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Looked at the other way, who would buy a faulty cable that doesn't meet this self-test specification? That would be a feature imo. Cable makers will need to all start meeting the specification very quickly or nobody will buy their cable.

my encrypted chats saved across multiple devices

You might have a bit of a shock in SE Asia then

To be fair, they fixed the keyboard mechanism. But agree 100% on all other points.

Gripping on to my i7 Macbook 12" for dear life, I would jump on one with an apple chip if it ran cooler and had 3x the performance. Apple really need to focus on these things not being leg warmers though.

a) Absolutely agreed. Considering the previous Macbook 12" was priced almost twice the price of the Macbook Air and marketed as a premium ultracompact, why would they do things differently?

Pack it up everyone, the casting couch wins

I suspect that kind of innovation is frowned upon by Google. It's not the same context as WhatsApp at all

It's because Apple have either intentionally turned a blind eye to these companies or they have managed to sneak it past the app store review team. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ Section 3.1.1 In-App Purchase: If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you must use in-app purchase. Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, etc. Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.

So you're actually proving the point that their review system is neither fair nor consistent with your crusade in here. Also don't forget about survivorship bias. For every app you see that does this thousands of others got forced to use IAP during the review process.

This is the kind of answer from someone who speaks with actual experience. Most users are trained to just head straight to the App Store to download your product even when they discover your app on web so if theres no in app onboarding your funnel completely falls apart

Our app was quite clean and not taken down due to adult content creators, it was specifically the paid chat functionality they took issue with. And hey, I get it. It was a bit borderline. We took a risk with the business model. But that wasn't my issue it was the 30% fee that really killed us - bending the spirit of the rules to call a humans time chatting somehow a 'digital goods/service' to catch us in their IAP web. This stopped us from being able to pay our creators fairly and caused us to make less than Apple did from our own product after we paid creators. Creators expect more than the 70% so it makes it almost impossible to run this type of product/service on the app store.

No. We had to actively prevent adult content creators joining to stay compliant with the app store guidelines

You must have missed the part I said where Apple deemed paid chat "inappropriate for the app store". And maybe it is. But that wasn't the point of my post. I'm not looking for solutions, i'm sharing my experience. But thanks anyway

We had a paid chat app for social media celebrities/models to earn money chatting with their fans years back. Apple argued that despite a human being doing the work it 'took place in the app' so that makes it a 'digital service'. That means we had to accept IAP and of course pay them 30%. Made it impossible to to pay our influencers fairly.

One of the many silly rejections we had was due to the images on our influencers profiles being too sexy despite being linked through the Instagram API. After explaining they were the same as you can find in the Instagram app we were told we had to actively censor them anyway. Shame on us for not being as big as Instagram, right?

After a year of making less margin from our own business than Apple they concluded paid chat was no longer appropriate for the app store and decided to just put us out of business one morning. Meanwhile, tons of other apps with the same functionality and far more sexualized are alive and doing well.

It can't be easy making every developer happy while curating the tidal wave of apps coming in each day, but it was a really soul crushing experience for us.

I agree. If I was running the marketing department i'd name this upcoming SE the "iPhone Classic"

It's a shame they aren't making that size anymore, it was such a nice elegant size. But I'm sure they looked at the data and know that they'll sell even more of these with the 4.7" because for most people on a budget it's their primary computing device.

Yep, Mazda were the most vocal about rejecting the touch screen trend, and Honda and Toyota are losing a lot of customers to Mazda who have been producing the best cars in their class in the last several years so it makes sense that they are jumping on the bandwagon.

That'd be a great point if it wasn't for the fact that all the asian countries enforcing mask use are actually flattening the curve.

I'm always amused at the lengths we, as a western society, must now go to because everyone refuses to wear a mask. A lot of the problems described in this article would not be problems with some simple tweaks. Sick? Stay the fuck at home! Not symptomatic? Wear a mask and carry on. Surely Fortune 500 companies that require in person collaborations are able to produce some company issued N95's and hand sanitizer and get on with it.

Productions there but also any kind of face covering is allowed and encouraged. Only some are wearing N95's. Some people are improvising, cloth masks, surgical masks, whatever. I suppose as long as everyone is making an effort it is effective.

I'm in Thailand right now and everyone even the expats are wearing them. Why? Because the law in our local jurisdiction has mandated that if you are outside you must wear a mask. And if you don't, the police will fine you and can arrest you. They even set up checkpoints a couple of days after it was announced and now everybody wears a mask. It's great, actually

It probably also helps that all the hotel rooms are currently empty.

I'm still of the opinion that pandemic preparedness should be treated like a threat to the nation and part of the military budget. It should not be up to the states to prepare, it should be federal and treated as any other military threat of an unknown enemy. It's crazy to think that we spend so much on tanks and fighter jets and military but can't find some loose change for viral pathogens. What about when the enemy deploys a virus against us?

I ate at a high end Korean steak house the other night in Bali and ALL guests were temperature checked and made to use hand sanitizer on the way into the restaurant. The servers all wore disposable gloves as well. It obviously doesn't stop people who are asymptomatic but it seemed like a great step in the right direction. I imagine if more restaurant venues did this they would get more business during these times.

Probably because he just asked for a refund, now he's asking for an extension

This says more about you than 'enough of the population being seriously disturbed'

They have a 100% monopoly on iPhone users. If your customers device is an iPhone and your product or service doesn't comply with their rules then your customer needs to either use a different device or not be your customer.

Nothing really mentioned about longevity of this new pouch design. The impressive thing about the Tesla batteries is not only are they efficient when it comes to range but they are also built to last 100s of thousands of miles.

Fixed monthly costs are great.

But Starting at 5 cents per API call? Hard pass.

According to the politicians when campaigning for this they copied Australias system.