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by shuckles 3y ago
In reality it would play out a lot more like the Web Apps episode: if the barrier to entry for any new idea was it had to meet the EU's extensive list of arbitrary rules, most new ideas would never be realized. I guess it's time s
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by shuckles 3y ago
Are you seriously asking why Apple offers its users a built-in app to view the photos taken with their phone? You'd prefer if users had to choose and install a photo management app before they could take a picture?
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by shuckles 3y ago
The commenter apparently can't tell the difference between a best in class photo management app made by the creators of Aperature with bloatware. I don't fault them: most users can't either which is why giving them a "ch
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by shuckles 3y ago
Your reply is a non-sequitur bordering on rude. It is also ironic because the EU-mandated browser choice screen offers users such stalwart top browsers such as "Browser" by Maple Media Apps, LLC. a holding company for category lea
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by shuckles 3y ago
Imagine how much time will be wasted to comply with crazy demands like making the Photos app uninstallable which help basically nobody.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Randomization is required by the regulation. Another instance of what a smart person wants out of a feature and what the EU wants being very different things.
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by shuckles 3y ago
“Very refined engineering” sounds like a made up concept. There are a handful of top hedge funds which operate like high-functioning engineering firms, but a portfolio manager who speculates that an industrial firm can’t bring products to m
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by shuckles 3y ago
The finance organization of a firm is plenty capable of recognizing high-risk projects have strategic value. Apple spent a decade failing to build a car while being run by an operations expert blamed for pushing compromises to the design gr
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by shuckles 3y ago
Calhoun was a Managing Director at Blackstone which, sure, isn’t a hedge fund but surely is not a glorified accounting firm. If he can be called a bean counter, so can Anonymous Hedge Fund Guy. There are plenty of extremely strategic CFOs t
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by shuckles 3y ago
But users are demanding choice in browsers, and they are picking the least private, most pro-advertising one en masse! What’s its biggest benefit? It offers a suite of native-replacement, in-the-standards-process-but-not-finalized APIs so d
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by shuckles 3y ago
If bean counters are useless and can’t value engineering, why do you start your comment with a story about a hedge fund guy’s opinion? They are the ultimate bean counters.
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by shuckles 3y ago
The DOJ's 90 page lawsuit is a lot of things, but precise or even factual it is not. For example, it doesn't even cite the selling price or terms of the original iPhone correctly (off by almost 2x) and invents vague terms like &qu
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by shuckles 3y ago
Yeah, appears that way: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/journaling-sugge... . The caveat is that devices store counts not identities, but it does seem like some notion of identity is broadcast
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by shuckles 3y ago
You can know how many of your friends are nearby without knowing who they are.
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by shuckles 3y ago
I think HN's policy against personal attacks doesn't have exceptions for folks you deem to be deluded.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Yes, but I'm saying some would respond to your claim that it's Google's responsibility to bring Watch support to Android with the fact that Apple doesn't allow 3rd parties to bring Watch support to any platform. It'
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by shuckles 3y ago
Some would argue that Apple is obligated to provide all the API necessary to let Google implement support for Apple Watch on Android phones because anything short of that would be an abuse of its monopoly position in the "Apple Watch h
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by shuckles 3y ago
You could sell the watch which is useless to you to someone from whom it's useful in exchange for local currency. Next, you could exchange that local currency for an item you do find useful. Problem solved!
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by shuckles 3y ago
Unlike smart watches where integrating the watch and phone probably has lots of opportunity for innovation left, I agree there isn't much value in proprietary printer inks and standardization probably has more consumer benefit.
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by shuckles 3y ago
The government argued that Apple does not support Apple Watch on Android, which makes it cost prohibitive for Apple Watch users to switch to Android, since they'd have to buy a new smart watch. I wish this was made up, but it's 20
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by shuckles 3y ago
Ink is ink and paper is paper. How hard could it be? I accidentally bought a large inventory of toner during a sale, and it's really cost prohibitive for me to buy a new printer as a result. My comments might be a joke, but they'r
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by shuckles 3y ago
Very excited for the DOJ to finally require HP to support Brother toner.
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by shuckles 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the commenter is misinformed. The dongle worked with the inline mic on my B&O headphones. But it wasn't worth engaging with that point because I think they're wrong even if the dongle doesn't work per
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by shuckles 3y ago
> This entire comment is wildly misinformed. As far as I can tell, you don't dispute a single statement in my comment. > Are you forgetting Apple charges like $1200 for a phone these days? This is a strawman. iPhone starts at $42
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by shuckles 3y ago
> And what do you think the reason for that is? It doesn’t matter. I’m not the one whose arguments depend on Apple making money from Spotify. > The device owner paid for their device and the OS. I have to assume people writing on Hack
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by shuckles 3y ago
> They don’t? This is because of the limitation puts on the App. Just because there’s some reason for why Apple does not make money from Spotify does not invalidate the fact. Meanwhile, your entire argument depended on a false premise. &
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by shuckles 3y ago
I think the people who say the following should have to engage with the fact that its implication is obviously not true: > They created a faux-open market with arbitrary rules that ensure their products always win.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Apple does not force Spotify to support its competition. Spotify does not offer any IAP so in fact it’s Apple that is giving away all its R&D into AVFoundation and various other cutting edge APIs for free to its competition. Apple does
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by shuckles 3y ago
Your stylized example is unrelated to reality. Users cannot subscribe to Spotify in app, so Apple makes no money from them while providing all the R&D they use to play audio on the device for free. Next, people say that the hassle of su
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by shuckles 3y ago
Did you miss the list of Apple products that were not winning earlier in the thread?

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