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The app store is already a wasteland. Having multiple stores will be an absolute nightmare.
It's not irrelevant when you start argueing about being ethical.

Besides that, Epic themselves play Gatekeeper through the Epic Game Store and pay big money to ensure they are the Gatekeeper (excluding retail and other platforms), made on kids by loot boxing them.
In many ways a pointer on a modern OS with a virtual memory subsystem really is a handle already. It's not like it points to a single given exact location in physical memory. The OS and CPU are already presenting a bit of a facade.
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I think this is a great point. We could be opening pandora's box here from a number of perspectives including the security aspect of things. This issue of app stores is not as cut and dry as people are making it out to be.

Secondly, you can "side load" iOS apps as well. You just have to go through a process of jailbreaking your iPhone which is not illegal but it may void the warranty.

When you buy the iPhone you are also buying into the platform. If having multiple options for app stores is a necessity for you then an iPhone is the wrong device to purchase. Buy something else. There is nothing wrong with voting with your wallet as there are other phones on the market for people to buy.
There's a lot of research on the negative impacts of loot box systems and children and I think it's a worthy topic to mention when Epic tries to take the moral high ground of David fighting Goliath.
I don't think that is a good situation. It's basically an open duopoly.
I'm not sure what you mean to emphasise with your italics, boogies.

The article is about Fortnite being excluded from Apple's monopoly distribution platform. That platform enriches Apple at the expense of consumers and software developers.

Are you saying it's a good thing that Apple can exclude Fortnite for trying to get around the Apple tax?
As a consumer, I would love if the web forced Apple Pay. :)
Heh, would love to see Greenpeace arrive out in front of Zuck's Hawaiian beach side estate and firehose his beaches with spent drilling fluid . . .
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A plan for dealing with the virus is necessary to stop the virus. At least in the US, hard lockdowns have resulted as a last resort because the Federal government has been in denial all along about the severity of the disease, and has failed to provide the kind of support and leadership that would mitigate the need for major lockdowns.
I agree with what you say. I would like to point out that there are big batteries called water reservoirs that bring huge energy output when actually needed. Maybe with more creative 'batteries' we could solve problems like the ones you point.

I hope we will see big advancements soon enough although I am cautious about this happening anytime soon in the US.
They can do it indirectly by breaking them up.
We used to call this "seekfree" loading back in games because you could read the whole game level in one chunk without seeking on spinning media.

If you wanted pointers out of it after you loaded it you just had a fix-up phase that swapped the offsets for pointers.

We also used the non pointer mmap version on eMMC platforms for really easy ways to store large data while letting the kernel handle the paging with clean pages.

Also forces you to think about data locality which is a powerful thing.
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Apple has a long history of using their leverage and power to extract more value from their business relationships when they can.In what way is it unethical to meet Apple on their own terms?
The reason that has been said outside of the tech circle is because it doesn't really apply to big tech, whose stock prices just hit a new all-time-high a few days ago. We can debate the reasons why that is or whether it's a good thing, but it can't be used as an excuse for Mozilla's failures. How can, say, Dropbox make a ton of money during covid when people are forced to use computers but Mozilla can't? Also, how can you say Mozilla is doing this to stay lean when the CEO makes $2.5 million a year?
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> The out of the box registry does very little and has a very poor user experience.

I think this is indirectly what people are complaining about. Having a free registry mitigates that. So they aren't far off track.

It's true we shouldn't be bitter about Docker. They did a lot to improve the development ecosystem. We should try to avoid picking technologies in the future that aren't scalable in both directions though.

For example, PostgreSQL works well for a 1GB VPS containing it and the web server for dozens of users, and it also works well for big sites. With MongoDB the VPS doesn't work so well.
https://www-ktvu-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.ktvu.com/new...
There have been numerous links submitted on this topic, I haven’t seen this one so apologies if it is a duplicate.

What fascinates me is the ballsiness of this offensive and now thoroughly Epic has prepared for this day. Gruber does a decent job of summarizing Epic’s offensives.

Once a few years ago I signed up for Fortnite and played a few games before deciding it wasn’t for me. Today is the first time Epic has ever emailed me, and what was amazing was how innocuous it was, “we’re offering a discount” complete with a link to a blog post that they’ve since updated covering Apple’s measures and Epic’s countermeasures.

“We’re trying to do something good for you, our customers! But the evil Apple Empire won’t let us! Help us help you free Fortnite” in essence, with a #FreeFortnite hashtag to round things out. I don’t have a horse in this race, but I am fascinated to see how this one turns out.
Monopolies aren’t illegal per se in the US if they were acquired lawfully. What’s illegal is using monopoly power in a prohibited way. However, collusion (even tacit collusion) can be illegal even if there’s no monopoly by a single company, e.g., market sharing[1].

