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by nolok 6y ago
> But for Spotify or other apps that sell content Apple is not providing storage, bandwidth, or anything else. Indeed, I missed that layer when answering you. That's makes it even worse and unfair. > They do provide payment proce
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by nolok 6y ago
Oh I absolutely agree. Like another commenter said below, another similar thing are payment processors fees, but it works because 1. you're free to use another one, or checks, or cash, or bitcoin, or anything else, and 2. the EU has st
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by nolok 6y ago
But that's not a 1:1 comparison because you are not forced to use them, you're free to go to another one, or not take them and use checks or cash or bitcoin or whatever you want. If Apple was not making it mandatory to go throug
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by nolok 6y ago
Free apps maybe, but then again the "all free" is a myth since there are costs to pay by someone, and Apple is free to keep subsidizing them if they so desire (because an entirely free app is good for their customers). But non fre
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by nolok 6y ago
... So usage, entirely different from revenue. If you manage to double your price without changing how much resources you need to use, AWS bill doesn't change. Apple's bill doubles.
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by nolok 6y ago
It's because Apple's actual costs are pretty much fixed (storage, bandwidth, ...) so clearly on a low price / many customer scenario it seems fairer. That's why a per usage pricing would be fairer. And yes, the app havin
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by nolok 6y ago
Not an issue, already solved in many market: offering the normal pricing doesn't stop the provider (here Apple) to offer other special terms to those who want them. Example in another market: you can buy an Unreal Engine license, or yo
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by nolok 6y ago
By your metric anything you pay is a % of your revenue, I think you understand what I meant in the context I meant it. Imagine a scenario where you realize you can double your prices without changing anything else nor losing customer, there
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by nolok 6y ago
I don't understand your point. If you're serving a file from AWS to ten people or to a massive userbase what happens ? Does AWS pricing change once you have a certain amount of traffic ? No, you pay per GB delivered. Apple should
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by nolok 6y ago
Lots of comments around the line of "ok maybe 30% is too much, but we can all agree they offer a valuable service, so what percentage should they take ?" Uhhhh, not a percentage ? Do you imagine AWS billing you a % of your revenue
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by nolok 6y ago
The problem is that if Apples' services have a price, then they should price it out, like any provider. "Here's the price to have your app in the store, here is the one for one download, here is the one for an update". H
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by nolok 6y ago
I don't disagree with you, but you couldn't really have picked a worst example (short of an an actual EU member country) given how their bilateral treaties with the EU means EU rules apply to do business in non-EU Switzerland.
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by nolok 6y ago
In France a small claims request is free (a couple forms to fill), do not require a lawyer and you have virtually no need to go to court. Small claims court are also pretty fast, though in that specific case it's pretty much a given th
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by nolok 6y ago
Have you taken to (small) court any platform that refuses you that resale ? Probably not, can't bother / don't have the time nor money / ... Neither have I, just to be clear. That's why these cases end up being solv
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by nolok 6y ago
He's saying they're leading the field, manage to stay ahead of competition, keep making bank, yet still have a gigantic amount of growth potential.
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by nolok 6y ago
> several people are starting to write parsers in rust ffmpeg is what it is because it's way more than "parsers". It's all the parsers, and the filters, and everything you need to feed it any audio/video file you
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by nolok 6y ago
Yes that's called the trigger. You have a trigger, that leads you to focus on and review what caused said trigger, and reach conclusions. The ban is the trigger. The review is about to happen, so they really can't talk about its r
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by nolok 6y ago
I entirely disagree. Not once do they talk about getting the ban removed, instead they talk about figuring out why it happened and how to be better at having research done being ethical. Was the ban the trigger to them (the heads) looking i
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by nolok 6y ago
And what authority did they have to add someone (themselves on personal email)? None personal. The one that they had as an employee. Would they had been added to that list using their personal email if they removed themselves THEN asked som
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by nolok 6y ago
You're missing that they added their personnal email in the maintainer file by using their ibm email, in the commit where they were supposed to remove themselves. Employees giving themselves personnal privileges using company resources
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by nolok 6y ago
> this is NOT an invitation to get plaintext email mansplained to me That person can reassure herself, there are just as many women know-it-all-better-than-you as there are men, arrogance and condescension are sadly not strictly male tra
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by nolok 6y ago
Did you report it to the Dutch agency in charge of enforcing it ? Eg in France it's the DGCCRF (we love our acronyms).
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Boeing Warns of Possible Electrical Issue on 737 Max Planes(npr.org)
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by nolok 6y ago
You're probably well aware but most of those places will try to give you free credit to "start off", keeping the crack dealer reference going. It's never enough to really figure things out but it's still a good deal
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by nolok 6y ago
I currently buy about 50k worth of ads every month, aiming for qualified leads (my end goal is converted sale, no recurring). FB is one of the worst ad network I've had the displeasure to use. First in terms of analytics and reporting.
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by nolok 6y ago
In EU law too. Booking.com just got convicted half a million just for notifying TOO LATE (two weeks after the fact). I assume they expect to claim it's not a fb leak in some convoluted way, otherwise I don't understand that move.
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by nolok 6y ago
> The dude's in high school and finds stuff like this? Man, you should have seen the european demoscene in the 90s, half of the geniuses had the same main obstacle: homework from school. Despite what it may seem IT is still in its i
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by nolok 6y ago
Sadly it's not how these platform operates, they provide the card for security deposit usually. That's why I've used Agoda every time I could (works well in Asia, spotty elsewhere), because they allow paypal payment. Hotel wi
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by nolok 6y ago
These are the exact same kind of stupid: they assume everything data set will always be constant or linear.
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by nolok 6y ago
I'm willing to bet this new updated site with javascript events everywhere and three different third party script integration will either stop working or disappear before the original 1996 version. I'm glad they kept a copy of the

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