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App Store review doesn't really do all that much there.
They don't always say it out loud but seems a lot of startups want a 'rock star' or a 'ninja' coder as long as you're not over 50, black or a woman. We're not biased they say with a smile, it's just you wouldn't be a good cultural fit.
I have no idea. I was not contacted by anyone. This email is an email Tim Cook forwarded to the executive team. So my guess is when doing discovery for this case, they got to look at Tim Cook emails regarding the App Store and this one came up. Again, this is an email that Tim Cook read and forwarded - it did not come from me providing it to anyone
Antitrust doesn't require a monopoly.
format=flowed does not solve the problem, but you don’t have to resort to HTML. This guy¹ has the right idea: just make each paragraph in your email a single long line (but no more than 998 characters). The idea that we need to break lines at 78 characters, or whatever, is false. Long lines will be wrapped responsively in any sane client, so the reader will have a good experience.

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Holy s* this is a surreal comment to read on Hacker News. Once upon a time we believed in general-purpose computing devices that allowed users -- their owners! -- to run whatever software they pleased.

Now you speak of "platforms" that charge a tax in return for preventing users from installing software -- on their own devices they actually literally own, mind.

Can you imagine if your car would only operate on roads approved by Ford?
> This is just wrong. This would hold true if no alternative exists. There currently is not an app the iPhone offers that isn't matched in functionality anywhere else.

There is no alternative for buying apps on the iPhone.

> It's not a monopoly. There is an alternative which dominates the market share.

Yes it is. There is not a single alternative, for buying apps on the iPhone. They control that market, and have 100% market share over the iPhone app store market.
I'm going to heavy push back against both-sides-isms here.

> I think Epic's real motivation here is to run their own App Store

Yeah, you're right. That is the outcome that we want. We want multiple stores on iOS. I thought advocates for this position had been really clear, but maybe we haven't been clear enough.

For the record, we want there to be multiple app stores on iOS.

> build a bigger moat and get the profits themselves

You're worried that Epic's store is going to eventually overrun Apple's and then Epic will somehow prevent other stores from being installed on iOS devices? You're worried that we'll get a bigger moat than literally not being able to run any code on the device that doesn't pass through Apple's review process?

What on earth would that theoretical bigger moat even look like?

> and get the profits themselves (12% cut, 5% if you use Unreal Engine)

I want to follow up on this in the context of your worry about moats. We live in a world where Apple has complete control over the app ecosystem, and you're frightened that another company might get control and... offer better terms than we have right now?

What specifically is the horror scenario that you're frightened of?

> They also make exclusive deals, where the games can only bought in their store for 6-12mo.

I can only imagine how upset you're going to be when you learn about how Apple Arcade works.

> Tencent is also 40% shareholder in Epic

Apple actively censors thousands of apps in China from the app store right now. You are worried about accidentally funding censorship through indirect means, and your response to that is to directly take the side of one of the censors.
Epic can sell iTunes gift cards and earn back some of that 30%.
If they’re giving up on autopilot then fine. But if people’s lives are riding on the quality of the work then I think it sets a high bar for personal projects.
The story has neither a hero nor a villain.
Microsoft can fire game developers from Xbox.
Schwab 1000%, care about the bank, their customer service and fees. Technical features should not be deciding factors in where you keep your $$$.

I believe schwab might still let you request physical security tokens.
It seems to me Epic's goal here is to get Apple to allow side-loading on iOS.
But I happen to disagree with this remedy. I see no reason to set aside Apple's Property rights with regard to their app store.
My solution to this issue would require Apple to be forced disclose all technical documentation needed to write an independent operating system.
Of course to be fair, this would apply to every computerized device sold in the USA.
London, England. Small house, big garden, Mrs was a teacher, 4 year old boy. He plays Lego, games, in an inflatable pool, in a sandbox, and does max 4 hours of learning a week with my wife. He's never been so happy and it'll do for a year as far as I am concerned.
It's not retaliation although that's how Epic are trying to portray it. It's a straightforward breach of contract on Epic's part and Apple are invoking the termination clause.
> What is clear but you probably don't want to admit is Apple is not fighting here for your safety but for extracting mroe money, if they were not that greedy Epic,Spotify would not have started this wars and you would have been safe in the wallgarden and extremely satisfied that the other people inside can't escape either.

Why wouldn't I admit that? Of course the situation benefits them. I just doubt there's a way to give me all the aspects of their devices & ecosystem that I value, that doesn't also benefit them. I'd love to see them drop the cut they take, for instance. That being so high benefits me not at all, so far as I can tell.

