tommymachine

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by tommymachine 8y ago
> My hope is the market gets more competitive so that app makers get a larger share of the profit. Isn't the nominal size of a slice of cake more important than it's percentage relative to the overall cake? Sure, it would be gr
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Yes.
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by tommymachine 8y ago
And arguably far more necessary. We have our phones turned on and with us almost 100% of the time we are alive. They can track our locations and hear everything we say. It's more important to control what apps can have access to with s
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by tommymachine 8y ago
The notes / rhythm in the particular score aren't accurate to the recording, except for the lyrics. Supposing if you played it as written there, it wouldn't be so recognizable. Personally, I don't much fancy calling some
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by tommymachine 8y ago
There’s no bluff . Sure Netflix could live on without iOS. But what would be the point of giving up 70% of iOS because they couldn’t get the 30%. It’s not even a problem for them . They’ll be able to move it to the browser just fine a
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Agree but overall users seem to prefer apps versus browsers at a ratio of 9 to 1 (in terms of time spent in each medium) .
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by tommymachine 8y ago
OK but who’s going to convert all the larger units the small ones
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by tommymachine 8y ago
So you’re saying your think Netflix has a strong position due to you having a few android devices laying around for occasional Netflix use in addition to your iOS devices? To me, the argument that people will just buy cheap androids just fo
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Not so much platform first as user first. Platforms are nothing without users and developers are nothing without platforms. And luck isn’t needed when your platform is already the best. :)
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Nobody here has argued to start striking outdated websites off the record. However the advent of reader mode has certainly helped things in that neighborhood come through a bit cleaner. But as yet websites don’t control rapidly evolving
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by tommymachine 8y ago
I don’t think the parent argued that his feelings of frustration are somehow untrue, but was just pointing out that they have to be weighed against the billions of users that Apple decides to prioritize for. Preventing a constant “go to our
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by tommymachine 8y ago
IIRC, even YouTube subscriptions initiated on an iPhone don't transfer cleanly over to the web.
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by tommymachine 8y ago
User experience is better in apps
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by tommymachine 8y ago
The answer is yes. They already fought with Spotify over this. Spotify had to clean up their game quite a bit to pass App Store review. Apple still has plenty of leverage. Being the highest grossing app on the platform is a double edged swo
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by tommymachine 8y ago
It will be some vague "you can't do this here" message that doesn't directly link. A la current state of affairs with Spotify / Audible / Amazon As a suggestion regarding your situation... obviously its more wo
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Has there not always been unequal distribution of apps / content across platforms?
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by tommymachine 8y ago
It's true that it would be technically trivial for Apple to censor web access on iPhones. However, they don't do this, and it doesn't seem reasonable to expect them to in the future. Sandboxing apps / discouraging side-l
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Apple and people who buy into the apple ecosystem believe that it's actually better, and not that it's simply what they personally prefer. Forcing a perceived "best path" means that the path is going to be the easiest &#
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Well fine, and that would be a great point, except that Apple actually doesn't do this. First of all, absolutely anyone can download Xcode today and load any app they want onto their own iPhone - or any iPhone in their possession (assu
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by tommymachine 8y ago
But to negotiate that, you have to be able to threaten them with leaving. And there's no other way to get iPhone users, who are by far the biggest spenders. And if you're going to go this route of web-only transactions, you'r
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by tommymachine 8y ago
Correct. They also must have had a way to sign up through the app itself, which would require going through StoreKit and the App Store (as any app that allows purchasing of products delivered to the device without giving apple a cut will be
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by tommymachine 8y ago
The Fahrenheit 451 analogy sort of falls apart though when they give open access to the internet via Safari. What Apple does with the App Store is maintain a safe & friendly environment for users, where they can trust they won't ru
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by tommymachine 8y ago
I have to agree with this. You're either writing assembly code yourself, or you're using code that was invented by someone else (and even the assembly code will have been invented by someone!). If using libraries/frameworks i
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by tommymachine 8y ago
I’m not sure that the “rockstar” concept is dead. The top spaces are just being shared among fewer performers. And more of the business is trickling towards them than the smaller acts than yesterday, and the same will be true tomorrow. It’s
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by tommymachine 9y ago
I think by the context... uniqueness?
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by tommymachine 9y ago
More likely that contrarian headlines garner more activity than their obvious or expected counterparts, pushing them to higher rankings more frequently. Here on hn, it’s possible that if a user reads a headline they already agree with, they
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by tommymachine 9y ago
I just wrote a swift api that I'm running on Ubuntu 16.04. I wasn't hesitant to use swift because first, it substantially outperforms node on many benchmarks [1] [2] and second, the community of people who are excited about swift
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by tommymachine 10y ago
Certainly yes! The chief reason is that you'll learn the difference between code you like and code you don't like. You'll learn what makes up that difference, so you can build it into your own code in the future. You will dev
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by tommymachine 10y ago
But seriously, who here hasn't done that?
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by tommymachine 10y ago
This chess position doesn't defeat computers. A decent engine will draw this every time. But the disparity in the efficiency of line of reasoning (a humans' being much more efficient than a computers for this problem) illustrates

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