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I actually left Android for Apple because I can't stomach Google's hoovering up the entire world's data, but honestly I've gotten to the point that at least Google is the devil you know. I can do things on Android et al to control how much data Google gets about me. I can do nothing about Apple controlling how I am allowed to use my insanely expensive device.

A few years ago it didn't matter so much. Apple's deal had its foibles, but recently they've gone full evil and I am seriously looking at my next device being Android and getting my entire family off Apple.

The problem is that will bring with it months of "did I lose something?" and having to keep both phones around. I have resisted for a long time, it is not an easy process.
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On the other hand I suspect Boomers and Gen X are the ones actually purchasing the devices Gen Z own, not least of all for the many “family” features/restrictions. Enough parents have either had or heard of crazy games-related credit card charges they could view this positively.
I think I’m completely fine with Apple doing this.

It’s a clear violation of the TOS and Epic clearly knows that. They likely also knew well before making the update and perhaps thought Apple would bluff and only threaten a take down. Platforms aren’t free.
came here to say this. the headline for this finding is almost always misleading.
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Sure, but I was talking about subscriptions, but I hear your point.

What I'm trying to show is that once you accept zero is not reasonable (and most rational people accept this) and then explore the actual $$ difference between what Apple charges and what you think is reasonable, the differences are really small. Normally when I ask folks this, the difference comes in between 0.05 and a $2 depending on the purchase price. For a 0.99 app we're talking about $0.05-0.20 difference. Life is too short for folks to get worked up about that small of a price difference.
Sure what they have in common is:

- A general purpose hardware with specific less general purpose hardware extensions.

Where they differ:

- By default allowing "mostly" any legal kind of software, but then putting absurd constraints on it.

- By default only allowing games and some multimedia and maybe then putting absurd constraints on it (maybe because idk tbh).

I.e. even with apples constraints iOs operates as a general purpose platform while XBox/PS5/Switch do not.
"Choice" is not defined as "the easiest thing to do", strangely enough. I'll admit, I'm a bit surprised to see this idea that the US government should mollycoddle all of its citizens through life on HN.

I've spent orders of magnitude more money on my console and the games I bought for it than I've ever spent on any app store. Where is all the outrage over Microsoft or Sony or Nintendo's oh so hideous monopolistic practices?
This literally exists and is commonplace in commercial real estate. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/percentage-lease.asp
Android allows developers to integrate Stripe and take customer's credit cards and bypass the 30% cut.

Yet, many apps choose have direct Play Store purchases, since that convenience might translate to a higher conversion rate.

Android also allows third party apps to be installed.

Your argument doesn't hold up in light of all of this.
I don't see the problem, Epic explicitly went around the app store's payment process and terms of service. It's within Apple's right to pull Fortnite. They are also suing Apple as well.

Why should Epic get a “special arrangement” from all other developers?

If you don't like the terms, then don't be on the Apple App store, but of course your missing a huge swath of the population thus the 30% fee. Being on the App store is essentially unlimited marketing and exposure for your app. Cost of doing business.
Apple leverages user ignorance to create their demand-side app store monopoly. That's the entire point.
This is less weird that it might seem on the surface. If you've ever commissioned an expensive peiece of art there's usually a line in the contract that says something to the effect of "if the art is damaged, you will give $artist preference for repair" because if you get it shoddily fixed it looks bad on them.
If you have an iPhone the Appstore is unquestionably a monopoly. At least Google can make the case you can install other app stores so the monopoly claim is weaker.
Majority of Republicans are racist given the fact they voted for Trump. I'm not sure how you claim them to be good people.
You gave an example of price fixing, not anti competitive behavior. They don't have to meet up in a secret room either for it to count. If they are constantly adjusting their prices to all be exactly the same, that is illegal in the U.S. as price fixing.
Pretty tiny. Consider that the Apple App Store has infected more users (with Xcodeghost malware) than all the sideloaded apps on Android combined.
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That's a really good example of the opposite, thanks! I wasn't aware of it!
I completely agree that Apple's treatment of developers is terrible, and that Apple should be shining their shoes and thanking them for selling Apple's products for them. At the same time I'm happy that Apple is being strict when developers try to skirt the rules, as I appreciate the rigorously-maintained platform. I seriously appreciate the no-BS treatment of subscriptions, because so many services make unsubscribing a complete nightmare. Whenever there's an option, I will take the App Store subscription over anything else.

If it were up to me, Apple would charge more like 3% and keep all other factors the same in terms of strictly shutting down developers who try to skirt the policies.
Those who would give up freedom over safety something something..

