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I remember dualbooting NetBSD 1.3.1(and 1.6) and Slackware 7(and 3.x) at 386SX 33Mhz with 4MB of RAM :)

From my memories NetBSD was very fast, but 1.3.1 did not have any pkgsrc yet (so no easy software compilation).
I wish they'd do something about Apple Arcade. The way it's aggressively promoted (slightly less aggressive now than at the beginning) would get any other developer permanently banned from the platform.
I had to try and went trying and bought a blue key mech board. They are great for gaming of course. After a year I went back and bought a silent Matias Mac replica keyboard. Used Mac keyboards for many years before, they are soft and low with optimal distance between keys, but enough tactile function to not make mistakes when resting.
Perhaps most of us get accustomed to what we have used for the longest time and want to use that.
They haven't proposed the remedy yet.

I'd suggest -

* Remove the requirement to use Apple for IAPs
* Allow users to install software from third parties, including app stores.
* Introduce an active choice ballot.
* Force Apple to divest the App Store into a separate company that is forbidden from entering into exclusivity arrangements with hardware platforms.
* Forbid clauses that require price fixing, or informing consumers of other purchase options.
Isn’t Spotify benefiting from Apple devices? If not, then they can simply not be on Apple devices right?

If they are benefiting, then is it unacceptable for them to pay for the benefit?
It's a short comment on the internet, it can be essentially correct (or not) without elaborating on societal complexities
> Apple has been pretty transparent about the rules

I disagree. Apple doesn't let App developers to inform users about the 30% tax. How is that transparent?
The lockout for investing is short term capital gains.
They will probably just force Apple to allow Spotify to use their own billing system.
Spotify doesn’t have to be available on Apple devices at all. The competition you’re describing already exists no?

There’s a contradiction in these arguments. Either Spotify benefits from Apple devices, in which case the fee is a cost of doing business that ultimately benefits them, or they don’t benefit from the arrangement in which case they leave the platform.

It’s the same thing with the food delivery apps and other food apps. There are literally thousands of platforms like this. People should just leave if they don’t like the rules.
Did the court make a ruling without any consultation with actual climate researchers? or just the article fails to mention this?
Your business doesn't operate in a vacuum. It is licensed and supported by society. The same society that benefits from inheritance redistribution.
Exactly, this is so dumb. Our food costs went up a bit, so we have to give everyone a raise to match the percentages?
What makes it a problem to orders switches yourself?

Mechanical switches are not a rocket science, and any electromechanical OEM would've been happy to work on them with such premiums.

I myself been thinking of ordering double action switches, so you don't need debouncing them. I even contemplated adding some ultra low power latches to be overmolded inside, so you get a single output out of the box.
Why is using age to approximate context worse than using some other factor to approximate it?
Extra disappointing after going through helicopter pilot training to be certified to fly the lunar lander.
And yet “the wifi is shit” isn’t something you hear said very often about MacBooks.
Job Title: Director General, Q
I don’t think EU cares about fair competition, rather being petty about not having their own FAANG.
GP makes some valid points, why would one accuse GP of gatekeeping? I think anyone who jumps to such an unfounded, uncharitable conclusion should consider their own biases first.
Cool! Now put it on a VR headset
AdBlock Plus + NeverAds enabled for iPhone
I can't see any differences to my desktop with FF and uBO.
There are silent switches too. Look up Silent Alpacas or Gazzew Boba U4 Silents for example
That's the central thesis of The Right Stuff. Collins was bumped from Apollo 8 and didn't feel that bad about bumping someone else from Apollo 11 as a result.
Spotify isn’t even using Apple’s payment system
If Apple was an EU company and Spotify was an US one, I think you'd get the same outcome by the DOJ.
Yes but also https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/05/tech/john-mcafee-cryptocu...
You mean "allow other browser engines.

