wayneftw

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by wayneftw 6y ago
If that particular app was essential to modern day life for a huge portion of the general population then yes, absolutely.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> I can suggest that you run your app business on another platform... Did you miss the part where I said that 50% of my customers use an iPhone? To be clear: 50% of the general population in the United States uses an iPhone. 90% of the y
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by wayneftw 6y ago
You can go work somewhere else too. Having a choice is better than not having one, all around. You can argue the changing employers is hard. I can also argue that 50% of my customers use iPhones and so I have to use one and know how they wo
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I’ve been running PCs and Macs in my house for over 2 decades. I have not once had a problem with viruses. Most of my problems have been with restrictions that Apple has put on me in their Mac and iOS product lines. > Apple requiring Sig
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by wayneftw 6y ago
That’s how I do it.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I wonder what car manufacturing companies think about all of this? In my state and I think in much of the US, we're not allowed to buy directly from the car manufacturer. I never liked that law because I don't like car dealerships
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by wayneftw 6y ago
You think game consoles are nearly as important to society as smart phones are, or as ubiquitous?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
You don’t technically need 50% though. Anything can happen here. Also those numbers you linked to are quarterly sales, not current active users. Not sure if that makes a big difference. I’ve seen other comments saying that it’s 50% but like
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by wayneftw 6y ago
That’s worldwide. Nobody wants cheap Android devices in the US. That is how monopolies work. You don’t need 50% market share to be a monopoly, but having that certainly grants you monopoly power. Here's an example of 2 things that Appl
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by wayneftw 6y ago
The newest iPhone is $399. The iPad $299. Which competing products are nearly as desirable in that price range? They now have 50% market share in the US and there’s no sign of that stopping when 90% of the youth market only wants an Apple.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Yes, you can import any mp3 that you want into your Spotify playlists.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
My customers have iPhones. They want to install some private, custom business software that I built for them. Most of the time, I can build a web app to satisfy their needs. Sometimes I can't and that's when things get really anno
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I don't see it. I read it twice and tried searching for "unsustainable" and "dismantle". Could you point out where you said that exactly?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I also can’t stand using apps because links work better in an actual web browser. When I click on a link in an app, I have no clue what is about to happen. It could open my web browser, it could open some shitty in-app browser or it could s
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Ohhh, that's a great trick. Thanks!
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I don't understand the concern over lack of browser engines. There's only one Linux kernel and that seems to be working out just fine for all the distros using it and all the cloud operations running those distros. You could say t
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Sure, iOS gets updated but the app store won’t let you download old versions of things while new versions are incompatible resulting in a useless device. I now have an old iPhone and an iPad that both run great, but I can’t do anything usef
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by wayneftw 6y ago
What an extremely shallow and thoughtless comparison you've made. So, you don't think that supporting your enemies enemies is a good strategy?? Because it's a well-known and time-tested basic strategy that's been used th
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> Apple already actively censors political content in apps... This is true, which is why I surprised the other day when I found this app called "BLMovement" when I was looking around to see if anyone was making a completely dis
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Fortnite isn’t as important as a Phone system that 90% of the teens in the US use and 50% of everybody in the US uses as well. You cannot have a successful mobile app business without being in Apple’s app store.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I'm going to buy all of Epic's games tonight for my PC. In the past, I was a bit annoyed that they plan to remove Rocket League from Steam but now that they're fighting Apple, I love this c
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by wayneftw 6y ago
At the beginning you said nope but based on your explanation I feel like you meant to say yep... e.g. yes, we should make it illegal. Ahh, I see the problem - thanks Osiris - there are 2 questions, each of them opposite. > Should closed
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Don’t bother arguing with this guy. He shows up on every Apple thread to defend his favorite corporation. Just down vote and move on like everybody else ;)
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> Apple only extracts that revenue from apps if you want to directly take payment through the app. Even if you take payment through your app that you built with your own payment processor. Why is Apple standing between me and my school a
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I would bet that out of mobile users, the majority of them are on iOS. That’s because 90% of kids and teens are on iOS and not Android. I’ve read it a number of times but here’s the top link from today’s search for this - https:/&#x2F
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Fuck these websites that hijack your browser history when you scroll down. Can we ban links to sites that do this?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> See, I can make statements like this too. Yep. You can say whatever you want. I have never seen a mixed mouse and keyboard user do things faster or more efficiently than a pure keyboard user. Pure scientific empirical evidence is on my
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> The challenge was to get to a window, quickly. Incorrect. My challenge, that you responded to in an article about keyboard shortcuts was about using the keyboard. You failed miserably and your comment got disappeared for it. Try ha
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> a user-owned host device So, they can transfer "ownership" to me whenever I use my personal computer that happens to be located in Google's cloud which, through a series of tubes, is in fact connected to my LAN-based net
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Can’t the web browser be used as the client here? Safari iOS has websockets as well as WebGL, if local rendering were needed. I’m surprised Google didn’t develop it that way to begin with.

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