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by shuckles 3y ago
This is widely accepted business theory. It’s hard to innovate when you depend on suppliers external to you for key technology.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Apple uses their own technology to make their products better. That’s not a scandal. Their products aren’t the most dominant in streaming, maps, or payment. Most of the complaints are about what they aren’t doing (going out of their way to
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by shuckles 3y ago
So? Do you think great engineers or engineering orgs are a dime a dozen? The US government is a many trillion dollar organization. Have you used a government website?
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by shuckles 3y ago
Wireless headphones are a better experience is basically every way, and yes microphones on phones aren’t a niche which is why every phone has one. Totally unrelated to wired inline external microphones, though.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Basically every smartphone vendor removed the headphone jack. So you’re saying Apple is a monopoly because they have good ideas everyone else copies?
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by shuckles 3y ago
Are you aware there are plenty of wireless headphones that work with iPhone?
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by shuckles 3y ago
I’d prefer if Apple spent its scarce engineering resources on bringing new innovations to market and not facilitating other people to copy what they build. From Apple’s perspective the request is even more twisted: they should move to stand
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by shuckles 3y ago
I used the dongle. I left it permanently attached to my headphone cable, and it was a non-issue to “carry it everywhere.” Needing a wired inline mic is a niche of niche, making the argument about antitrust monopoly even weaker.
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by shuckles 3y ago
My guess is even if iMessage bubbles were green, the sheer horribleness of SMS would still make communicating with Android a second class experience in a way everyone found frustrating. Sure RCS might make that better (I’m skeptical — stand
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by shuckles 3y ago
Vertical integration and competition are orthogonal. Vertical integration is when Apple improves upon Bluetooth with a proprietary enhancement to the standard. Competition is Pixel Buds advertising a similar feature set.
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by shuckles 3y ago
AirPods came out 8 years ago. It’s good to hear it’s better now, though that doesn’t comport with my experience. Are you saying you’d prefer a world where innovation was held from the market for almost a decade while standards caught up and
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by shuckles 3y ago
No actually any iPhone with a headphone jack continued to have a functioning headphone jack. And competitors marketed their phones with headphone jacks for a year and ended up also abandoning that feature.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Your list of services where you claim Apple has a dominant position is entirely products where it does not have a dominant position.
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by shuckles 3y ago
“Apple improved upon the notoriously unreliable Bluetooth standard and then slightly degraded wired listening by requiring a $9 dongle” is quite a weak anti-trust argument. Almost all innovation comes from this type of vertical integration.
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by shuckles 3y ago
There is no reason to believe lack of background activity support on iPhone is the reason smartwatches haven’t taken off as a computing platform.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Actually Samsung Pay for the longest time supported MST which was not secure and supported transmission of payment credentials that could be intercepted by a MITM.
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by shuckles 3y ago
1. Presumably it’s equally likely causality flows in the other direction: WeChat took off before Apple instituted strict controls but the cat was already out of the bag in that market. WeChat is an exceptionally user hostile app, and arguin
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by shuckles 3y ago
This is irrelevant. The primary argument people have against Apple is their platform indirectly impacts how other businesses can operate generally. The smartwatch never took off as a platform, so it exercises no such influence.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Yes all apps by the same developer have a shared container.
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by shuckles 3y ago
I like the part of the complaint where the government lawyers fantasize that their hard work is the reason why Microsoft allowed iTunes Store on Windows. Some real narcissism and lack of knowledge about technology on display.
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by shuckles 3y ago
The super apps point is very interesting. The quotes in the complaint from Apple are exactly right: super apps are sucky and don’t follow native platform conventions. The DOJ then says this is a good thing and pro-consumer innovation. If on
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by shuckles 3y ago
What are the Chinese app stores? Do you mean the China storefront of the Apple App Store or something else? Do you have any documentation about this?
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by shuckles 3y ago
The premise of strong freedom of speech rights is that the government being smart enough to decide what is illegal propaganda may fail as well, sometimes more catastrophically.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Americans take home a lot more money than Germans.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Smog in LA peaked decades before EV credits were thought up.
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by shuckles 3y ago
So your theory is that China is investing unprecedented amounts into EV production to improve air quality in coastal California thereby propping up land values? Wouldn't it be cheaper to pass permit reform so that LA and SF metro areas
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by shuckles 3y ago
As much as I love California doomerism, the "suicide pact" is fraying and we should appreciate that. Split roll for commercial property tax assessments only lost by 2% on the ballot in 2020 which is a winnable margin. There are ma
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by shuckles 3y ago
> That's a rather bold claim, unless you're a mind-reader. It seems like you have me confused with someone else in the thread who used the phrase "wild accusation" and are responding rudely. I think your original comm
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by shuckles 3y ago
Tesla's primary R&D and manufacturing operations are in the San Francisco Bay Area. How does that impact land values in Southern California?
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by shuckles 3y ago
You said that iCPR is privacy theatre because of a resolved security bug from 2 years ago. Please spell out the implication of that claim for me then.

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