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It's not about Epic or any single company. It is really about consumers. Allowing multiple app store choices on mobile devices would lead to competition and really highlight the fact that 30% is far too much to be asking as a tax for the app store.
The problem is that this requires the Rust run-time to be a ball of mud that provides everything for everyone.

Where is the Rust compiler for a Motorola 68K?

How about PIC24? And if there is ever a Rust compiler for PIC24, what will happen to all that run-time support? How much of it will work? How will you detect what of it works and what doesn't, in order to work around for it in your program?
He's said he's okay with Florida because of Florida's Republican governor. That's not my because, it's his.

Also, he votes by mail-in ballot to Florida.
My son beat you by several years.
Former Pinterest COO Sues Pinterest
this already happens regularly with iOS! Parents setup fingerprint payments and their kids go nuts with IAPs.
Gaza has a working government run by Hamas. Both Hamas and the pa in the west bank have failed to hold their own elections and that is their fault not Israel's - they can run elections etc. Their kids are being taught in school to hate Israel and that Jews are evil funded by the United Nations. Every generation will get more extreme under this tutelage.

There is not the threat of rocket production so much as there are both rockets and rocket production already. You talk about the six day war but forget Hamas shooting hundreds of rockeslts a day into Israel much more recently than that.

It's ok to say say its unsustainable. What is your solution ? Israelis are tired of hearing that it's unsustainable without a solution. That's why the left isn't getting elected. They have no solution, not even to what is going on today.
AFAIK Valve already tried the whole Linux as a gaming platform thing and gave up completely a few months ago.
> What happened to the days where everyone controlled their own domains/IP addresses/servers?

Yeah in those days 99.9% of the world didn't use it.
No, this isn't a ideology thing, the epoch times is literally the news paper of the Falun Gong religious movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times It's not "secretly" propaganda, it's explicitly and openly a propaganda site.
Yeah, I get there are other reasons people choose Linux—I do too, as I find Win10 intolerable as a working environment so if I'm not on Apple hardware, Linux is my only realistic option for getting things done while still being able to interact alright with the world outside my own computer. I just think that's a small set of the reasons one might find any Linux OS to represent a serious loss of functionality, versus macOS. I agree it'd be cool if more major/trendy design tools were cross-platform, but I work with what I've got.

I don't think the default US keyboard layout on mac makes typing superscript unicode easy but it looks like there are a ton of ways to make it easier, by pointy-clicky through the GUI settings to add either of a couple ways of typing them, by editing a keymap file, or yeah, by using any of several programs like Karabiner. That'd actually be a great addition to the default US English keyboard on mac—a toggle for Unicode super-/sub-script modes.

[EDIT] incidentally, have you observed significant power savings with Webkit browsers on Linux? I like Surf and given FF's ongoing shake-ups I'm giving other browsers a look again, for my browsing-on-Linux needs. On macOS I see something like a 15-20% gain in real-world battery life and noticeably-better overall system responsiveness, using Safari over Chrome or Firefox. Is a similar, dramatic effect noticeable in Webkit ports to other operating systems?
> People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them - regarding what settings are reasonable to have, what software they want you to use etc.

Well, they think it gives them quality. Instead they kinda get fleeced and pushed into a threadmill of planned obsolescence, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_SZ4tfLns
In Roberto Saviano's 2006 Book "Gomorrah", there's a section outlining how the Camorra makes a lot of money from collecting waste (IIRC mostly industrial) and dumping it into illegal landfills that pollute large areas. They are obviously not quite as scrupulous about e.g. toxic substances as one would like.

Of course where the cardboard ends up is probably not an issue here, as we are talking about recycling. But there are still a ton of ways an organization operating outside official contracts and regulations can cut corners to be "more efficient" than the official contractors are, and they can cut those corners in ways that have a larger negative impact on society than the upside of the trash being out of the street faster.
I wasn't aware of all that, thanks, but I still think that Apple's stuff is a whole different ballgame.
The difference in worry parents have over short term and "long term" death risks for their kids is marginal. In particular: if something could happen to jeopardize your kids lives while they are still kids --- which we do not know --- it's an overwhelming worry.

This is one of those conversations where message board logic stands a good chance of taking us far away from how real-world humans would reason.
I would probably disagree on nuclear weapons: the lack of access to the latest semiconductors cannot wipe the humanity out, it merely retards the development of indigenous industries (other than semiconductor).

Huawei ban is a message to the Chinese government about explicit spying - and will probably get reversed pretty soon. You can spy, but don't make it so obvious.

Interestingly, I think these bans might have another, unintended, consequence: they might trigger acceleration of locally developed alternatives. We might see more of the Chinese-developed processors and IP in general in the future.

