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What does a PR response to something to this look like? This happened late in the work day, does that mean that people stay longer, or is it handed off to a PR team in another timezone? Do executives like Tim Cook play a role in the response? I've never really thought about the PR response and would love to know more about what goes into it.
Simple solution. Require Apple to allow alternative stores. That's a basic anti-trust issue. Not that Epic is much better in the sense of doing anti-competitive shenanigans, but Apple is simply infamous in that regard.
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I mean to be fair the user telling you the question is not SO material offered you two alternative communities to post the question in. Is there something lacking in those communities?

In general I’ve found there are specific discord/slack/whatever servers that are more open to discussion, I don’t have one for networking stuff though.
There is no guaranty Google wont play the same tune. Google and Apple have essentially formed an oligopoly by this point.

EDIT: this comment aged well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epicgames....
finger crossed.

Fortnite is not really the hill I have seen this battle take place. For example Apple also rejected the satirical app of a Pulitzer winning journalist (it does not make their app good but suggests that the content was probably not just a fart joke).

Still, people should be able to install whatever they want on their phones, without Apple playing walled garden.

It is not good for devs getting squeezed by the platform owners, it is not good for people being able to install whatever they want, and quite frankly it is not good for freedom of speech either.

I am not including Google here since their policy is a bit more defendable, you can sideload apps without too much trouble, I even believe that Epic uses that mechanism to do not have to pay the 30%.
You currently do not have a government that will be swayed by evidence.
Leapyear has a financial interest in having you believe that. Are their algorithms open-source? If not, can you buy a copy, or is it closed-source, SaaS-only?
Locke ran with Life, Liberty, and Estate but even the American founding fathers went with the idea that Estate is an socioeconomic construct for the purpose of "freedom".
Going after Apple's policies seems to require fanfare. Spotify made a whole website: https://timetoplayfair.com/

This follows other public denouncements by Hey.com, ProtonMail, Netflix and others, all within a few months.
What a self-serving reason...
That's the really, deeply cynical part of all this - in a world where Epic could use their own payment processing without Apple taking a cut, all their customers would be paying the full $9.99, not $7.99. It doesn't require much of a crystal ball at all to realize this, because it was the reality right up until the very instant that Epic Games needed to push the idea that Apple's cut was actually costing consumers money rather than them as part of this lawsuit and PR campaign. $9.99 everywhere, on PC direct from Epic, on consoles (which take a similar cut), Android, iOS, everywhere. The extra went straight into Epic Games' pockets.
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Problem is, that missed income will have to be paid by the taxpayers in the end.
You assume that any of the Arab countries care about Palestinians sadly outside of the scope of the Israeli Arab conflict where they can be used as pawns they don’t.

Even Jordan which 80% of its population is Palestinians doesn’t seem to care much.

The next logical step is to actually allow Palestinians to gain refugee status and removing UNRWA so the refugee camps might actually get some permanent housing, utilities and countries like Lebanon and Syria would have to grant them the same rights as any other refugee group.
putting aside the farce of judiciary-as-non-political-body, why wouldn't this also be a battle for the legislatures to consider?
I fear that macOS is going this way. The amount of hoops to jump through to run third party apps seems to grow with every release.
Yes, it is basically The Culture.
Absentee ballots are very different from the systems states are putting in place to mail ballots to everyone.
I guess I wasn't sure how regeneration could occur through a process that is not frictive & therefore clean. And if there is a clean friction, why there wouldn't be one for disc breaks as well.
> What is your solution ? Israelis are tired of hearing that it's unsustainable without a solution.

I assure you the rest of the world is getting tired as well. But at the end of the day, this isn't my problem to solve. It's Israel's. Eventually, the world will get tired enough to act. It has in the past.

The reason it isn't a crisis for the rest of the world now is fundamentally down to an odd quirk of the way voting demographics work a continent away in the US. And... that actually looks very stable. But eventually something will shift (hell, a Great Collapse of american influence seems not entirely unlikely at this point), and Israel will feel pressure it's been insulated from for the last 53+ years.

That's what "unsustainable" means.
So, this is obvious that they knew they were violating terms and conditions.

