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by smoldesu 3y ago
Is your mom also terrified of the phone, because Apple can't supervise every call? Does she get cagey about opening Safari because there's nobody checking every website for scams? The iPhone is already dangerously capable, Apple c
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Korg Gadget isn't half bad: https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_gadget_for_ni... There isn't really an above-board way to publish software on Switch without an SDK. However, you can unloc
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It's not really bold at all. Their conservative belief supersedes their liberal ones; you wouldn't be a TERF if you weren't highly discriminatory about your peers. That is, by definition, conservative behavior. If you think T
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Logically, throwing more developers at this issue fixes nothing. That's the problem.
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> instead do a white paper outlining technically why certain approaches are hard to implement https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/
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So your logic is that Apple deserves that money instead? Or that you refuse to empathize with any company that pays well? Their complaint seems legitimate, to me. I think you're throwing around ad-hominem to discredit a valid argument.
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Shame for whom?
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Good news is, you don't need an iPhone to participate in democracy. Thank God our forefathers didn't make that mistake.
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Trans exclusionary radical feminists are socially conservative. It's eponymous; any group that has to exclude people by definition is conservative in nature. They're not traditionalists necessarily, but they are defined by a
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For that reason, Office Space is widely considered the most disturbing movie ever filmed: https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8
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If we see that on iOS it would honestly be an indictment against Apple's native APIs more than anything.
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No
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> I think the EU needs to be very careful about how these regulations are viewed by normal people. The EU doesn't decide how Apple complies with their regulation. If Apple wants to throw a temper tantrum and degrade the user experie
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Apple chose to comply that way. We're arguing over poor design right now because this is a user story for no one - that's Apple's fault. There are thousands of ways to comply with the DMA, and the proposed one here is nonse
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There's no way to fix the problem natively, either. Apple's "solution" to this issue is checking every app personally, which is a fallible and expensive approach. Apple will pretend they're taking the high road, but
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> If your second sentence was accurate, Apple wouldn’t be leading the industry on app security as they have been. If Apple was actually leading the industry on App Security then they wouldn't be using the App Store as a security d
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> The long-term answer for this will involve better OS sandboxes Well, this is exactly it. iOS should have redundant security policies that don't take fallible App Store reviews for granted anyways . Apple didn't really accoun
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Epic Games Store does work on Mac: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/download The games, on the other hand...
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> That choice will be removed from me, that DIRECT choice. Not indirect which is what the App Store change will be. That direct choice is an obvious illusion, though. Apps get depreciated, delisted, or plain removed by their developer al
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That argument carried a lot more weight when per-unit profit margins were lower than per-unit manufacturing costs.
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That said, a number of regulatory bodies found some things to say.
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> Apple devices are superior to their competition in just about every objective measure. Their vehement success in Xserve proved that Apple does so well in low-margin markets. Wait a minute...
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I didn't say they had a monopoly on all software distribution. I said that claiming Apple had no monopoly is wrong. > It's also highly questionable given that the courts have rejected "iOS software distribution" a
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> And I've quite been happy to see Apple stand up against such government control Where, exactly? Apple complies readily with thousands of warrantless surveillance requests[0] from around the world, every year. They've been a c
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You almost feel bad for the MBAs that had to come up with this sad meme. On the other hand, I'm pretty punch-drunk reading all this and wouldn't mind a few more months of corporate backpedaling. HN tends to make a good spectacle
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You're not wrong, but unfortunately I'm hard pressed to treat Apple any differently now. Apple also uses their position on the web, desktop and mobile to set unfathomably destructive standards for modern computing. AdSense and the
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> I don't particularly enjoy the idea of Google being able to have even more of a stranglehold on the Browser market by them pushing Chrome heavily on iOS. Aren't you just describing... competition? If Apple's browser prod
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F-Droid gets this right out of the box. A one-stop-shop for Free, Open Source applications has annihilated my desire to purchase apps at all. I don't buy PDF readers or file browsers or launchers or basic system utilities any other use
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Maybe. I'm specifically thinking of a web/phone app that let you feed it a YouTube video, and it would give you a timeline where you could rearrange the captioned words. It was pretty janky, but I remember thinking it was ahead of
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People used to do this without AI by downloading YouTube captions and using a script to cut out each timestamped word. Then you could rearrange each sample and sentence-mix it to your heart's desire. There was a semi-popular app that d

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