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by shuckles 2y ago
If this is your logic, then you must believe regulators are stupid because the EC indeed recognized iPadOS as a distinct platform. In addition, the insinuation that Apple diverged iOS and iPadOS six years ago in anticipation of legislation
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by shuckles 2y ago
If the unqualified existence of judicial remedy justified any arbitrary bureaucratic action, the world would be a much worse place (and indeed countries where bureaucrats make up rules to suit their whims and your only recourse is the judic
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by shuckles 2y ago
iPad marketing has historically focused on how it's _not_ a computer, so if people bought the marketing that is an implicit indication that they weren't looking for a general purpose computer.
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by shuckles 2y ago
What is the market for digital goods and how does PC distribution factor into your definition?
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by shuckles 2y ago
It's hard to imagine how a working developer can believe that maintaining a platform where anyone can do anything has only upfront fixed costs. Apple spent about 4 years trying to change the contract of the pasteboard API to resolve un
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by shuckles 2y ago
Think about all the formerly-free-now-paywalled talk show podcasts users are missing out on because Spotify can't offer in app subscriptions without paying their primary technology provider a fee for developing all the hardware and sof
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by shuckles 2y ago
There was no sweetheart deal. Spotify pays Apple 0% because they offer no in-app subscriptions, and any developer with long term subscribers gets 15% pricing.
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by shuckles 2y ago
Statistia is more accurate in this case. You didn’t link to a public disclosure per se, you linked to an investor marketing statement formatted like a financial statement. Spotify’s 20-F at the SEC shows that any “operating income” is more
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by shuckles 2y ago
People circumvent currency controls and financial regulation over the internet with gift cards, airline miles, WoW gold farms, and more. Bitcoin's notable quality is not technology; it's the social psychology which drew enough spe
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by shuckles 2y ago
> It's a rare combination of economic incentives and technology that keeps chugging. Nobody can stop it. About as rare as email spam? Or SEO content farms? There's a lot of phenomenon that are hard to control in a distributed n
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by shuckles 3y ago
WiFi has been used this way for 15 years to aid with approximate location queries. I don’t think concerns with the technology are unjustified, but referring to it as abuse is unnecessarily histrionic. This type of use for radios is not unpr
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by shuckles 3y ago
Bluetooth is passively looking for devices to connect to all the time. The alternative would be to require users to actively initiate connections, which would be a horrible experience.
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by shuckles 3y ago
That’s fair. It’s unclear whether they’d allow 3p apps to query their servers to locate devices per the spec.
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by shuckles 3y ago
This is irrelevant. The comment was about Apple’s preferred way of locating lost phones was Apple Watch so they don’t support pinging it from an AirTag. This has nothing to do with 3rd party support, and in fact 3rd parties (Tile) do have t
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by shuckles 3y ago
Apple's Find My spec has been available for 3rd party adopters for years.
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by shuckles 3y ago
You make fun of it, yet the ecosystem is so popular and well integrated that the US Department of Justice is suing them over it.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Nobody. Federal prisoners are almost entirely convicted of serious violent crime.
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by shuckles 3y ago
> If I broke into a person's house and stole $1000, even if I didn't directly hurt that person, I could expect to get several years in prison Almost definitely not, especially if it was your first crime. It’s pretty unlikely yo
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by shuckles 3y ago
Arguments on the margin make sense, but DMA compliance has huge resource costs and will surely come with eye watering penalties. And yet if small barriers are indeed so insurmountable then the benefits will be limited. So: is it worth it? I
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by shuckles 3y ago
Cash has died in societies without these rules though.
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by shuckles 3y ago
If users can be lost in meaningful numbers to such comparatively tiny frictions, it seems like the market will never sufficiently be a level playing field.
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by shuckles 3y ago
I think you can hide it but not uninstall it. My understanding is the EU's objection is that Photos app still provides the default photo picker functionality when the app is gone; and they'd like Google Photos to satisfy that role
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by shuckles 3y ago
No actually I think HN works best when people call out bad behavior. Your original comment violates every other guideline for behavior in comments, most notably: > Be kind. Don’t be snarky. Converse curiously. > Please respond to the
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by shuckles 3y ago
"It’s fixable so it should be fixed, and even if it’s not fixed, it doesn’t matter," is a pretty good summary of how much thought the pro-regulators are bringing to the topic.
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by shuckles 3y ago
If Windows needs a best in class antivirus to use basic hardware features, it is pretty reasonable to bundle it in the OS!
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’s already possible to hide the Photos app from the system, so you are wrong on the facts. And the photos app is a lot more like the compressor in your fridge, not like the contents of it. But the point of reasoning by metaphor a lot of c
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’s not serious, as evidenced by nobody building an argument on your ridiculous comparison to bloatware. And the offensive part of it was not the poor, sarcastic metaphor but instead the fake indignation that someone could believe somethin
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by shuckles 3y ago
Which goes back to my original point: there is literally no benefit besides navel gazing for requiring the photos app to be deletable. Just because there are many reasons one could compel a company to do something does not mean any of them
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by shuckles 3y ago
The burden of proof is on the people requesting the feature. The reason for not building any feature is simple: users don't care about it and there are more valuable other features to build. (As evidenced by system apps not being delet
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by shuckles 3y ago
Users want to truly exercise their choice of browser screen so badly that a list of nitpicks about the ordering of options in the share sheet and the prominence of an "Open" button which works the same way for every other app inst

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