There are exactly three browser engines of any note: Safari's, Chrome's and Firefox's.

iOS allows other browsers and doesn't allow other engines. And considering things like this: https://webapicontroversy.com/ I'm not entirely sure I want Chrome anywhere near my phone.
And aren't even allowed to mention in your app that you can sign up outside of the app.
That is not at all the same thing. People aren't randomly assigned to jobs.
Very interesting and grim! But Mercury capsules only carried a single astronaut. You may be thinking of Gemini or Apollo?
It's nice to see government on the side of people, the US government could learn a lot of lessons from the EU and their consumer protections.
Sure I understand that, but personally as an iPhone user I don't care. Users benefit from consolidation in the app store space, it much easier for me to have all my apps come from one app store with one set of rules and policies. I benefit from the fact Facebook can't bypass the App Store rules for security and privacy through side loading and an alternate store. Why do you want to take that away from me?

Also as a user I don't see any evidence that I am suffering from this, are app prices significantly lower on Android App Stores other than the Play Store? The vast majority of Apps are free, or rally pretty cheap. Show me the evidence.

I think the idea that competition in this area will benefit users is highly dubious. Does it really benefit users on Android? Side loading didn't work out for Fortnite very well.

At the end of the day it's Apple's product and they get to decide what code they do or don't write and what features they do or don't support and how they work. They get to decide, and are accountable for the security architecture. As long as hey are meeting trade, advertising and safety standards it's up to them.
FWIW there were some bizarre orca attacks around Portugal or Spain recently.
Sorry about that, the site lets users in from Google for free, but puts ad walls up for direct links. Sneaky.

You're speaking about raw numbers.

From that report:

$47.94 billion: iPhone (Up 65%)
$9.1 billion: Mac (Up 70% YOY)
$7.81 billion: iPad (up 79% YOY)

To let us know what Apple prioritises, though, we need to look at percentages of the operating unit as a percent of Apple revenue.

Mac revenue was 4.8 in 2014, 5.2% in the most recent figure I could find.

https://barefigur.es/companies/apple/products/

We can also look at company reorgs like getting rid of the macOS team, advertisements steering customers away from macOS, and other public facts.
That paints an even more anticompetitive problem.

If you started a music streaming service, could you get those lower rates? If not, is there any way you coins compete?
GBForth if improved would be far easier to handle composition
and calling ASM in a really easy way.
Imagine how many robots you could launch for the same money
No company should have the power to tell another company that they must split up into separate entities.
The Northern Ireland situation was simply resolved the only way it could be. If there was some better outcome for the UK that would have not spoiled the entire integrity of the EU, I am sure it would have been allowed. But no matter how good Johnson's team was in extracting concessions from the EU, even they can not move mountains nor islands, or otherwise change hard geographical realities.
Thanks for the input, I'll check it out.
The (real) reason to forbid sideloading is that it opens your customers up to the malware sewer that is Android. If sideloading is allowed it would take about 30 seconds for Facebook to create their own 'store' where the only product is Facebook apps with tracking turned on and data pilfering turned up to 11. You would see similar fly-by-night 'malware r' us' stores pop up pushing casinos, lotteries, and whatever other crap they can A/B test which shows that users with few technical skills can be tricked into using/installing.

Happy to have 3rd party payment options as long as it prevents sideloading.
How is apple entitled to 30 percent of what any other business makes?

Apple developed a platform and says to developers "pay is 30 percent to use it" sounds fair to me. Huge streaming service comes along "I want to use you platform but not pay the fee".

How is that remotely fair? No one is making Spotify use it. What right has any one or any company got to demand special treatment. Many other app developers are fine with the fee. If they weren't, they wouldnt use it. It's a choice.