... and if someone comes out with devices that actually compete with the specific sort of product they offer, including the integrated & closed app store and restrictions on what apps are allowed to do, and takes a lower cut of app store sales, then Apple might have to reduce their cut, too. Or this current scuffle might end up not changing the app store rules much, but dropping the cut they take substantially—personally, that's an outcome I'd love.
I run a mac and I don't use XCode.
Um yes
New Zealand researchers gave cows seweed and cut emissions 80% by adding just 2% of it

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/01/from-red-seawe...
> It's not bad for eye health by the way [1]

Do not be so sure about this. http://www.myopia-manual.de/ has a lot of information. Page. 131ff:

>The development of chicks towards emmetropization was observed at various levels of illumination [544]: (10.000 Lux, 500 Lux and 50 Lux). Result: After 90 days 50 Lux resulted in a mean myopia of –2.41 D, 500 Lux resulted in +0.03 D, and 10.000 Lux resulted in hyperopia of +1.1 D.

>Categorized according to their objectively measured average daily light exposure and adjusting for potential confounders (age, sex, baseline
axial length, parental myopia, nearwork, and physical activity), children experiencing low average daily light exposure (mean daily light exposure: 459 ± 117 lux, annual eye growth: 0.13 mm/y) exhibited significantly greater eye growth than children experiencing moderate (842 ± 109 lux, 0.060 mm/y), and high (1455 ± 317 lux, 0.065 mm/y) average daily light exposure levels
> Then I'd probably buy a competing brand of car, if that bothered me?

But you also bought Apple approved tires, Apple approved child seat, Apple approved free miles on the highway and Apple approved breaking fluid

You can't use them anywhere else, maybe you can sell them, but you have to reset the car to factory settings

Whatever you bought cannot be used anywhere else, except another Apple car

That's how vendor lock in works, I'm European but I know US laws don't appreciate when a company locks users in
Security is a goal, but the purpose is control. For example, this is different than in Microsoft, where the purpose is security, and more control is sometimes a goal, but mostly comes along for the ride because it's needed (at least traditionally, we'll see how much that continues to change for Microsoft).

This is obvious in all Apple's decisions. Metal/OpenGL, UI changes, custom CPUs, etc. Apple long ago latched onto control as their path to success, and it's worked quite well for them. It's only natural for them to reach for more control wherever they can. Sometimes that doesn't really affect users or developers much, other times it does.
I don't want to back to the office has nothing to do with covid. After all I never stop going to the gym, restaurant all these time, albeit secretly. Its that I prefer to work from home. My job doesn't require anything thing that can only be provided in the office anyway.
Ah, well, if TFA defines the Founders as social scientists, then I can call today's AR-15 a muskeet. Precisely one of the issues of today social sciences is the absolute perversion of language (on purpose).

You can make everything a social science with a bit of imagination.
50X the risk is a tough one, often founders aren't paid, and opportunity cost is just so high today.

If a 30-year old engineer is looking to make a jump, a senior IC role at $BIGCO pays $500-750K/yr starting, with significant refreshers each year, cash bonuses and promotion path to even more. The average time to liquidity for a successful startup is 7 years. Assuming the founders take small or negligible salary for the first 4-5 years then take market salaries, their opportunity cost is easily $5M.

So considering a $5M opportunity cost, and the fact the company wouldn't exist without them, they literally can't just up and quit whenever they want, and are working 100 hour weeks for years on end... yeah, I'd say that's fair.

tl;dr: $5M opportunity cost of guaranteed payout vs $100M maybe sometime in the future doesn't seem insane.
I wrote a forem/dev.to client in go
In hindsight this was obviously a mistake. We were young and genuinely loved the App Store. We bought the kool-aid (and still drinking it to be honest) that this a new better way to consume content. So we wanted to be as native as possible and take full advantage from the power of being native. We never thought Apple would someday object to us helping promote their platform.
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Something can be both "good business" that is make you a lot of money, and a terrible thing for society.

There's an incredible amount of effort to prevent that - we can start with obligatory things like slavery, but there's a lot more - safety regulation in cars or airplanes, food safety, various environmental protections, employee protections, and so on.

"I want the iPhone and App Store to be a closed system." is kind of like saying "I want powerful car that doesn't have to follow emission limits." - I believe you that you want it, but you having it might hurt others, and that's why it's not allowed.
I use recursive queries in SQL to search persistent suffix arrays (mainly when there is a LOT OF DATA). You can do string search hundreds of gigabytes of data within ~0.004s with SQLite on cheap SSD and pretty much no RAM - my goal is to be able to be able to search and align on all genetic information we have so far (about ~9 trillion base pairs in total)

If anyone knows how to increase INSERT speeds on Postgres, I would appreciate. I can get about 100K per second with COPY or putting the inserts in a transaction. Have tried some more mirrored NVME drives and more RAM with ZFS, as well as dropping some unimportant indexes, but I'm still a little limited. Any thoughts?
Nice, looks like I can upload the PNGs from doodler! Thanks!
I think we're on the same page here. Are you saying that the application of Apple's TOS can't be considered retaliation since it's something Epic agreed to be held to?
That's a fair point.

