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It's not Google. It's me.

Apple values my blood sweat and tears at $0.99/user/lifetime - 30% Apple tax - government taxes.

I don't mean to compare it to a sweat shop, because I live in the first world and have opportunities, but this is a demeaning shakedown and devaluation of my pride, product, and work.

Apple:

1. Shifted where generic computing happens

2. Downplayed the web as the end-all, be-all of application delivery. (It could have been amazing with WASM and sandboxing back in the 00's!)

3. Prevents generic apps from gaining distribution outside of Apple's control and tax

They took advantage of open source, the web, and the Internet. Then they shit on it and offered up the App Store protection racket as salvation.

It's only one of several themes where the giants of today crush the little guy. Computing is less free today than it was a decade ago.

Before Apple I had reach and distribution. Now I have less than 50% of that. And I don't have liberty and control over my own narrative anymore.
No, but I don't understand the relevance, much less why a developer would do that (or why Apple would ask for it)?

Of course a developer could just raise prices elsewhere to make the cost equal to that on iOS if they raised the price to include Apple's 30% cut, but the problem would remain.
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You can choose not to give your kids your credit card. My kids ask for lots of things I'm not prepared to do and I say "no".
I'm speaking specifically in the context of the riots we've been seeing over the last few months. To my knowledge the Stonewall riots did not result in the widespread destruction of uninvolved parties, vandalism, arson, etc. (there was some). It was a much smaller scale than what we're seeing now, which I think plays a part. It also had clear, actionable wants, something I think the recent movement lacks.

To answer your question, no I don't think every part of the Stonewall riots were moral or justified, but to some degree the end justifies the means and we look at it historically through that lens.
I want to start reading "Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History", which covers the now failed anti-trust system in the United States, but I am worried for my blood pressure, as it covers many other ways in which our government almost exclusively works for its corporate owners.

We may think of how Europe deals with big business as extreme and radical, but it's only because we got so far away from the reasonable middle ground of big money and citizenry coexisting without f---ing each other over.
I think the primary focus of differential privacy is that "the spice must flow". They need to keep collecting and using this data.
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I’m fine with a gated App Store, and the store has real benefits and real costs and it makes sense to charge developers for that.

But Apple needs to align the charges more closely with the benefits and costs.

Charge developers for costs they incur. Make the benefits opt-in and charge them for that too. And let them go their own way if they don’t want to opt-in.
Worth noting that that's obsolete. Canonical has since walked back on 32-bit apps being available in Ubuntu, and as a result Valve as brought Steam back to Ubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/valve-confrims-steam-lin...
Usual unoptimized speed may be ~23MiB/s for SD card for example.
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Apple is in a constant state of being involved in lawsuits, though of course not all are of the same significance. Their legal team has a lot on their plate.
New Zealand has just had to quarantine 1/3 of their population, again, because of 4 cases. Until the virus is contained everywhere you will yo-yo between closing everything and opening it.

Unless we build a wall around every developing country this will be going on for years.

The economy can bounce back from one quarantine, can it bounce back from 12?
You totally can do that with private APIs, the issue now is that it won't got through review.

The larger issue though is that Apple will probably break those apps frequently as private API has no guarantees.
Great quote and great person. And how her life ended is a good indicator that what I wrote isn't nonsense. But I actually meant it in a more present day technical and less all-out fascism way. Still, the principles remain the same.
This is pretty much the whole legal theory of locked-down devices. Since you own them you're free to whatever you like to the hardware including breaking any locks preventing you from running your own software on them. But the vendor has no obligation to help, or support you in doing this.

This is pretty much the whole reason the GPLv3 exists.
The bubble some people live in..
Spotify had created a dedicated website for similar reasons.

https://www.timetoplayfair.com/
> So after your app has been on the store for more than a year, Apple's fee falls to 15%.

That's not how it works.

I doubt Epic would be making much complaint for 15% (since the app has been out more than a year). They suggest 12% after all.

The 15% is for subscriptions and nothing else. And it's on a per-user basis.
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Adding solar or wind seems pretty linear to me. As the % goes up past 20 you need various mitigations, but each set of mitigations is fairly small, and better tech keeps popping up.
But does that matter when they have milions of people in that marked. Isn't that a size where it really shouldn't matter anymore if there is another similar bigger marked?

Also for some serivces iOs users are the large majority, like more or less any "real premium" service (Like apps you have to pay 10 or so+$ a month or 100+$ when buying them).
The best explanation I
got was that covalent bonds are weaker in hot water than cold.
Market equilibrium !== collusion and it's difficult to tell them apart.
I've always imagined that hot water would also preferentially smooth the surface, melting any high spots, deep cuts, or granular ice that might have survived the zamboni.
That's a software limitation, not a hardware limitation. An iPhone is also a general purpose computer that is limited (to a lesser extent ) by the software.
That's how I felt like when I got the Google+ class action lawsuit email. Potential payout of $12... oh ok, thanks. I guess that also fixes similar problems in the future?
Yes, I think a lightweight servo/webrender cross platform UI toolkit a la Electron would offer a fast stable core to build any number of apps, including an IDE.
Okay so fb has 180 days to remove the equipment. What's the problem?
In what way has Epic ever been obnoxious?