Note: Not a legal expert, this is just my understanding.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_territories
Because - at least in Apples case - customer and developers have no alternative and no choice. There isn't a market setting a fair price for Apple's "service".
You can't get on iPhones (for which people paid already!) without the App Store. You aren't asked if you want to pay for that "service" and there aren't any competitors. If you want to have an app, Apple owns 30% of your business, even if they didn't generate you a single installation.

This is the same as with store owners who have to hand over part of their earnings as danegeld to some gangs controlling their neighborhood. They also pay happily for a great "protection" service.
Would be a pity if something happens to your nice store (or app, in Apples case)!

I don't get how anyone who stands up for freedom of information, a free internet and a fair economy can still own an iPhone without developing schizophrenia..
Huh. I presume these numbers will look very bad for Google. There are no extra-app store options on iOS.

If lowering the cost of app sales royalties to all 3rd developers is the only result of this, I'd say this will be worth it.
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I can actually open Office documents, there is OneDrive for Xbox. I’m sure of myself with the App Store having read Apple’s rules thoroughly before developing our own app, but not so sure for Microsoft. Is there an actual prohibition against productivity apps for the Xbox? Or is it just a matter of natural segmentation?
> This whole ideology of "the user should get all their software from their Linux distribution"

This isn't true at all, and I struggle to think where you came up with this idea.

Linux distributions do distribute a hand-picked set of packages. That's essentially what a distribution does: distribute packages. Some are installed by default, others are made available. That's pretty much the full extent of it.

Yet, just because a distribution distributed packages, that doesn't mean you are expected to no use anything else. In fact, all the dominant Linux distributions even support custom repositories and allow everyone to not only put together their repository but also offer a myriad of tools and services to allow anyone to build their very own packages.

Even Debian and debian-derived distributions such as Ubuntu, which represent about half of Linux install base, offer personal/privayr package archives (PPA), which some software makers use to distribute their stuff directly to users.

So, exactly where did you get the idea that that so called ideology even exists?
Gatekeeping is never about adding value; it's about removing or keeping out [whatever is the opposite of value]. A subtle difference but one to keep in mind.
I really don’t understand the argument about Apple’s store, when Apple has only 20-25% of the installed base and the dominant platform has many stores to choose from.

Customers are plainly choosing the open platform.
> A desktop without a cloud account is

...ideal? Desktops have always come without a cloud account in all computers I've used since my first Commodore 64. The thought that a cloud account is somehow a requirement for a "desktop" environment seems so alien to me I can't even begin to see what our ideas of computing have in common.

An internet connection is required, sure. But a "cloud account" is the invasive thing I try to avoid or remove, each time more frequently, from my home computers.
> I wonder if it would be possible to put the camera shutter and the oled out of phase enough to substantially dim it.

That's a neat idea. It reminds me of the early fighter planes that fired bullets between the propeller blades by having the gun driven off the engine, timed so that the bullet passes through the plane of the propeller while the blades are not in the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_gear
I suspect you're imagining the Chernobyl happening to someone else, but the 2 degrees rise happening to you (and everyone you know).
Shared pointers also defer ownership decisions and lead to memory leaks via cycles which is its own very special level of hell.
So basically you’ve seen white swans for 36 years therefore all swans are white? Apple is an evolving company and much different than it was 36 years ago.
I guess if you want to enforce social justice, and only have a few minutes, you need to use proxies like race to speed up the process.

You've got grand scales to balance -- no time to actually learn about the individual.
I’ve been saying the exact same thing for about a decade. Check my HN comment history on Algolia.

Nevertheless I think Apple are making some missteps. I think they made a mistake on the game streaming service decision. Epic can go take a running jump though.
I won't stop telling this: mobile platforms need not only third party app stores, but third party push notifications services too. Both iOS and Android love to kill apps in the background. This behavior, sans push notifications, cripples a lot of types of applications (chiefly, all messengers).

If there ever would be some legal pressure on Apple& Google to open up their platforms, it is important to make this point known to legislators.
Fdroid pops up and ask to update apps. It's very easy.
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I think a more informative comment would add some perspective on how harmful break dust actually is or isn't. Whether or not someone would use it as seasoning is a moot point.

For example, I wouldn't sprinkle dirt all over my food. But I'm perfectly happy for my food to grow in dirt. Does that mean contact with dirt = bad? No.
> As a consumer, I would love if the web forced Apple Pay. :)

Forced?

So you want a company to take an arbitrary 30% of my livelihood?

This is why Congress has to act. Consumers don't understand the damage these companies are doing.
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That's why you're supposed to purge your hot water tank periodically.