I think the impact that parents have is much larger than location. Period.

I didn't mean to imply that big city = success, small town = giving up. My apologies if it came across that way

My experience was that my parents didn't have the knowledge to know how to push (not their fault - their parents also didn't have that perspective). In small towns, unless you have parents showing you the world, it is hard to find it on your own
I wouldn't mind one of those. Especially if it helped me find games that don't have in-app purchases and don't have in-game advertising. I'd buy those. But it's fucking impossible to find them.
I'm not trying make excuses for a broken system. I'm just trying to add some information that the poster I was replying to may have lacked. I'm not making a value judgement. Those on medicare/medicaid generally have low to no deductibles and co-pays. Those with private insurance may have large deductibles and out of pocket expenses. I certainly do, but I have multiple people in my household with chronic health issues.
I feel like we all did that before as well.
This is what is known as the 'Tyranny of Choice'. Human brain does real good with 2 or 3 choices. Beyond that the number of choices make it hard to do a valid comparison.

The fear of making a bad choice paralyzes many people. So let me offer a little help: Do not worry you will get it wrong, you will get it wrong. Invariably there is something better you have not heard of. Just aim for the top 25%.
"Does the cat experience superposition?" Questions like these have always seemed to me like mistaking the map for the terrain. Quantum mechanics is a model, an abstraction of reality, trying to cope with uncertainties in reality that our observation & measurement technologies can't really settle. It's interesting but not to be taken quite so literally. Right? I dunno, clearly I'm not a physics expert. But I'm not a music expert either (actually I am but let's pretend), but I know that the sounds that please or impress advanced academic peers/mentors/funders rarely overlap with those that please the rest of the world. The Art and Architecture departments are like that also, and I suspect but can't prove that e.g. Economics, and more to the point, Physics, are too. I probably sound like I'm verging dangerously close to anti-intellectualism here, which I don't really want to do in the current cultural climate, but if anything it's the opposite: We should remember that believing someone implicitly just because they're an intellectual is also anti-intellectual. It's an appeal to authority which is one of the classic logical fallacies. Someone is not necessarily immune to institutional pressures (nor are they even necessarily an honest person) just because they're an intellectual. But you need to conduct your own research or at least a survey of the existing research before you can call yourself even a legitimate skeptic (as opposed to just a troll)! Which is why I'm stopping short of actually saying anything... so hey, my apologies for the time-wastage!
They are trying here to separate iOS from Apple devices which is being deceitful. There is nothing Apple is doing that prevents them from running on an Android phone.

That is the key here, Epic and some others are trying to change how Apple has implemented their device. iOS and the hardware are part and parcel. You don't get to choose which OS you run as it was never designed to support such action.

iOS was never an open OS, you cannot legally install it on other devices either.
> actual harm => consumers end up paying more for the apps because the app developers have to increase their price to cover Apple's cut (which is more like a shakedown).

Out of all the arguments against Apple's App Store policies, this has always struck me as the weakest. I remember app prices for Palm Pilots, and for that matter, app prices in general before the App Store came along -- and they were way, way higher. In 2005, a program like Pixelmator for iOS would have at least been $40; on iOS, it's $5. And how much do you think LumaFusion, a multitrack video editor, would have gone for in 2005? If it had been under $200 reviews would have been calling it a steal. It's $30. And that seems insanely high.

So the problem with the "Apple's cut artificially inflates prices" argument is that prices have demonstrably been in free fall during the app era. We can argue that LumaFusion would be able to cut their price to $25, or Pixelmator to $4, and that somehow "proves" that developers have to increase their price, but it's not super compelling.

> I don't see any reason why a company needs to pay any percent of their revenue instead of a flat fee. You pay a % of revenue when someone is your partner or an investor in your company. Apple is neither.

Well, Apple is acting as a payment processor, and payment processors charge you a percent of revenue. I don't think anybody's gonna run credit cards for you for a flat $19 a month fee; if Apple charged only what Stripe did (30¢ + 2.9%), LumaFusion's fees would be over $19 on their 11th copy sold per month and Pixelmator would hit it on sale 65.
My wife and I homeschool our children. We are part of a local homeschool co-op, and the kids love it.

