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Because unlike the Microsoft case, you have the option to buy a smartphone from a company other than Apple. 1990s Microsoft was quite literally a monopoly, nothing like what is going on today.

Apple is not stopping their competitors from making good phones, just like how Apple is not stopping you from buying a phone that wasn't made by Apple. Microsoft was doing both of those things, Apple isn't. The cases aren't even close really.
Market adoption is more than a function of ecosystem openness. Blackberry commanded a large chunk of the market back in the day, maybe or maybe not because of the value they generated for consumers, but definitely because of the network effect. Several factors at play here.

Worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
For practically any hardware startup if their margins aren't >33% they will fail to scale, wither on the vine, and die.

My employer makes space hardware and our overhead R&D expenses are so high that if we made 26% margin we would be bankrupt in a year.

So I think ~30% is probably a minimum floor to shoot for.

Just looked it up and Samsung Electronics has a margin that has ranged from 30% to 46% over the last couple of years.

I think the majority of people on HN are software guys who are completely oblivious to the challenges of building physical items that exist in the real world which is why your comment is downvoted.

That and beyond its stated purpose it seems that HN exists to allow people to complain about Apple in a public forum.

What makes all of this so strange is that large software vendors often have astronomical profit margins that hardware companies can only dream of. SAP (~70%) MSFT (~70%) TEAM (>80%)

https://ycharts.com/companies/SAP/gross_profit_margin

https://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/gross_profit_margin

https://ycharts.com/companies/TEAM/gross_profit_margin

Perhaps it is good that software companies have such high margins because if they didn't HN would be flooded with stories about how every company they get hired at goes out of business and management is clueless.
I don't think that's a fair assumption at all. There's a world of difference between being able to propel yoursellf versus relying on another vehicle when the emergency may occur in rough seas or busy channels.

Also the assisting tugboat would have to leave its station to assist to emergency boat.

But no, in general tugs don't always operate with a buddy.
I’m an Apple user (own iPad, iPhone, Mac Studio, among other devices) since the 90:s and I buy into that. But I _also_ think Apple has grown way too much into a bully and way too much into disallowing third party developers to do things Apple allows themselves to do with competing apps.

The “it just works” should be allowed to extend into the entire ecosystem.
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“Apple controls 100% of the iOS market” as an argument sounds like satire lol. What point does this make?

Is the implication that Apple should allow iOS on non-Apple devices? There is not a single hardware company in the world that would integrate iOS to the degree that Apple does. A requirement like this would immediately enshittify Apple’s brand.
What it is very clearly saying is this:

> The patient is a Black man, and the procedure may have special significance for Black patients [because they] suffer high rates of end-stage kidney disease.

I grant you that the grammar of the sentence does leave a smidgen of ambiguity. But I don't see any other plausible reading if you bring even a little bit of context to the interpretive exercise--which is just as much a part of reading as understanding the syntax. The author is justified in expecting that good faith readers will understand the final clause as explaining the clause that goes immediately before it.

It's also a huge and unreasonable leap to go from "this sentence has a slight ambiguity" to "the sentence can be reasonably interpreted to mean that the procedure only works on black people." It can't.
My company has phishing tests regularly. There needs to be a subscription service to test your elderly and disabled loved ones on their ability to discern a scam from non-scam.
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You don’t need to be a lawyer to see that there’s a duopoly, but duopolies aren’t illegal. The DOJ has to prove illegal conduct, which is harder than just showing a lack of widespread competition.
GitHub has the option to ignore whitespace in a diff.
To add more evidence to your point: SJ loved wall gardens and consistently fought against extensibility. The Apple II only got extension slots because the other Steve insisted. All of the compact Macs have very limited to no extensibility.

It's so ironic that Apple was pushing the (open) Web apps in the early days of the iPhone (out of necessity of course).
If you want to have a functional social circle in the US, choice doesn't really exist.
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If zookeepers suspiciously had higher rates of kidney failure then yes I think it would be mentioned.
> but duopolies aren’t illegal

They should be.
Vinge is certainly one of the greats but so is David Brin. I would not consider him under the radar though. Some of his best are Earth, The Heart of The Comet, Glory Season.
When will developers learn that the BSD does not protect you or your users? I understand the philosophical reasons some folks like BSD/MIT-style licenses, but at the end of the day they are not much more than public domain: anyone can take someone’s work and contributions, make improvements and keep the entire thing — original work and contributions, as well as improvements — proprietary.

If you care about a software commons, if you care about benefiting from the improvements others make to your own software, if you care about your users benefiting from the improvements others make: use a copyleft license!
I wonder if there’s something opposite — an abstraction for the Web to provide some layout rules that are more sane than CSS.
Their DoD and Dod-adjacent business (read: high-nanometer) processes are largely in the U.S.