Also keep in mind that yellow sludge comes from somewhere... like the cold water coming into the hot water tank. So... it's probably in the "healthier" cold water no different.
In this case, it's a complex story. NSF has a collection of astronomical observatories (optical and radio).

Some of them have decades-old equipment, and keeping everything operating will eventually preclude building anything new. So, NSF has been trying to offload some older observatories to universities, or consortia of universities - Arecibo is one such.

For instance, some older solar observatories were taken offline to build DKIST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_K._Inouye_Solar_Telesco...), which is an amazing instrument, just now coming online.

Of course, there is a lot of strife and anger caused by reallocation of resources like this.
Sinespace is trying to sell companies on this, I don't know how successful they've been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1nBlm2HKKY&feature=youtu.be
Same here. If I had a reason to justify it, I'd have gone with a POWER9 box from Raptor.

Unfortunately for my home datacenter, everything my Xeon deskside, my i5 Mac and my i3 Dell can't do, I can easily enough spin up a cloud instance and do there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No juju seems to still be going strong. Mír is still going strong - though it is a Wayland client now, even Ubuntu Touch is still going, though as a community project rather than a Canonical one.
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In terms of usability, yes, but the problem with Linux in recent years has rarely been usability, it's the lack of workstation-level applications that are readily available on Windows and MacOS.

As long as Linux lacks native support for Autodesk, Adobe CC, Office 365, FL Studio, Pro Tools, etc. and dozens of other niche programs by ISVs it will never approach the mainstream with any sort of widespread appeal. Currently Linux on the desktop is suitable for people who are aware of these limitations and either circumvent (through technical means such as WINE, which are opaque to the typical end-user) or tolerate them, acknowledging the limitations and doing nothing to mitigate them while embracing Linux's strengths as a web and educational medium (think Chromebooks).

I legitimately have tried going Linux-only several times in my life and I've just come back to Windows every time. I know it's not ideal from a security perspective, a privacy perspective, etc. but there is just zero competition with Windows in terms of a software support perspective. Windows' backwards compatibility and range of software support is a masterclass in how to enable productivity. Even MacOS doesn't come close, with how frequently Apple breaks stuff that's expected to be supported (32-bit app support, Rosetta, etc) and how frequently they change architectures (68k > PowerPC > Intel > RISC, vs Microsoft with 32-bit Intel > 64/32-bit Intel)
How is this different than a VPN?
> 2) Apple need not to help you to do whatever you want with your phone.

> For some reason you confuse your right to do whatever you want with your phone with Apple's obligation to help you with that.

At what point along the road from 'not helping' to 'actively hindering' does this become not ok?

When a company goes out of their way to prevent you exercising your rights, what do we call that?
I think there are basically two ways to look at Apple's App Store policies:

1. Apple acts like a sort of consumer union, coordinating behavior of a massive and lucrative audience so that apps have to meet certain minimum standards to reach it.

2. Apple acts like a protection racket, extracting a piece of the consumer surplus because they can.

It seems that you like the benefits of #1, and I agree with you. The problem is that in the Fortnite case, it appears to be a case of #2 posturing as #1. Does anyone truly believe that Fortnite players are better off paying 30% more to Apple?
Was that before or after the bostock decision?
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I think there's a lot more Apple users who seem to think that just because Apple doesn't have a majority of market share of users that they're not monopolistic. This of course is rubbish as the iOS store's revenue dwarfs the Google Play store, and as such any decisions they make are disproportionately impactful to any and all app developers.
Are they also going to sue Yale for legacy admissions and preferring children of parents who make large donations?
If anyone likes to follow app store case law, Oyez has the verbal arguments for Apple v Pepper that follow with text captions: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2018/17-204

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper
This is what I never understood about people that don’t think anthropomorphic climate change was a thing. Like ok, forget the warming of the planet, we still are making our air, water, and soil unhealthy at alarming levels.
Not that it takes anything away from your point, but to be slightly more precise, the content should (probably, see below) be treated as immutable. The metadata, included in the same files, is mutable - things like status, related ADRs, superseding PRS, etc.

Above I said probably - I'm not sure that we shouldn't allow editing when it's purely clarification, communicating more clearly what it already communicated to most of the audience.

An append-only section for adding further observations, as the decision plays itself out, is also an interesting option, although I don't know whether it would actually be more valuable than distracting.
Check the hispanic box. The system is unfair and racist, but it makes the most sense to take advantage of it.
> put the webcam behind the display

The first time I saw an optical finger print sensor under a glass display, that was my immediate hope that it would kick off an under-glass optics explosion.

> everyone gets to make direct eye contact again!

