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I'd imagine the user benefit is they can tap new operating system APIs and features almost immediately versus having to wait for a React Native package or having to build a React Native bridge. I think everyone would agree that native apps are better in every way, but the thing is, as a small company, you can't justify hiring two different developers - hence why RN is usually a good choice to get off the ground with.

I also noticed recently they changed their design completely. Instead of browsing your board and the things you pinned in the past, what you're now shown are completely unrelated items that you might want to add to your board, and most of these are things you can buy from other shopping sites.

Does using Firefox allow me to play YouTube in the background or download videos to my iPhone/iPad for long journeys? No, it doesn't.

I've been doing

  if condition1 && 
       condition2
       ...
  end

for ages and it seems to work find, what am I missing with this new syntax?!

My uptime monitor OnlineOrNot is also down...

I remember reading a history of YouTube once, and early on they were about to go under from the sheer weight of music industry copyright lawsuits and the cost of bandwidth. Google had the technology, heft and resources to do infringement detection at scale to really save them, not to mention their global bandwidth.

What did the Irish government do to entitle itself to a chunk of the appreciation of your equity portfolio of presumably non-Irish companies? What did they do to contribute to that equity growth?

Because Apple carefully vets all apps and that's why it must be allowed to maintain its App Store monopoly!

Even more of an argument for free sideloading then. Ping your friends a URL, they click it and can install your app. All without the need for an App Store.

What happened to the people who lied under oath? Were they found out?

Looked at it but ruled out the Air due to lack of ports and limited RAM upgrades.

It's the terrible standard library of JS that keeps me with Ruby. Rails makes it even better. Being able to write little things like 3.days.from_now to get a timestamp is great.

Same problem in the UK. Boris Johnson claimed he lost his phone and then it got wiped. Rishi Sunak similarly.

I’m pretty sure multiple apps is on their public roadmap, I’m sure I read it somewhere.

No we don’t need to pay billions. There are moves afoot in the UK to do direct bank to bank payments with Open Banking. HMRC (the UK tax authority) has been doing this for years. When I pay my tax bill, I select my bank, scan a QR code with my phone, that launches my banking app, I authorise the payment and off it goes in just a few seconds. Instant and a few pence, even for thousands of pounds. This particular implementation is provided by Ecospend but there are a few other companies offering this same service now in the UK.

I agree with the OP, Visa and MC charging so much is just insane when you think about it. It’s more expensive AND settlement times are days, not seconds. The only barrier is consumer awareness and detrimental UK legislation forbidding card fees to be added to bills which while well intentioned completely ruins any competition on payment methods.

So Patreon will need to become a reader app like Spotify/Kindle then that can do all this offline but you cannot subscribe or pay in the app.

Can I ask where you moved to?

Oh like a PWA? That Apple can cripple and has crippled at a moment's notice?

Airbnb isn’t a duopoly.

Seems to load fine for me from London at least.

The problem I had with IP address fingerprints is that we have a large number of customers all behind one hospital’s single IP address.

This Twitter thread was great recently on this topic, lots of useful software to consider: https://twitter.com/igorexit/status/1785288743802609993

I honestly doubt opening up the App Store will cause much of a hit. Maybe 5% of users will download another App Store.

Haven’t got a huge amount of sympathy since Amazon patented 1-click checkout.

Yes, upvote for this please! We would pay to integrate this into our SaaS for our users.

Which it hasn’t been because there are alternative app stores, payment processors and sideloading.

How can you know that it’s the most successful store in the absence of any competition at all? You don’t have a choice. The App Store app comes preinstalled on iPhones and iPads and you cannot choose any other store, so no wonder it’s successful. The only conclusion that you can draw from that is the iPhone and iPad owners like to buy apps.

This is still not good enough because as Apple demonstrated last week, they can capriciously remove access for any developer at any time for any reason at all. They need to be removed completely from the code signing and publishing process altogether.

There’s no way that the EU permits Apple to control this going forwards.

This argument is trotted out frequently and it misses the point. These are NOT Apple’s customers. Yes they bought the phone from Apple but they are Epic’s customers. No one wants Apple inserting themselves in the middle of the transaction. It is not necessary.