: Customizable RDBMS Vue UI in 20kb Gist Desktop App(sharpscript.net)
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by mythz 6y ago
US Anti trust laws applies to monopolies [1] where one of the penalties for abusing a monopoly is breaking up the company which was famously done to Standard Oil and AT&T. The EU have found Google guilty of antitrust violations and fine
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by mythz 6y ago
Everyone has the option for an ad-sponsored or ad-free YouTube for a monthly fee. Which is how I've been watching YouTube, ad-free for years.
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by mythz 6y ago
Break Up Amazon & Facebook too.
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To be found guilty of illegally abusing your monopoly power, you must first have a monopoly.
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by mythz 6y ago
Where's a good place to find some useful public SQLite data sets?
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by mythz 6y ago
I've yet to pay twice for Pixelmator which I've used for years & they've never nagged me once, will gladly pay again in a heartbeat. It's great they offer a different & improved SKU as I don't see how they c
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by mythz 6y ago
Never heard of them, thanks for the reference looks like a great high quality app, just bought it on iPad (was only $9.99 atm). On macOS I use Pixelmator which is one of the best quality Apps I have on macOS, was also only a small 1 time pu
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by mythz 6y ago
Wren and Bob Nystrom are called out as major inspirations: https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity#special-thanks
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by mythz 6y ago
Came here to say the same thing, that's some gorgeous docs for a hobby language, no doubt the primary author has excellent designer skills.
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by mythz 6y ago
It's got nothing to do with voter fraud which is another conspiracy tagline for his base to hang their propaganda on. His whole intent is to make it harder to vote and reduce voting % as much as possible in order to amplify his rabid b
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by mythz 6y ago
That's basically the crux of it, syntax matters a lot less in language adoption. Most mainstream languages benefit from a "killer" app, feature, software-class or platform, which is what sees Swift become hugely popular becau
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by mythz 6y ago
IMO land is a horrible investment to sit on, they have acquisition costs, you have to pay annual rates to hold them, they're non revenue generating that as a result can't be claimed as a tax deduction (in Australia at least). They

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