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> That's not the market. Mobile Software in general is the market.

Now who's making up arbitrary markets?

> Other than it's not needed, as there is competition in the digital marketplace.

Apple allows no other app stores on its platform. There is no competition.

> Again, Apple does not have a monopoly. Android still exists.

Android is not allowed on Apple's hardware or in Apple's ecosystem.

> I love when one side of a discussion is completely wrong and is not contributing to the discussion.

So instead of a discussion you just want others to agree with your perspective otherwise, to you, they're "not contributing." So essentially to you there are two types of conversations: An echo chamber (contributing) or disagreement (not contributing).

You're right, I'm not contributing to your echo chamber by having the audacity of disagreeing with your baseless opinion presented as fact.
>Why are you copying and pasting?

Rephrasing the same thing, while refusing to understand terms with clear formal definitions, is not that different from copying and pasting.
They are not forced to use Apple's payment infrastructure, as evidence that they have the ability to sign up through the website.
It's a widely-held misconception of antitrust law that it only applies to a de facto monopoly. Antitrust laws in the US tend to deal more with anticompetitive behavior that abuses a dominant position in the marketplace – by a business with or without a monopoly.

The question then becomes not "does Apple have a monopoly," which it obviously does not, but rather "is Apple abusing its position in the marketplace," which leads to the much trickier question of where to draw the line between legitimately using a dominant position and abusing it.
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Including Apple's?
Actually, I planned on writing a blog post on this at some point. I work at Hired, and we had an interview process to determine who (internally) would become the next manager. This involved three interviews with engineers, and a presentation with management.
Can Android install firmware without carrier approval? I know that they've structured things so many updates can be installed without a true firmware update but I was under the impression the carrier restrictions still existed in some form.
They are not forced.

I signed up for Spotify through their website. I pay Spotify, not Apple, and maintain my account separately. In that transaction, Apple's only fee to Spotify was my minute share of their 99/year developer account. I have the same arrangement with Dropbox, Box, Harvest, etc.

However, if you want to allow user's to sign up through your iOS app directly, and you're solely delivering digital content, your only option is to use IAP. And with IAP, Apple gets 30%.

Why?

Because Apple feels that they are responsible for a. delivering a consumer to you, b. enabling you to deliver digital content to that user and c. ultimately that your relationship with that customer is predicated on that consumer's relationship with Apple.

For that, they ask for, in the first year, a 30% cut of your revenue.

If you feel that is too high, you are welcomed to get user's to sign up for an account for your service without using IAP. Many, many companies do that. And they do just fine.

Spotify, by trying to inject a "clever" "sign up" form, that doesn't actually collect money, but snags the consumers email address and THEN asks them for money, is attempting to leverage Apple's relationship and good works for free, without doing the requisite work themselves.

IF Apple did not allow service-based applications that did not utilize IAP on the store at all, people on Spotify's side of this would be right.

Apple incurs 100% of the costs of Apple Music. They develop the platform it is hosted on, they nurture the customer relationship, and they incur all costs in regards to support and infrastructure. Apple does not charge Apple Music a 30% fee because Apple is already paying that 30% fee through the ongoing costs of all their other business units.
Apple counterattacked on Friday to the claims of Spotify
See my other comment here for how I understood it. Note "for any N > N0 = 100" in the article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12019762
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I think you're absolutely right, in general, but I've been at Facebook for 5 years now, and the one thing I'll say about it is that once you establish a track record of 1) doing good work and 2) making good long-term decisions, that trumps any considerations around level. The culture is definitely such that the very senior folks (Director++) will value trust over level, so it's very much "influence over authority."

Personally, this has lead to me getting messed with my managers ~never, which is a very high-order bit in my work happiness.
Since you use Snow Crash as an example, I'd suggest Neuromancer as an example instead, because of its first line:

> The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

It's a fascinating question if Gibson would update it if he could. Particularly in light of experiments like Agrippa [1]

It's a fascinating line because of the combination of how quick the change was and how it hasn't become outdated on the surface (yet), but is more insidiously changing the interpretation.

(P.S., nobody suggest this to George Lucas...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_(A_Book_of_the_Dead)
How about someone in the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc, discussing or storing something top secret on a computer connected to the internet. This is pretty much the same thing as just leaving the document out in public, right? </sarcasm>
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Sounds like a classic abusive boyfriend. "You pointed out security flaws? Look what you made me do. You made me fire these workers."
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The 30% doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that Apple prevents you from passing that cost on to your customers. You're not allowed to have your regular price be X and your Apple price be X+30%. That's what's anticompetitive to me.