Also "abusing market position" what does that mean. It's purposely broad, it can mean anything.
You also don’t have to buy a subscription in the app, do you? You can pay on the web directly to Spotify and use the subscription in the app.
Shady chinese manufacturers on Alibaba don't have a company counsel.
This is all fine if other stores existed on the phone that could compete with Apple's offering. If it's such good value then developers would choose the 30% cut over publishing on an alternative store with less fees (and potentially less benefits). But as Apple holds a monopoly on app stores on the iPhone this assumption that the cut justifies the value offered can never be tested in a real market setting.
I think security is a valid consideration as well. The average non-technical iPhone user would not be hard to hoodwink into installing a 3rd party App Store full of malware.
Agree, revenue is probably the primary driver.
30 percent fee is not a 30 percent margin. You are factoring in any costs of running and developing the service.
I think Boris wins either way. If the Norwegians make concessions, great it’s something to brag about. If they don’t, well it’s just another EU-ish country stabbing the UK in the back.
>Unpopular opinion:

Only if you own Apple stock... or well hackernews is overall unfriendly for anything Apple related.
Apple devices and services don't have to be available in Europe at all. Either Apple benefits from Europe, in which case they need to follow European rules and regulations, or they don't benefit from the arrangement in which case they leave the EU.
This calculation does not take into account a collapse of the medical system. The problem with covid is the speed of its spread. We see this in India right now. There are not many cases per capita but their limited health care system could not handle this and people suffocate to death.
I really wish this too. Unfortunately, I am not sure the anticompetitiveness of Apple's behaviour regarding web browser engines — and its implication on the entire app industry — has been brought to the attention of EU lawmakers...

For those not familiar with this issue, Apple is totally blocking browsers (like Firefox and Chrome) to use their own engine on iOS, preventing them to give web application access to native features, like push notification. Because of course, Apple won't add these features to their own engine (WebKit).

That way, they are forcing app developers to develop native iOS apps, which have to go through their App Store to be installed on iOS. By doing so, they can take the 30% commission fee on in-app purchases, and lock developers/companies in, because apps developed for iOS are not usable outside of Apple devices, of course.
It's not so much the percentage, as the ability to operate outside of the app store if you so wish
But you could be wrong right? Maybe we should analyze if there is actual any merit for the complaints on Apple or about the tracking on the web instead of inventing some conspiracy.

I would show you the example with Microsoft or Intel, this companies were found guilty and all the US nerds did not complain that EU is anti-american.(they were found guilty in US too)
It's horrible, like Perl. Learn a better language, or multiples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQ7De-_OBs
https://crystal-lang.org/
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
Monetary inheritance is likely bad for the species from an evolutionary standpoint.

For example, if a "manipulative anti-social" gene was increased in prevalence because it maximized net worth.

The problem here is a common issue in game theory, optimization without regard for process. Your inheritance doesn't care how it was acquired.

Sure this could be offset for positive genes, but that's making one big assumption.

The assumption that capitalism is the only reward function for our species. That is, what other forms of inheritance reproductively compete with money?
30% seems a crazy high number in my humble opinion.

For the companies that can, that cost gets transferred to the purchaser.

But for those who can't, for example Spotify who has to compete with Apple Music that has no %, it gets absorbed by the company.

There is no way that the services that Apple provide are worth 30%. 10% would be already too much in my humble opinion.

But then again you have the advantage for apple music who can go 10% lower than the competition in price.
That's what web devs like to pretend. Then they are surprised when browser developers continue developing their browsers.

If you want to develop an app, develop an app, not a website. Use Electron or its mobile equivalents if you must.
I would turn it around the other way.

Often on OTA TV you see nothing but ads for "old people" products, not just things that "old people dig" (Black Sabbath?) but for things aimed at the indignities of age (adult diapers, ...) as well as the people who will file a fake medicare claim on your behalf,...

You could easily got the whole day and see mostly ads for things you could spend government services on, lawyers who might help you if you are hit by a car (and you have a slam dunk case) -- the one thing you might see advertised that people spend their own money on is cars. I guess if they didn't have any cars nobody would get hit by a car and need a personal injury lawyer. Scam and near-scam financial services targeted at the elderly is another big theme.

