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There in a Safari Controller that’s isolated from the app, but it’s presented within the app. If Apple can just mandate any web browsing activity must go through Safari Controller, it would stop all this nonsense from Facebook.

Facebook certainly did not have the resources and experiences to make a mobile OS at that point. Microsoft tried and failed, there was no space for a 3rd mobile OS.

> They also tried to make mobile web a thing for a few years past when it was obvious that native apps were the way forward.

This was one of the first friction Facebook encountered with Apple. They wanted to make their own store in the Facebook app on iOS, but obviously Apple said no. Maybe doing Facebook app in HTML5 was a way to protest against the way Apple was moving things forward, but again it didn't work, their app was crap and they rewrote everything in native.

For the past 15 years, mobile has been the main revenue source for Facebook. As big as Facebook is, they're at the mercy of the 2 competitors: Apple and Google. Apple has been very hostile to Facebook, because Facebook make a shitload of money off Apple's platform and they refused to pay a certain percentage to Apple - unlike Google who is paying 20B a year to access iOS users. Apple tried to cut Facebook off with ATT on iOS 14, but it didn't work.

Because of this, Zuckerberg has to be incredibly paranoid about controlling his company destiny, to stop relying on others' platforms to deliver ads. It would be catastrophic for Facebook to not be a main player for the next computing platform, and they're currently making a lot of money from their other businesses. Zuckerberg is ruthless and he is paranoid, he has total control of Facebook and he will use all the resources to control the next big thing. I think it comes down to this: Zuckerberg believes it's cheaper to be wrong than to miss out on the next platform, and Facebook can afford to be wrong (to a certain extend).

I think you have it backwards. Because iOS/macOS can run fine on what Intel fabs can make right now, Apple is not totally dependent on TSMC. In the worst case scenario, they will simply buy all the capacity from Intel, they have enough cash to do so.

Nvidia on the other hand need the latest tech to squeeze the most performance out of their chips for AI companies.

> This happens on EBay too. Sellers list something and it isn't as described, and fraudulent sellers will say "but it is! This buyer is trying to scam me." and EBay usually sides with the seller.

This is not my experience at all and I've used eBay since 2008. eBay is pro buyer to the point that I don't sell anything on eBay (and buy all everything on eBay if price is the same).

That particular MBP model had a high rate of GPU failure because it ran too hot.

I imagined the convo between Steve Jobs and Jensen Huang went like this:

S: your GPU is shit

J: your thermal design is shit

S: f u

J: f u too

Apple is the kind of company that hold a grudge for a very long time, their relationships with suppliers are very one way, their way or the highway.

That is indeed strange, Microsoft Singapore was practically giving away phones (Lumia 920) for anyone who asked.

This is such a Hacker News comment.

> Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise.

The bean counters won. I guess Tim Cook does care about the bloody ROI after all.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim...

I'm Vietnamese so I'm obviously biased, but what option did they have? If they left immediately, Khmer Rouge would be back in no time and the cycle would begin again. I don't think the politburo enjoyed occupying Cambodia, as Vietnam was severely punished by the international community for the occupation. It probably pushed back Vietnam's development 10-20 years.

I believe whichever party attempts to do this will be voted out in 2 years. It's really really hard to get people to accept a lower standard of living. The only scenario I can think of is during wartime, but the US is pissing off all of their allies.

Can someone explain to me how the US can reshore manufacturing without dramatically lower their standard of living? Maybe they can subsidize some essential industries but I can’t see a path to do it for everything.

If the key thing is to avoid China getting access to TSMC plants, I'm sure there are ways to do it without risking US troops. The West would have to live with inferior Intel nodes for a while, but it would be better than anything China could produce.

The US will NOT engage in a hot war against China for Taiwan, that's for certain, regardless of who is president at that time. Why would they risk nuclear war for a bunch of people who are really far away from the US continent?

Meta is dumb enough to use email to discuss it.

Vertical integration. No longer depends on Qualcomm for a very critical component. Slightly higher margin.

They cropped it out from the center of the 48MP photo. It’s the same on 16 and 16 Pro.

He was famous before the PS3 hack, he was the first person to unlock the original iPhone.

It's not airgapped if it has bluetooth access.

I don't disagree, but I vote with my wallet. If the owner of the phone doesn't agree with that, they could stop using the phone/apps. Similarly the biometric data also doesn't get backed up or transferred over to a new phone. That's a product decision and I'm just explaining why things are done that way on iOS.

It's a feature, not a bug. Apps like banks or Signal don't want to get backed up as it's a security risk if someone could just duplicate the authentication.

> Banks don't or won't understand this.

They are not interested in that. They want attestation because they can "outsource" the responsibility to Google.

Pricing aside, thunderbolt cables are usually thicker and more rigid. Sometimes you need a thin and flexible cable, cheap USB-C cable is a better choice.

LOL Bezos sold a few Bs of Amazon every other week recently. I’m sure all the top billionaires could get a billion in cash easily if they ever need to.

It's fine if you want to suffer. I personally don't want to suffer, and that should be my choice.

You would be surprised! Enterprise stuff get decomissioned after a set amount of time, it doesn't matter if they still work.

Looking forward to have this in my homelab in 10 years.

They don’t have to be right all the time, just enough to make ROI positive.

The engineer that developed AirDrop released an unofficial update because Apple would not support older Mac despite it was developed and tested on that very machine: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/gYXcHRGP4d

If that’s not planned obsolescence I don’t know what it is.

Context: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-la...