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by rbrtl 6y ago
This isn't necessarily true. I don't have any behind the scenes knowledge, but I suspect that enough money or reputation can buy you unskippable ads. I've had several ads I have been unable to skip, running to as long as 15 s
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Well it's open source, so if there are features you want you could contribute to the project. And being open source, the project won't have the same luxuries in terms of user-testing and iterative improvement of things as trivial
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Sometimes the turn around is quicker, because rather than building their poor competitor they just buy one.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
No... You have the option of any of 50, and they can all be accepted everywhere; rather than the option of only two if you want a chance of being accepted. I believe this is already law in the EU anyway, but there are few competitors to the
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by rbrtl 6y ago
If you're underpaid you should probably ask yourself if you need an expensive smartphone... Plenty of people use photography as an escape from their work stress. I just don't understand what your point is.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Yes they do. People who value the curation of their photos will take the time to do it. I create an album for any event etc. which I expect I'll want to photograph. It's easier to share and re-share the same set of photos, and it
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by rbrtl 6y ago
They do not avoid official contact. They avoid unofficial contact, such as that of FB directly approaching any domain owner they feel like without proving to a judge that there is reasonable grounds to file suit. The same way you put your e
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Just because I have no cake does not mean I can't eat it.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
> by misleading users and buying potential rivals As a Brit, I thought this was how Americans do business.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I don't think the inclusion of the word "mob" is very helpful. The connotations are both sinister, and organised. What we have is the logical extension of the social justice, or SJW, movement. Which even 2 years ago, in my re
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Hi dang. I was wondering why other people can downvote my comments anonymously, but I'm not afforded the same opportunity? Habits formed on SO would lead me to comment on anything I was downvoting anyway, but it feels like something of
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I had - without questioning it - assumed you were commenting from a Western Democracy yourself. It is beautifully eye-opening to be confronted with my own bias so starkly. In fact, I am British, and I think our system has many of the same i
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by rbrtl 6y ago
You would call it...?
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I agree with you 75%. > No one benefits from this current situation except Apple. This isn't true. See top comment, but all the FAANGs and their smaller siblings benefit in the exact same way. The problem is systemic, and it starts
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Reaching people is not your right. This is the fallacy that social media has taught a generation. > Id love to see mac users round here survive on mac os with nothing but the app store. You're moving the goalposts here... Anyone ca
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by rbrtl 6y ago
You have just inspired me. I've always wanted a political fiction to try and write in my spare time, this sounds perfect :)
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by rbrtl 6y ago
...and then not complain when they can't distribute to Apple users. All these whinging developers seem to have forgotten that they made an agreement with Apple which included: "10. Term and Termination. Apple may terminate or susp
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by rbrtl 6y ago
You have the same choice the device users have. It's their right to choose their device, and it's your right to choose which provider you use or don't. It is not your right to reach all those people.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
But it's not just the app marketplace providers. It has become the tech-company norm to shut people out of their systems without rhyme or reason. It's outrageous, but people rag on Apple disproportionately, as though their model (
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by rbrtl 7y ago
That also isn't how evolution works... You're conflating evolution with education. Education also varies from one generation to the next as the educators learn from their own experience, or are imposed upon by government in curric
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by rbrtl 7y ago
This is the only lesson I really took away from Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." People will say what they will about the man, and his kin, that he's a peddler and just another business man out for himself. I&#x27
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by rbrtl 7y ago
The difference between an SAP consultant, even on retainer, saying someone else can't do it because it's "too hard for them", and an employee being on the receiving end of that remark, is that the employee is an investme
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by rbrtl 7y ago
No, this is the SAP business model. If people think that Apple, Sony, or Microsoft try to lock you in to their 'walled garden' then these people have never seen an SAP installation/integration. It's almost its own indust
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by rbrtl 7y ago
I have no idea where this contradiction is coming from. OP explicitly stated that they would maintain, keep, hold on to, medical advances and science growth... They would trade _other_ growth such as land values, asset inflation etc. to und
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by rbrtl 7y ago
I think you know OP didn't mean those: > Except medical advances and science, I'd be all willing to trade ALL the economic "growth" I don't understand if you're making a larger point or not, but the "f
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by rbrtl 7y ago
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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by rbrtl 7y ago
I understand, I was inferring some blame on Apple's part from your commentary -- as though they were denying you a living from your app. Anyway, thanks for the discussion. Probably shouldn't necro this thread any more than I have
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by rbrtl 7y ago
I think this is only another reason to dislike them. Google created the PWA as a way to encapsulate the market on their terms. As my other comments will belie me, I do not disapprove of this behaviour necessarily -- Apple do it too -- but t
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by rbrtl 7y ago
I think perhaps your business model isn't as solid as you might think. Producing an app is not a free pass to live on the revenue, and the market capture is an important part. I'm not an app developer, I'm in the music indust
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by rbrtl 7y ago
Thanks! I hadn't spotted that...

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