How can they win? It's so clear that they have been preparing for this. The ad in-game in fortnite makes it too obvious.
I learned the other day that estimates/story points entered into subtasks do not rollup to parents unless specifically configured. Seems like initial thinking from Atlassian was that subtasks don’t affect scope. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Subta...
they did the same thing with that manufactured dust-up between Improbable and Unity in January last year. Improbable intentionally violated Unity's terms, Unity scrapped their contract, Improbable intentionally engineered confusion among its users, Epic came out with a signed contract with Improbable and an agreement to the tune of $25m like an hour or two later. Tim Sweeney the whole time was tweeting about how big and mean Unity is. I just don't believe his act at all.
I think anyone supportive of consuming less is including less individual travel and proximity trade/consumption as a fundamental part of the decrease. Other popular issues nowadays seem to be meat consumption and human breeding, but the key importance of transportation seems to be still more generally acknowledged by everyone I know with an outspoken opinion on the matter or a corporate agenda.

Air conditioning as a luxury to rethink, OTOH, rarely if ever comes into discussion around here (I'm writing from a Mediterranean perspective, obviously AC can quickly become a necessity elsewhere).
It is fascinating to me for the all wrong reasons. Is there a German word for this; enjoying watching opposing forces but you don't like either?
At least in the US the people who accept the offer can be charged as money mules.
Definitely.
In Allegheny county (Pittsburgh), out of the 214 diagnosed cases in the 0-9 age group, there were a total of 4 hospitalizations (1.87%), 0 ICU (0%) and 0 deaths (0%).

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Wow that is incredibly bad luck.
> it's okay to pick a less optimal solution

There’s a lot of space between optimal and failure, though it doesn’t always feel like it. Kids can sit a million ways in chairs but at some point they can also understand the concept of balance so that they can figure out for themselves the 10%of positions which result in failure.
Stop making strawman arguments around billionaires and trillion $$ companies. The only company which can take on Apple is another large company with passionate user following. Small developers like you and me just come here on Hacker News and argue. But it leads to nothing as Apple simply ignores us.
That’s the joke.
> Me neither! That's why we need 3rd party app stores.

Nope, not at all. You want 3rd party app stores because:

1) you don't believe Apple's walled garden is worth a 30% cut

2) you dislike Apple's lack of transparency in their app review procedures

3) you're unable to sideload an app onto your "customer's" devices

One or more of those are why you "need" third party app stores. And, I think you've got a valid argument for any of them. But none of those have anything to do with what APIs are available to websites in Safari.
Yeah but a reproducible sometimes is pretty amazing. Sounds like some interesting applications await.
There are about 5 times as many TikTok users as Fortnite players. I suppose that is a part of the calculation as well.
The sooner we heavily tax the externalities from cars the happier everyone is going to be.
heh, jailbreak is a bad solution to a problem that should not exist.

You should not have to rely on security issues in order to install whatever you want on your phone.

Jailbreak should only be needed when you want to replace OS blocks, not just install something.
> Every person in the news I've seen that claims long term problems are obese individuals looking to make excuses.

You should watch a more diverse media, then, because there are more than a few fabulously fit people who are no longer able to compete, or even continue, their sport.
> I think your argument is invalid, because i.e. Epic wouldn't want to share a buildable XCode project of Fortnite with you.

They could share an installer that downloads and copies their binaries. Not too different from what many game publishers do on PC.

I'm not sure whether the main barrier to people doing this is the $99/year fee, or the friction associated with setting up a developer account, or the perceived (and real) risk of getting malware if customers made a habit of doing this.

But an iPhone in the US already costs $1000 over say 5 years, plus several hundred per year in carrier costs. I could entertain an argument that an extra $99/year to have an effectively unlocked device is not exorbitant or anticompetitive. If you think it is...would you still think so at $49? Or $9? The revenue Apple get from that must be insignificant compared to the app store.
Other digital distribution platforms, like Bandcamp, only take 10% to 15%.

I'm sure if there was true competition in the app store market, other app stores could be more efficient with the 30% cut that the App Store takes, and pass the savings off in order to compete with rival app stores that take 30%.
I think they stopped hating it when they walked away from the openness of Apple II into the all-closed design of the original Macintosh.

Apple wanted to be a huge corporation, and they succeeded. They also wanted to be a sexy and adored big corp, and here their success is colossal, no IBM could compare.

