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Possibly, but I do not believe that it only impact children. Is there a benefit aspect of smoking ads targeted at adults?

The new mac mini is $599.

Have you seen high-end iPad price? For the same level of performance of their lowest macbook air config?

What we need is to have an app store as a public service. Why on hell would you want a for-profit company to decide what companies are allowed to exist?

You would likely prefer to be judged on what you are doing now than what happened 9 years ago. From what I am seeing they already apologized, what do you expect this thread to do?

While these optimizations make sense, I cannot hide my disappointment as to how easy they are to break. C-like branches/loops are definitely not designed for modern CPUs (at least not in an efficient manner)

Do anyone perhaps know one/multiple languages that try to push the programmer into manually defining dependencies/micro-parallelism? Or at least make it harder to write inefficient code? If not, what would you suggest?

Private companies having a direct say in what products are allowed to exist is a big issue by itself. At the very least they should only charge what it costs them and run the app store as non-profit.

Obviously this is wishful thinking, but given how smartphones are a mandatory part of our social life, stores being a public service would make much more sense.

> I don’t use spotify so I can’t speak for their platform but don’t they charge outside of Apples ecosystem

My point is that platforms cannot simply make their own phone/ecosystem to avoid clearly abusive behavior. Smartphones are already so much harder to make compared to 10/20 years ago, imagine in 50.

> No they are not. They are a convenience. People can and will continue to live without them if necessary. Even in modern society. Go a week without your smartphone before you say things like this.

Until you try to enter a restaurant where you have to scan a QR code, or when the government decide to track you using an APP because of a certain epidemic. Or when communicating become a struggle because all your contacts are using X third-party chatting service.

Sure, you can still call it a convenience (just ask the person next to you to scan the code, prints paper everyday or do whatever tedious task is the alternative, find new friends or force them to adapt to you) but it is not reasonable. At that point I could say that a house/place to live is only a convenience you could very well survive in a forest. And I doubt that our dependence on smartphone is doing to slow down any time soon.

A real convenience would be a dish-washer, I wouldn't care what horrible things the clear monopoly is doing as I could easily buy another brand without affecting anything in my life. This is not the case with a smartphone, companies are clearly encouraged/forced (there are exceptions) to support as many platforms as they can, hence why electron exist. And you can imagine that social media/chatting service cannot really afford to ignore half the world.

Because what Apple is doing doesn't only affect Apple users. As said, phones aren't just phones.

> Apples fees just happen to be higher.

And just happen to be mandatory. 30% is indeed higher than the few percent VISA may take.

> And as always, facebook has an option to make their own phone instead of the metaverse nobody is asking for.

Guess we need the Spotify phone, Amazon phone, Facebook phone, ... Just to be clear, I am not defending Meta specifically (I do not use any of their product) but this argument is BS. An operating system used by +25% of the population (higher in the US) shouldn't enforce such fee.

Please do not forget that modern phones aren't just phone. They are a mandatory part of living in society. The "just buy android" or "just don't support iOS" arguments aren't reasonable.

Sure, and you can pay for App Store ads separately... The issue is not that Apple charge for exposure, but that you are forced to.

The whole purpose of Nalim is to be faster, Panama FFI currently perform similarly to JNI.

Looks great but the API itself doesn't seem very innovative (which is probably not the goal anyway).

I'd personally be interested in a graphics API that do not try to render the whole buffer every frame, but update it given a list of changes (e.g. sprite moving/rotating). I believe that such approach could work very well for a 2D software renderer given the likeliness of spatial redundancy, and possibly for video encoding without going through a clueless encoder querying pixels (and having the ability to exploit hardware efficiency to decode/render the stream).

Fact is that it already worked well, no point in trying to find unnecessary confusions

Only in the US? Why?

Until you discover that any new performance/efficiency discovery gets spent on more bloated software.

I know, my point was about how software developers could be forced to make more efficient software instead of relying on more and more powerful hardware.

Also, how many CPU generations would be required to compare to our current hardware with more optimized (or simply less bloated) applications?

I am personally much more annoyed at Apple preventing JIT compilation on iOS than the lack of browser competition. I do not really want to give chromium more market share, and it can already compete on macOS.

Agree that Discord & Slack alone are probably not the sole culprits. But if you expand this to all existing computers (including datacenters) and programs using unnecessary abstraction layers, I wouldn't be surprised if we heavily surpassed bitcoin.

All that to say that IMO there is a fairly big incentive to re-think our software stack. Part of the issue is that it is hard to optimize software for all platform/hardware, therefore creating the need for abstraction. I wonder how this would all look if we suddenly stopped developing new hardware and put everyone on the same page, would software slowly become more efficient?

That would fit the second part of my message.

Reusing instead of recycling will always be more environment friendly. No exception.

What alternate OS? The one where developers are still in the process of reverse engineering Apple's SoC?

"and in about a month they will stop showing up." Such a great experience

I personally stopped my subscription after their decision to remove the dislike counter. Ultimately does not change anything for them, but I just couldn't justify it.

This would likely also affect their iPhone sales, so pretty bad plan.

I'll have to wait for those to get flagship specs before considering it.

Though honestly I'd probably prefer an android/ios device able to run a different operating system on the external display in all cases.

Is it really usable as a phone? Seems like it would be a step back for any modern ios/android device user.

Would this allow me to plug an Android phone into a monitor and have it boot windows/linux like DeX? (so keeping android on the phone, but the desktop on the external display)

This would be a pretty strong argument for me to move away from iOS.

This is especially funny (or sad) after the removal of the dislike button, guess that not all creators need protection after all.

I didn't know her before, and am likely not the target audience, but I fully support her complaints.

The issue (or benefit depending on how you see it) is that Apple is very conservative and try to limit as much as possible their security risks.

Sideloading is part of it, and I can also mention JIT compilation.