shreyansh_k

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by shreyansh_k 2y ago
I think this is a short sighted and unfair view of native apps. It is significantly difficult to provide fluent and fast “native” like experience with WebApps because of browser related overheads. Another advantage of native apps, at least
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by shreyansh_k 2y ago
Reading this article left me more and more annoyed with every paragraph. To quote from the article: > Because the boiling point of water depends on altitude, you could take it to a very, very high place and the same calorific value might
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I am just going to flip this argument. Hope this gets my message across eloquently. ------ How should Apple make a return on its investment? Through apps such as Spotify, who don't want to pay a dime? Through Governments, who are activ
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I am just going to flip this argument to put things in perspective and add a bit of contrast. ----- What is the value again? Playing music? Spotify could just charge for services rendered, ie number of hours played, rather than a flat fee.
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I find these kind of arguments to be ridiculous. Apple risked their resources and created the whole ecosystem before Spotify even existed. It's not like Apple put a gun to the heads of Spotify executives and forced them to use the App
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
Apps wouldn't exist without the immense value delivered by all the Apple tooling on the iPhone.
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
This is just showing poor understandings of personal boundaries. Yes, Apple is piggybacking on various ISPs infrastructure. That is a deal the ISPs explicitly allowed everyone to do and marketed as a selling point for others to use in their
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I find this argument kind of ridiculous - yes, app developers (such as Spotify) bring value proposition to Apple's products by being available on the platform. But, apps (such as Spotify) probably wouldn't exist and wouldn't
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
Spotify does seem to be in an interesting position where it gets to piggyback on Apple's whole infrastructure and ecosystem without paying Apple anything. That should count for something...
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
> “Other companies have failed in the past so we shouldn’t assert anything about a public company’s finances” Please don't put words in my mouth. My original statement was only to the effect of "people (who are not associated t
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
My main issue with the EU regulators dictating how companies should handle their products is due to the fact that there is plenty of evidence to show that their regulation activities have equal chance of not working and actually working. Th
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
Statements such as "Stating the simple fact that Apple has the ability to increase their resources is not somehow offensive." is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Plenty of people (and their companies) die trying to "increas
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I simply think that you have poor understandings of boundaries. Setting aside the remarks about Apple vs EU regulators, which, by the way I think are in bad taste, but I won't get into it here because then we might get distracted, I th
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
People seem to have lost all understandings of boundaries. Bunch of people suing Apple because they don't like how their iPhones back up to iCloud is an equivalent of a child throwing tantrums because their favourite toy won't acc
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
IIRC, Nigerian Government depegged their currency with respect to the dollar, which caused their currency to market correct, thus, devaluing itself. Keep me honest, if the above is correct, this seems like a dishonest attempt by the Nigeria
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
In other news: * Children are throwing tantrums over the fact that the adults are maintains their boundaries and don't allow pushing them. * Competitors are annoyed that their competitor is trying to maintain its competitive edge. * C
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
> Okaaaay, but I don't see how that view which you hold can be reconciled with this view which you also espoused: We don't share perspective. Therefore, we can't see what the other is seeing. One thing I am taking away fro
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I'm fully aware of nihilism. I think it's childish. I think we don't know if there a meaning to life and we might never have an answer. If such a meaning exists, I think that humans simply are not equipped to reason about the
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I assure you, it's not. It's one of those things, that is, if you know, you know. If you don't, then you don't. Unfortunately for us, I don't feel good about revealing too much about it (or myself). Sorry.
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
No. Not nihilism. Neither do I participate in nor promote nihilism.
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
Please don't put words into my mouth. If someone culture is to be honest and not steal, they don't. But having an ideology is not a invitation to force ones own values on to other people. I'd like to live in a honest world an
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
You talk about wealth (and inequality) so much yet you fail to see that food and oxygen is also a form of wealth. We, the humans, in fact, had barter system, food and oxygen before we invented money. It's difficult to take you seriousl
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I'm going to tell you a story. A story, I'm afraid, that might leave you even more confused. But, I hope it serve us well. Sometime in the 1960s (don't quote me on the year), there was plenty of scientific research coming out
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I hear your comments and agree with your data about the 15% difference (personally, this number doesn't even matter, what matters is just the fact that there is some form of observable difference) even though I haven't verified it
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
I hear your thoughts on equality before the law and everything. I think it is coming with a good motivation, cute even, but, dare I say, not everybody deserves to be treated equally, if we were even willing to tussle for the sake of equalit
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
It seems that we tend to treat wealth inequality as some sort of judgement of fairness and unfairness. That is: the lower wealth inequality, the more fair. I think projecting the quality of fairness is a false hope. The Dutch are the talles
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
This seems to be a standard "serial processing to parallel distributed processing" story, with job generator, broker, processor etc, every grandma used to share.
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
Great to see that someone is being sane. The "monopoly" arguments never made sense to me. I think, for the people who purchase phones, it's not like Apple put a gun to their head and forced them buy iDevice(s). They had compl
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
Ford
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by shreyansh_k 3y ago
While I'm not an Apple fanboy but I don't think it's Apple's fault that the ecosystem _they_ invested in became useful to them as well as their people. Argument such as "everyone uses phones..." don't seem

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