Should every Apple user have to be tied down to Apple Store because kids and grannies can be dummies when downloading apps? Surely it should be easy to put parental controls and block all the dodgy apps and so forth. So things can stay the same for those who wish to remain in the App Store while having the ability to exercise your personal freedom to decide which apps you want to install on a device you own and paid good money for.
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More like "glhf"
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Some of the legitimate contracts do get handed out based on political favors or bribes.

This being said those contracts ensure some legal obligations for the service provider. Everything from providing the recycling bins, to providing service to everyone equally, to providing service consistently. And the recyclables are usually picked up by the same company pickling up the garbage. With that income gone they'd just jack up the prices for the garbage, which I assure you won't be picked up by any scavenger.

You don't want your garbage or recyclables to stay on the street corner for days because the scavengers don't provide any bins, there's no money in garbage pickup, and your recyclables are too small game for them to go out of their way to pick them up. As a city you also don't want to realize one day that they just moved on to even more profitable business elsewhere while heaps of trash are popping up around town.

As with anything, if it's important you want more than just best effort by someone who's anyway just piggy backing on someone else's groundwork.
Also, I still stand by my earlier statement, as [0] was at at least -2 before I originally found it.

I honestly can't understand why it would be downvoted otherwise.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24122834
Apple shouldn’t have to complicate the security and consistency of their device for people who don’t value it. You have a choice, it’s called Android.
I think this is really unfair to OP. Who among us hasn't taken health risks because we enjoy our culture? When I heard about heart disease as the leading cause of death I did not immediately change my diet. I assume many others here did not as well.

And yet isn't not eating bacon a relatively easy step to take so one is around to spend time with family? The answer is not so clear.

One question I have is why you believe lockdowns will help? A vaccine may be approved but it's likely it won't work for obese Americans that make up 40% of the population.

> “Will we have a COVID vaccine next year tailored to the obese? No way,” said Raz Shaikh, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

> “Will it still work in the obese? Our prediction is no.”

> In 2017, scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill provided a critical clue about the limitations of the influenza vaccine. In a paper published in the International Journal of Obesity, they showed for the first time that vaccinated obese adults were twice as likely as adults of a healthy weight to develop influenza or flu-like illness. [0]

This essentially means we are going to have large numbers of cases for the next 3+ years.

[0] https://ctmirror.org/2020/08/09/americas-obesity-epidemic-th...
No energy source [that we've discovered so far] is perfect. All have downsides. Sadly, living in denial of that fact is more popular than ever, but that's a separate topic.

Here are a couple TED talks showing the downside of renewable energy - such as the enormous land usage and reliable energy storage needed to compete with nuclear or fossil.

Why renewables can’t save the planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yALPEpV4w

A reality check on renewables
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o
They prevent jailbreaking by not providing a way to do it.

They additionally prevent jailbreaking by patching vulnerabilities.

Only one of these things is being called out.

You can get into all sorts of theoretical discussions about how if there was a way to do it, they'd be increasing their attack surface since now they have to make sure this path is locked properly when the user doesn't want it, but people act like the only way for jailbreaking to work is for Apple to stop patching 0 days, which is not the case.
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But that’s just like your opinion. People can and do switch phone ecosystems.
> Imagine if your electricity company only allowed 'approved Toasters' on their electric grid, complete with special plugins, and a 30% cut of the device.

You mean like the days when Ma Bell limited the selection of phones that people could choose from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_AT%26T#Monopoly: 'Each phone was leased from AT&T on a monthly basis by customers, who generally paid for their phone and its connection many times over in cumulative lease fees. This monopoly made millions of extra dollars for AT&T, which had the secondary effect of greatly limiting phone choices and styles. AT&T strictly enforced policies against buying and using phones by other manufacturers that had not first been transferred to and re-rented from the local Bell monopoly. Many phones made by Western Electric thus carried the following disclaimer permanently molded into their housings: "BELL SYSTEM PROPERTY — NOT FOR SALE."'
My kids both have Rasberry Pis running Gentoo and we play together, with me on a Mac (my last Mac, 2015 was the peak) via our shared server in the study.
Bell isnt a great example because telephone companies are a "natural" monopoly - it doesnt really make sense to have a dozens of phone lines connected to your house in order for there to be competition in the telephone service market. That's why when it was split up, it effectively was only split up into smaller regional monopolies that didnt really compete with each other.

