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Clarke "invented" it in his 1975 book "Imperial Earth", calling it the "minisec":

"The 'Sec was the standard size of all such units, determined by what can fit comfortably in the human hand. At a quick glance, it did not differ greatly from one of the small electronic calculators that had started coming into general use at the end of the twentieth century. It was, however, infinitely more versatile, and Duncan could not imagine what life would be like without it.
Because of the finite size of clumsy human fingers, it had no more controls than that of its ancestor of three hundred years earlier. There were fifty neat little studs; each, however, had an unlimited number of functions, according to the mode of operation - for the character visible on each stud changed according to the mode. ... The device also had a dictionary function and could hold large amounts of data. It could also communicte with desktop console computers."

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1267
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What are you going to cut? Security? App Review? Are you going to refuse to distribute free apps?

How come Google Play doesn’t cut their fees?
>You can’t make decisions based on unknowns.

What? Of course you can. We know there's potential long term health effects in adults who get COVID-19, there's risk children face the same ones. We don't know how severe or how likely children are to get them (much like in adults), but we can absolutely decide not to take the risk anyway, and keep kids out of schools.
My spouse has no relevant health complications, and has been knocked absolutely FLAT from this. We didn't have to go to the hospital, there were no ventilators involved. But now, almost 4 months later, and they struggle to walk 100 paces, to go upstairs, etc. The risks are more than dying vs not-dying.
There are many tech illiterate people in this world, and many who would be easy prey to someone pulling a scam, getting them to flip that switch.
Agreed it shouldn't be illegal, but Apple (or any hardware / software maker) should be allowed to do everything in their power to make this extremely inconvenient by putting in hardware blocks, bricking logic, updating their software regularly with new obfuscation techniques, etc. and also, voiding the warranty if there is evidence of tampering with hardware or software.
The video also uses the word "monopoly", which plays right into the current anti-trust sentiment. Now's the best time to pull something like this. If I had to guess, Fortnite players probably drive a lot of demand for iPod Touch.
Just thinking how much better this article would have been if Twitter didn't exist.

Despite that, I to find it annoying that all the true mini trucks have disappeared and the author nailed it - larger vehicles are extremely profitable.

Normally competition would solve this, but unfortunately we are left with the chicken tax - that lingers to this day and prevents true competition. Hyundai, Mahindra and many others have very cool mini trucks that the stupid chicken tax is effectively blocking. Lacking competition, the currently entrenched truck makers have all decided to stop producing cheaper trucks and here we are.

https://www.thoughtco.com/chicken-tax-4159747

It's why the Subaru Brat had seats in the bed.

Indeed, that's not the only impact of this inane tariff. I would encourage folks to search themselves - ironically Ford got hit with complications of this stupid law and had to ship vans with seats and then rip them out. It's a perfect exercise of unintended consequences and in general a poster child for why less regulation is often better unless you have a REALLY effective process to iterate and refine over time said regulations.
Apple can be said to be a monopoly according to at least some definitions of monopoly, more precisely, and at the very least - it has a legal monopoly on selling macOS due to copyright.

Since they have a legal monopoly in some sense, it's not completely unreasonable to revisit how actions potentially prohibited by antitrust laws shold interact with legal monopolies. Especially when it comes to devices where changing device mandates you also change almost all apps (Which the legal monopoly profited of.) To sometimes significant cost, and inconvenience.

It's not entirely obvious that simply because Apple isn't the only seller of smart phones, that they can't be involved in anti-competetive behavio, and/or monopolistic behavior.By using their app store to extract considerable revenue by an questionably high transaction cost. It could be obvious because of precedent, but nevertheless, unless that judgement was made in resent years, and with the soaring costs of migrating your digital life, it's only as obvious as you make it to be if you narrow the scope of monopoly for physical to that where a single worldwide monopoly is the only business there is.

One can be safe to say that in penning the dictionary definition of monopoly, the author was probably not considering entire markets that would fit in a pocket, and where the good purchased in the market can only be used on the pocket device, and impossible to extract from the market to use in another setting!

Neither did likely the lawmakers.
The article says that parents are 5x as worried about C19 than about paying their mortgage. They're 1/5th as worried about the possible deaths of their family members as they are about their mortgage, which suggests that they, too, are very concerned about the economy.
The Xbox allows side loading. Not sure about PS.
Great analogy. I always get annoyed when I end up on caniuse and Safari sticks out like a sore thumb, along with Opera Mini (lol).
If the scavengers are doing such a good job, why do we even need the “legitimate” business? In fact why shouldn’t the scavengers be considered legitimate when they provide a more timely service than the current incumbents?

