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by smoldesu 3y ago
They refute your point altogether - any sufficiently dedicated chop-shop can install box one parts on a box two phone with enough effort. This happens all the time in China and there's no reason to doubt it happens in America too. At b
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Just speaking for myself here, but owning a Quest I don't entirely agree. The utility of it is kinda crazy - I can browse the web and OpenXR apps from my browser, or tether myself to my PC with the push of a button. Wanna sideload stre
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Only one of them is fun to manage.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Be that as it may, many security firms actually value Android zero-days above iOS ones: https://zerodium.com/program.html
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Every Gary Larson collection you can find.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Oh. My Kindle Touch is coming up on 10 years old, I probably shouldn't assume it's the same for everyone.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You may notice, the web version of every app you just listed is strictly inferior to the native ones. It's simply a fact that PWA and Webapp features have been sidelined for the majority of the iPhone's lifespan. Even the good w
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> some offline functionality. There's the kicker. > Calling people a troll? No, I'm saying that your prior comments are trolling. "There’s literally nothing stopping someone" and "You don’t need any of that&qu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If they don't care, then it shouldn't matter that third-party options exist. The same thing happens on Android, nobody uses F-Droid even if the apps are better and cheaper. The fact that it exists puts meaningful pressure on compe
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You're in luck: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devk... There's also the Steam Deck, if you hate getting bent-over by third-party OEMs that don't care about you. Bu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
As a friendly heads-up to the people interested - you can buy the board inside this off Ebay for like 300-400 dollars cheaper. "Jetson AGX Orin 64GB" specifically, then you wouldn't have to deal with whatever SaaS middleware
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Strictly speaking, you don't need to distribute anything more than ads to "thus make money" off a webapp. The end-goal of webapps is not to challenge Apple's revenue though, it's to offer meaningful (see: persistent
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Are you familiar with the history of antitrust intervention and the laundry-list of real-life examples that proves you wrong? https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust-and-cartel...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Please do save me the suspense and share the punchline now! Apple hasn't finished their setup! You might be able to guess where it's going though, we've heard this one before.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> This is not new, Apple wasn't the first to do it Microsoft got pretty far, up until "the inquiry". > And you know you can sideload apps on Apple devices right? Even before the EU ruling. If by sideload you mean "
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Imagine using YC as a corollary for consumer demand (or hell, corporate righteousness). > I don’t even care > This is simply an amusing situation, the grandstanding is simply funny. Wait till the Commission delivers the punch-line.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apple is the only one acting entitled here. Why doesn't the App Store deserve competitors? Why should we accept Apple's fees and failures when they deliberately limit competition? They're acting like an anticompetitive wuss
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Potentially because Macbooks represent a more sustainable model for software distribution and don't prevent people from downloading apps directly from websites.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
What's a 30% tax here and there between friends anyways?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Security measures should be treated as an opportunity cost, and scrutinized when it fails. In this case, the App Store's manual review layer has failed to catch a rudimentary scam. It's becoming a recurring issue on the App Stor
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Exactly. Not to mention, the HP-UX business model famously flopped in the face of Linux, BSD and Free Software. It's almost the perfect example of how Open software distribution provided a better experience than the alternatives. The C
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> if Europe makes it impossible to make a profit. Unless they stop them from shipping iPhone hardware or tax the MSRP beyond 40%, I think it's quite literally impossible for that to happen.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
With fairness to the Nintendo Switch, you can currently load LineageOS on it just fine using Nvidia-provided drivers: https://wiki.switchroot.org/wiki/android/11-r-setup-guide Nintendo might not be happy about it,
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The Quest, as an example that isn't tethered to a battery.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> However I will once again ask why the focus is on the developers so much, and not the users. Because users don't create an anticompetitive system. Users buy things, they are ostensibly the customers that the market protects. It&#x
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Knock yourself out: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere The Nintendo Switch is a great console for sideloading. There are numerous ports of PC titles like Quake and Half-Life, as well as a library of Homebrew g
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by smoldesu 3y ago
"pride and accomplishment" was a bit of a gamedev meme for a while, related to EA completely fumbling their response to a PR mishap: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/star-wars-battlefront-... It ten
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I feel like I just watched you go through every stage of grief. Yes, there is no perfect solution - that's the nature of authoring solutions in the first place. The status-quo is not perfect either though, and some might say it's
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Hopefully, it will motivate Apple to make the App Store more competitive. The existence of third-party options will really make them work to make that 30% fee look attractive. On the PC gaming side, Valve regularly gets developers to abando
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Apple just does a better job filtering scams etc. out of their app store. Well, sometimes: https://www.pcmag.com/news/beware-theres-a-fake-lastpass-app... Just make sure that Grandma knows any of her security apps

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