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by valuearb 6y ago
While I concede documentation has slipped greatly the last 20 years to an all time low, Apple did produced the Inside Macintosh series, possibly the greatest developer documentation ever written.
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by valuearb 6y ago
“Unlike a collection view, all items will be loaded into memory at once.” I recently had to rewrite a UIView where the dev implemented a 3 by 30 scrollable image display only using StackViews. Despite image disk caching it took forever to l
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by valuearb 6y ago
iOS users who don’t upgrade to the latest iOS versions are far less likely to spend money on APIs than iOS 13 & 14 users. That 19% accounts for closer to 5% of actual App Store sales and subscriptions.
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by valuearb 6y ago
The minimum transaction cost for a 99 cent purchase is much higher than 5%. It’s likely over 10%, even for Apple.
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by valuearb 6y ago
I’m a contractor so I use Apple notes, a new note for each build. My client has a project management system but they are a small team and not interested in keep it up to date. On my personal projects I use clubhouse.io, it’s really low fric
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by valuearb 6y ago
They didn’t buy us off. Most of us NEVER agreed with your loony progressive policies.
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by valuearb 6y ago
If you have to switch to Toyota it’s not going to do everything as well as your Tesla, otherwise Tesla wouldn’t exist. That’s a silly argument.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Gawd, why do you want to inflict crappy web UI framework on an innocent iphone ?
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by valuearb 6y ago
React Native and Flutter are lowest common denominator frameworks that make for lousy apps. My experience was so bad that I no longer even respond to recruiters for companies using React Native. Apple should charge non-native apps a large
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by valuearb 6y ago
I can distribute terabytes of my free apps every month without paying a penny to Apple. And all the time getting support, tools, etc from them. And Apple has thousands of highly paid employees providing all those services to us, it’s misgu
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by valuearb 6y ago
Spoken by someone who is clearly not an Apple App Store developer. If you were an App developer like myself, you'd realize what a huge change this was. First, most Apple devs don't care about alternate app stores. Those provide ne
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by valuearb 6y ago
Only if stored. Apple has said they don't store this info other than temporarily, and they have no reason or benefit from storing it.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Again, there is no evidence or even reason to believe they would store these IP addresses or any records of the OCSP requests (other than temporary logging for debugging purposes). It's not necessary to the feature, it goes against the
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by valuearb 6y ago
Apple leadership has repeatedly said they aren't going to further restrict app installs on MacOS. Craig Fredaspaghetti just spoke about this in interviews on the Apple Silicon/Big Sur release. They use MacOS every day themselves,
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by valuearb 6y ago
Even better!
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by valuearb 6y ago
“In today’s news Apple announced the opening of its iOS platform to allow users to install any apps they want from any alternative App Store. Posters on ycombinator.com denounced the move as a cynical attempt to generate positive PR. Said o
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by valuearb 6y ago
Benchmarks are now out, and x86 Chrome is faster on the M1 MacBook Air than the x86 MacBook Air.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Fully fuel requires at least 8 tanker launches IIRC. Fully fueled Starship weighs 1,200 tons, 1,100 tons of fuel over 8 launches is nearly 150 tons per launch.
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by valuearb 6y ago
The cost of landing stuff on the moon is roughly 6 times more expensive than low earth orbit, so that has to be balanced out as well.
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by valuearb 6y ago
A crater isn't a dish, you need to line with with antennae. The extra material to support those antenna in free fall is minor. But the cost difference in landing anything on the moon is massive. Every kilogram of payload sent to low ea
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by valuearb 6y ago
Then the claim is ridiculous. Apple isn’t keeping any of this info, because it would have no purpose.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Maps does for sure, it’s how they build traffic measures. They need to know how many (relatively) are using specific routes, but have no need to know who. Another case is WiFi mapping. Your phone helps build a database of WiFi network locat
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by valuearb 6y ago
There is zero evidence they are intentionally collecting user personal data with these features.
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by valuearb 6y ago
I think Apple wants you to know if you try to launch malware, even if you are on a VPN. I wouldn’t doubt that many of their engineers are using them.
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by valuearb 6y ago
You can turn off the internet and freely use your Mac. The network dependent features are smart enough to know you are offline and not impede you. Their problems come when you have bad connections or Apples servers are down/overwhelme
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by valuearb 6y ago
This is exactly right, and given Apple’s privacy commitment should have been implemented already.
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by valuearb 6y ago
For an advertising supported business, sure. But not for Apple where advertising revenues a rounding error on a rounding error, and they’ve built their brand on their commitment to privacy.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Because Apple would not benefit from doing so, I’m fact could be hugely damaged doing so. They don’t have any significant advertising business. They don’t need to collect any personally identifiable information. They’ve promoted their brand
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by valuearb 6y ago
Do you have any proof this is happening? This is Apple we are talking about, which has the strongest privacy commitment of any device maker, and no advertising business outside of the App Store. Linking IP addresses to app certificate reque
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by valuearb 6y ago
I agree that Zen4 should be comparable, but it also will cost 4X to make, and more to implement since it doesn’t include RAM. The M1 is a system on a chip, with all the benefits and drawbacks of that including RAM and port limits. The next

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