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by phmqk76 3y ago
Apple: Our devices must remain walled gardens so only the highest quality, legitimate apps are able to be installed. And we require a 30% rent on every transaction for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of our garden. Also Apple: Let
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Both were great moves under Cook. But great writers need great editors, and Cook is not a great editor. It takes tremendous fortitude to kill an iteration of a device before its launch, and Jobs would have done so without hesitation, as he
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Uh, it’s revisionism to say that third party apps were slow, and therefore the iPhone was slow, when the iPhone was out for an entire year before the App Store launched. I’m talking about the original iPhone at launch, not capability that w
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by phmqk76 3y ago
This is, what, the second rebrand of its AI in less than a year? From the company that could have owned the chat space, but instead had like 5 competing/rebranded chat products over the last 15 years and ceded the market entirely to co
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by phmqk76 3y ago
I owned one shortly after launch day. It was absolutely blazing fast, especially compared with the Moto Q I had just come from. Not the mobile internet speed, of course, the speed of the interface. It was completely smooth and fast unlike a
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Yup. Nobody bought one and said, This sucks, but it’s the future… It was great on day one.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
I owned the first iPhone right when it came out. It was a revelation. It’s original cost was about the same as Windows Mobile devices off-contract, and it quickly got a price cut weeks into its launch, so it really wasn’t more expensive tha
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Lol no
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Obviously no. This is the reason we have the minimum wage and labor laws. I can’t believe this is even a serious question
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Funny, that’s the same exact (bad) argument against the minimum wage…
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Not sure why people are disliking your comment. You are absolutely right - a business that cannot turn a profit while paying even the most basic wages (I wouldn’t call $15 per hour “living”) has no business existing. How did people in the 1
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Here’s an unpopular opinion among the typical Hacker News crowd: Section 230 (inadvertently?) artificially created a market wherein a platform provider has the exclusive right to earn revenue on the content you post, and yet has zero culpab
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by phmqk76 3y ago
It’s as fair and balanced as reality is. Newsom is a moderate governor, DeSantis is (proudly) far-right.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
This essay shows the extent of intellectual rot in this country, to the point where if you make a few bucks in Silicon Valley, suddenly your 8th grade history class level understanding of the world is supposed to be seen as serious discours
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Well it is obviously a bad thing, and goes to the heart of antitrust. US regulators understood this clearly all the way up until Reagan, and his DOJ instituted a paradigm shift that let companies get away with obliterating their competition
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Biofeedback has always intrigued me as a pain management device, although it went from being in the popular consciousness to not being talked about anymore. If there’s any validity to it, that could be a killer feature of VR - a headset tha
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Pay attention and stop emitting carbon. This is an opportunity to push a paradigm shift of accessible and clean energy, able to be produced just about anywhere, instead of having to go to great lengths to extract it and combust it. I welcom
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by phmqk76 3y ago
This is disingenuous. The issue isn’t, in a vacuum, whether college leadership needs to weigh in on the Hamas massacre. The broader context is that university leaders jump in with both feet regarding literally everything else. The question
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by phmqk76 3y ago
We may never know for sure if using Firebase was, indeed, literally the most horrible experience of Cracker Jack’s life. I mean, the rest of us do, of course, because we don’t have the emotional intelligence of a gnat.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
You could even say that I was employing irony by calling his humorless comment “droll.” I don’t mean “you,” per se, because you find it hard to know if the author was using hyperbole or was conveying that this was, in fact, the most horribl
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by phmqk76 3y ago
How droll, Greg. How droll.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
I really like this concept. I see a lot of negativity in the comments over the “Fisher Price” UI, but honestly, this seems much more familiar and easier to navigate than what Windows has become to the average user. This is something that I
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by phmqk76 3y ago
I guess my question is, addicted to what? A smartphone is a Swiss Army knife, it can do anything. Addicted to social media? I can see that. Addicted to real time communication, like texting? Or watching videos? Reading? That’s like saying,
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by phmqk76 3y ago
This case is a stalking horse for the substitution of power from bureaucratic agencies with defined missions and policy experts to politically-appointed judges. The administrative state as it began in earnest under Roosevelt is on the brink
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by phmqk76 3y ago
The 5th Circuit is a right-wing fever dream that makes disastrously unconstitutional rulings literally every day. Lay people who don’t follow the courts or have a legal background might find it hard to accept that our legal system has stray
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by phmqk76 3y ago
It’s not a real controversy in the sense that you actually understood what I meant, but chose to be obtuse and act as if you didn’t. Apply that same logic to the Supreme Court - this is an area of extremely well-settled law. The only contro
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by phmqk76 3y ago
This isn’t a real controversy, this is a far-right fever dream conjured by the Federalist Society. They’ve dreamed of weakening the administrative state ever since its inception under Roosevelt - that’s all this is. This “Reason” piece is j
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by phmqk76 3y ago
I haven’t used Google Maps in probably four or five years. Apple Maps doesn’t track me, Google does. And if I can navigate the maze of obscure privacy settings across my Google account, I still don’t trust myself to have done it correctly o
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by phmqk76 3y ago
What’s sickening? Musk has provocatively pushed the envelope, again and again, and has courted hate speech. Which isn’t illegal, mind you, but thoroughly unpalatable to companies with decent reputations who cater to most Americans. X is sti
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Sure. Along with price controls, so companies pass the savings onto consumers, instead of just making obscene profits, right?

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