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by smoldesu 3y ago
They may be right. If that same system has proven harms though (or even simple conflicts-of-interest), Apple might have to find a new business model. The whole "we own your app store, we own your payment processor" shtick has real
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Really, you've just proven my point. If Lenovo can support their hundreds/thousands of devices on a shoestring budget, Apple can support their few dozen devices easily. They've already written the device drivers and documente
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If you're going to loop back around to contention, then pick a side or explain why Europe is wrong. Simply saying that something is controversial is not an argument. Europe's ruling is not a double-standard, it specifically target
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The original point is so wrong that I didn't even consider disproving it. Apple has strategic business collaborations across news[1], film[2] and software industries[3], private entitlement APIs[4] that are only available to specific d
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by smoldesu 3y ago
How is that an AI problem? How is it even a problem in the first place?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Moot point. Both Microsoft and Apple expected the user to install their own OS in the past, and the world didn't explode because of it. If stuff like UEFI and bootloader unlocking was standard again, OS installation would be easy as pl
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apple straight-up disallows MacOS updates on plenty of Macs that could easily update, too. I'd even argue they're worse than Microsoft about it; I heard about Opencore Legacy Patcher looooong before I knew people were modifying
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I will say that certain comparisons (eg. "The PC way doesn’t work at scale") are objectively wrong. Even Apple uses the PC model internally, despite not having an open bootloader or really supporting UEFI anymore. AFAIK, the XNU
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Is it really bullshit? Lenovo manages hundreds of laptop models via fwupd, and those work just fine after they lose OEM support. I've got a Thinkpad from 2009 that still gets modern Linux patches (to say nothing of my 2006 PowerBook ru
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> So at first ChatGPT will copy journalists. You still literally have not explained how this works. ChatGPT could write a news article, but it's not going to actively discover new social phenomena or interview people on the street
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Then discuss it. Right now you're just objecting to my claims, if you feel like I've ignored the general need then produce the evidence and show me. What aspects of this situation have Apple, Europe and Japan missed?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
We're not just beginning to see it, it's already happened. It was enabled by digitized information, then amplified by the networking of the internet. The value of fresh information today is worth the price of a Google refresh, whi
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not circular reasoning if multiple municipal states are coming around to it. It's controversial , but the demand for regulation is self-evident. Take the example how you'd like, but they're still independent market
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Sure, I agree. It's the old "watching movies on your iPhone isn't watching movies at the theater" argument again, I get it. From a technical perspective though, disregarding the UX side (because frankly that's a per
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's true. Name me an iPhone model that shipped at a hardware loss, then name me a modern console that hit shelves making a profit. You can't; iPhones don't ship at a loss. Not on day one, not on day one-hundred, not ever. It
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by smoldesu 3y ago
George R. R. Martin authored A Game of Thrones , but lost in-court against Google when Google Books reproduced parts of his text verbatim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,... . No piracy o
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apple has received preferential treatment from US lawmakers, for almost a decade now. One could argue that's why the DMA and Japanese legislation exists in the first place.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
At this point, you'd be an ignorant fool to trust any of them to protect your info: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> In its latest effort to keep the service afloat, Beeper will suggest that users get hold of an old iPhone to get iMessage working on their Android phone. Users will then be asked to install a free Beeper tool to generate an iMessage re
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> can you reasonably stop selling it for consoles and paying the vig to the console makers by telling people to play it on their phone instead? Didn't people do this a ton? It started with a trickle of poor but sellable ports of stu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
There are definitely cases where console hardware does sell at a profit, but even late in a console's lifecycle it probably won't make half the hardware margins of an Apple product at launch. They're different markets, and
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I agree, good luck convincing the FCC.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> There are kinds of games you can't play on a phone Actually, I'm curious; what are those games? I guess "GTA 5" is an acceptable answer. But if you're satisfied with 2fps, even that should run through Rosetta
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Consoles ship at a hardware loss, iPhones don't. The business comparison has always been a tough stretch, and the functional comparison of an iPhone to an Xbox/Keurig/dishwasher has always been absurd. Apple's service re
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I doubt even Nietzsche would call red and green styling "Christian propaganda" if he saw it.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I would argue it's a "give a mouse a cookie" situation. On the simplest side of things, stuff like Zenity exists for super-simple GUI dialogues and user input but isn't very customizable. You want a window model with a v
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by smoldesu 3y ago
"realistic" in this case means accepting that CUDA will never be replaced. Parts of it will get replaced (the easy bits, like matrix multiplication), but there are thousands of esoteric CUDA features that don't make financi
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I think very few (serious) people will argue that Rust has replaced C++ and C in real-world codebases. Rust hasn't had enough time to get the same traction as C++, so it stands to reason that the demand is still for C++. That being sai
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by smoldesu 3y ago
...and doing either of those things with CUDA is impossible on Mac. Why? Because Apple burned their bridge with Nvidia and threw a temper tantrum, that's why. Now Nvidia can't support MacOS, even if they wanted. That's ki
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I don't get it, does Apple also make fridges now?

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