But I do agree that the sooner everyone plays nice, the better it is for everybody. The problem is that there are plenty of forces that benefit from chaos and suffering.
> They're setting themselves up for building precedent where in the future, an MMO uses EGS for distribution and bypasses the EGS payment model, and they won't have any legal teeth to challenge that without getting hit in the face with precedent they helped set

That's not the same at all, there's no devices that solely run the EGS, there's nothing stopping any game studio from taking their game to Steam, Origin, GOG, or even making their own.
They don't have to pass new laws for this.

Epic could sue in some EU country or some European game developer might jump in.
You realize that's literally just to fetch SSH keys, right? It's the authentication method so they don't have to provide a default password. It's not some sort of phone-home method.
Who watches this ad and doesn't immediately realize how ridiculous it is? Epic is a multi-billion dollar company taking pot shots at another multi-billion dollar company.

Are people so easily swayed to their particular favorite capitalists? Have we really not moved on from "Sega does what Nintendon't"?

Edit: To be clear, I'm not supporting Apple here. I just think this particular ad is a wild shot to take. I know it's a reference to the original Apple ad, I just think it's completely overdone.
I think it is $10 via apple, $8 via Epic. They're gaining an extra $1 on direct purchase, but that isn't really the point of this.
Ad hominem is the best you can do? No paywall btw. Just submit an email address.
Free Speech is strictly an issue with the government, it does not ever apply to non-governmental platforms.
I never said all Apple users don't know what they are getting into. There must be other users who want Apple to have full control over its devices. If it works great for them then there's no issue.
No, absolutely not. And to be honest, I don't understand why you would even consider it.

Perhaps you could explain your case for doing so, the better to help us understand why you ask.
This reality is crazy. Every year we're thinking it can't get more surreal.
"There is a distinction between a general purpose computing device and a gaming console." Whats the distinction? gaming console use x86 now. is it the keyboard support? the gpu ?
> I mean, in this case, the consumer is literally saving 20% for the same purchase. Seems good to me.

I find it hard to believe a company like Epic would lower prices in response. They want that 30% for themselves. Their claims of corporate altruism here are clearly overstated.

That said, this might be true for indie developers that would like to charge less to increase their user base, so I think Apple should probably lower fees to 10-15%. I think that's far more reasonable.

> Why isn't "let other stores sell software for iOS, and the market will set the rent those stores can extract from software developers" the reasonable compromise?

> People who want the ease and security of Apple and are willing to pay their extra fees can do so. Those who don't don't have to.

I agree with the premise that competition can lower prices, which is very pro-consumer. That said, I don't think a degraded UX, and potentially huge privacy disaster would be great for consumers. Cost isn't the only factor. In a third-party App scenario, Apple wouldn't be in a position to prevent privacy violations. The amount of data siphoned from this third-party store is likely to be game changing. Facebook could ask users to use their own store so they can track everything you do, and majority of users won't understand that difference. Not to mention countries like China would then likely demand all citizens use the app store full of spyware.

Once again it comes down to security vs. usability debate that I think will always be at the heart of these issues.
Me neither! That's why we need 3rd party app stores.
>That's the entire problem. If a shopping mall was charging every store 30% of their revenue (not profit, revenue!), it would be very quickly going broke and empty.

If the same were true for Apple, they would reduce the 30% fee to reverse the trend. The fact that the app ecosystem continues to be rich is a signal that either:

1) most developers are ok with this price to access Apple's "marketplace" of users, and/or

2) developers are irrational - you could always instead focus on Google's platform, which has more users.

Revenue or profits is not a good indicator of market share at all, as then parent's BMW argument comes into play: just because you want BMW over Honda, because the owners of the former have more disposable income, does not make BMW a monopoly.

>When Microsoft was playing dirty and abusing its market dominance...

Microsoft's market dominance at the time is MULTIPLES higher than what Apple owns of the mobile OS market.
That isn’t how competition law works.

From your own link:

>the Clayton Act defined as illegal certain business practices that are conducive to the formation of monopolies or that result from them.

Apple doesn’t have a monopoly so the latter does not apply. Are you legitimately suggesting that Apple’s behavior is conducive toward the creation of a monopoly?? I would really like to hear some legal arguments that support this position. Apple’s market is shrinking, not growing. It will be a supremely tough court battle to prove that Apple’s behavior will lead to market consolidation in Apple’s favor.
So what. I invented half of the patents being submitted by Apple, all in one short story I wrote in 1994.
Also a lot of parents rely on... Grandparents to childcare when they are sick!

"Hey Grandma can you take care of my covid-kid while I am slowly maybe dying here?"

