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Apple builds trust in the iPhone by curating apps that are allowed to be installed on it. When I buy an iPhone for my family I _trust_ that Apple is doing the right thing and will prevent its users from harm. I wouldn't have that same level of trust if it was easy to just add alternate App Stores on the device.
Not a native speaker, I can understand but his speech gives me a hard time. Could you share a pointer to a relevant segment? The complete interview is five hours!
This filing is clever on Epic's part. (Or someone at Cravath, more likely.)

What Epic is asking for is an injunction. They may well get a temporary injunction quickly, compelling Apple to put their app back in Apple's store. Then the case gets litigated on the merits, but starting from a de facto win for Epic.

The standard required for a temporary injunction is low:

"To justify a temporary injunction it is not necessary that the plaintiff's right to a final decision, after a trial, be absolutely certain, wholly without doubt; if the other elements are present (i.e., the balance of hardships tips decidedly toward plaintiff), it will ordinarily be enough that the plaintiff has raised questions going to the merits so serious, substantial, difficult and doubtful, as to make them a fair ground for litigation and thus for more deliberate investigation."[1]

Litigation on temporary injunctions is relatively fast. This part will be decided in weeks, not years.

Epic might only win a rollback to the last uncontroverted state, though. That is, apparently, before Epic's payment system went live on Apple platforms.
If Apple had allowed third party payments for a while, then removed the app, Epic would be in a stronger position to insist that their own payment system remain live.

[1] https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wiwd.39930/...
That's a slippery slope. Next we'll start regulating anticompetitive practices in IT in general. /s
I would also argue that even if the savings aren’t passed directly to the consumer in the form of money, it’s still better for consumers if that money helps support app developers rather than making Apples stacks of cash a little bit taller.
Is this sarcasm? Epic has been huge since the early 2000s.
I bet Epic also sent out news stories to every network to get a jump start on the narrative. They clearly spent a lot of time and effort getting everything ready before pulling the trigger on this. It has been awhile since I've seen such a media blitzkrieg on a contract dispute.
Independent of whether I agree with you, you may want to consider finding a better way to express your disapproval than using people with developmental disabilities as an insult.
...yes?

It’s not clear that there is a real or straightforward anti-trust case to be made against many of these companies (especially Amazon). For some reason the HN echo chamber is convinced that there is an obvious and bulletproof anti-trust case against every big tech company, and that the delay in enforcing it strictly comes down to corruption or some inherent flaw in the justice system.
As an indie developer, entering into the Apple ecosystem really isn’t economically worth it considering the risk of total annihilation on top of the huge chunk of revenue you lose. An open ecosystem would change that calculus significantly.
I find it fascinating that in that ad the schlubs that are sitting there watching the television are Fortnite default skins and not say, replicas of the characters that hold the same position in the original Apple ad. This really supports Dan Olson manufactured discontent assertion[0].

Even if you support them and play their game, if you don't spend money for skins, you're still in Big Brother's audience. The wildest thing is that the Jackboots behind the hammer thrower are approximate replicas of the Apple Ad.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0
This is the original Apple "1984" commercial (directed by Ridley Scott) that is spoofed by Epic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

In the Apple commercial, "Big Brother" is represented by a domineering IBM. It's rather ironic that Apple has been more closed, guarded and controlling than the PC platform has ever been.
No, more the hardcore minority that give people who play videogames (like myself for 30+ years!) a bad name.
It wasn't that BMW would stop you, or that you weren't allowed to.

It's that car manufacturers had to be stopped from claiming "you voided the warranty on your brakes by installing your own radio" (entirely egregious, I agree, but separate).
you would need to be a bookworm to know all of them
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Is this due to news in the US? Media and politics there is so different and confusing that I feel it's a completely different reality.
> 30% more

1/0.7 = 1.43

You're not paying 30% more, you're paying 43% more. Maybe you're fine with paying even more than that, but lets keep the math clear.
Getting the app for 20-30% less money would seem to be desirable for the users.
Do the US's antitrust laws make a distinction on "only being used for entertainment"?
Sorry for the delays. We can't control it, but we still are responsible for your overall experience.

Generally we monitor this and send replacements if coffees get stuck. We will probably do this automatically soon. I understand this still isn't ideal.

We definitely are looking into allowing a FedEx option. We have a pretty complicated product, so it is nice to use a single shipper for now, though.