Apple is saying "we're providing a value-add, pay us" but not allowing developers to price it in to their balance sheet.
It's interesting to compare what Facebook does with how Galois organizes itself. They just published a blog post about how many traditional management functions are handled on a rotating basis—instead of having people who always manage, they have individual researchers and engineers step up to lead efforts on specific projects. This general approach even extends to firm-wide management (via a "Jedi council") and finding new clients.

https://galois.com/blog/2016/06/undirector-of-engineering/

Galois is a private research lab/consulting firm that specializes in high-assurance computing relying heavily in programming language techniques and Haskell. I mostly know about them because they publish a whole ton of cool tools for security, low-level programming and verification. They also seem like a wonderful place to work partly because they're tackling fascinating, research-level problems and partly because the internal culture seems like something fundamentally special.
I'm guessing you have an agenda and that you've had your apps rejected from both the app store and from Play.
There's a Brazillian company (Semco) that's like this supposedly, but I have to wonder how they're doing today with so much of the company involved with energy.
Re specs downsides

The wisdom from old days was to use relatively, simple, formal languages that were easy to train people on and use. B, Z, and TLA had good results plus lasted over time. The other thing was to do English spec, formal spec, and code side-by-side with each team looking for inconsistencies. The developers usually picked up the basics of the technique rather quickly but at least one specialist was always necessary to make first use go smoothly.

So, that's still my recommendation. A subset of those, especially focusing on states and contracts, done in same fashion against English specs and clear code should take lower work than going all Isabelle, NuPRL, or PVS on a problem. Second application is also always easier. Reuse where possible helps as with code.

So, some difficulties and training but probably easier than some frameworks, etc IT people learn today.
> Not in the legal sense of the word, so no.

Since that hasn't been ruled on, we won't know that until it has.

> It's "only a company dictates the rules/has near total share/control of the general market".

That's a strange definition, but even taking it, the market has yet to be defined by a court. As I've said elsewhere courts have already expanded competition law into securities, they literally declared it a market allowing them to use anti-monopoly controls.
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This is true, but not everyone wants decision making power. Some people want to be promoted simply for more money, or to feel a sense of progression. While there are flaws to this approach, it's nice to let people continue to get more compensation and recognition without forcing them into managing people and making broader decisions if that's not something they want to do or have a talent for.
CCPs can certainly help prevent a reoccurrence of what happened with Lehman Brothers, where, unlike the Treasury, the market didn't know that Lehmans net exposure was relatively small (~$6bn if I recall correctly) compared to the hundreds of billions worth of derivatives it had written, and therefore were scared that if they kept extending credit, they'd be left holding the can if Lehmans went under.

Under the new regulatory regime, a re-run of the 2008 financial crisis would have engendered far less FUD and Lehmans could well have survived. Nobody would have been scared that Lehmans' potential inability would have represented an existential threat to their firm because only the CCPs would have been exposed. (This is a gross simplification but you get the point.)

However, as the article makes clear, the counterparty risk is now all concentrated in just a few CCPs. We also don't know how the market will evolve after central clearing becomes mandatory. The markets have a habit of behaving with a certain ruthless efficiency when it comes to exploiting loopholes or opportunities created by regulation so, like the army that prepares for the last war, the new regulatory regime may not protect against emergent market risks and behaviours.
Definitely a classic. I've been using "spits in the coat" for a long time, e.g. "[local coffee roaster] spits in Starbucks' coat."

You can play a related game with Google Translate. Start with a phrase in say, English, then translate to, say, Chinese, then Russian, then... and finally back to English. The results are often amusing, and generally become more bizarre the more languages there are in the intervening chain. Going back and forth with non-Indo-European languages seems to make the phrase diverge from its original semantics more quickly.
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Once HDR headsets come out, you won't even need to be near a beach to do that ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3w408o/valve_create...
It's accurate.

http://electrek.co/2016/07/01/understanding-fatal-tesla-acci...
I think that government mandated minimum quality of life for the animal. Space, roaming, feed, water etc.
Any presentation tool worth using has a presenter mode where on your primary display you see things like the current slide, your notes, a timer, the upcoming slide, etc.
Yeah, but it gets into murky waters in jobs with no clear definition of work hours.
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Heh right. Maybe a new it hub? who knows?

Thanks for the report. Fixed.
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One thing we do is have ICs interview leadership/management candidates. This is a piece of signal we're always looking for.
Professional responsibility doesn't supersede social responsibility and personal responsibility.

I already have to make decisions and produce value. If a company is paying me, I will choose to be more tolerant of making such decisions as part of that company's processes and with consideration to that company's needs. However, payment does not obligate me to serve those things. At least, not morally.
That would be intensely political. Rally your mates to give you a good rating.
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Do like the nissan.com dude did. You have the domain and no one will ever take it from you. Tarnish their reputation is they are unethical.
Yeah that's the term he uses.
Quite possibly he's retained a lawyer and has been advised to stop communicating with you. Do you have a clear outline of ownership through contracts?