I've been working fully remote for a year and a half, and homeschooling doesn't hinder my remote work in any way. I periodically have a "break-in", where one of the kids barges into the office during a meeting, but it's no more interruption than any other common interruption (e.g. someone comes in late, someone pardons themself to the restroom, etc.).
yes. having people around you to interact with does not require working in an office. people on the street. people at the dog park. people at the coffee shop. people bagging your groceries. people are everywhere (generalization , but if you browse HN you're probably not in an extreme rural area)
> Just quit. Who cares. You're stuck in this mindset of eternity under management. You're immortal. Do the vanlife for a month, Live on an island, start a business. Chill.

That's assuming that you're going to have the resources to live a life of leisure, just because you're immortal. I think that's likely a false assumption.
Does Google really steal revenue with AMP? Honest question, since I've read otherwise blog.amp.dev/2018/08/28/are-you-leaving-revenue-on-the-table-with-amp/
Except games and Xbox:

"The new fee structure excludes all games and any purchases on Xbox consoles."
Misleading is something certain game companies are very good at
> For years, people have applauded the walled garden of Apple and this is the end result. Without flamethrower you wil not get out of it.

I applaud apples walled garden on iOS and have no intention of getting out of it. I’m happy that at least one of my parents is in that garden, and my wife, too. There’s everything they need in that garden and at least it’s comparatively easy to keep up to date and safe. Otherwise I’d have to go play tech support even more often than I still need to.
UE5 not supporting any Apple hardware would hurt Epic far more than Apple as a result, as it would just drive mobile games back to Unity, which is already the market leader in the mobile space.
Montana: 5 year old going into Kindergarten. Wife is quitting her job (at a school - non-teacher) to stay home and assist my son with 100% online learning.

If the school/community manages to create a safe in-person learning environment for the next few months my son will transfer to in-person learning. I highly doubt this will happen though given the current trends.
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I recently quit my job as a programmer and have taken the task of overseeing the kids education while my wife works. She is on Zoom meetings literally all day and then works until midnight, so me quitting alleviates most of the stress on the both of us.

We are home schooling them full time and pulled them out of private school. We are right now going through the process of figuring out their schedule, but we have also hired a home school consultant who is simply invaluable. We are trying to come up with a schedule for the school year as we speak.

Our son is profoundly gifted with behavior issues so he has special needs that frankly make it easier when he's home schooled, but the pandemic is making his social isolation worse, so we need to figure that out. This year will probably be messed up for everyone so experimenting this year won't be that much worse even if we mess up home schooling.

We also have resources available through Davidson and John Hopkins' CTY, so they will be taking courses through that. We'll try our best but we also know that this is a once in a decade situation that everyone is suffering from, so we're not putting too much pressure on ourselves to get it perfect. Most notably is the social isolation, so figuring that out is important for us.
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This is true in the same way for any observable phenomena, so what's strange here that qm is seems special to scientists in this regard.
If your primary interest is in parallel code that runs on a GPU, and not autograd features of Pytorch/Jax, take a look at CuPy: https://cupy.dev/
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This is exactly what we get so mad at journalists about: we look at Twitter and just assume it accurately reflects reality, when there’s no evidence whatsoever that this is the case.
Personally eating in restaurants seems like the worst possible scenario, I don't understand it.
Kind of reminds me of Murphy's law:

1. Things get worse before they get better.
2. Who said things would get better?
Thank you. I would have loved to see their response. My guess it was something to the effect of it's our store, and we gave them distribution to begin with. I have seen similar comments here on HN. I honestly get that argument, but they have been rewarded very handsomely for making this platform…they are almost 2 TRILLION dollar company. At some point, the platform is bigger than you. If I was one case, okay fine, but this is happening across many product categories.
> It's not like IMessage supports facebook messenger and Apple just say no you can't use it. There is a real difference here.

You can make a protocol then and Facebook won't allow you to use it. They're definitely artificially locking you in. It's no different.

> Apple is artificially restricting usage of it's phones for no other reason then greed.

Really? That's the only reason? Does it not seem odd to you that iPhones are considered safe devices, and that Apple goes to great lengths to protect them and user data and now companies are complaining about the App Store? Once they can circumvent the App Store, then can put all sorts of garbage tracking and malware into applications. iPhone and the App Store have been around for more than 10 years, and then over the last two years Apple requires no tracking, prompting of data usage, soon a data use "nutrition scorecard" and now just this year all of these companies are complaining about pricing? Give me a break. If you want to call Apple greedy, then it's just a case of pots calling kettles black. Notice how there aren't any customers complaining about this oh so bad and greedy practice? I don't care what developers want here. I want my iPhone the way it is, and changing the App Store is bad in my view. I'll vote with my wallet in this case. If that means fewer applications because they want to circumvent these things that I want Apple to do, then that's fine, good riddance.

These companies can partner with Samsung or something and make their own phones and app stores. That's fine. But this isn't about that. It's about them wanting money and to abuse user data on the platform that Apple built.