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it doesn’t mean all of the parts are, though

These guys are probably not going to get a second try at this either with these types of headlines, and Sam Altman investing in or creating another device :(

Correct on it being a tech industry viewpoint— people think "apps come from the App Store" and therefore anything else that's clunky requires a fair amount of education and payoff for users to adopt.

It's off balance, and it shows now that the tech has to be removed since it wasn't actually at parity despite it being an argument for it unfortunately.

The worst part? This has been the case for 15 years. It's not like there wasn't enough time to fix it. That's plenty of time to hire and develop solutions, yet now look at the reasons for it being taken away.

The “low usage” comment is going to be more ammo against Apple unfortunately. The whole reason they are low usage on PWAs is because of a lack of investment from Apple and a lack of parity, yet for the longest time Apple has played both sides by saying PWAs are a viable alternative to the App Store, all while channeling people to App Store for actual app downloads and not providing similar marketing or anything for PWAs

Look at how popular the Mac App Store is. If iOS didn’t force it, it could turn into a similar graveyard given that devs don’t want to pay 15-30%.

I feel like Wikipedia is one thing that helped take down a lot of topic-specific indie sites or home/about pages. Before, you could make a site about anything and find it via a search engine. That was part of the exciting surprise factor of the old web.

Now, Wikipedia coverage is kind of like an expected existence for a lot of things. When Google started to rank Wikipedia very highly for search terms, that was the beginning of this shift

Yeah I was going to say— at first I thought this was Ian Hubert's work

ahh okay

It feels like the IPO was essentially to dump investor losses on retail

I used this.

yeah, this number has to be unreal. every time I go in and check it out it’s like a handful of content farms, and two to three real users (one of which works at Instagram)

The latest Watch models are already updated via RF (there’s no more hidden Lightning connector in the band joint) so this is not anything new to Apple, just new to iPhone if it happens.

I love my MiniDisc player. The discs are so cool, and so satisfying to pop into a player.

yeah there have been a few of these. ours was https://cafewifi.com … these projects require a lot of effort and we tried a bunch of ideas, but ultimately had to call it quits after a while on that one

a friend and I tried to launch a startup around this a number of years back with really nice mobile apps, and he has a web/Git-based incarnation of something similar going here now: https://cafeandcowork.com

yeah, cruise ships with bad internet were a great use case for Basic HTML Gmail

Vapes aren't

Yeah there’s also non-H1B people getting severely underpaid too, and those comps are used to justify it.

the .xyz guy be printing money

The Chromebook death date is absurd in general. I bought my mom one a while ago and then she had to basically get rid of it when it was perfectly fine.

I found this surprising until I read “Florida driving license”

I worry that times have changed, and adults proposing these rules may not “get it.”

don’t worry, someone will port it to JS

Now that we have technology can’t taxes just be automatic when transactions happen?

No wonder why the billing is so cranked up

What’s up with .net domains suddenly being hot?

It doesn’t ask for contacts. It pulls everything from Instagram

It seems like they’re trying to prevent people from building “friend finding” tools using Twitter?

Twitter’s data export feature already barely gives you a copy of your graph ha.

Seems like they want to own that at all costs

The amount of security that'll be required to keep people from sleeping in the beds and grabbing/stealing from here is probably astronomical.

Just in time to get rekt