As someone who doesn't always have "good" days with eye-contact, being forced to do that feels a bit terrifying.
It's not that Vietnamese is the "right kind" of Asian. It's that Chinese-Americans dominate the landscape compared to Vietnamese-Americans. So here you have a Vietnamese-American who has excelled (just ever so slightly, in his case) beyond his immediate Chinese-American peers, which made him a standout in that regard.
Your own argument is a false equivalency just as much. There are many non-merit based factors you could be looking at that aren't race, that would lift up all poor people, or all people with parents who who have no degrees, etc., And such approaches would help disadvantaged races/people disproportionately more than privileged races/people without ever looking at the applicant's race. That would be fair, and automatically balanced as races become more or less disadvantaged over time. Explicitly using race in decisions is just plain racism.
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Candela has an electric boat with foils, using the advantage of electric motors to provide high instantaneous torque to pull the boat out of the water. Once on the foils, the power required is a fraction of a displacement hull at equal speed.
> And I guarantee if the checkbox wasn’t there, you would be complaining that there aren’t enough safeguards to keep people safe.

I hope what you mean is that someone else would be making the argument that the checkbox is necessary: claiming a crowd of people are a single inconsistent argument is disingenuous.
Good! Apple may ask for a bit too much with the 30 percent but still doesn’t give Epic the right to try and do things on their own. Judging on their little trailer they released shortly after getting removed, they new this was going to happen. A company that makes so much money should be able to compromise.
Epic already tried to make a run of it outside the Play Store, and gave up, citing Google's efforts to "outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store." I don't think there's a practical difference here.
The legal definition of a "market" is always going to be somewhat subjective and arbitrary. I doubt whether a US federal court would define the market the same way you did.
> So oil spills in unprotected areas are less serious because

I do not think this is the point the author tried to make.
I read this more like "despite the minor amount of oil spilled compared to other spills, this one will hurt like a big one".
Hell, you might even be able to go smaller. For example, if you know that you're going to have less than 256 instances of a given object, an 8-bit handle will do the job nicely at an eighth of the size of a full-blown 64-bit pointer.
I happen to know some first-time indie devs that were given this deal. The deal is incredibly generous. Basically, epic offered them a bag of money in exchange for a certain period of partial exclusivity (basically "don't be on Steam"). That's it. This bag of money allowed the developers to:

- Grow the dev team enough to accelerate time to launch--QA extra engineers, heck, the devs even used the money to pay for porting the game to other devices!

- Guarantee that they could continue to fund development of the game after launch. Bugfixes, DLC, etc.

- Have enough left over to "try again" and launch a sophomore game regardless of the performance of this one.

You'd think that fans of indie games would love this. Who could possibly be opposed to having an indie dev get funds that would enable them to graduate to managing a small indie game studio instead of a ramen diet & 20 hour work days in the living room.

And yet they got enormous amounts of hate from so-called indie game fans and members of the gaming community. And yes, the devs were aware that the hate was coming from a disproportionately small number of people and that most people don't actually care at all. But still, the psychological toll of having to deal with the harassment was enough to make them strongly consider not taking the money--even though it was the right thing to do both from a financial pov and from a development pov (because it would guarantee they could finish and support the game).

The crazy thing is that even if you hate epic you should love these deals: cheer for your favorite dev, then wait a year and buy the game on Steam, doubly sticking it to the man.
The link leads to nothing? Has been removed? (Sorry if late to the game but seems no one has mentioned this yet)
So anyone who doesn’t think it’s as much a slam-dunk as everyone high-fiving each other thinks is automatically an apologist?

I’d love to have the option to sideload apps on my iPhone. I understood that I couldn’t do this when I bought it however, and don’t really see any compelling arguments as to why Apple would lose - there seem to be many, many arguments based on fuzzy-feelings like “I don’t like it” and “I feel 30% is too high” and “but it’s morally wrong” and “well if you imagine it this way it’s really a monopoly” and “no, I have decided that arbitrarily this would only apply to ‘general purpose’ devices”, none of which sound like legal arguments.

I assume Epic is putting this up to lose in order to gamble that the law is changed in response to that suit, in which case they’d be fighting presumably against at least the lobby power of Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo and many other interests.
Out of curiosity, what were the trade schools/industries?
Epic Games, obviously.
they didn't mention 'someone to call me back when i wander off into the swamp'
On what planet is $240k/yr net profit for a boot strapped business a "low bar."
I noticed! I've been using Linux for decades, and Ubuntu since... 12.04 I think? It's the Linux Desktop for me. I game, I work, I watch movies, play music, connect to wireless stuff, I do pretty much everything I want -- it's a joy. (I always like telling how my wireless HP printer is easier to set up on Ubuntu than on OSX. It simply works on Ubuntu, but the Mac has trouble discovering it...)
¿Do they seriously expect us to believe this neocon cyber BS?