From spending millions on free developer resources, to retroactively making products free, to having an owner who's invested millions in conservation, it's so bizarre that it's popular to hate Epic.

I think their biggest mistake in the public's perception was daring to challenge Steam's semi-monopoly on PC distribution
The existing iOS devices that have the app installed seem fine unless Apple disables the certificate. So, it won't be no sales on iOS; just no new user sales.
Acid rain.

Industrial pollution largely from coal combustion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
> The internet is reasonably open and accessible on iOS, but utilizing the full capability of an iOS device requires the App Store.

As it should be. If people want open and crazy, then they can flounder around on the web and try to get it to do what native apps do. That's their problem and Apple shouldn't have to bend over backwards to support that route. Developers get to make a choice - make a web app, or make a native app that gets all the benefits of Apple's curated ecosystem. As a consumer and developer, I'll take the latter any day. Others feel differently, and can choose Android.
imagine if you favourite drug dealer was part of an organisation, and had to pay his cut... oh wait...
So why don’t I owe 30% to apple when I receive a payment through a qr code shown by my banking app?

Let’s be honest here, the rules of the app store are arbitrary and designed to extract the maximum amount of revenue from the ecosystem, within the limits of what apple thought people would put it with. Turns out they may have miscalculated.
I wish we wouldn't just say "Apple" and could name the teams and individuals responsible for such strategies.

Surely there are customers and employees who deserve better. And we deserve better too as a society than to place blame on made up entities that we can't address as the root cause, so we keep repeating the same mistakes... when someone somewhere is actually doing these idiotic, destructive things.
I have a vivid memory of being taught this in 2nd grade, probably because it seemed (and still seems) extremely counterintuitive. I think the intuition given was that hot water is less dense than cold water, so the coldness can more easily permeate through the liquid (I imagine a vein-like pattern). Something like that.

At least according to Wikipedia, it seems that it’s a bit more complex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

Anyways, I’ve been repeating this fact for 2.5 decades, so shout out to my teacher for blowing my young mind.
Also, perhaps I’m mistaken, but the majority of Epic Games is owned by Tim Sweeney. Meanwhile, TikTok majority is owned by ByteDance, which I don’t think we can confidently believe is truly a separate, sovereign entity from the CPC. And all this is somewhat besides the point; Apple is clearly more dependent on TikTok (China) than Epic Games.
20 years ago Microsoft used APIs that competition didn’t know about. Seems like history is repeating itself.
Though I'm glad it is still ultimately getting recycled, I could see this having a negative impact on the rural, independent sites that the general public relies on. Would hate to see those go away. Then people would just throw more into the trash.
The whole undergraduate system in the US needs dismantling and rebuilding. it is costly, wasteful, discriminatory and largely about signaling than any skills.

https://medium.com/swlh/y-combinator-not-lambda-school-is-un...
The fact that they are starting to put resources behind Proton instead of Ubuntu/SteamOS is in fact a clear indication that they have given up on games written natively for Linux.
But Ferrari does forbid you from painting your own car: https://mashable.com/2014/08/30/ferrari-deadmau5-cease-and-d...
I particularly left them out because it is insanely difficult to find any real stats on what the rate of lingering effects of COVID might be. The only thing we know, is the effects only manifest for seriously symptomatic patients.

Of course, in case of substantial rate of effects post illness, my comment would be rendered entirely invalid.
It could be the same.

I always learned the explanation as:
1. Cool to freezing via evaporation. Because this goes as T^4, the time difference is negligible to reach 0°C. But...hot water loses more volume.
2. Freeze, bit now you need less energy to freeze less material.

I did this at home, and the simple check worked: volume was lower in the frozen hot water.

This explanation might be wrong! But it works out in simple tests and mathematically.
Are you worried about your children living on the streets? Because for 1/3rd of people this is a reality when the federal money stops flowing.
How is that higher than what the OP said? If anything, it's lower.
Try playing Minecraft between your non-Windows 10 PC and anything mobile, or between anything and a Mac.
That's exactly what Epic just tried to do and what got them kicked off of the app store.
You seriously think Epic will magically cut down the price of their fake digital items by 30% once Apple gives them up? No, they're going to go straight into their pocket.
I was going to comment Twitter != legislature.