One thing that could help is picking coffee directly from a roaster that is close to you. If you tell me where you live, I can send you the best roasters for a consistent experience.
Weaponizing the firehose of vitriol of gamers is a wild approach to take. Let's see if it pays off for them.
The Yaru developers even publish their theme on Flathub so Flatpaks look good on Ubuntu.
I agree, I just don't know if the situation as simple as "preventative measures or an economy, pick one". Maybe the economy gets screwed no matter what we pick. Like, if a restaurant is getting 25% of its usual business, is that because the government is requiring masks and social distancing, or is it because people just don't feel comfortable going to restaurants right now?

I don't mean to imply I know the answer, though for myself I'm definitely not interested in going to restaurants right now. I just see this cavalier assumption that there is some obvious step that people in power can take to make the economy good and they're just not doing it. I think it's easier to focus on that than to acknowledge stuff is gonna get bad regardless, and it's just shades of gray on how bad things will get and in which direction.
India has very close military and defense ties with Israel, it heavily relies on Israel for much of its advanced military technology.
For those reading along, Unreal Engine fees is 5% after the first million.
The thing is, you're not paying 30%/15% extra - if I recall correctly, that is against the terms of the App Store. Developers/companies can't charge a markup to make up for the bit Apple skims off the top - so instead of, say, Spotify getting all of my $10 from an IAP Premium subscription, they get $7. If I sign up for their premium service on their website, however, they get all $10.
I'm with you, I watched it and had a bit of a chuckle till I saw the "plea" at the end.
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In 2010, Valve made a 1984-esque trailer for Half Life, titled “Free Yourself”. Ironically, it announced that Half Life was ported to Mac OS X.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2zkLh_QMFdQ
Wild times we live in. Steve would be proud.
This is quite a clever move from Epic. Clearly provoking Apple and Knowing what they'd do they got a lawsuit and the famous 1984 Apple Ad's Spoof video. I think This spoof video is more than just mocking Apple. It's clearly playing the underdog theme and winning the support of Fortnite and other Epic games fans.
> reduced to the argument that Apple is not a monopoly, so what they are doing is OK.

Wait, how can what Apple does ever be okay even they legally don't have a monopoly.

Apple provides a marketplace (which they name store, but it's a marked place not a store) which is the only way to install software (on their phone) for millions of persons which means it's a marked and not just a marked place and they do both run the marked and provide products there but give their products an unfair competitive advantage (access to internal APIs, fast review, not applying app guidlines, subvention developent for the apps etc.) while haven basically rip-of pricing for (at least part of) the competition and intentionally preventing many business model and undermining how companies can freely present their products and company to users inside of their own products...

Not sure how anyone can call it ok, tbh.

Maybe legal due to a laws not yet having arrived in the 21st century but definitively not ok.
Why not choose a new home in a location served by your preferred internet provider? What's that - you like your home, but not the service it comes with? /s
I don't think extinctions were happening at the same scale since the industrial revolution and the power humans acquired over the environment. Humans created damage before but it was too small to matter so they got into a symbiosis with the systems around them. After the industrial revolution the scale begun tipping massively. We don't really notice because we can't make the comparison, our lifespan is limited and we are all more or less submerged in our own ideologies.

I'm not against technology, I am on the internet too, I have electricity, running water and all the modern facilities and I admit it is quite amazing for us to be living with all these but there is a cost to these and i'm not afraid to feel responsible and ready to scale back.

Aside from carbon emissions - which some say it's unavoidable and I halfway agree - we have polluted the planet and spread our plastic things everywhere. Despite knowing this we are still using plastic and discard it with no care like there is no tomorrow. Think about the next generation. Do you have children or grandchildren?
well if you remove the "do nothing but", the argument does only get weaker since it becomes "for some people fashion fuels insecurities, so it should be destroyed".

Marvel movies always have that one shot of the protagonist impossible pecs and abs. It fuels insecurities for sure for some men. It is not a reason to stop making movies.
This is closer to what I meant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sDTB4eV4F8

Still not the exact talk, but I think it's from the same guys. I remember they explained how with K8s, the "surface area" of problems grows almost uncontrollably. You have all the problems of doing things manually (or at least, when things go wrong you must have a very good grasp of them), plus all the problems of K8s.

(Do note they are not arguing against K8s, just pointing out its multiple pitfalls)
You can see today's date on the screen being smashed. Epic had this primed and ready to render the moment Apple kicked them off the App Store.
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Agreed. Creating a one-tool-to-rule-them-all is unlikely to help matters much.

To me, (and with the conversation restricted to applications, not websites or anything that is primarily a document for consumption), we should be going in exactly the opposite direction; reducing the number and scope of the extra tools we need to use.

