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931.
by valuearb 6y ago
I have Apps from 2013 and 2014 that have never needed updates. What has forced you to do them?
932.
by valuearb 6y ago
Many Customers prefer a walled garden.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Apple has never had even 50% of the US smartphone market. https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
934.
by valuearb 6y ago
The last beta was 28Gb, nearly double the size of version 11.
935.
by valuearb 6y ago
How does Fintech create leverage?
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by valuearb 6y ago
We need to provide people with fewer options to prevent them from making bad decisions? How come non of the anti-payroll loan advocates ever propose a way to provide these customers with better loans?
937.
by valuearb 6y ago
Sure, developers deserve to get paid for their work. It’s fine if we collectively share efforts to build shared tools but it shouldn’t be made a legal requirement.
938.
by valuearb 6y ago
Reproducibility crisis.
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by valuearb 6y ago
If you have to pay $200k to get talented engineers in the Bay Area, and find out you can get equally talented people in the Midwest to work remotely for you for $130K, obviously it makes sense to set waters geographically. But what happens
940.
by valuearb 6y ago
Warren Buffett and Ben Graham would laugh uproariously at this statement.
941.
by valuearb 6y ago
We never said the truck wasn’t CGI! - Nikola CEO
942.
by valuearb 6y ago
The CEO directly said it was a working truck at the time. Today’s press release is skirting that fact.
943.
by valuearb 6y ago
So much for terraforming Earths “Twin”.
944.
by valuearb 6y ago
Your points on the actual details of what how cellphones work is exactly right, but it’s trivial to calculate location from those values. My point was that your phone is not powering up any additional hardware, or doing anything extra in so
945.
by valuearb 6y ago
Microsoft failed at smartphones because they didn’t offer a compelling unique benefits to the marketplace. Why not add the missing features you need to Pinephone? It just requires writing software. I’m not going to blow smoke up your arse a
946.
by valuearb 6y ago
I missed WWDC 2019, was working in an entirely different field. And wow, I can’t believe I missed this. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/combine Unfortunately my client’s App still requires iOS 11.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Their competitors already have their licenses. They’d continue to develop newer versions, and Apple couldn’t stop them. Some fragmentation would occur (though they’d probably create an industry group to coordinate). So Apple would create mi
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by valuearb 6y ago
I trust Apple more than I trust a regulator. Apple has to respond to customer preferences, a regulator can force them to make the user experience worse for things the customer doesn’t value. Now do I trust Google more than a regulator? That
949.
by valuearb 6y ago
Here is someone who did it. https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ Steve Jobs couldn’t build a phone. But he could build a team that could build a phone. You don’t have the resources of Apple (he didn’t at the start either,
950.
by valuearb 6y ago
Yes, every cell phone has something like this daemon. Google “cellular phone” to learn how cell phones need to triangulate nearby cell towers to determine which offers best service, and when to switch to a new one. Please let me know when a
951.
by valuearb 6y ago
> Hey Google, why not shutdown location and frequent play service updates as they aren't helping my phone battery either Doesn’t mention GPS. That may be what the author meant, but certainly could be written far clearer. Still, Goog
952.
by valuearb 6y ago
Not clamping dawn is user hostile. These are phones and messaging platforms that are under constant attack by bad actors. Semi-ok means the bad actors have succeeded many times on hundreds of millions of devices. Stop mistaking your unique
953.
by valuearb 6y ago
I get this is a problem that bugs you, but it has little to do with the authors points. Big Sur isn’t much different from Catalina (which did lick more things down). But MacOS isn’t Linux, despite its greatness as a developer platform it’s
954.
by valuearb 6y ago
I filled out a custom job application on a software companies site yesterday. When I finished I couldn’t figure out how to submit the form. I must have stared at it for minutes not wanting to abandon my work, until I scrolled down and the s
955.
by valuearb 6y ago
I agree with a lot of things you say, but I think that “lack domain knowledge” is a better description than “stupid”. There are many people who have little interest in the underlying “how” and “why” of computers work. They haven’t been educ
956.
by valuearb 6y ago
The Wikipedia entry is a fascinating read. It reminds me of how hard it was to get to where we are today, the myriad of small incremental innovations necessary to advance from each generation. I need to read Soul of a New Machine again.
957.
by valuearb 6y ago
> And where is the option for those of us who don’t mind less battery in exchange for actually getting prompt notifications for services we use? You always have the option to build your own phone. With easily available components and ope
958.
by valuearb 6y ago
The author was complaining about Google running a daemon in the background to track current device location, which is a necessary part of it being a phone. What Google does with that info is an entirely separate issue. And please let me kno
959.
by valuearb 6y ago
You can connect your third party push server to APNS no problem, it’s fine all the time.
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by valuearb 6y ago
The option is called jail breaking. Apple has an obligation to its customers to make their phones work as well as possible. Customers complain all the time about mysterious battery draining behaviors, and blaming various apps. Having millio

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