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by sjwright 6y ago
I'm curious, do you think that early information-limited reporting of alleged unethical treatment of two employees is enough to decide to shift your purchase over to Ford, Toyota or Volkswagen? Have you confirmed that the company who w
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by sjwright 6y ago
In a company of ten thousand employees, I have no problem giving benefit of the doubt that two instances of wrongful termination could be done by mistake. It's not unreasonable to imagine that an HR department might screw up at least 0
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by sjwright 6y ago
90% of these Mac silicon investments would directly benefit their iPhone cash cow—perhaps not this cycle, but certainly in the chips they'll put in future iPhones. And the remaining 10% would indirectly benefit benefit their iPhone cas
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by sjwright 6y ago
Chromebooks are doing well in education at the moment. If Apple launched a product in that space, they could easily claw half of that back overnight. The ability to run real software is huge, especially for subjects like graphic arts and en
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by sjwright 6y ago
Everyone else's answers are excellent, but I would note that with this move, Apple is certainly getting themselves closer to that potential future.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Square. You won’t find square bits in any supermarket or gas station store. But they’re readily available in hardware stores. Similarly, the screwdriver bits needed to open a MacBook are readily available from computer repair parts stores.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I agree with everything you said. You seem to be arguing against someone else, not with what I wrote. Where I don’t agree is your inference that using a less common but still readily available screw head means you have “no right” to open yo
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by sjwright 6y ago
My decking was installed with a somewhat uncommon drill bit that isn’t in many people’s household toolkits. Is my decking user hostile?
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by sjwright 6y ago
But he can do as he pleases. He can go on eBay or amazon and buy the correct driver. Your logic seems to be that if you can’t open a device with tools available at your local gas station store, it’s user hostile? And it’s quite egotistical
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by sjwright 6y ago
I for one am very glad that my father-in-law doesn’t have the screwdriver that would open his MacBook. Otherwise it would already be broken. One person’s “ploy” is another person’s “essential feature”.
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by sjwright 6y ago
If you have a philips screw, get a philips driver. If you have a tri-wing screw, get a tri-wing driver. Sure the latter aren’t as common, but they’re readily available from countless online stores. Unless your Government has outlawed certai
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by sjwright 6y ago
Initial G4’s were solid products, but it rapidly spun out of control as they tried to ramp up the clocks.
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Correct.
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A "proven assumption" is a linguistic contradiction. Furthermore your question is invalid as "not good" and "screw it up" are not objective criteria which one could prove or fail to prove. But I must ask: have
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by sjwright 6y ago
Here's that good faith you asked for: > you're not charging arbitrary, excessive platform access fees What's your legally enforceable definition of arbitrary? What's your legally enforceable definition of excessive? H
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by sjwright 6y ago
Because they're not good at it and are guaranteed to screw it up somehow and especially at the margins. Do these new rules include the Android Play Store? Does it include the Apple TV app store? Does it include the Play Store when purc
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by sjwright 6y ago
> by "open" I obviously mean "people can enter and exit it". Most countries have their borders partially or fully closed to international travel. The only difference between New Zealand and most other countries is tha
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by sjwright 6y ago
I'm totally cool with that.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Equal Protection Clause.
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by sjwright 6y ago
If it became possible for consumers to side-load applications, the iPhone (and iPad) would lose what is in my opinion one of its biggest positive selling points: that Apple is acting as gatekeeper for executable code. As soon as that capabi
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by sjwright 6y ago
FWIW, I completely agree with everything you wrote. I'm not opposed to new laws that set a limit on platform access fees—but such laws can't be targeted at Apple exclusively. They have to be applied to any company which charges fe
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's fine, but how are you going to construct legislation that specifically targets Apple's walled garden without breaching the Fourteenth Amendment?
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by sjwright 6y ago
That may be true in practice, but it's not something you can create laws around. The US Government shouldn't be in the business of deciding which consumer electronics are integral to (Western) life. Particularly given that the vas
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by sjwright 6y ago
To be clear, I wasn't saying that one excused the other. I was only commenting on the congressperson's poor choice of words.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Where was the game publishers' outrage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade > Gaming console makers and game developers have way better relations Let's set aside the unproven assumptions; s
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I'd also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that it is not possible to publish an application on the Apple App Store without paying. Period end. I'd also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the
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by sjwright 6y ago
If the US Government wants to place limits on certain fees, they should pass a law limiting such fees. Meanwhile, it's a bit hypocritical for the US Government to accuse private corporations of ‘highway robbery’ when they themselves ar
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by sjwright 6y ago
I've looked at many reporting tools, most of them are probably great for corporate/enterprise stuff. I'm self-employed, so I have no boss or shareholders that need pretty reports with bar charts. In my case my site is deeply
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by sjwright 6y ago
I run a reasonably large website and about two years ago it dawned on me that I never checked Google Analytics. It was completely useless. It wasn't telling me anything useful. I also knew that it was marginally user hostile (or at l
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by sjwright 6y ago
So now you claim to know my mind. You must be very impressed with yourself. As to your second paragraph, I didn't say that. I would never say that activism is counter-productive. And I never said that activism wasn't working. Sigh

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