Smartphone applications aren't the same - but for a couple bits here, and a cryptographic signature there, any software could run on an iPhone.
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I wish I was living in a country where the government takes care of its citizens and makes sure they don't have to worry about losing their jobs or homes because of a global pandemic.
This is far from the first time I've evangelized this paper here on HN... but I think the ideas of the OP and the Naur paper "Programming as Theory Building" have a high degree of overlap. Indeed, at some level, the Naur paper deals with identifying the problem while the OP deals with practices to bridge the knowledge gap identified in the paper.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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You need to have some significant market power (yes, vague) such that your elasticity of demand is steep and elasticity of supply of competitors is steep.

That is not a requirement for antitrust law. That is just some silly threshold the Justice Department set for itself so that it wouldn't have to do its job.

Until the [EDIT: Clinton] administration, businesses were successfully charged with antitrust violations even though in many cases they were minor market participants on the basis of their actions resulting in anti-competitive effects. (Usually as a result of price-fixing agreements between smaller participants.) After the Microsoft case, the DOJ decided to bring "economic analysis" into the mix to "improve" their antitrust practice, and it resulted in the DOJ not pursuing any meaningful antitrust cases at all, on the grounds that basically everything was kosher if you looked at it from a sufficiently macroeconomic perspective. (This also overlapped with the Dubya administration, and there was strong political pressure not to go after American companies.)

Interestingly enough, Apple was the last major antitrust case that the DOJ successfully pursued. (That case involved Apple arranging a price-fixing arrangement for ebooks.)
Molten salt reactors have HUGE technological issues with corrosion. You have to design a material which would contain essentially almost all of Mendeleev's Table at high temperatures and under really powerful neutron flux. And we don't even touch problem of online processing of this salt. Even for BN reactors fuel processing plant is arguably more complex than the reactor design, and for salt reactors this problem even more nightmarish.
I'm interested to see if other companies will join or not. It would be interesting to see if Apple will remove every one of them from App Store or not.

Epic parody of 1984 is epic.
I would even dare to the say that post keynesian economics has been worse for a major part of the population inside a western economy.

Economic growth in and of itself might be better, but how much of the population sees the result of that? basic commodoties like housing and social wellbeing/services are worse, while most of the economic growth seems to be stuck at the top.

Also, having massive growth is simply not sustainable for our planet.

Dire change is needed, the question is what? It seems most major forces in politics are stuck in maintaining the status quo and not thinking long term. Change from that system would be hard to realise, especially in the complete gridlock of american politics.
Yes - in some imaginary world it might be easier to close schools without adverse consequences. But we don't live in that world. We live in one where closing schools has lots of bad short and long term consequences. So acknowledging that we must decide between existing alternatives - not between fictitious ones - what do people want?

Adverse affects of closing schools for a year on 56 million elementary, middle, and high school students? Or maybe 500,000 people dying a bit early (just making numbers up on this one - adjust up or down depending on various factors)? That is not so one-sided obvious as many people on the internet seem to want to make it.
If you put warm water in your ice try, you can get clearer ice near the surface, because the ice will freeze from the top surface instead of from all sides at once trapping bubbles of air with no where to go :D
But why should it be pain-free, though? Or rather, why is it suddenly the government's responsibility to make it pain-free?
I worked for one of the Canadian carriers, and they are only not a monopoly as far as the paper definition is concerned, but in practice they do in fact gather in smoke-filled rooms and decide to screw their customers (your words, not mine). They are also very good at pretending they don't.

Apple on the other hand has created an infrastructure to enable a billion interconnected devices, and they are now charging a fee to operate. They are not colluding or preventing competition, they are simply saying there's a price to play, and it's 30%.

It's natural that Fortnite doesn't want to share their profits, in the same way that Apple doesn't want to be the only ones taking the loses, but every time this question comes up, lots of comments assume Apple should bend over simply because it's bigger and wealthier.
Whenever I see the "something of the something" I always think of anchorman movies and eating bats being the "chicken of the cave".
Probably this, since it's the "Fortnite Font": https://houseind.com/hi/burbank
What personal attack? You are demanding Apple turn the iPhone into the same insecure crapware that is Android. You don’t deserve that choice.
I don't love the closed nature of the Apple App Store when it comes to content.

Don't agree with the platform taking a huge cut of every transaction though

Is it really a "huge" cut?

Putting aside the ethics of Apple's content stranglehold for the moment, the economic side of things seems like a very nice deal -- 30% is not bad compared to various distribution deals (for physical and virtual goods) of which I have some slight familiarity.

Are there distribution platforms that allow you to get your app/product/etc to that many people without taking a cut?

I'm kind of fed up with Apple for a variety of reasons, but this doesn't seem like one of the problems to me.
I think we're close to agreement, but not quite. We're not, after all, guessing at most. For instance, it's pretty unlikely that COVID-19 will cause you to grow three extra feet from your nose within the next 60 years.