Google used to compare, but they started to lose their luster in the eyes of the tech-savvy trendsetters some time around 2015. I suspect Apple is going to get a similar treatment some time in the future.
It is likely extremely difficult to win such a suit based on challenging the terms of an agreement that you agreed to repeatedly. Every single change to the TOS for a developer account requires acceptance. I doubt there is any part of this agreement that Apple did not write with this exact circumstance in mind. No matter what Epic challenges based on this argument in the end they will give in and look like fools. Maybe if they are lucky Apple will lower the % by a little. This is not cutting edge law here.
There's some alternatives within the Stackoverflow "network":

Maybe that question would have worked better on https://serverfault.com

for more abstract software questions there is
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/

Otherwise, forums and other communities specific to technologies. E.g. a linux/unix admin group for your SSH/PAM question.
lmao, you sound like Apple's PR team...
Expanding on this.

The idea that a large platform like iOS can only have apps loaded through a market place controlled by the hardware manufactured is clearly in violation of the spirit of anti-trust laws.

However there's no legal precedent on this because no one with deep enough pockets to fight Apple has been angry enough to do it yet.

Meaning this could be great news for everyone if this goes to court and Apple loses as they should.
This was known by many Antarctic scientists before 1963. I remember my dad telling me you could throw boiling water into the air and it would freeze into millions of tiny ice crystals before reaching the ground, but that the same wasn't true of cold water. I think he said it was due to thermal inertia.
Yes Mobile Safari, where it is the -only- browser that is considered on iOS.

"The WebRTC APIs have not yet been exposed to iOS browsers using WKWebView . In practice, this means that your web-based WebRTC application will only work in Safari on iOS, and not in any other browser the user may have installed (Chrome, for example), nor in an 'in-app' version of Safari.Sep 7, 2018"

Im sure there are more examples.
Exactly. Like many great teams they complemented each other beautifully - Apple would not have started without both of them bringing their strengths and playing them off each other.

Life is NOT a zero sum game.

Freaking cancel culture - no one is willing to expend any effort on nuance or deep thought. It's either yes/no, good/bad - zero room for discussions of the space between. How boring.
While I’ve certainly enjoyed running all compiled-in kernels in the past, I think it’s a bit inflammatory to suggest that there’s no need for modules, when literally every major Linux distro I have ever seen in production (outside of certain embedded devices) has a modular kernel. There’s a good reason for that...
It's new. A good habit I've developed recently is to read all the PEPs since the last thing, and all the library changes. Python 3 is in full swing and some great things are in there already
In this case alternate platform is android, PC, consoles
You are missing:

.. not covering the iOS marked is for some products not viable and might literally lead to insolvency in the long run.

Today you can tell people that you don't provide a game on e.g. X Box and they might not like but accept it. But you can not tell people that their premium mail service has no iOs app or that they team meating software has no iOs app or that their <insert any software covering a group of people> app doesn't work on iOs.

Tbh. it's probably somewhat true for tipple A massive multiplayer games and games consoles, too.
Trump. The pandemic works for him, because then more people want to vote by mail, which he can limit through defunding the post office. If the pandemic isn't as much of an issue, then he can't limit the supply of voters as easily.
Do you know any examples that app developer has entered into a deal with Apple to pay that 30% cut even for sales outside iOS or MacOS platforms?
>laughable to suggest a company like Epic would lower their prices in response.

But they did lower their prices in response already
This is clearly not the case with these particular dumpsters. The article shows a picture of a suspect exiting the bin through a very small hole that was designed not to let people enter.
it would seem they know they do not have legal standing based on the amount of effort that went into making this a PR campaign. they seem to be attempting to force Apple's hand outside of the court.
Applying DP to a simple computation like an average or median isn't that hard, what's more tricky is to ensure reasonable privacy guarantees when allowing unlimited interactive queries or large-scale sample generation from high-dimensional data:

You can apply DP to individual datapoints or attributes, but the amount of noise that you need to add to reach reasonable privacy guarantees is then quite high. Hence it makes more sense to add noise to the result of a computation, as the sensitivity of many practically relevant computations to individual datapoint values will often be small, hence the required amount of noise to mask the contribution of each individual datapoint will also be low. The problem is just that often a single datapoint can contribute to the result of many (sometimes nearly infinitely many) computations, and every DP computation result you return to a user (or adversary) will reduce you privacy budget. There are some approaches to remedy this problem, like adding "sticky noise" or remembering queries to ensure no averaging of noise is possible, but all of them have their drawbacks. Therefore we still see quite limited use of DP in interactive data analysis or machine learning, because it is quite hard to strictly ensure reasonable privacy guarantees in those cases.

