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by wayneftw 6y ago
Yeah sure. I suppose you’d also say that it’s simply incompetence that Apple refuses to open Google Maps, the most widely used map app, when I click on a link to somebody’s address in my contacts app. Oh and it just so happens that I can’t
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I haven’t seen one explanation that makes any sense. Care to link to one in any of these threads here, on Twitter or reddit that made sense to you?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Wow, not really. The point is that the vast majority of apps are never featured and you know it. Everybody that’s paying the 30% still has to do their own marketing. Discovery through the app store is absolute shit. You’re trying to argue t
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> The Supreme Court ruled that consumers had standing to sue for antitrust violations... Thank you for acknowledging the exact point that I just made? > It has nothing to do with your bizarre argument ... I didn't say that it was
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Great! So, I am guaranteed to get featured in exchange for my $100 per year developer license and a 30% cut of my sale price?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Yeah, but not when you dictate the same sentence. My main complaint is that they insist that they own "app store" when the courts already told them that they don't.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> The Windows app store... Thank you for saying "app store" instead of "App Store". If you dictate this sentence on an iPhone it comes out as "The windows App Store". In other words, the people that work for
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Right, because that's exactly what I said. Apple won't want to have 5 different systems for 5 different regions of the world. They'll streamline everything into one app store model that works for everybody.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Nobody finds apps through the app store. They find them on Google and click a link that opens the app store.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Those are all things that you have no choice in. You can’t install an alternative to Siri. You can’t use a different push notification system. You can’t use an alternative store and send updates yourself.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I have and I found C# to be somewhat painful compared to JS in some respects, but good in other ways. There are a lot of little conveniences that are missing. There is no destructuring, no first-class functions (i.e. can’t declare functions
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Your analogy is wrong. You said, “ when I switched to only eating polenta.” but it should have been “ when I switched to only cooking polenta.” Only eating one type of food is crazy. Nobody does that and if they do, it’s not fun. However,
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Incorrect. They’ve already lost a preliminary antitrust suit. They can absolutely be sued for this. Look it up. Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/supreme-court...
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by wayneftw 6y ago
prop? What does that mean?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
You haven't tried using Manjaro Linux as your workstation. I'm very lazy and I don't want to tinker with shit to get it running or maintain it. So, I stuck with Windows for the longest time. It was the easy path for a long ti
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Yes, it is. You can read about it here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power#Measurement
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by wayneftw 6y ago
The revolution may not be televised... but couldn’t it be streamed? I want to see people use live streaming to debate first, but then organize so effectively to just swarm on the old systems to make change. People need to move faster.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
If Apple gets attacked for this around the world, the change will come to the US. I’m looking forward to it because Apple is one of the most petty companies I’ve ever had the displeasure of being forced to deal with as a mobile software d
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Yeah I'm just wondering - on what grounds would they reject it? I don't see any TOS that would forbid it.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
No, you moved the goalposts. The original person you replied to said "Same with a Firefox extension." not a "nightly or developer build of Firefox extension". If you can't get an extension on a regular build of Fire
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Automobiles have plenty of restrictions on how they can be built, marketed and sold even though no single brand is essential to every single person. If enough people want changes around how smartphones and smartphone platforms operate, we&#
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Teens in the US are a market unto themselves. The iPhone has somewhere between 80-90% market share with them. Even outside of teens, they're at close to 50% and you don't need a strict majority in order to have control over the ma
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by wayneftw 6y ago
When you reach essential product status, this is no longer similar to video game console. This is more like, back when Ma Bell made you pay rent to use a handset and there was no way that you could own one. If enough people/companies d
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Mozilla will not let you publish an extension that they disagree with politically.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
50% in the USA. And next to nobody releases apps for Android only precisely because of that number. The problem has way more to do with how this affects developers then how it affects consumers. The amount of control that Apple has over the
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I was wondering... Can there be a native app on iOS that sets up notifications for all participating PWAs and then when a notification comes in, when the user views it - the native app simply launches the URL of the PWA? It could be called
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by wayneftw 6y ago
In the US, the iPhone has very close to a 50% market share. A majority market share is not strictly required to be considered a monopoly. Power over an entire market is the quality that is under consideration. Can you have a successful app
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> The iOS and App Store ecosystem work extremely well for me... If Apple were forced to allow NFC access, third party stores and real side-loading, then nothing would change for you. You could continue to use their app store [0] and thei
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by wayneftw 6y ago
There are 2 distinct angry mobs now. I haven't counted the responses, but it looks to me like the great majority of people who responded to this here on HN, reddit and on twitter are against it and/or are questioning the value of
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by wayneftw 6y ago
You left out the most relevant part: > Out of curiosity, why 'master'? What was it meant to convey? 'Master' as in 'original' or as in 'owner'? [0] the reply: > "master" as in e.g. &qu

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