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by skeaker 3y ago
I think part of the lawsuit is that there are glaring exceptions to some companies that Apple gives preferential treatment to. WeChat was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, apparently it does something like this and is given a pass arbitrar
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by skeaker 3y ago
> The only point that you’ve mentioned that can be annoying is sending a video to a friend with an android but it’s not a big enough of an issue that I care enough to do anything about it ...except defend Apple at every given opportunity
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by skeaker 3y ago
> Try mounting a Nikon lens on a Canon camera, for example. You might not like it, Right, I don't. Things like these not being standardized when it would be so easy for them to be just so that one provider can make a little extra mo
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by skeaker 3y ago
I do use an Android. Doesn't mean I can't point out glaringly obvious issues across the pond. Apple's decisions affect me regardless: - If I develop an app and want to port it to an Apple device, I need to spend a ton of mone
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by skeaker 3y ago
This behavior is so overt that I am constantly baffled that otherwise rational people continue to make up excuses for Apple. See also this article where they overtly state that the green bubble thing is deliberately intended to cause lock-i
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by skeaker 3y ago
No? Who said that? Wrong on every count, especially the word "good" to refer to removing the headphone jack.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Seems it would have costed you a lot less if Apple just didn't arbitrarily block that person in the first place.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Not sure I get your point since I'm not super familiar with the Windows phone. If the argument is that the Windows phone was locked down and could only load software from a Microsoft store, then I'm glad it died. Same way I'm
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by skeaker 3y ago
Sorry that happened to you. I have worked with a lot of elderly people in the past and it is always a shame when that happens to them. You are right that you can't really "fix" them. Even if you lock down iMessage and prevent
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by skeaker 3y ago
Yeah! Microsoft owns 100% of the Windows market, so users shouldn't be able to install software on their Windows devices unless they use the Microsoft store. Installing your own software from the internet or writing your own code would
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by skeaker 3y ago
I have never understood the inverse: Apple users defending their lack of features. Being able to send iMessages to your Android user friends or install software that you wrote without paying extra would only benefit you, yet you vehemently
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by skeaker 3y ago
And again, you choose to not be able to communicate with that 1% over iMessage why? It sounds like being able to do so would only benefit you.
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by skeaker 3y ago
If I had billions of dollars and a yard the size of a small country I probably wouldn't mind...
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by skeaker 3y ago
Huh? It sounds more like they deliberately broke everyone's devices except their own so you either have to pay them more to continue using your existing headset with an adapter, or if you have a bluetooth headset you're just shit
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by skeaker 3y ago
Their platform is big enough that it affects the market even if you never use their products. Idiotic decisions that they make can ooze into other unrelated products in order to compete with them. Try buying a flagship Android with a microS
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by skeaker 3y ago
The extreme result is indeed what Apple wants to avoid because you would more or less have a custom operating system at that point and could ignore Apple's software, which they would hate. Obviously it is not as good as being able to f
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by skeaker 3y ago
> 1. Super Apps are notorious for tracking the user across the "mini" apps within it, which is the argument made by Apple for making them hard to get approval for. I'm on Apple's side here Never heard this argument,
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by skeaker 3y ago
How large does a business need to be on a global scale before we can smack down bad actors for abusing it? If you are a street corner business and your competitors down the street sell things at a loss just until they can put you out of bus
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by skeaker 3y ago
I think it refers more to a hypothetical app that, when you're using it, would allow you to completely ignore the entire Apple software ecosystem. It would have its own home screen with launchers to things like a web browser, office to
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by skeaker 3y ago
There really ought to be a regex repository of common use cases like these so we don't have to reinvent the wheel or dig up a random codebase that we hope is correct to copy from every time.
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by skeaker 3y ago
The optimist in me wants to believe that long term, things like these will grow our food and maintain our houses for free so that labor generally won't be necessary. Once we've fully automated the necessities of life to the degree
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by skeaker 3y ago
Of course it does. At minimum you need to have your dev team program these features so that they can be disabled without breaking anything else. At the absolute minimum, QA and all costs involved are doubled for the foreseeable future.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Granted, but they definitely do not change enough to warrant a new edition every year. This can and has been experimentally confirmed by countless students even before Library Genesis simply by showing up to class with an old edition of the
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by skeaker 3y ago
Absolutely I do. I've posted about it here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39350721 When you stop and really think about all of the things we have around us it becomes apparent that we are actively living
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by skeaker 3y ago
> mindless "recommended" IG Reels/YT Shorts or FB Pages Only these clearly do work for the majority of people. They're ubiquitous in popular culture (and in fact culture is often built within them) and are essentially
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by skeaker 3y ago
I have no emotional attachment to any brand, and I suspect that you are projecting your own attachment by saying so. I simply want tools that take orders rather than give them. I want a system that gives me so much freedom that it will let
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by skeaker 3y ago
The implication that restricting user freedom to the degree that Apple does is as vital as the seatbelt in your car is hilarious to me. A better analogy would be "how come my Apple car can only drive on Apple-owned toll roads but every
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by skeaker 3y ago
Wrong, your original comment is still viewable with showdead on. Dang is not trying to mislead you here, it seems you just legitimately aren't very familiar with this site.
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by skeaker 3y ago
I get that you're jabbing at the Apple situation, but nobody has a problem with what you're suggesting. The problem arises when that is the only avenue to get onto a platform. Apple actively blocks sideloading and there's no
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by skeaker 3y ago
Piracy will almost always be the more convenient option. It is up to companies to provide a better service, as is the case with Steam and (until recently) Netflix. Attacking and shutting down avenues for piracy without doing anything to mak

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