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by rezonant 3y ago
Interesting- I'm not sure there's been any streamer more secretive than Netflix about its numbers though.
782.
by rezonant 3y ago
This is fantastic!! Excited to see more data from the other providers, and perhaps building useful things around the data :-D
783.
by rezonant 3y ago
Well I didn't choose any of this iMessage nonsense, but I'm still paying for it.
784.
by rezonant 3y ago
Valve is certainly better than others, but they do prevent publishers from selling their game for less outside of Steam (if they sell that game on Steam), and I think that is anti-consumer.
785.
by rezonant 3y ago
Not that, it's about how you navigate through screens in the same app and in multiple apps. Since the back gesture and back stack is universal and all apps are presenting activities added to the back stack, you can seamlessly move betw
786.
by rezonant 3y ago
> me as a user it means I prefer paying more for games in steam than to pay for it without steam. Unfortunately this is not an option. Valve's Steam agreements forbid publishers from charging less money on competing platforms. http
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by rezonant 3y ago
Well, as a consumer, instead of having to switch your entire phone if you don't like the way apps are billed, you'll now be able to switch apps if you don't like how that specific app handles billing. Some things like Netflix
788.
by rezonant 3y ago
But they did play games, check the other subthreads. They were willing to bend over backwards for Netflix including giving them a lower cut.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Apple has explored deals with large app makers like Netflix as well ( https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22421734/apple-epic-netfli... ). They even offered 15% to Netflix ( https://www.theverge.co
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by rezonant 3y ago
I stand corrected but your "False!" is in bad form. Here's the docs, search for Epic Games Store in this FAQ. They waive the 5% royalties when sold on Epic Game Store. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/f
791.
by rezonant 3y ago
It must be a fairly high maximum, or the car companies just pulls a Volkswagen every time Apple comes by to check.
792.
by rezonant 3y ago
Actually my Samsung Bespoke fridge is just that. The REST API docs are even in the printed manual! To be fair it doesn't actually do much. (We got the one without the in-door tablet so we could use the glass front as a whiteboard!)
793.
by rezonant 3y ago
Followed swiftly by the biannual layoffs. It's fine just reapply at the beginning of the fiscal year after they've shown investors how responsible they are.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Welp that's horrible, I'll have nightmares about this.
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by rezonant 3y ago
I have zero doubt there's some kind of VB6 monstrosity living in some car's infotainment system. Complete with a copy of Windows CE to boot.
796.
by rezonant 3y ago
I have to assume they meant 79% of US consumers who use iPhone, since only about 60% of the US uses iPhone, and Carplay specifically is useless to the remaining 40%. Or perhaps they were grouping in AA under the covers.
797.
by rezonant 3y ago
On the flip side, the custom weird UI the car manufacturers contracted some cheap outside firm to write at low cost, and is filled with paid product placement and data mining, will be flawed from the start and never fixed.
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by rezonant 3y ago
It is definitely true that the display and input latency on the headend screen is in control of the car manufacturer, so not all Carplay/AA implementations are equal. I've seen it on rental cars-- some are great and some are crap.
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by rezonant 3y ago
Oh they've already solved for that years ago! It'll just automatically send a Play signal via Bluetooth when your phone connects to it! And for good measure, there will be no way to control this at all. Enjoy having random content
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by rezonant 3y ago
I think the only part of what you describe that is potentially a vertical tie is the Unreal Marketplace license requiring that assets you buy only be used in Unreal. Otherwise, you can put non-Unreal games on EGS, and you can put Unreal gam
801.
by rezonant 3y ago
Well you know what they say; when the conversation doesn't agree with your world view, subtly change the conversation.
802.
by rezonant 3y ago
Good that we have you here to speak on their behalf.
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by rezonant 3y ago
They have a monopoly on selling software to iPhone users. I can't accept that we should treat the software market as an owned component of the hardware market. And yes, that same logic should apply to Google Play devices, game consoles
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by rezonant 3y ago
It's almost like this stuff has nothing to do with fairness, and actually has to do with leveraging your market position to behave anti competitively.
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by rezonant 3y ago
The activity stack experience in Android is probably my favorite part of the system design. It produces a deep consistency that makes navigation effortless. I really wish this had been built in to iOS in the same way. The activity stack wor
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by rezonant 3y ago
Eventually we all become the O.
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by rezonant 3y ago
And, to extend the analogy, paying the coffee patrons you think might consider opening a competitive donut shop next door to avoid that from happening (ie Google).
808.
by rezonant 3y ago
That doesn't make the premise any less ridiculous; it's only illegal to pressure people not to make a competitor, if you make it technically impossible to have a competitor, that's all fine. Being charitable, these are two di
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by rezonant 3y ago
But do you have to say "Send a WhatsApp message to X" or does it work with "send a message to X"?
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by rezonant 3y ago
I just tested it in a group MMS with an iPhone user running iOS 17, and alas no, this is incorrect. Neither thumbs up (like) nor heart (love) apply as tapbacks when the tapback originates from android. Unless there's something I'm

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