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by smoldesu 3y ago
> What did I say that had anything to do with emotional wellbeing? I’m glad I don’t have to deal with it on my own phone > What did I say that made you think I was unprepared for Apple to have to do this in the US? Thankful
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I didn't call it a "flop", I said it's status as a flop doesn't correlate to how good a product is. The Butterfly Keyboard never flopped, but it also never got a legitimate competitor. People bought them because the
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'm really sorry that your emotional wellbeing is predicated on the exploitative practice of a multinational company. You should have seen this coming. Bell Telephone didn't get away from litigation for "securing" teleco
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It hasn't protected Average Joe anyways. There is malware being actively distributed, today, that uses nothing other than first-party Apple services to attain persistence. Average Joe has to grow up. Scam websites and scam callers aren
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by smoldesu 3y ago
At this point, Apple could release a line of $99 drink cozies and sell out 5 minutes after they announce it. The fact that people buy what Apple sells isn't really an indication of whether the product is good or not.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> History often repeats itself with Apple products initially deemed failures. Maybe, but that never saved the Lisa, the Newton or the Butterfly keyboard. Sometimes, Apple takes a big risk that's far too early, expensive or simply do
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Your first two sentences contradict with the third. How can you honestly defend a manually-vetted process that doesn't catch surface-level scams that even a Linux packager would catch?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You're not wrong, but I also think the problem predates video games. Films, novels and even religious texts all are scrutinized for changing people's perspective on life. Fiction has a longstanding hold on society, but it inherent
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> I donated to it but think eventually the creator moved on. In the spirit of preserving one's sanity, retiring from reading HN is the greatest donation one can ask for. Godspeed, whoever that person is/was.
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Yep. One could also say "fuck state surveillance", but it doesn't have quite the same ring to it (and coincidentally implicates Apple and the NSA).
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Given that we have to take you on your merits as an entirely anonymous source, I think they're actually very right.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I've got an RTX 3070 in my main box right now. Currently I choose not to run it for mining processes because I want the hardware to last longer and don't want to pay for 10x the idle power costs. 300w is a lot of wall power, a non
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You are presently in a thread titled "Ask HN: Why are Android phones such a scam?"
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> even getting rid of the objectively superior lightning for USB-C (consumers get inferior features) and they still managed to fine them. If it was objectively superior then Apple should have standardized it with USB-IF. They didn't
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by smoldesu 3y ago
My ex gave me the one that came with his iMac, and I had to threaten him with throwing it away to get him to take it back. The Magic Trackpad is an unparalleled multitouch input surface. The Magic Mouse is just the worse way to use a pointi
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> That’s all brand, marketing and distribution. It has little to do with the protocol underneath. This reads like a robustly stupid argument. By the author's logic, I'd wager they think 90% of software services are the same sin
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by smoldesu 3y ago
As an American citizen, let me assuage your concerns; nobody here is adopting technology any faster than you are in Europe. We don't even accept cardless transactions in the majority of places, you're straight-up delusional if you
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Not to mention, malware like Pegasus has proven that you can use Apple's default software as a malware delivery mechanism. Anyone that configures iMessage to working condition was vulnerable to their attack, not just sideloaders or bro
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by smoldesu 3y ago
And then the second sentence following that is: "I don’t think Apple can tell alternative browser engines what features it will allow and which not." The core problem is not Chrome's adoption of random features. It's App
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by smoldesu 3y ago
In my experience, the people predisposed to scams end up getting extorted over the phone, email or internet anyways. None of it is particularly great, but it does feel like a poor argument against optional sideloading capabilities.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
This thread isn't about the one-sidedness of Apple's criticism. It's about criticizing Apple, and you're deciding to derail it with an unrelated strawman arguement. If you want to circle back around to the point, I'
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> What does this have to do with what I wrote? Everything, really. ActiveX and Flash were proprietary runtimes, which is a real example of a domination play. To my knowledge, Chromium doesn't feature anything that couldn't be r
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Will you notice the difference when you're asleep?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> It's "you need to ship whatever features Chrome ships at neck-breaking speed, all consequences be damned". Given that Chrome isn't shipping ActiveX or Flash, what's the issue? Apple and Mozilla decide how (or i
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You're right, and it's weird to hear them dunk on Atom when it had so many de-facto features Zed still lacks. They're very proud of their technical stack and their performance, but it feels more like they're defending th
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You need a competitive browser if you want to convince people to use it. Apple's only distribution scheme for Safari is forcibly pre-installing it on all of their devices. It's not akin to Chrome or Firefox where people deliberate
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by smoldesu 3y ago
In a reductive sense, they're right. Computers existed for upwards of three decades without App Stores, and we distributed software just fine without 'em. Apple could sign software the same way they do on Mac and effectively turn
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It's a shortcoming of the software. Apple could claim it's a third-party issue if they didn't support arbitrary external monitors, but they do. As such it's entirely reasonable to expect a fallback solution for third-par
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Your loss.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Users don't deliberately install malware, though. They do install Python runtimes; you can secure this the exact same way desktops have done for decades, by signing executable. It's literally elementary stuff.

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