There is 0 societal support here.
Ask HN: Is Hacker News targeted USA users?
I often see comments that appear to indicate that, whoever posts them take for granted that the readers are within USA. I do believe that many readers and users are international, I am. It would help if more keep that in mind.
Prompted with the first three paragraphs from the complaint, GPT-3 (Dragon model on AIDungeon) continues:

4.Apple's anticompetitive conduct harms consumers because it prevents new entrants into these markets from entering them at competitive prices, thereby raising the price of mobile apps and in-app content for consumers. It also harms competitors because it increases their costs of doing business by forcing them to pay higher prices for the same or similar products and services. Finally, it harms other businesses because it reduces their ability to compete by reducing the number of choices available to consumers.

5.The Plaintiffs in this case seek to restore competition to these markets by challenging Apple's anticompetitive conduct. Plaintiffs bring claims under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, and common law unfair competition.

6.This is a civil lawsuit. The Plaintiffs are not seeking criminal prosecution, nor are they seeking to have Apple break any agreements with other companies. They simply seek the right to compete with Apple on a level playing field.

7.The Plaintiffs are seven individuals and companies who develop software applications for Apple's iOS operating system, which runs on all of its mobile devices, such as the iPhone and iPad. Apple's iOS is the second most popular mobile operating system in the world, with approximately 1.4 billion devices sold to date.
There is absolutley a blend that the smartest marketers understand how to activate. In fact, id argue that the advent of adding 'reddit' to the end of a query signals a change is necessary in order to really surface the best content for a given result. Even Quora is filled with spam these days. Spammers will get into anything wherever they can.

With that being said, in any marketing tactic, the right way isn't always the best way - however - understanding why some garbage site ranks for your query is incredibly helpful in figuring out how you can improve your content to do the same.
The graph for skilled people available for any given position with "skill" on the Y axis and "people" in the X axis is not shaped like a triangle like you are imaging, is shaped like a plateau. The only exception are extremely niche skills.
> The risk due to lockdown are greater than this virus.
I'm gonna have to ask for a source on this, because every single legitimate source I can find says the exact opposite.
FL's extensive and lengthy trial of absentee voting was a success from every angle. The thing one does after completing a wildly successful trial is to roll out the actual program in the manner and degree that it's needed.
A game console is not general purpose computing device?
Safari is the new IE6, and it's hamstringing the web on purpose, just like MS did back in the day.
It is a ridiculous comparison, but it also was when Apple did it it in 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
I like Trump in general, but the USPS is also basically my favorite government organization, so this irks me.

USPS has always provided superior service for us compared to UPS or Fedex.

I am hopeful they'll be able to fix their budget issues by fixing their cost structure.

It seems completely asinine to block their ability to make sound financial decisions and force them into providing an inferior service instead.
Unfortunately walls are the major way houses get hot. You could use something with big thermal capacity but it's expensive and heavy. AC or evaporative cooling cannot be avoided, but can be made more efficient.

Increased transit time for ships is from month to many months. Not worth it.

Veganism faces a big problem with water use.

Agriculture is being looked into all the time, but cheap always wins. We need to feed these billions of people somehow, and crop rotation won't do.

Mandating greenwashing is what we have now. The area to cover with renewables to power just a single smelter is huge.
A professor also does research, the article seems to only be talking about providing courses online. Where is the full stack?

Maybe I missed it in the article.
... and who ought to be advocating for better social safety nets for everyone. I feel a lot of the "get back to normal" fighters are failing to imagine a sensible social safety net that might enable a lot more people to remain home/locked down.
Epic Games has filed a lawsuit [1] and published a Fortnite-themed parody of Apple's "1984" [2] to get some publicity for it.

[1] https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4
Digital yuan, digital dollar, libra etc. Ask your government and banks.
Negative on that. See Sony, MS, Nintendo gaming consoles.
iOS's percentage of paid app users dwarfs Android's, which could be a factor. Surely revenue should be considered when evaluating market share?

https://sensortower.com/blog/app-revenue-and-downloads-2018
I found the 6-part series at https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-awesomene... a very good introduction as well.
How so? Again, the key word here is - "choice". I believe a customer should have the choice to unlock their own device and install whatever software they want on it. How is having that choice eliminating a key differentiator? Most people will never untick that box and will enjoy exactly those benefits of Apple devices that you're talking about.

I am of an opinion that every consumer should have such a box available on their devices, should they wish to use it. It shouldn't be possible to trade this ability away with a software licence. And not giving people that choice in the first place is what I meant by saying "customers are treated as children" - because children don't get to chose, adults do.
Aren't *nix file descriptors kind of an OS "handle"?... Okay, I'm hiding in case anyone sees this comment and lobs a criticism my way ;).
Apple currently has at least two antitrust investigations underway, and this seems to add fuel to that fire.

Whether or not they are breaking the law, they are about to have every single aspect of their market behaviour put under the microscope.