Add that up and if you're under 50, TV sends messages that "I want to die before I get old", "everybody else is just out to chisel from the government", etc. It makes me wonder if taking Grandma's phone away so she can't get scammed is worth her not being able to call 911.

Because there is no ad targeting by age on TV, TV is flooded by old people ads that drive away even a middle aged audience. By the time we get old we won't be watching TV because of it. If TV had age-targeted ads it might be tolerable to watch again.
I don't care if Apple takes 90% I'm just tired of them telling people what software they're allowed to run. It makes everyone miserable even if they don't use the iPhone.
I agree completely. I look forward to seeing rules in the EU that ban percentage based fees and make all platforms open.
As the saying goes, "Consultants borrow your watch to tell you the time."
> Much like the quality of a photographer is quite independent of their camera

And yet you'll have a really hard time finding a professional photographer using a cheap compact camera or their iPad to do their work. Just like you'll rarely see a professional developer writing code in Notepad.

I can type just as fast on a standard $10 keyboard as on my custom one. But on mine I can type more accurately, more comfortably for much longer periods, I can change the layout at any time as it's fully programmable, and at the same time it feels nicer. Why would I not use it?
Is Apple benefiting from selling in the EU? If they want to benefit from Europe, they got to obey the rules.
I'm more critical of SpaceX but I have to admit that they've managed to blow up a lot of hardware without killing any passengers. That suggests they know what they're doing.
> The problem is, when you own the platform and you start competing on that platform you have an advantage that can be misused.

Except every platform ever built is there to get an unfair advantage. That’s the endgame for all the companies. Why would you build a platform otherwise? There’s a perpetual growth expectation after all.
We are not ready. Still strangling with Foucault and Derrida to the point where NA offshoots of their theories are about to get banned in France itself
Yeah, Floyd Mayweather was amazingly skilled, but could be dull to watch. You can't claim Fury-Wilder was dull though :-)
>requirement to repeatedly play guess-the-verb".

Not so much since mid-90's. That happened with GAC/PAWS/DAAD games for the ZX Spectrum, yes, but since Inform (specially inform6) targetting the ZMachine with the English library for i6 it made dumb easy to generate basic actions and synonyms to avoid that from the roots.
Said like that, your arguments sounds like “I had a friend in another business who was abused way harder, we should give Apple a break for abusing only a little”

I think we’d agree reducing/eliminating undue middle-men fees should be a goal whatever the amount.

In particular Spotify for instance gets little benefit from having Apple as a middlemen, while smaller players would sure appreciate the convenience. The argument would be to have a choice to rely or not on what Apple provides.
Can’t you just buy another phone? I honestly don’t get it - did people not understand what they were buying when they purchased an Apple device?

Did Apple ever advertise openness and reneg on that?
It didnt? there is a _lot_ of "no u" arguments on C2
I think the solution you've proposed is probably how you'd do it - but isn't inheritance more elegant in this case (i.e. using a language which supports inheritance if this is important to you)
Here where I live we've had a pretty big gastro outbreak not too long ago, baffling doctors.
Actually, yes, Spotify does have to be available on iOS devices if Spotify chooses to. Apple will be slapped with aggressive enforcement action if they pull something like that.

Apple isn't a deity.
Yes, indeed. Having lived in both countries, the fishing & farming industries are much more protected & respected in Norway than the UK. To me it seems that part of Norwegians' story about themselves is that not so long ago they were a country of farmers & fishermen, then they found oil. They're reveling in the oil wealth but still protect the farmers & fishermen.
I have been working on this for a bit as well but did not figure it out completely yet (mostly due to lack of time): I want to create enough to have loadbalancing/failover on dns level (like cloudflare/route53). Any tips? Open source and on premise hosted.
While the situation is better on Android, not using the Play Store isn't a real option in most cases. Alternative stores cannot provide auto updates.
> Anyone who actually prefers the UX of desktop Windows is mentally deranged