Their consumer and server business (read: low-nm) processes are largely international.

The wikipedia page you linked evinces this statement.

The phrase "most of its manufacturing" is a Simpson's Paradox statement. It's true, but not in a way that's interesting. High-nanometer processes are easier to automate.
I've encountered this so many times, and it always follows a similar pattern. I tell them to fuck off in Chinese and call it a day.
Here's the first paragraph of the actual lawsuit. So no, I feel like they probably didn't miss the point that Android exists:

COMPLAINT
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Appl
e’s then-CEO about an ad for the new
Kindle e-reader. The ad began with a woman
who was using her iPhone to buy and read books
on the Kindle app. She then switches to an Androi
d smartphone and continues to read her books
using the same Kindle app. The executive wrote to Jobs: one “
message that can’t be missed is
that it is easy to switch from
iPhone to Android. Not fun to watch.
” Jobs was clear in his
response: Apple would “force” deve
lopers to use its payment system
to lock in both developers
and users on its platform. Over
many years, Apple has repeat
edly responded to competitive
threats like this one by making it
harder or more expensive for its
users and developers to leave
than by making it more attr
active for them to stay.
What kind of payout range is being anticipated here for settlement? Also remind me, where does all that money go exactly? ... could result in a massive redistribution of wealth... we had the banks now its big tech
Butler also expanded this idea in his 1872 novel Erewhon, where he described a seemingly primitive island civilization that turned out to once had greater technology than the West, including mechanical AI, but they abandoned it when they began to fear its consequences. A lot of 20th century SF tropes in the Victorian period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
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How do you think they would spin Messages interoperability as security or performance?
Legacy decision? Would they do the same starting a new desktop OS today? Much more high risk personal data on an iPhone (e.g. health data, biometrics) requiring stricter security? Many more sensors which could be abused by nefarious actors on iOS (GPS, lots of mics, lidar, cameras, etc) and these are always with us?
Not OP - but I have found a few like this that are good - and I posted a few under 'wordpress stuff' https://steveiscritical.com/learn-websites-and-coding/ - to teach my teams more modern wordpress ways recently.

I warn people that even though a good and easy to use tutorial like XYorZ may help teach, be wary that if they are teaching using elementor, bricks or similar page builder (added plugins), that it may be good knowledge, but that's not really wordpress per se.

Anyhow, with the new FSE editing options, I will say that I finally feel we can put the separate page builders to pasture for the most part, and all the bloat that comes with them for most use cases.

Super Appreciate the vids that Jamie Marsland has been releasing - many showing how to do nice designs with base WP, watching the process is helpful getting up to speed with current options - and shows how modern stuff can be crafted without tons of fancy addons these days.

Navigating the new FSE stuff is very different than previous WP ways like the customizer or 'additional css' blocks, it's finally getting noob friendly again.
I don’t think you’d want to eat severely genetically modified pigs though. Who know what kinds of viruses can make the jump to humans in a chimera like that. Ideally those pigs would be kept in some kind of sterile biohazard location and their bodies would ideally be incinerated afterwards.
You probably know all this, but for others:

Cogmind is a lot of really thought out small touches that sum up to an engaging experience despite at first glance looking like any other roguelike. It's got great animations/explosions and an intuitive UI.

The developer is the main mod of r/roguelikedev, has been running a great blog for years where he dives deep into aspects of roguelike dev (https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/), and is also just a wonderful human who genuinely loves supporting the community and playing roguelike games.
We had a student in class which was so brilliant at memorizing stuff.

But each test had one or two questions where you had to put together the knowledge, not just regurgitate, and that student consistently failed those question on each and every test.

Yet the student got top scores on each and every test, because the accumulated number of points was enough to get them into the top bracket.

I was so annoyed with that, asking the teacher how they could get top scores while clearly demonstrating they didn't understand the subject matter. Of course, all in vain.

edit: Great read BTW
> Why not?

The bootstrapping path does not exist. There is (afaik) no way to go from C compiler to working dotnet environment. You are supposed to just download binary blobs from m$soft.
Feels a bit like history repeating (well, rhyming) with the time back when Java was "the language of web applets" and then Sun created the Hotjava browser and confusion reached the point where minds simply blank out. Few technological novelties have been forgotten more decidedly than Hotjava. Despite marking an intersection of two technological fields (browsers and the JVM) that have shown extreme staying power through the last quarter century.