There are some things we don't have high certainty on, but our epistemology would be faulty if we ignored how other coronaviruses behave, just like it would be faulty if we ignored how other attenuated viruses behave when we examine if MMR-2 will cause instadeath at age 60.
Nintendo and Sony's monopolistic practices were small enough to be ignored, not Apple's. This is a trillion dollar problem that has no precedent.
I don't understand why people find it necessary to use such manipulative titles. Not only is the term indigenous inherently deceptive and manipulative in it's erroneous use, since, e.g., all the People of India, China, French, German, Dutch, Italian etc. people of Europe are also indigenous cultures; but no one denies that other people do not "have archaeology". Who thinks "indigenous" people do not have archaeology? It seems like such a person would be quite uninformed to say such a thing.

The challenge with a lot of archaeology of "indigenous" people (using the manipulative vernacular) though is that not all cultures and societies advanced enough to produce significant amounts of discoverable artifacts. Fact is simply that you are not going to find, e.g., a lot of Aboriginal artifacts, like you are in Greece, Italy, Egypt, etc. Or, as was the case all throughout the Americas, the hispanics had essentially already eradicated hundreds, if not thousands of years of culture and artifacts as they plundered their way across the continent; which has left very little of what must have been mind boggling and dazzlingly stunning amounts of gold artifacts.

I encourage everyone to read, "The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo Written by Himself", for an amazing accounting of what that era of hispanic plundering of the Americas was like. It will likely surprise you in many different ways.

It comes down to the fact that in spite of what "scientists" may want you to believe, neither can they know things that are negative, nor can one find things that do not or never existed. On a side note, I am very interested in the rather recent significant satellite surveys of the Central American forests that has shown far more extensive man made works than we had known before.

As strange as this may seem, it may even be that the viruses that the hispanics carried to the Americas that eradicated huge numbers of the population, may have also caused whole towns/cities to become suddenly deserted and overgrown, leaving behind covered up time capsules going back 500+ years.
I don't know about others, but I actively do not want my car to download ota updates. I'd highly prefer it to be programmed so well that it doesn't need any patches at all and for the controls to stay the same indefinitely. Actually, a touchscreen in a car is already considered a critical design flaw by me. Give me knobs and dial to tune settings, not some flat surface with zero feedback. If VW can create a car that feels like I'm in a cockpit and doesn't require Internet access, it'd be an instant buy from me.
I don't agree. Millions (maybe even billions) of people user their devices and the country absolutely should regulate their systems. As an extreme example imagine if Apple tomorrow said that all apps have to pay a 95% cut instead of a 30% cut and all customers have to pay $20/month to use Wifi or internet on their iPhone. Obviously this is unlikely to happen but then I would expect the govt. to intervene.

If Apple want to impose rules without any government oversight, they are free to start their own country with their own government and impose their own rules.
It's the influence of post-modern thought; the idea that rationality and the scientific method are fundamentally sculpted by a patriarchal and chauvinistic white male worldview or 'gaze'. From this, post-modernism asserts that no way of knowing can be any better than any other, and that oral tradition and mysticism are equally if not more valid.

I leave it to the readers of HN to judge the validity of this philosophical stance; but one thing that cannot be disputed is that this school of thought is increasingly influencing our culture and politics. It's this epistemological stance that underlaid the much derided NMAAHC poster that attributed 'Emphasis on the Scientific Method' to Whiteness [1]. Indeed if you read modern Critical Race Theory texts there is a great deal of emphasis on oral histories of oppressed peoples, and they are considered more accurate than 'scientific' data, for those data were surely collected by the oppressors. It's also part of the reason why paganism, witchcraft, and the occult are fashionable among many leftists today; they view these ideas as standing in opposition to enlightenment rationality, which they dislike for its perceived privileged underpinnings.

[1]https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1283372233730203651
They may win the battle but still lose the war.

How many companies will look at situations like this and decide not to bother with developing for Apple platforms? I've already stepped back my efforts to support MacOS (I don't target iOS at present). Too many hoops, too much control freakery, and no real comeback if they ever decide that they don't want me to publish on their platform. The balance of power in the relationship is simply skewed too far in favour of them, and a tiny misunderstanding could end my business. These companies have far too much unchecked and unregulated power.
Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, I read Monevator a lot. I actually really like it. It has good content on passive investing.
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Do you think it would be feasible to fund a team of core developers directly by the community? A lot of people love Rust and might bei willing to contribute a small amount of money regularely to keep Rust independent from corporate politics.