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tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
You’re kidding right? You think this is going to make a difference in the cut?

The word you’re looking for by the way is “financially”. Fiscally is to do with taxes.

tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Just thought this and came here to say the same. Well done then Epic.
tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
This all sounds very misguided on Fortnight's end.
tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
they don't have a price tier that goes negative
tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
You are confused. Apple never removes apps from users' devices simply because the new version did not pass review.

Removing an app from the App Store, and removing it from user's devices are two very different things. When any app is removed in this fashion, all users who already have the app still have access to everything they had access to before. The app just isn't listed on the App Store for new downloads.

tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Kids take their phones with them everywhere. Location tracking is a huge differentiator between mobile/pc. Front & rear facing cameras are another.

I am an app developer for iOS. It does directly affect me.

tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
hosting & review are just the beginning. They also maintain substantial support around the App Store. So their costs will scale with number of downloads, usage, purchases, etc, which is why their fee scales with it too.
tommymachine··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Beyond the obvious difference that Microsoft has a monopoly marketshare on PCs, and Apple has a minority marketshare of mobile devices, mobile devices are categorically different because they are always with you. This generates a whole different slew of concerns around privacy and apps being able to access your information with or without your consent.

By maintaining control over which apps can be sold to end users via the App Store, Apple is able to offer a layer of control over how these apps can access (or not) your personal data.

There's nothing ridiculous about wanting to maintain data privacy/security on mobile devices, and that being of a higher priority with mobile than with a PC.

tommymachine··on People work longer and different hours under lockdown
You spend 130 a day on mass transit?
tommymachine··on Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html

This shows clear counter evidence to the claim of hospitalization rate being ~20% for all age groups. This CDC data shows a steep increase in the hospitalization rate as age increases.

Not sure where you are getting your information.

tommymachine··on Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019)
Efficiency is only material in terms of something.

To provide a devils advocate to your last point, people could be most likely to respond on keyboards because a keyboard is an cost - efficient option for the majority of potential responders.

However there could be other tech that is more time - efficient. And for someone with an advanced condition such as ALS, it would be extremely inaccurate & inefficient in terms of either cost or time to use a keyboard for any sort of input where a high level of accuracy is required. Whereas a speech-to-text software connected microphone or some other system would be far more efficient in those categories for them.

All this to say that no, simply because one person replies to your post with a keyboard adds not one shred of validity to the vast over-generalization that "the keyboard is the most efficient input device we have".

I shall also now further assert to, in addition to disproving your central claim by counterexample, to have also disproved your ending statement (also by counterexample), by first, disproving your absurdly general central claim, and second, having done so using a keyboard as the input system for my response.

tommymachine··on Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account
This should be sarcastic, but it seems like it’s not. “Just move your system files to Dropbox, and replace them with symlinks!” Sheesh!
tommymachine··on What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly
Lots of misunderstanding of how optionals are designed to work in this comment!
tommymachine··on Psychology of Human Misjudgment
By my reading of Munger, it’s not necessarily that people in general are optimistic, but rather that foolish optimism is one of the flavors of human misjudgment. Ever the practical ‘psychologist’, I don’t believe Munger focuses on diagnosing the causes of the various forms of human misjudgments (beyond their categorization into these forms) so much as he does on prescribing their potential resolutions, or ‘antidotes’ as he says here.

The math he refers to is simply high school level probability math.

tommymachine··on Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation
Mint is owned by Intuit, valued at 53.88B!
tommymachine··on No. 1 utility in Apple's App Store steals browser history, sends to China
Title should say "Mac App Store".
tommymachine··on Show HN: Chat with people around you
same on Safari Version 12.0 (14606.1.36.1.9)
tommymachine··on Show HN: Chat with people around you
not working on safari?
tommymachine··on Tesla, software and disruption
Then we agree.
tommymachine··on Tesla, software and disruption
They are two different companies. Apple had its share of turmoil during the 30 years it was a company prior to the success of iPhone. For instance, having around six months of money left to burn when acquiring NEXT in 1996. Tesla has been around for ~15y. Sure, tech cycles are getting shorter, but still, it's a long slog over many years to scale any vertically involved hardware company.
tommymachine··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
Maybe if credit card processors started inventing platforms for software distribution and made them available and easy to use for anyone, they wouldn’t.
tommymachine··on Consider applying for grad school
Corollary being: can a PhD make up for lack of real world experience?
tommymachine··on Music and Machine Learning
Most guitars aren't in tune period [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8EjCTb88oA

tommymachine··on Music and Machine Learning
They'll recognize the chords instantly, without even having to glance at the printed notes. In practice, these things are usually called "charts" or lead sheets (if they have a melody) because they chart out the changes, which you solo over. They usually are found in "fake books", where it's assumed that the melody transcription is relatively awful, but it's close enough that a decent musician can quickly figure out the actual tune from it (assuming they've heard it before).

You'll almost never hear any seasoned jazz players refer to a chart like this as a "score", unless they have a very very classical background, or are sort of making a joke about the quality of a particular lead sheet. Scores are for orchestras and films and things like that. It's strange to see people keep referring to these sh*tty transcriptions as 'scores'.

It's like calling Kraft Mac 'n' cheese "pasta". Like, ok maybe technically it could qualify as a pasta, but you don't really refer to it as that in practice.

tommymachine··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
Apple can always threaten to walk away from China if they request something like that. Apple also doesn't play nice with the FBI over those kinds of requests. This fantasy of yours is just getting wilder and wilder
tommymachine··on Music and Machine Learning
A few misheard lyrics here or there is quite different from 9 / 10 notes having a different rhythm, as in the article's example.
tommymachine··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
Maybe. But how bad would the user experience be if every time a user went to do an IAP, they were presented with a link to an external web page asking for their credit card information? Would that affect the security and privacy of the platform? Would it affect users' trust in the platform?
tommymachine··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
Sounds farfetched.
tommymachine··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
> My hope is the market gets more competitive so that app makers get a larger share of the profit.

Isn't the nominal size of a slice of cake more important than it's percentage relative to the overall cake?

Sure, it would be great if developers got a larger chunk of a large market. But what if they got a smaller chunk of a much bigger market? 70 % of a hundred million is a lot more than a hundred percent of 500 bucks. Worrying about percentages can sometimes just be about jealousy/ego.

tommymachine··on Music and Machine Learning
Yes.
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