But the idea of using html for text styling has stuck, Swing UI do text styling with html (and rudimentary css!) to this day. Html would not be a lingua franca if its use was limited to the equivalent of native speakers (browsers).
That seems like something they'd be willing to fix. They allow users to select Ecosia, an extremely niche search engine. Kagi should be on that list too.
Nice tool. Also relevant: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
The devil doesn't need volunteer advocates, he can afford plenty paid. But you actually make the case for UBI as a replacement for means-tested welfare and its associated cliffs: “the longer you stay away from gainful employment, the more marketable skills you lose.”

That's one of the main points of UBI as a replacement for means-tested welfare [0]: eliminating the perverse incentives against maximizing outside work and for expending energy into working the system that exists with means-tested welfare that has complex eligibility rules and is rapidly cut with outside income. By making the clawback much slower and starting much higher up the income scale through the tax system, UBI, compared to the status quo, rewards gaining additional income in the labor (or other) market and learning skills other than navigating a welfare system.

There is a reason that UBI—under the name “negative income tax” because of the political valence of taxation on that corner of the political universe—was originally a right-libertarian proposal.

> I'm OK with people not working if they don't want to, too, as long as those people are OK with subsistence-level living standards

There's no plausible way a UBI provides anything substantially better than that any time in the near (likely, the lifespan of abyone now living) future, so that shouldn't be a problem.

[0] Perhaps even stronger if UBI is also seen as a (partial or full) replacement for the minimum wage, which could be justified because, unlike means-trsted welfare, it doesn't tail off with income and provides a basic support level for all—there is then no reason that employment must also serve that minimal support purpose, which makes it possible to offer employment whose marginal value to the employer is less than would minimally support an employee, but which would still be positive (and in some cases still have more long-term value to the employee because of experience that could contribute to more valuable future employment.)
In their App Store they absolutely have pricing power. They take a high tax, which is higher than most actual taxes, on nearly every single application installed despite doing basically nothing. Things like denying a application the ability to even mention services can be bought elsewhere are the worst offender of their misconduct and other offenses would be forcing apps to use their payment system, again with an extremely high fee, even on recurring subscription charges. Normally a payment processor takes 2 to 3 percent, not 30 %.
> There is a plethora of evidence that this is not the case.

Do you have actual evidence for this claim? Because it's pretty widely accepted that the App Store has higher standards and quality, and you just cited a single case.
A series of serious security vulnerabilities in the Saflok brand of hotel locks
"Financial grooming" is the term in common use in the UK.

I've never heard of 'pig butchering' which sounds rather victim blaming and certainly would not be used as a *descriptive* term by UK banks, government or media.
Reddit mobile web homepage started freezing for me a couple months ago. It happens about 1/3rd of page loads.

That was the final straw. I haven't been to the site for weeks for the first time in 12 years.
It doesn't have to be US investment!
The Google monopoly seems way worst and straightforward to me. Why it isn’t addressed first and why does everyone seemingly ignore them and obsess with Apple is a mystery to me.
Okay that title was confusing, the 3M is quantity not the company 3M’s locks. The locks are not build by 3M or a subsidiary.
> which also uncovered that Reddit leadership was lying about the interaction (accusing the Apollo dev of extortion I believe).

I wasted a lot of time going through transcripts and recordings at the time, and (to my ear, and knowledge of the world) the facts available didn't fully support the confident accusations that the angry villagers with pitchforks were repeating from each other.

Which injustice is kinda poetic, if you consider how Reddit as a venue nurtured thinking like "we did it, reddit!" and other collective stupidity.
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If old.reddit didn't still have a very sizeable user base they definitely would have killed it by now, so you are not alone.
On the contrary, secure computational infrastructure furthers national security. US happens to have a very large footprint of vulnerable infrastructure as compared to other nations that tightly regulate their Internet. Believe it or not, more secure devices are actually good for the US. There have been several articles and discussions around it and the government has been working closely with the industry for years to improve the security posture.
I always felt that most technically proficient people are likely later half of GenX and first half of millennials. The people who could learn the harder parts of technology. And just not the pure web or app world. Like they should know what is a folder...
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
This looks very cool and it's nice to see some finicky details like PG_GETARG abstracted away.

Are there any plans to make pgzx a Trusted Language so that Zig functions could be written with CREATE FUNCTION? Rust recently achieved this milestone and AWS RDS now supports PL/Rust.

Being a trusted language would mean it could be used to create Trusted Language Extensions (TLEs) and could be installed on cloud hosted databases without filesystem access.
I mean, you're not wrong, but the lawsuit isn't about the quality of the end product. It's about the economic leverage Apple has over other businesses by virtue of owning the chokepoints - i.e. the OS software and the signing keys it trusts.