But uhm, fuck us right?
If I combine apples and sauce I don't necessarily get applesauce. It is a clever linguistic trick but you are not helping by making such a disingenuous argument. Juxtaposition of terms in frequently used combinations can have a different meaning than terms used separately.
You must be pretty young then.
This is both amusing and actually feasible
We maintain a custom internal Docker image that everyone uses for their JupyterLab needs to make this manageable; that way, we only have to get everything to work once, and everyone else can just docker pull :latest and be good. It's become a rather large image, since it needs to have everything anyone uses, but for a small-ish team, this has worked well for about two years or so now.

Another upside: There is a GCP gcloud one-liner to start a VM for a given Docker image, and the image is designed to work both locally and in a GCP VM, with notebooks in a git repository that gets checked out automatically on container creation, so switching from laptop to 16-core VM to churn through a large dataset from a bucket is pretty seamless.
And paid devs who were previously planning Linux releases for exclusivity on their Windows/Mac-only store.
Oh would you look at that! Thanks for the correction
Thank you for getting the zamboni song stuck in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkJbvv3pHg
This will become impossible in future releases.
They've made about $500 mil off of it in 2018 - https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/12/apple-pay-revenue/

Heading to a billion and beyond in the next couple of years.
The concern is that climate change will also remove modern medicine and technology (and food, and water) for a huge number of people.
I'm not a lawyer but I would assume TOSes are basically irrelevant in antitrust cases due to the nature of the case.
Apple's smartphone market share in US is almost 50% according to the numbers I see, how is that small?
They have been working towards just that, and may manage it eventually.
Couldn’t you make a similar argument against your employer, Playstation?

It seems like they charge the same 30% for roughly the same product — a locked platform to run applications where they take a cut of everything including micro-transactions?
That's exactly what they did though[0]. They offered a 20% discount if you use the Epic payment system on iOS, and continued to offer items at the normal price through Apple's payment system. This is what got them kicked off of the app store.

0. https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...
A certain dynamite-throwing villain would rightly point out here that "hey, as long as it works".
You're getting downvoted but this is a legitimate response. Epic tried pulling out of Google Play, but due to the number of gates a user has to go through to install an app from outside Play, they ultimately had to add it back.
Sums up the general Android population
It isn't only the government, it's a significant minority of the population nationally; and at a local level it can approach significant majority.

A Marion County Florida Sheriff ordered that staff and visitors to his office cannot wear masks. That order is uncivilized behavior. The state governor should have removed him from power. People speeding on roads get sanctioned more, for being less of a menace to society.

At least the kooks who wear masks to have Zoom conference calls aren't subjecting anyone to risk their health or life.
Because the only legal avenue to challenge Apple's policies is anti-trust law, and because Apple doesn't have a monopoly, it's hard to argue against them on anti-trust grounds.
I see the duplicate threads but am out hiking today and can't merge them (that's a laptop job). Sorry all. Maybe someone can list the discussions.
Totally inaccurate biased unofficial statistics:

USA: 60%

Rest of America: 5%

Europe: 15%

Other: 20%

(That's why we get a post about the Super Bowl in the front page each year.) YYMV. Hi from Argentina!
You can also choose not to give your kid access to IAPs on your iPhone. What % Apple takes is a moot point if they're taking it from $0.
No. There's no check for Cydia or other Debian Package frontends that are there to void your warranty or stop you from downloading cracked apps (they very well could do this). They only patch the security vulnerabilities that are actually used to break out of the app sandbox and run arbitrary code, something that, as we can see with Epic's Fortnite app, could be RCE'd into an app without Apple knowing. These vulnerabilities can and have been used by actual malware in the past[0], so Apple fixing them in iOS is a legitimate security measure.

0: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/10/checkrain-click-f...
I mean the Librem 5 "works" in the way you describe.

I don't think you're going to really be able to reliably avoid the problem that very very very few people outside of AOSP are doing any work on OSS for phones.
Evidence from other countries suggests that there is no way of getting this under control and returning to normal, and it wouldn't save the economy anyway. Europe is seeing a resurgence of cases, previous success story South Korea is stuck unable to reopen without a similar resurgence and with no path to eliminating the disease, even the latest remaining success stories Vietnam and New Zealand discovered the hard way that their belief they'd eradicated the disease was an illusion after it had spread unimpeded. And even countries which have managed to dodge much of the direct economic damage have suffered a huge amount of indirect damage from the entire rest of the world shutting down.

Edit: I can't reply due to rate limiting, but you can't just dismiss the resurgences of cases in Europe because the absolute number of cases is small now - this is exponential growth with a rather alarming exponent, and that always starts out small until it isn't. Remember, it takes the same amount of time to go from say 1 to 2 cases per 10k as from 15 to 30.
This is also a security vulnerability: one decision by Apple, or by a court of law in a far-away country, and an app is gone from your phone. You lose access to the data held by this app.

