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by shuckles 2y ago
Restriction is an odd term to describe: "They don't proactively build a suite of tools and APIs to facilitate third party watch development."
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by shuckles 2y ago
Sometimes I get the feeling that a lot of people are upset that Apple is deciding what's best for their customers, and customers are happy with that, instead of everyone asking their nerdy cousin or whatever. The condescension towards
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by shuckles 2y ago
How is it anti-competitive for Apple to pick its own customers? A decade ago, Android used to argue that open was better. Now, people seem to argue that closed should be illegal.
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by shuckles 2y ago
Now we're just playing semantic games. There's a big difference between the level of effort that goes into internal API and public API, and clearly the ask here is Apple undertake that effort now and forevermore to support a publi
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by shuckles 2y ago
You are at least an honest critic here in that you admit you'd rather Apple not build great features for its own customers if that means some hypothetical future company isn't allowed to hypothetically build its own version if App
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by shuckles 2y ago
Allowing support for a rich ecosystem of mediocre smart watches does not move the needle on making it better for me personally. And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebb
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by shuckles 2y ago
There are millions of ways you implicitly trust Apple software to not violate your trust when you use their products. The whole point is Apple can gauge whether it is appropriately stewarding that trust in first party code much better than
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by shuckles 2y ago
If you’re Apple and worth 3 trillion dollars then you can also ship a voice assistant that’s competitive with the 5 year old state of the art. It should be simple. Money can be turned into engineering results with absolutely no trade offs.
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by shuckles 2y ago
Private API is an oxymoron. If it’s a private implementation, then there’s a lot of work that would need to be done to make it API!
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by shuckles 2y ago
Yeah it does seem like antitrust is the wedge employed by 3rd parties who would like Apple to do free R&D for them, most ironically by Spotify which holds are arguable monopoly on music streaming. I’m glad that antitrust enabled a rich
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by shuckles 2y ago
And what happens when the MFi chip is cracked, as it has been before, and Apple has to choose between permanently compromising their ecosystem or disabling support for a bunch of 3rd party peripherals?
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by shuckles 2y ago
Then what’s the post complaining about? Just use the API!
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by shuckles 2y ago
What is “that”? The iOS SDK is public knowledge and it makes no guarantees about future features.
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by shuckles 2y ago
It’s not API. That’s the whole complaint of the post. Just because it’s implemented internally does not mean it’s ready for framework support. Have you ever built an API before?
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by shuckles 2y ago
Surprised there are professional developers who seem to be clueless about the vast difference in the cost of developing 3p API versus internal only functions. The basic difference between public and private has been captured in language des
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by shuckles 2y ago
Another company that would like Apple to donate R&D resources to them to add iOS API for free.
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by shuckles 2y ago
Citation?
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by shuckles 2y ago
Google is down 13% YTD due to Apple Intelligence!
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by shuckles 2y ago
Commenters are getting increasingly cynical on here. I wouldn’t worry about it.
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by shuckles 2y ago
The SE’s AES engine line encrypts and decrypts data to flash, and the SEP is responsible for generating all keys. At this point, the people who claim they can’t trust Apple’s key generation should also distrust Intel or AMD or any other ven
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by shuckles 2y ago
I’m not sure I appreciate the value of literally bringing your own keys. My device generating them on my behalf as part of a setup process seems sufficient. You’d use openssl or something and defer to software to actually do keygen no matte
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by shuckles 2y ago
Plenty of people access their health records, etc. on a PC via files downloaded to random places on their computer. Are you trying to just say smartphones have a lot of sensors and are carried around in intimate places?
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by shuckles 2y ago
The smartphone platform is the most secure by default personal computer most people own, largely because of the control enforced by Apple.
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by shuckles 2y ago
That’s literally what the feature they’re removing did.
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by shuckles 2y ago
My neighbor kept chickens in their backyard which caused issues in my yard with parasites and other pests. So it isn't even a PITA that you can contain to yourself.
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by shuckles 2y ago
> Houses are not durable goods. Their value should go down as they get older (this is in fact how housing is valued in Japan for example). Um, yes are you familiar with depreciation of the built structure? Durable doesn't mean immor
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by shuckles 2y ago
> "housing is an investment" policies have been propped up by lending. What an insane idea. Lending money for housing is not insane. Houses are durable goods where most of the cost needs to be paid up front. The builder of the
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by shuckles 2y ago
They’re a big company. You could tell a story that they’re less efficient than OpenAI and Nvidia and therefore need more than $500b to compete! Who knows?
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by shuckles 2y ago
Google definitely needs outside investment to spend $500b on capex.
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by shuckles 2y ago
No, Apple’s privacy stance is about giving users control over data in ways they understand. Posting on Reddit or Arxiv is not a blank check to have your words be reused for LLM training, even if it’s technically public.

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