I personally would love to switch to iPhone if Apple wasn't so much of a control freak about the software you run on it.
shells? they are more likely crap filled boxes of their former glory.

communities even remotely related to companies (e.g. r/googlepixel) are run by either fervently crazy zealot fans, or which is more likely, filtered by interns in those companies marketing dept in what seem to be reddit best revenue stream.
> There are many non-apple phone options

One non-apple phone option. Or you're somehow deluded into thinking the hardware matters any more?
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From established writers who are, perhaps, first solving for clicks rather than accuracy or journalistic integrity.
Yea I guess I'm just surprised OP hasn't seen any. The junction point explains the fast chargers, but the Level 2 would presumably be used primarily by locals.

I mean even middle of nowhere cities like Ellsworth are getting DCFC - granted at a dealership, but still it's happening!

https://www.plugshare.com/location/560842
> By tightly controlling the user experience on iPhones and other devices, Apple has created what critics call an uneven playing field, where it grants its own products and services access to core features that it denies rivals.

I once worked on a large enterprise platform. We developed our own applications for the platform, and other third parties developed applications for the platform. We had to regularly scan our code to make sure we weren't inadvertently using internal or non-documented APIs that weren't available to third parties.

I always assumed this was related to some anti-trust lawsuit, but it always boggled my mind that Apple never seemed to worry about that. Remember the brazenness in which they booted third-party screen time and parental control apps from the app store after the introduction of Screen Time.
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In my opinion, Apple have a choice. They go down the "just works", tight integration and lower the fees for other developers OR they open up for competition and keep the fees.

At the moment they're double dipping. They're saying they have to be the only app store for security and UX AND then charging high fees. If they're really providing a service for end users, they shouldn't be taking such a large cut from developers.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
The user is choosing out of an artificial lack of better options, which Apple can only get away with by having a big share in the US market. In markets where they are not dominant, the consumer benefits.
The podcast "Search Engine" recently had an episode about this [1]. One aspect that came to light is that while some targets will sometimes waste these callers time by playing along just to mess with them, they can actually be putting these people in harms way.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whos-behind-these-scam...
The early days of Reddit was heavily libertarian, if only reddit voted in 2008 and 2012, Ron Paul would have been a two term president.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
Yeah, Lemmy is a pretty decent platform but the suggestion of browsing "All" is godawful, if one is looking for something closer to pre-smartphone internet.

You need to curate your homepage a bit to get a good Lemmy experience. The tech side may be like Reddit, but the human aspect is more like a couple dozen vBulletin forums rolled into one.

Some of the instances are (imo) full of straight-up insane and, worse, perpetually angry people. Some instance admins may be power-hungry and prone to drama - but you might not care if the only subreddit you follow from their instance is c/jazz and you just click on Youtube/Spotify links from it.

Is it a pain? Yes. But I still prefer to deal with a couple dozen weirdos than with a single billion-dollar company.
Fair warning, I used PowerDeleteSuite and Reddit seems to have backfilled a bunch of deleted comments while keeping them off my user page. Every now and then I'll read an old thread and see my username and have to manually delete the comment.
> trivial to not buy Apple products

Irrelevant. Monopoly doesn't mean coercing people into the market.

> easy to make alternatives to Apple products and easy to buy feature equivalent devices to Apple products

It's not only not easy, it's not possible. Your mistake is thinking of phones as computers. They are not computers, at least not to the vast majority of users. They are devices that connect to other compatible devices to do telecommunications. It's just like if plain old telephones ran a proprietary protocol and only one vendor could make them.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
> nobody is trying to replace your iPad with a compostable version that disolves in humidity.

Ssh - you will give the electronics industry ideas :)
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I'm guessing the plan is to cast a wide net, then hope that you can dredge up some incriminating or morally ambiguous quotes during discovery. When you have a company of 100,000+ people, there's probably some "haha we're killing the competition" in there, which you can then use to prop up the case.

And then either use that to win the trial, or force Apple into settling.
> These effects consist of oxidative stress, DNA damage, organ dysfunction, metabolic disorder, immune response, neurotoxicity, as well as reproductive and developmental toxicity. In addition, the epidemiological evidence suggests that a variety of chronic diseases may be related to microplastics exposure.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/envhealth.3c00052
It has been already pursued and is being addressed. There's just a lot less divisiveness/attention in such cases:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

https://apnews.com/article/google-android-play-store-apps-an...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-wraps-up-antitrust-case-aga...

Note in some of these were chased even though Google has been less restrictive than Apple (e.g. on the Play Store payment case Google has always allowed 3rd party app stores on Android).
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