Think a bit about what you say.
I'm typing this on an Ajazz Ak33 which I've owned for several years and it's still working perfectly fine. You can find it for less than $30 on aliexpress. There are quite a few options of mechanical keyboards for less than $50 .
imagine an SPA for a basic CRUD system. there's a list view and details view with a delete button that returns you to the list.

in liveview server renders me the list view, i click details, server renders me details view, i click delete button, server renders me the list view.

if there's big latency/connection error/etc between clicking delete and getting back the rendered list - user just has to wait.

in spa i could optimistically assume that delete worked and render the list that i already have cached without the deleted item, allowing user to continue working immediately and if there was a disconnect/error - i could retry that delete in the background without bothering user, only prompting them after some number of retries.

don't see how could i implement this workflow in liveview.
What? According to what rule is Spotify entitled a presence on Apple devices?
Apple doesn’t get a cut of their advertising revenue, and according to Apple was only paid 15% on subscriptions. With credit card processing fees and other associated costs it’s far from 100% profit.
People pretend that for-profit entities are supposed to build platform as a public good. When in fact corporations are incentivized by the market to be a monopoly.
>Also, is advertising to (demographic) most likely to buy your service really exclusion/discrimination?

Hi! I work at a bank, that specializes in Credit Cards. I take a bunch of mandated training. The answer to your question is a

RESOUNDING YES

It is DEFINITELY discrimination for me to exclude Black people from lending money, or from OFFERING (aka advertising) to lend money. It is discrimination for me to offer different rates to Seniors than non seniors. It is discrimination for me to offer different TYPES (think: low APR with annual fee) of credit cards to poor people.

I'm not sure if FB should be in trouble, but the credit card issuer will have to explain this to the regulators.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26992315
Apple has effectively become a psuedo government by dictating what software is legal.
You're comparing VM tooling with container tooling, there's going to be substantial differences in level of abstraction. I might suggest you look at the libvirt platform, it's a wrapper around KVM essentially, but there's virsh which I've found reasonably straight forward to work with.
BadAlloc vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices
If you're "not able to spend it in a lifetime..."

Then you're selfish and no good for the money anyway.

One can only buy so many jets and sports teams, sure.

But, if society endows you with that sort of reward, it becomes your responsibility to move society forward with that blessing.

Anything less is exactly why we live in Trump world and not some sci-fi future we all imagined as kids.
Health officials plan major research on Covid-19 long-haulers
Oh that's excellent, I didn't realise it had been picked up again. Cheers!
I owned a used, but lovingly cared for, Volvo S80 T60. It was a magical car. The ride, the handling, the power, the comfort, the stereo. Everything about it was better than my current Honda Accord. My wife couldn't tell the difference in any of these things in driving it, or at least didn't care. It's a stretch, but I can imagine that undiscerning people could think a $10 membrane keyboard is fine. Statistics say those people should exist. What I can't understand is why anyone would want to spend even 5 minutes typing on one of those external Mac "magic" keyboards. They are truly terrible. Yet I know multiple people who prefer them over anything else. It just goes to show that you can't account for taste.
I agree completely, but for now they are following the rules. I’ll be happy to see the EU ban percentage based fees and make all platforms open.
What does the flow to add a notification-supporting Wallet pass look like for the end user?
This. It's extremely difficult to hire well, because no one knows what that even is. Firing well is somewhat easier because almost everybody knows who must be fired, but taking action is the difficult part.
Types of Games
After clinging to my favorite stack for five years (elixir+ember js) my next project will ditch ember.

LiveView is the nail in that coffin. It doesn’t help that Ember, though I STILL love the technology and framework, is deader than dead community-wise except for a few silos. It’s very tough to find talent. And the benefits just aren’t there anymore compared to using LiveView. I still use ember on about 8 projects but no more.

Have others with this stack reached similar conclusions?