We should be making bundlers unnecessary (javascript modules plus smart http 2 servers are one way, service workers are another), we should write code that targets the js that modern browsers understand so that babel is unnecessary as part of our main workflow and is only run if you want old-browser compatibility, we should look at folding the key parts of react into the DOM (firefox used to have something really not all that different from JSX, and the core functionality of react is pretty small - the DOM is a virtual DOM). Linting and source code formatting should primarily be part of your IDE/Editor workflow. Testing needs vary, and I want to be able to use the right framework for testing for the project without having to bring along all the other cruft.

What I loved about the web when I first started building apps for it was that I could start with a single file in an editor and grow from there. Making a change, pressing F5 and seeing the change immediately was so liberating compared to long compile times and complex build systems. With your code carefully written so as to fail fast, you could often see failures in the live application faster than my Java IDE would pick up a type error in Java code (anyone remember the white menu bar of doom?).

I think it's a great pity that we've taken one of the web platforms major strengths - fast iteration times, and added so much tooling. We used to scoff at the fake stackoverflow question where someone asked 'how to do addition in jquery', but the sheer quantity of tooling that is normally used for projects has put us in a similar position.
They have been shifting that direction with Windows 10 home edition, their "app" store, and reduced support of desktop development. It's a matter of time.
I wonder if anyone has any data on what percentage of the kids who play Fortnite on iOS have access to anything else to play it on. Because I feel like that number will be very important to anyone at Apple contemplating "okay, fuck it, who cares, what if we just pulled Epic's authorization to run these things on iOS entirely".

There are probably a bunch of other reasons to not consider that option but I would bet money there are people on both sides of this argument giving serious thought to that option.
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Not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, this seems intuitive; learning that your work is less useful than you thought would give a worker less job satisfaction. This would explain the career changes that occurred directly after the study. However, this could also be seen as evidence that more managers should be made aware of the company's full operations, as it could lead to increased manager-initiated changes.

At the end of the day, managers are incentivized to prioritize their own team or part of the organization over pushing for organizational change. Is it possible that this would cease to be an issue if managers were encouraged to try and suggest changes, without it impacting their professional status? Because as it currently stands, pushing for a radical new project means risking your own job if it goes poorly.
This might be a better link: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-new-experiment-h...

Punchline seems to be that “hot” but out-of-equilibrium material cannot be summarized by a “temperature”, providing many paths towards freezing (on the landscape of microstates), some of which could (efficiently) circumvent the “low temp” state.
Market share is just the ranking of sales by brand over an arbitrary time period. It has nothing to do with innovation.

Tesla has clearly revolutionized electric vehicles to the point where they are not just viable but desirable, and are beating traditional luxury and sports manufacturers in technology and driving experience. They've moved the entire industry forward and now every major brand has committed to making electric vehicles.

I find your comparison to Apple strange since Apple has also, quite literally, changed the world with their iPhones.
> 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

These two statements seem to be in conflict? I think your 2nd statement means to say "They're 1/5th as worried about their mortgage than they are about the possible deaths of their family members."
Email me at my HN username @ gmail.com Maybe I can find some work for you that pays more than you're getting and you won't have to worry about your friend taking advantage of you any more.
Why not go directly to the MDN website and use the search built in?
Scavengers might be opportunistic and only pick up the easily accessed or easily recycled trash whenever it is convenient for them. Legitimate collectors will have to pick all the trash at scheduled times.
>What do you do on a console that could cost you life and limb or render you bancrupt?

Well my cousin plays ark every single day, all day on his xbox, his health has deteriorated pretty badly because of this, it's bankrupted him as, he doesn't work and spends money on the game, all his friends exist in the game, I will backtread a bit on the lack of work, he does sell creatures or something to get a bit of money, literally his entire life revolves around this game and his console. He doesn't even own a mobile phone, he just uses Xbox live chat to talk to most people and has a landline in his house for the rare times he actually needs to make a phone call.

For all intents and purposes, that console is his general computing device for everything he does or that affects his life.
They must've made this video prior to launching their new payments system because they knew this was going to happen. This is incredible.
Ugh. I feel for you. That's a tough position to be in, college is if possible even worse than grade school where mine are going. Even so in your case the risk is clear and present, and the University teachers are going to be a lot more likely to establish what their own risk appetite is than grade school teachers. This whole situation sucks. Way too many unknowns and too many people pretending there is no problem. I'm not looking forward to this winter. It seems like a perfect storm is brewing: COVID-19 resurgence, US Elections (which will generate a lot of friction no matter what the outcome), Brexit. This will be a rough ride. Hang in there.
I don't understand - epic deliberately chooses to avoid the most open platform (Linux) and yet they don't like being wall gardened? Quite ironic
> Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor, not the disease itself.