Also, is your meeting on July 4th...?
Where any decision stands on a range between good and bad is a subjective judgement.
It's impressive how much time of our careers was spent sitting in front of a particle cannon.
I'm curious, for the people in this thread who think Apple is within their rights, would you buy a DVD player that only played DVDs purchased through their own store, charged 30% to list in the store, and disallowed companies setting a different price that covers the 30% fee?
Think of it whatever you want - I for example would have also preferred DuckDuckGo as the default - but presumably, Mozilla can utilize money to do good. Therefore, it's perfectly possible that they figured they could do more good with the money from the Yahoo!-deal than they would have done by instead making DuckDuckGo the default.
To me, this is no different than someone from Toyota demanding I tell them where I'm going, who I'm going with and for how long every time I drive somewhere because I drive a Toyota and those are the terms.

Google is kinda like having a psycho girl/boy-friend that wants to know your every move. Creepy.
No, we really don't.

The same things hold true for the non-digital age. If you open a store you can do everything you want in it (within the law of course, can't e.g. refuse to serve blacks), specify how you want it to be run, and sell or not sell whatever you like.

Doesn't matter if it serves millions or billions (e.g. McDonalds), as long as there are other vendors with a large aggregated share selling the same goods, you're not a monopoly.

Nor does it make sense to.

This essentially boils down to: Apple built the iPhone, and they've built iOS SDK, and they've build the App Store, but I, who didn't have anything to do with creating those, want to go there are sell stuff and not be bound by any rules Apple dictates.

Sure, one could say "that would be better for the customers", but it's not the customer's store. It's Apples (or Google's, etc).

If you want to sell in it, it means you see value in what Apple built (and possible profit for you), but yet you don't want to pay the requested price for this value -- and you feel entitled that you don't have to either.
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As for calendar and contacts you could pay for a provider who hosts them for you, usually with email. Unless that's not enough and want to get more self-hosted route, not just Google-free.
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There was a time I had on my desk a 21 inch Sony CRT that degaussed every monitor within 6 feet along with itself.
There is no formal definition for what we're discussing, that's the entire point. A market has no fixed definition, it is up to a court to define it.

It was a copy/paste, they changed literally one word, and ignored my response to that same point above.
They do that to prevent this scenario:

You use them to advertise your site where customers can get a discount if you bail from the app store and buy from you directly. So many developers would try that oh so clever trick that they already know better in advance.

Unless you're one of the anomalies who actually does a better job at driving traffic to your apps than they can, it makes no sense to complain about this.
Well briefly...

1. Apple's market share is a lot lower than Android worldwide but since Apple's customers are disproportionately wealthier with a higher willingness to spend, it would be suicidal for Spotify the iOS user base - especially in the U.S. If Spotify degrades iOS users service that will just push them to Tidal, Apple Music, Rhapsody, etc.

As far as getting exclusive content, do you really think Spotify has either the money or the marketing power to out compete Apple? Apple can market a musucian both on iTunes (pay per song) and Apple Music. The only way you can listen to a certain artist on Spotify is by paying a monthly fee - the free service will only let you shuffle a playlist.
> I generally like HBR articles, but it's very annoying to end up deleting HTML nodes because of their stupid menu bars and x articles left notice.

Safari reader or Readability is your friend.
I'm from Canada, we celebrate July 1st instead of 4th.
We haven't incorporated, only a partnership agreement.

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I can't believe that the right interpretation of what he said. He must have known what the actual FLT meant. Furthermore, it would go against the mathematical tradition of what it means to "think that a conjecture is true". Compare with RH, for example: when people say it's probably true they absolutely do not mean it's true for all small numbers, in part because there are built-up areas of mathematics that depend on it being exactly true. Besides, brute-force search is a pretty terrible algorithm (in general), so finding out that it fails on a particular problem isn't that interesting.
> The relationship between self, unit and company is much too complex for a linear ranking of their priorities to be useful in anything but vacuous statements.

Nicely put.
If a hacker will write something about hacking on Hacker News, he will receive lot of downvotes. True story.
Happens all the time. Time isn't as solid as it used to be.
Usually A/B testing one would think
* "Influencer" - you can say that well respected technical people have as much influence as management - but if you spend most of your day coding you don't have the same information about the organisation so you just won't know there are decisions being made that you can influence. Management is like politics - it is a full time job.

* at some point companies need to become more democratic. Yes "influencers" should be involved in these discussions, and management should almost be the press - letting people know these decisions are underway.

* I personally think if we spend more time writing good discussion documents around our projects we will be able to write good discussion documents about our organisations
To be fair...

it's China. It didn't HAVE a consumer class. Whatever "consumer class" it has to speak of, was developed over the last 15 years or so. And it's not much of a "consumer class" as "consumer classes" go. For instance, it's still not large relative the total population, and the savings rate of members of the "consumer class" is still through the roof.

So I think your real question is...

"How can it DEVELOP its 'consumer class'?"