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61.
by shuckles 1y ago
True, this is killing innovation in badly written settings panes implemented with web technologies.
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by shuckles 1y ago
I thought the DMA lovers were all aboard saying companies that win in their marketplace do it because of coercion, not because they had a better product?
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by shuckles 1y ago
This would not give any meaningful control or consent to the average user.
64.
by shuckles 1y ago
You haven’t needed to install an app to manage a smart device? Or use a local public service? Or for work?
65.
by shuckles 1y ago
It’s some combination of a market companies in the EU care about where Apple sells a product that has some amount of market share, where the threshold and market definition are totally made up and seem to only impact foreign multinationals.
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by shuckles 1y ago
I have enough software on my phone that I was forced to install that I know this is argument rests on a false premise of agency.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Delayed approval and disagreements about the fundamental nature of what's allowed are two totally different things. Not sure why this example is relevant at all.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Spotify has not supported IAP for premium in a decade and therefore has never paid Apple any fees besides the $99/yr developer fee.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Apple users pay carriers so much money that for half a decade there was substantial competition to be the exclusive carrier for iPhone and even still carriers will pay Apple users to become their customers through device subsidies.
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by shuckles 1y ago
If we’re posting uneconomic nonsense like it’s Reddit, might as well go big and propose a 99% tax on gross income.
71.
by shuckles 1y ago
Wow seems like they really pick these battles to only be the most important issues.
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by shuckles 1y ago
I assure you iOS users would’ve been perfectly happy using Rdio, Tidal, Apple Music, or any one of a dozen other equally good streaming music services over dealing with the garbage of Android.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Internal API is not an SDK. It regularly astounds me how many commenters on a so-called hacker forum seem to think it is. Is everyone else publishing their tightly coupled business logic code as API these days? Is that what GraphQL is?
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by shuckles 1y ago
Who are you to say what a reasonable price is for Apple’s intellectual property?
75.
by shuckles 1y ago
Sounds like they have pretty bad margins!
76.
by shuckles 1y ago
> Pay 30% of the app income to Apple (this changed only recently). This is among the biggest fictions of this crazed argument. Spotify, the company that whines about Apple the most, pays Apple $0 (sorry, $99) for building the entire mark
77.
by shuckles 1y ago
> Apple would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by mentioning at least the generalities of _why_ Really? You can't imagine any reasons Apple wouldn't want to have a public PR battle about its disagreements with its pr
78.
by shuckles 1y ago
That's not going far enough. Disneyland should make its IP available to any competing ride vendor for free (sorry, not free, $99/yr) so that they too can build the same special effects people come to expect from Disneyland.
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by shuckles 1y ago
Yes, I definitely want "Shockz" to be able to run background daemons on my phone for proximity pairing and god knows what else a fly by night OEM might want to do. That would make my phone work much, much better.
80.
by shuckles 1y ago
The EU has not declared that Android gatekeeps headphone technology, so the comparison to Pixel Buds is totally irrelevant. There is no interop requirement placed on them.
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by shuckles 1y ago
The iPhone Pro Max retails for as much as the Samsung Galaxy Ultra, and only one of the two OEMs builds the application platform used by all its developers. What are these "giant profit margins" you're referring to?
82.
by shuckles 1y ago
Apple proposed something like this with their "Core Technology Fee" which the EU commissioners were upset about. They literally do not want to let Apple directly monetize the R&D it takes to produce an application platform.
83.
by shuckles 1y ago
Wow sounds like the $99/yr the commenter was saying developers "pay" Apple is a trivial amount and cannot be used to justify the development of an entire SDK that maybe a dozen companies will use.
84.
by shuckles 1y ago
Yes, the $99/yr Garmin pays covers the 40 minutes of labor it would take annually for an Apple engineer to support this I'm sure.
85.
by shuckles 1y ago
> for other devices they need to spend some extra integration work to make sure there's a standard they follow Have you ever built a software product with an API? Would you say it was trivial upfront and ongoing to build and support
86.
by shuckles 1y ago
The best part is: the EU demands Apple do all the necessary R&D, including an indefinite liability of API maintenance, at no cost to developers.
87.
by shuckles 1y ago
What artifact are you evaluating to come to this conclusion? Is the implementation available?
88.
by shuckles 1y ago
You can buy iPhone 12 on the refurbished market for $300. Apple intends to serve your needs by making great hardware that lasts with long periods of software support.
89.
by shuckles 1y ago
As an example, not everyone is able to use iMessage on a work computer.
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by shuckles 1y ago
So people would like Apple to make a radically different decision about camera sensor size or phone thickness so that those who want to hammer out a short message a couple times a week on their desk don’t have their phone wobble slightly or

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