Easy, reliably DoS -- and the user has no means of fixing this vulnerability, other than rooting the phone and hacking around. Which is made ever less feasible.
YouTube has negotiated a deal that allows this, as did Amazon Video and a few others. Only huge companies can do this, which further makes the argument that what Apple is doing is abusive.
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Epic has the massive financial war chest to see this through, though. If anyone can afford to push this through the legal process, it's Epic.
Just wonder when google group will be gone and the discussion disappear ...
Tim Apple Goldstein.
The answer is that an electrical motor can also be a generator. An electrical motor when a current is applied causes it to rotate. When power is drawn from a rotating motor it generates a counter-torque proportional to the power extracted. Not perfectly efficient of course and there are still resistive and inductive losses but that means less energy dissipation by friction. This synergies beautifully with an electrical power system in boosting overall efficiency.
How is that different from just licensing as GPL, and offering to purchase a dual license for private projects?
Windows as a library, what's not to love? This gamer cares whether the games run, not about nativity.
Thanks! That's really interesting to see that only 2 of your list (around adding and pulling) were on my radar as git usability issue, and not even in my top five!

The third one is a bit unclear to me:

> looking at the commit history and copying individual commit hashes

What do you mean exactly by that?
That's not the point though. Apple wants 30% regardless of what service you offer. While it's understandable (to a degree) for the app itself, it's not for something you purchase in the app.

Fortnite money has nothing to do with Apple. If they would only charge the processing fee and whatnot there would be no debate. Compare it to paying Apple for subscribing to Netflix/Spotify/Amazon. What is their accomplishment in this case?
If I buy a fridge from Walmart I can still put groceries that I bought from another store in it.
I also don't understand why the employer would consider it. Think of what would happen if the employee quit, was fired, became incapacitated or died:

- The employer wouldn't have access to the repository that contained their intellectual property.

- The employee would still have access to the employer's intellectual property.

If there was litigation, it would be difficult to explain to a court that some of this stuff belongs to the employer but the rest belongs to the employee. The employer might end up owning all of it.
Oh man, you put this into words so well exactly what I have been thinking. We have a justice system that has massive problems, and there is very little change or improvement happening. Confidence in the system is at all time lows. It's not surprising that in these circumstances people are going to look elsewhere for whatever justice they can find.
Agreed. Note that IBM could not even dream of doing what Apple has done with the App Store. They had only just finished off their monopoly lawsuit in 1982...
You can lobby the municipal government for it, vote for it in the local elections, etc. You will probably end up with a system like Switzerland's. Read on it, it is an interesting system, with taxed garbage bags and more granular waste categories.

But most people, and by extension their governments, seem to prefer the simpler system that is popular elsewhere in the world. Changing the electorate's mind might be an uphill battle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management_in_Switzerlan...
Until there's an update.
I don't think so; the situation of copying the posted price can easily trigger a price war. It is not stable, unless someone is designated as the price master, and the others are slaves. That's the only thing which can explain that the prices can go wildly up and down, yet in lock step.

Everyone acting in complete independence, simply copying everyone else, cannot lead to stability, let alone the durable, persistent lock-step stability that is seen.
This piece is not as thorough as my vitamin D & COVID-19 review: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/ or its 1-page bullet-point summary: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19facts/

A lot of words on correlation != causation without noting any of the causal evidence. Even my 1-pager highlights the obvious responses to this over-used inequality:

1. RCTs show D supplements effective against respiratory infection (Martineau BMJ'17: 25 RCTs, now updated as preprint expanded to ~40RCTs covering ~30,000 people.

2. Causal evidence D is protective against lung injury (in rats) related to ACE2.

3. D extends lifespan in worms (which don't have bones), and we all know how much of a risk factor age is for C19. [This one not in my 1pager, only the full review.]

4. The number of plausible biological mechanism arguments is very large and expanding. See Linda Benskin's excellent review for the most comprehensive review of that evidence up through mid-June. More recently, the active form has been shown to have direct action against SARS-CoV-2.

5. Causal inference model shows that D's effect on C19 is causal [Davies et al].

6. Mendelian randomization shows that the correlations that would need to explain its data are far fetched (eg, systematic racism is worse in the US the farther north you go, by more than 5x) [De Smet et al]

7. Controlled intervention trial shows benefit from D+mag+B12 [Chuen Wen Tan et al]

I don't talk about it in my reviews, but there is also a set of guidelines for when you can infer causation from observational data called Hill's criteria and one paper did apply that to D related data and the evidence so far met all the criteria.

Long pieces that try to create uncertainty around vitamin D in the context of COVID-19 by repeatedly questioning the correlational data without noting any of the relevant causal evidence are far too common these days, and a bit irresponsible at this point.

Karl