It seems like the market is working as designed and the scavengers are successfully competing since they are able to provide the same service more efficiently than the current company.
> so Apple also can't just charge nothing

They have +20M devs paying $100 per year.
There's room for both of your arguments. Industries are different.

Industries that work on a workflow of hunting and fulfilling need SEO. People search for an item or service that they know exists and grab the top result.

Industries that work on a workflow of discoverability and browsing take advantage of social media. You didn't know you wanted that cute dress or household gadget until some listing pushed it into your attention.
I think your argument is invalid, because i.e. Epic wouldn't want to share a buildable XCode project of Fortnite with you. The 99$ fee is also unreasonable IMHO.

Also, building complex applications is far from non-trivial; it's typical for me to spend a few hours fiddling with dependencies to get some complicated code running.

As for MacOS, yes on the software side things are still open, but on the hardware side things are closing up (for example, mandatory unbreakable encryption which can make data recovery impossible; I don't have a big problem with that however). Plus I've got no idea how long that will lasts since Apple does whatever it wants.
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That is a very valid point, I should have phrased it in a more generical / biological way from the start.

My hope with the original formulation was that it'd be easy to understand and relate to, but I agree that I should have put in more time to find a better way of saying it.

As for the argument itself, I believe that novelty seeking in general might be an unintended side effect of that urge to procreate. That would also explain why people use words like "love" for new technical gadgets and develop a highly emotional and irrational attachment to their newest toy. Plus, there is evidence that the raw attraction fades more quickly for couples that spend more time together, which would suggest that one aspect of sexual attraction is in fact exactly the novelty of the partner. And since genetic compatibility is difficult to determine in advance, there would be benefits to a systematic exploration strategy.
I'm not saying being able to hail a ride on an App isn't a good thing, I'm saying it's not a competitive advantage and it doesn't seem to significantly increase the profitability of the service. There was a time when you could have argued that Uber could raise the occupancy rates of the cabs - that doesn't seem to have worked out though, through a combination of smart algorithms and scale, that doesn't seem to have materialized.

The scooters, again, I'm not sure are actually economically viable, and are also very clearly a regulatory issue - being banned by multiple cities and essentially working on a model of littering an entire city with cheap scooters.
Lockdown cause massive unemployment, bankruptcy, mental health issue, kids not getting proper education, delayed treatment/care for non-covid cause, etc. All this for what ? for the virus that for vast majority of people if you do get infected you are not going to be sick (asymptompatic) or only have mild symptom and less than 1% death rate ?
I'd very much recommend against using packages like dash and s. Most of dash can either be done with cl-lib or seq, and s are basically just wrapper functions. Both introduce bad style (look more like Clojure than Elisp) and promote inefficient (often functional) patterns.
What argument even? I never said or implied that Linux is better or whatever. That was you.

I merely stated that a lifelong Windows user of advanced age can in fact use Ubuntu because it is, on the surface, similar enough. Same goes for a Mac, of course.
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They not only had the lawsuit in hand and ready, but an ad and a deployment strategy to get it launched in game. Epic was clearly planning to go fully public at scale on this issue.
Static linking means that if a security flaw is found in a dependent component, you're responsible for shipping a whole new application binary to the end users; they can't just pick up some new shared libs from upstream of you.
> you do not know that

You also don't know that the virus won't give you superpowers, but you'd be foolish to act like it.

According to the best evidence we have, children are very very unlikely to suffer serious consequences from covid-19. Yes, it's possible that there are future complications we aren't yet aware of - but we don't presently have any reason to expect it.

We have to live based on probabilities, not possibilities. 800 kids drown each year in swimming pools. We live with the risk because swimming is great. So is going outside, seeing other humans, and getting educated.
How long have they been working on this spoof commercial?
This is awesome. I like that its so focused. Are there any good resources you referenced for building for HIPAA compliance?
Hmmm, essential oil powered zoomers versus psychic surgery killed boomers? Which one will win?!
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I'm not convinced nuclear is safe enough. Say new nuclear it is 2x safer than previous designs on average, and we spin up 4x more nuclear plants, well you can see where this goes.

Plus, such a concentrated power source is going to invite a terrorist attack by something like drones, which can't be effectively defended against. An attack that looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_at....
Probably the fact that no one made a fuss over consoles. I'd argue the same rules should start applying for them as well.

But there was nothing stopping Microsoft from releasing halo onto the playstation.