Even if this is true (we already have evidence it's not for some children), it's completely irresponsible to allow schools to open. We know children are infectious and easily spread the disease. There are other members of society besides children. Letting the virus run rampant in schools will lead to parents and other adults getting sick and dying. It's not ok for children to die but if their parents, grandparents, teachers, or parents' friends die it's somehow ok? What kind of logic is that?
>Consumers have the choice, but developers don't. Its been proven countless times over the years that Android users are much less likely to pay for applications than iOS users.

Why should it be Apple's problem that Google can't monetize their dominant market share?
Except the game is free, so all free games can freeload?
I have zero sympathy for a corporation that thinks everyone should have to pay them a 30% cut of everything, but that they shouldn't have to pay any tax themselves.
Does anyone know how frequently these are offered?
You can sideload on iOS devices now?
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The designs I've seen had very thin tubes. Certainly not anywhere close to 10 inch thick steel, no. The designs I've seen had thicknesses close to or under one inch.

A 50 cal APDS bullet would punch clean through the first layer and would likely leave an inch thick hole, and would likely cause significant damage on the other side if not penetrate it outright. This is almost certainly sufficient to cause explosive pressurization, which would likely cause immediately more damage and eventually create a powerful shockwave that would destroy anything in the tube.

Of course, a bomb next to the wall would be much worse.

If it was a 10 inch thick steel tube, it would be much better, but also ten times more expensive, making it prohibitively expensive.
> If a shopping mall was charging every store 30% of their revenue (not profit, revenue!)

In software sold on an app store, gross margin (before the app store's cut) is a lot closer to revenue than for physical goods sold in a physical store. There are no distribution costs or costs of goods borne by the vendor.
This is epic.
There are lots of private apis in iOS which developers are not allowed to use but would allow for a richer, wider variety of apps.

For example f.lux has a large feature set which isn’t built into Apple’s night shift. F.lux relies on a private api so the only way to get it on iOS is through Cydia or some other jailbreak App Store.

Also I can imagine there would be lots of possibilities for third party watches if apps could have properly backgrounded processes. Android watches are generally crippled on iOS when compared to the Apple Watch.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why can't Epic and other developers just raise the price of the games on the App Store by 30% and pass the cost along to customers. Customers on Apples Ecosystem will just need to pay a premium, just like they do for their devices.

"When you choose to use Epic direct payments, you save up to 20% as Epic passes along payment processing savings to you."

Apparently they already were, they just want to lower the price for consumers.
> So our speech is still free.

No. That's not what free speech is. Free speech is being able to speak your mind without restriction. There is no such thing as free speech in the US, either culturally or legally. This is not to be confused with the 1st amendment which does not guarantee "free speech", but rather guarantees political speech against the government.

You should read A History of the Freedom of Thought by JB Bury[0].

[0]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10684/10684-h/10684-h.htm#:~....
Who's gonna take care of the kids whose parents are in the ICU?
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Not really. It's basic contract law versus some small game company lawyers (compared to Apple's). Also, putting out parody ads and making fun of the whole thing will get you zero points in any court. Even if a court accepts this at all it will take years to finish. Meanwhile Epic is out of luck.
>It's hard to understand why as a user you want alternative app stores?

I, for example, want to be able to install things like the HK protest apps if I want

Or better yet, just to have the choice beyond Apple's overly Christian/American censorship of apps that _might_ have porn on it.

How is it hard to understand why a consumer would want a third party store? Is it hard to understand why people want choices when selecting an internet provider as well?
It's against the Apple ToS to charge more on their app store.
So they should remove Google drive as they also skip apple payments ...
Entire verge/vox are long form tabloids but with sophisticated wording which is deliberately contrarion. I've read polygon only once and they did come across as very, very good.
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There is no way companies are passing that 20-30% to the consumers.
I worried about getting infected a lot back in February or March, so I ordered from Japan and India several different types of medicine with distinct mechanisms of action that were hypothesized to help with the disease. Several of these are in Phase 3 trials now or have had positive RCTs published outside the US. I still wear masks and avoid crowds, but it makes me feel a little better. For the sake of HN's SEO I won't list them out. This did not include the big bad one that was most heavily politicized, but these are also used by hundreds of millions of people per year.