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by seec 2y ago
Best interpretation of that is rent-seeking. Not strictly illegal, but prone to regulation at the very least. Another way to put it is racketeering. I guess that Apple has been toying with the line for so long that people don't even u
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by seec 2y ago
They would have the same profit (in fact more) if they didn't have to pay a percentage of their sales to Apple. The 3rd party manufacturers didn't make profit because of Apple but because of their customers choosing their products
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by seec 2y ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't think USB C is perfect nor that it would have been my choice. In fact, from a mechanical standpoint, I prefer Lightning. What I'm saying is that Apple didn't have to take a cut from every item
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by seec 2y ago
Modern computers are complicated to build and to use for complicated stuff but they have been extremely easy to use for regular stuff since the late 90s. Pretending otherwise is nonsensical, since the richest economies in the world depend o
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by seec 2y ago
Have you done a lot of tech support for people? If not, you really don't know the extent of it. It's not insulting, it's just how people are. You should meet the guy who had a lot of issues on his MacBook Pro, related to low
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by seec 2y ago
It's not really about system administration. The average person is a low effort moron who will do whatever he pleases without thinking about the consequences. The difference with computing is that since it's "new" and so
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by seec 2y ago
The 3rd parties are not getting anything out of it. You literally pay for access to a tech stack that has nothing better than you would be able to do with USB. I mean the other side of connection was USB so it was a necessity anyway. If at
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by seec 2y ago
It definitely is but conveniently you can't prove it and they can't prove otherwise. Most of the social "science" are a scam, but since it gives peoples some "work" it keeps going. In reality it's only val
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by seec 2y ago
Apple's approach makes no sense but they don't have a choice because of all the past marketing nonsense. They need to justify their hardware quality/price which is becoming irrelevant because even the cheapest phone work just
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by seec 2y ago
Yes it's extremely dumb and annoying. It's everywhere in Apple products, for example your Health ID cannot get your weight for your latest recorded weight in the app. I mean, it's even the same app, it's like the devs ca
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by seec 2y ago
Vision Pro is a vanity product for Tim Cook. Once you understand that it makes a lot more sense. It's the only product he has ever pushed, and I believe it's because of the shallow wow factor which fits TC very well. In any case i
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by seec 2y ago
That's pretty much my experience as well. Even something as dumb and simple as setting timers is getting messed up some times. To the point where I'm just considering buying a hardware multi-timer. I'm not sure how good Googl
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by seec 2y ago
Shortcuts takes precedence because it was originally created on iOS and TC want absolute convergence between the OS. They don't realize (or don't care) how restricting it is to go this route. To be honest that may be the desired r
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by seec 2y ago
His program was litteraly national socialism. He wanted to get rid of the communists but not because their ideas didn't suit him (in many ways it's extremely similar, central state deciding everything) but because they were sympat
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by seec 2y ago
I only know about Andrew Tate because of 2 things: general chatter about him and a small (about 10 min) YouTube critic of him that I randomly watched a few days ago. He is obviously a despicable character but it's not surprising that h
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by seec 2y ago
Yep, exactly what is happening in rich countries at the moment. The human female behavior is much closer to other species than we like to pretend. Because we got too arrogant with our "smartness".
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by seec 2y ago
No need to wonder, you can already observe the results going on at the moment. Women don't do outright cannibalism since humans are more sophisticated, but women absolutely kill (figuratively) their mate/husband to extract as much
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by seec 2y ago
While Linux did originate in the EU, it is now primarily sponsored by American companies. In fact, one can argue that Linux is originally a poor copy of UNIX that was possible only because it would have been complicated to make the IP legal
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by seec 2y ago
Because EU is weak and no real leverage. There is a lot of political posturing but it happens precisely because there not much to be done without hurting EU citizens tremendously. The EU is way too dependent on everyone else and is now goin
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by seec 2y ago
Hitler ideas were radical from the start. We just like to pretend otherwise in history manuals, because it started as a socialist thing, and since left HAS to be the camp of the good, it has to become far-right radicalism. But if you look a
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by seec 2y ago
Trump is nothing like Hitler. The oration competency is not even on the same planet. Hitler used socialist rhetoric to appeal to people's emotions to get into power. Trump is a business magnate that say things and behave in a way that
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by seec 2y ago
> You can't really be surprised that the people you put in power do what they say they were going to do. This is exactly what was happening and precisely one of the reasons Trump got elected. His electorate might not be surprised, b
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by seec 2y ago
I have read the whole conversation and he just lives in an alternate reality. The EU has little benefits for the citizens of rich countries, expect for the dominant class, political and business, because they got more power in various diffe
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by seec 2y ago
Yes but that's a big problem, the EU doesn't really have any alternative for most of them. So, if it were to tarif them a lot, it would end up hurting the EU population more than the other way around. If you tariff most tech stuff
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by seec 2y ago
Using commands is nothing special and can barely be considered a "skill" (you are just typing stuff instead of pushing buttons, no significant difference). But since it's obtuse and need a large investment (memory for command
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by seec 2y ago
Well I understand what you mean. At an individual developer level, it may look like it's not worth the trouble and just go with a simple terminal-based interface and a simple text file configuration. But that's basically giving up
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by seec 2y ago
Makes no mistake, it's not an insult. I'm saying that precisely because I have been there. Apple is the master at creating desire and building narrative in their customers' mind about the many things their devices would allow
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by seec 2y ago
Macs are easy to sell if they are BtO with custom configuration, in that case you may not lose too much. But the depreciation hit hard on the base models, the market is flooded because people who buy those machines tend to change them often
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by seec 2y ago
Of course this is the reason. And this is why Apple has become so bad for the tech enthusiasts, no matter how good the OS/software can be, you have to pay a tax that is way too big because you already have the competence that should al
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by seec 2y ago
Oh yes, I agree, it's not as bad on iOS for sure. But acceptable for a premium device is a very low bar to clear. It becomes much less acceptable over the years as well, infuriating. In my country the mainline iPhone start around 1k€ a

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