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Why do people think work is an appropriate place for political activism?

> Wouldn’t the taxpayers foot the bill for whatever the price is?

Certainly doesn’t work that way in germany where college is free. But then again, the US have an odd relationship with tax funding, to say the least.

There’s a lot of room for compromise between „you are not allowed to even mention external payment systems“ and „everyone has their own IAP system“.

It didn’t have to be that way. If Apple had sensible policies that stand the test of regulatory scrutiny this wouldn’t happen. Now that lawmakers get involved I will expect the worst outcome for customers, or as you succinctly put it „we lose“.

I think it’s reasonable to expect a lot of people to follow Netflix outside of the App Store. Therefore Apple would have to make an offer that is competitive enough for them to stay. I would argue that’s fair competition. Unlike their current highway robbery approach (in German we have the word wegelagerei, which was medieval toll extortion on unavoidable roadways, a better fitting term in my opinion)

You said it's naive but didn't actually present a reasonable alternative.

The problem here are not the special deals, saurik commented he cut special deals in the Cydia store occasionally the last time this topic came up. The problem is that there is no alternative to Apple when it comes to publishing software and content on the iPhone and that makes these kind of deals unfair.

That phrase is so overused in light of massively over engineered solutions that are created every day in our industry . Let’s face it: this project loads some data via http and displays some text and primitives on a display. This can easily be handled on a esp32 with room to spare. But somehow we think it’s normal to involve an OS, a fully fledged computer and a browser to do this. Seriously, we need the opposite of the Knuth quote: “When in doubt don’t ship a browser” or something like that.

I remember reading somewhere on HN that it‘s a patent/monopoly issue but I didn‘t verify.

Do the drive with 130mph constant speed? People with race cars easily reach this velocity on the Autobahn.

A racing car doesn’t belong on the streets in the first place.

Did you just question the "correct" media's authority!?

The problem is not that cyber-security is hard, but that a trillion dollar company is incapable to handle security disclosures.

>Unless you were already near the top, climbing rapidly up rankings (in a 3rd party ladder) is going to be very suspicious.

smurfs are as old as competitive games, so I doubt it.

No Apple is definitely not abusing their market position by controlling (and taxing) the access to millions of customers.

No I think there are certain aspects about Apple products that are definitely not throwaway culture, mainly software support. The hardware is also holding up really long (I also use a MBP 2013, I have several iPhone 6s users in my family). The main issue is that in case of defects, repairs are not economical and I wish Apple would recognize that. Given the long viability of hard and software, I have reasonable doubt to believe it’s a decision made to maximize profit, but rather a legacy Jony Ive sized blind spot.

>I'm a bit conflicted about this, because on the one hand: yeah being unable to work for a week is obviously bad, but, devices are going to fail and it could sometimes be the difference between _you_ wasting a week debugging or not.

These devices are sold as "Pro" presumably meaning Professional. Not being able to work for a week is not professional. There are companies that give you a repair time in hours, not days.

>it's cheaper for the company to have me sit on my hands for a week than to have a spare laptop for me.

I'm self-employed so a week downtime cost me a week's salary. But even so, I wouldn't want to sit on my hands for a week, because I consider that unprofessional.

Do you mean the criticism is reasonable or 1 week repair time? Because the latter is absolutely not for anyone that uses their laptop as their primary working device. A week downtime is completely unacceptable.

I’d recommend to get a fitness watch then. The Apple Watch is so much more, but for fitness enthusiasts the battery life is probably more important than the smart features (which fitness watches mostly lack).

I think the reason is that US-Americans are really into pretending they care about their veterans.

Think of parents buying "Gameboys" for their children for example ;)

Downvoted for truth basically. When it comes to bread and cheese, trust the US to get it wrong :P

> I did this because my friends who were already there advised me that the company did not supply phones but did expect you to load a crapload of apps on to do your job.

Serious question: what if you don’t have a smartphone (I know several people) or simply don’t want to install work stuff on your private phone? Is this a prerequisite, do they fire you or how would this be resolved? Also, this sounds like a security disaster waiting to happen (I also know people without a passcode on their phone)

Not going to walk with it doesn’t seem very …erm animal friendly.

In the article, 2 of 3 examples are about consumption. This just reinforces my opinion that the iPad is primarily a consumption device. My wife is a teacher and I asked her if her students, the so called „digital natives“ hold up to their reputation. She declined and said they were producing TikTok videos and instagram photos at best (which can lead to a creative career but I’d argue that’s the exception not the rule). Even if we improve productivity somewhat, it’s offset by a huge increase in consumption. I don’t see this changing in the near future, mainly because there are no incentives to do otherwise.

Finally my iPad may actually be useful for more than just a really expensive web browsing machine.

I hate when someone says „BNW is actually a better prediction“ (you also never hear it the other way around). Both works are pretty much orthogonal e.g. we can have the NSA spying on citizens AND the hedonistic complacency from BNW simultaneously.

On one hand I agree with the sentiment that involving telcos is a terrible idea, on the other hand I really dislike iMessage and the way it shuts people out if they aren’t on an iPhone so I‘d be pretty happy if this would „kill“ iMessage (disclaimer: I’m an iPhone user)

SMB3 will outshine a lot of games released today and I think that’s a good thing. Great game design is somewhat timeless.

I don't want to search through all threads so I'm going to make a separate thread where everyone can add their ONE favorite episode which you think are great interviews. I start with my favorite Chuck Palahniuk on Joe Rogan (which is really more due to the interviewee) https://open.spotify.com/episode/1j5rNNfDQuGjj3EjErwVge