There is nothing stopping anyone from developing a game for these consoles.
I find those prices shocking. In the UK, I pay £10 for 6GB and unlimited calls and texts. For £20, I could have 80 GB of data on my current network.
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We can't know that because Apple forbids it. You're just guessing at what would happen. Regardless of whether Epic lowers its prices or not, that doesn't forgive Apple for REQUIRING all developers to use their payment processing service.

Also, Epic mentioned that Apple causes customer service issues because Apple is inserted into the payment process and Epic can't directly deal with the customer's payment issue.

So pricing is not the ONLY reason for allowing competition.
Can is not a monopoly, you can still get all the apps you want on any other smart phone and you are not compelled to buy an iOS device.

Unless you are claiming by having the best device, the device you want, that makes it an unfair advantage because you don't want to make a different choice.

Now the solution if I was in charge of Apple is simple, you want a software unlocked phone then have at it, it cost double and all privacy options are absent.
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Summary

1) iOS devices are a large market (Over 1.5 BILLION devices)

2) iOS users spend more then Android users

3) Apps must be independently developed for each platform

4) Apple’s Monopoly Power in the iOS App Distribution Market. (p20) As it is the sole means by which apps are distributed to consumers in the iOS Market.

5) Non-iOS app distribution platforms do not constrain Apple’s monopoly power
in the iOS App Distribution Market because they are not compatible with iOS devices,
they cannot provide iOS users with apps for their devices, and they do not contain iOS compatible apps.

6) Apple imposes unreasonable restraints and unlawfully maintains a
monopoly in the iOS App Distribution Market through several anti-competitive acts,
including technical restrictions
- Cannot download alternative app stores

- App store is preinstalled

- Contractual restrictions on distributing iOS apps outside the app store

- Section 3.3.2(b) of the Developer Agreement prohibits
“Application[s]” that “create a store or storefront for other code or applications”. (p25 C75)

7) Apple’s anti-competitive conduct harms all would-be app
distributors by foreclosing them from competing in the iOS App Distribution Market. (p26 D88)

8) Apple has a monopoly over the iOS In-App Payment Processing
Market and, in the alternative, over the iOS Games Payment Processing Market, as it has
a 100% market share.

9) The cost of alternative electronic payment processing tools, which
Apple does not permit to be used for the purchase of in-app digital content, can be one
tenth of the cost of In-App Purchase.

Electronic Payment Processing Tool, Base U.S. Rate

PayPal 2.9%

Stripe 2.9%

Square 2.6%-3.5%

Braintree 2.9%
I understand where you’re coming from and would be ok if it were easy (or even possible) for the community to build an alternative device but that doesn’t appear to be the case.

The technical and social reality that giving apple the freedom to configure the majority of devices in the US is extremely unpleasant. Enough that it makes me question the principles driving the philosophy that allowed this (in particular, the legality of closed software.)
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centralized authority collecting taxes? I think you meant centralized authority of Trust. very similar to secure boot on PCs. you also seem to underestimate the sheer amount of trolly "malware"/ scripts out there for linux.
They can come round my place. My driveway is covered with endless cardboard from various deliveries and purchases. We have to book a slot at the local recycling centre and lug it up there ourselves every few weeks :-)
> the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

60% is not exclusive or even de-facto exclusive. The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is Apple products.
I dunno - if you eliminate shades of gray and stick to black and white you don't need critical thinking. Critical thinking takes effort - it's far easier to toss a label on someone and then dismiss them.
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The video:

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1294010838928433154?s=20
Than it wasn't related to what I said, wasn't it...
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Huh? Lamborghini does not forbid me from, or charge me a percentage to install my radio from an after market vendor, should I choose to.
This is a bit cynical of me but I thought it was interesting: In the PDF their legal says this:
> in the years since, Fortnite has topped 350 million players and has become a global cultutral phenomenon.
Interestingly, this 350 million players number appears to have been announced back in May [0]. Of course it is somewhat likely that their legal team just Googled this number instead of sourcing an updated figure from Epic, but could it potentially be that Fortnite's growth has stagnated? It definitely feels as though it has left the zeitgeist compared to years gone by, and it could be that Epic has calculated that the payoff of this suit could exceed the amount of V-Bucks they were expecting to sell through the iOS version of Fortnite. Certainly a big gamble, but it's possible that the situation may be dire enough to make it worth it. Of course they attempt to make it look like this isn't what they want by not demanding a cash payoff, but the obvious play is that if they win then a) they will be able to sell V-Bucks again for presumably a higher margin, and b) they will launch their own Epic app/game store and take a small cut of those transactions.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/6/21249497/fortnite-350-mill...
Epic is arguably the example that proves the point. They're literally paying companies to give games away for free on the Epic Games Store, week after week, presumably in the hope of making it a big enough player to make the money back sometime soon. Short-term financial viability is clearly not important to them. Yet, despite all that, their cost-cut store still can't implement basic features like a shopping cart.
Apple is providing the platform that enables Epic to distribute their game for FREE to a billion+ users. Why shouldn't they take a cut from the in-app purchase monetization? It costs Apple server hosting, bandwidth, engineering to provide this service.