Would be interesting to know if LeapYear has come up with something better, but they don't seem to have any source code or datasets available for public scrutiny.
I've reached point 7 and so far I'm seeing a lot of demagoguery. Not that I'm in love with Apple or its business practices, but for example is "tax" the right word for something that isn't a government entity? Or e.g. does a judge care what happened in 1984 or what that ad campaign looked like? That one's in there (point 1, right at the top) for the press, I suppose.

Demonstrate some relevant facts and just let them be what they are, and if they aren't how you want, that's called being "wrong?" I dunno, maybe I'm being naive or maybe my courtroom (if I were a judge) would be a hell of a place to try that horseshit.
> I don't think you analogy is well thought out.

> It's more like giving them the confidence to jump by telling them that other people have successfully jumped.

No, you're missing the point: other people have successfully "jumped" (opened schools), but the person you're talking to (the US) is not equipped like they were and will die if they jump. Success in this case doesn't have anything to do with having the mindset to jump or not, it has everything to do with having made the right preparations before jumping.

The kind of mindset change that you seem to be advocating for is the exact thing that got us into this mess: the idea that you can be successful merely by confidently believing you will succeed (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Positive_Thinking...). That kind of thing causes people to overconfidently blunder into failure like an idiot.

If there's any mindset change needed here, it's to convince the person adopt the the mindset to be willing to turn the plane around, land, buy a parachute, take a parachuting class, go back up in the plane, and only then jump.
Yeah but this was obvious from the moment they first announced the update. You don't do that without a plan, you certainly know what Apple's policy is.
There is precisely zero evidence that a lockdown leads to even a measurable fraction of 1% deaths.
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These public battles are commonplace when it comes to cable television carriage fees. The big media conglomerates will often raise fees causing a battle with the various big cable providers. Sometimes the cable providers will decide to walk away form negotiations and the media company will respond with a rash of TV commercials telling viewers to call their provider and demand they make a deal. However none of those commercials are even as well marketed as this ad.
If Apple provided a way to jailbreak their devices, I'd be more inclined to support this argument. But they try to prevent jailbreaking at every opportunity so, regardless of the legality of it, Apple does not consider the phone your system, they consider it theirs.
Not true, for instance YouTube Premium charges more for subscriptions through the App Store than if you subscribe on YouTube.com
This is going to be a fascinating PR war. Apple was probably caught by surprise with how immediately public Epic was willing to take this.

But besides the fun of that wonderful drama unfolding over the next months/years, I actually feel like this could be catastrophic for Apple's image. Epic has an underestimated amount of influence and clout over the Gen Z crowd, and by aggressively rallying teenage gamers against Apple, I think anti-Apple sentiment could become popular (or viral) where it basically was nonexistent before (outside of some techie/developer circles).
Nice approach with annotations in the comments.

I wrote something a little more tounge in cheek a while ago -- I modified SQL syntax to include functions with arguments

https://github.com/scientifichackers/sql2code
wow, the drama begins

I think Epic did the right thing. 30% Apple Tax needs to go and go for good.

Apple provided limited usefulness in the whole transaction, yet they claim 30% of it. Why?
That might’ve been the case couple of years ago, but now the ratio is about 55:45 in favor of apple and can vary from app to app. Yes, they have a slight upper hand but still not a monopoly.
Except Apple also already foreseen this.
Arxiv link to the actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02373

Looking at the actual graphs, what is presented appears at first blush to be a bistable system prepared in its higher-energy stable state. (Or at least, prepared in a way that several of its constituent subsystems "fall into" that state.) Transitions to the lower-energy stable state require overcoming a barrier, and jumping over that barrier is of course faster at higher temperatures. At lower temperatures you essentially have a slow internal self-heating from the periodical jumps of subsystems through this forbidden region by thermal excitations, not unlike phosphorescence having to tunnel through an energetically forbidden region; this self-heating prevents the thing from cooling down fast enough.

Actual applicability to water is kind of harder to evaluate. I've long thought that you could indeed have an Mpemba effect caused by persistent induced convective currents in a fluid: so a hotter thing placed into a fridge might create a more dramatic internal flow as its outer boundary layer cools and changes in density, the convective current would certainly increase the slope of the hotter cooling system beyond the naive temperature scaling, and might then persist as a physical difference even after the two systems arrive at the same temperature, leading to a faster cooling speed of the convective system that "started out hotter". But I mean I have never really done experiments to confirm that sort of thing.