They don't need to break a law to be found to be operating anti-competitively.
Covid Spread Can’t Only Be Explained by Who’s Being ‘Bad’
> they can pass it as easily as an adult can

Sounds like you're using a proxy result (viral load instead of shedding or actual transmission) in a single unnamed paper to make a pretty strong assertion?
Which isn't Mozilla. Anyway, I'm out of here. Good luck with your reality.
I'm sure if you install some version of Linux in your iPhone you can do whatever you want. But you're probably using iOS.
> I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid. Yes they have less effects than adults but some children do go to the hospital and ICU. And also they can easily spread it to the parents/grandparents.

Minimization and denial are powerful psychological forces, and the fact that some children get the condition without severe symptoms lulls some people into complacency.

The fact is that the virus inhabits the lungs, and damages tissue as it replicates. Just because someone isn't having an acute symptomatic response doesn't mean that there couldn't be long term effects from infection.
Move over Netflix, this Apple vs Epic is the shit worth watching. Your move Apple.
It is painfully clear that almost nobody, if anybody commenting here, actually read the fairly clearly written complaint. :)
There is no indication whatsoever that MMR has likely long-term health effects, and there are indications that C19 could have long-term health effects, and what we appear to learn month by month is more alarming, not less, with respect to the question of whether or not C19 is a "you either die of it in a month or you're fine" situation.

It also doesn't have to be a universal effect for it to generate effectively universal concern among parents. If it turned out that 1/20 kids suffered permanent kidney damage due to infection, most parents would keep their kids home. Look at the stats on school shootings and note that we pointlessly traumatize kids to assuage the concerns of parents. That's your figure of merit: that's how powerful the long-term C19 effect would need to be to change the behavior of the median parent.
Nix is really cool! You can actually use Nix to build Snap packages! Not sure if that's actually used a lot though.

One of the advantages of Snap over Nix is that snap has security builtin. Snap is built to support a store where anyone can publish any application without curation. Nix Flakes look really cool for third-parties to "publish" applications for Nix, but I wonder how they will do security..

In Snap, the default permissions of an app are stored and distributed out-of-band with the package itself. The package defines what permissions it _can_ use and the declaration defines what permissions it is _allowed_ to use by default. Users can then override the default permissions.

You could get the same level of confinement in a Nix package, but then the package contains both the app and the confinement, so the packager or software provider gets to decide what permissions a package has on your system. Any idea how Nix could address this?
Epic is tied to Tencent. This is a risky move.
That compressor is absent from every single design we've seen right now, The duct for air to go from front to back would also use up a significant amount of cabin space, and the electric-powered multi-stage high compression ratio high-speed compressor would have massive power usage, weight, and cost. Power usage that would have to be palliated via batteries, as the capsule supposedly has no contact with the tube.

Because of this, no full-scale design yet has incorporated a compressor.
The quest for materials solutions to the coronavirus pandemic [pdf]
Why assume what I know and don't know? Stripe and several other providers offer all of this for a much smaller fee. Plus, I already have all of the infrastructure running on the web, so the incremental cost to support iOS will be close to 0. In fact, even if you put aside the processing fee, not having to support Apple's terrible payments and subscription system will be a net engineering benefit.
> The Republican party wants to be a dictatorship. They are putting party over country. They don't want to lose and win at all costs.

The Democratic party seems much more interested in seizing power by force than the Republicans.

Every time I see this line of thought, the only thing I can figure is that it's the classic idea of "You see the worst of yourself in your enemies"
Well played Epic, well played.
> You have to actually build a functioning prototype to claim to have invented something.

No. But that's besides the point. (See https://www.neustel.com/invention-process/prototypes/#:~:tex.... for example)

This guy wrote an interesting article when he was 15 that got a lot of predictions right. Enjoy it for what it is! He's not claiming he owns the rights to the iPhone.

Lighten up people.
As someone without legal knowledge, it surprised me that the NATURE OF THE ACTION section reads more like a blog post than what I would expect in a legal document.
> 10 GB smartphone plan for $75

Wow. In France it's the reverse: during promotions, you can get 70GB for €10.

Out of promo, it's €15-€20 at low cost operators, and €35 at traditional brands.
The whole strategy here feels pretty unprecedented.

Usually these kind of lawsuits happen in the background but Epic seems to be going full force with making it a public campaign.

> Apple is blocking your ability to get the latest Fortnite updates! All players should have a choice in payment providers and save up to 20%. Apple wants to limit your payment choices! Join the fight against @AppStore on social with #FreeFortnite

Can't imagine being in the room of Apple's PR team reacting to this.
> I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid.

Because we have forgotten how to say to ourselves, "I generally agree with this ideology, but on this subject, I agree with other people." Politics (and this is, sadly, political) is a zero sum game now.