Providing an alternative payment method at a discount is not the answer here, obviously players will choose the cheaper option.

If Epic wants more money, maybe they should negotiate a smaller cut.
Shout out to my pal Joel, who was in this space for awhile already! https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision...
None of those are really innovations with new products, but yeah.

I guess this is moving away from the main conversation. But I don't really see the App Store going anywhere even if third party app stores were allowed.
I started a new job about six months ago and the engineering org writes ADRs. As a new hire, this was incredibly useful to understand some of the hows and whys of past decisions that would normally take me years to discover or understand.
I appreciate the quality response. A lot of the focus here seems to be 'prevent other consumers from finding things out about our users', which is good and important. I usually think more about it from Google's perspective, which is that they have the data, and perhaps they're not using it for X right now, but they have the potential to, and that potential is what creates this significant power imbalance and centralization that I'm often concerned over.

Obviously Google employees cannot go around reading+using all of my personal communications for whatever they want to, but just that Google has all of them, to me, is too much power given to a single actor, even if they are generally not abusing this power.

With those said, differential privacy is still a great tech, so it's still great that they're open-sourcing and encouraging things like this. But I'll likely remain concerned about the centralization of the world's data at the same time.
Not sure where you are pulling this 60% number from, but last quarter iOS had 46% market share in the US. Additionally, you ignore non-smartphone systems as sources of news and content, where Apple has an even smaller market share.
By what measure? Most video games seem far worse to me.
#freeFortnite, cute.
They don’t really give you the option of installing Linux on the iPhone tho, do they?
Apple has become what they hated in IBM and Epic Games called them out.
Yeah, I spent half a day walking around phone stores in Vancouver trying to find a couple of GB pay as you go sim (expecting it to cost $10-20). Turns out they don't exist in Canada.
A general fix would let legislators off the hook by specifically giving themselves an exception (of which there is already quite a few) the legislators now have to deal with all the unintended, but very predictable, consequences of there shitty law without even getting to say the people wanted it.
I can't picture this happening due to the sheer size of the Electron ecosystem. Do you think there's any precedent for this?
Why would build instructions have to be custom? Making a reproducible image should be as easy as getting a docker image
Well if your intention is to install Linux in your phone maybe iPhone is not the best choice.
If Apple allowed other payment methods, that would incentivize developers not to go through Apple at all. Even paid apps would switch over to an unlock model in order to avoid the 30% cut.

So I think it's very unlikely that Apple will allow other payment options. It's more likely for their 30% to go down, but even that's questionable.
Aren't Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant etc all providing answers generated by NLP algorithms? People seem to be using them pretty frequently.

Google already provides no-click search answers by scraping data from a website and bolding a paragraph that may answer your question. The branding of the original site is removed on these snippets.

How long before Google decides not to link out the website altogether?
Yeah, forcing you to buy apps in Apple's walled garden. Such an uninformed take.
why is Apple spending nearly 50% of those App Revenues on the App Store? You can’t do a good job at App Review alone for Stripes fee, and App Review is critically important for developers and customers.

You are completely clueless if you think payment processing is even a tiny fraction of what the App Store provides.
This is why you have representatives from both parties next to the ballot box, and third party observers, to make sure this doesn't happen.
I don’t care about Fortnite, but I would love to have the option to install alternative apps stores on iOS.

This has to be the most dramatic example of “running to the press” to date, which I’m sure Apple loathes. If nothing else it’s entertaining.
The only people who buy the idea of planned obsolescence are the ones who haven’t worked on products like that.

Also, Apple doesn’t have to provide software support to 6 year old phones when nobody else does
Well, you could say one definition is that a general purpose computing device is a tool that lets you run what you want in whichever way you want to install it (sort of, of course one could nitpick exceptions).

An Apple laptop looks like a general purpose computing device. Do we want it not to be one, and become closer to a gaming console?

I think that merely looking at the guts and seeing which processor it has is kind of a red herring.