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FinnKuhn
3,113karma·869submissions·January 1, 2022
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If Apple had e.g. required competitors to undergo similar independent audits that would probably be allowed as it is quite similar to how Apple solved the third party app store issue.
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Them making the only phones anyone uses makes them the gatekeepers on what people do on their phones -> Apple and Google are gatekeepers under the DMA. It doesn't matter how they became gateke…
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> There are phones running alternative versions of Android with no google dependency, and there are phones running linux. Those make up 0% of the market [1], which classifies Apple and Google as ga…
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The DMA is not a privacy law.
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Apple is using Cloud compute as well to enable Siri AI. If you want to you could still use Apple or another provider you decide to trust - or even one that does everything locally. The competition wou…
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> We already have choice - people can buy many different types of phones. Do you really? The only two types of operating systems for phones that you could reasonably use are iOS and Android. So it&…
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Because this is not related to the GDPR at all, but the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It's purpose is to enable competition and not allow big tech to abuse their market dominance (e.g. in this case …
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This doesn't have anything to do with privacy. The DMA mandates that Apple allows for competition, which (if you believe in capitalism) is good for the market overall. It's essential to stop…
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And this is for a 36 hour work week.
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As someone with an Apple Watch Series 8 I feel like this was a really bad deal for me. Pretty much the only reason to buy the 8 over the 7 was that it is one year newer and therefore expected to recei…
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Because it's not the music player I choose to use. I would be ok with it, if I could change the default to e.g. VLC or Spotify.
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The DMA is a great initiative for more market competition.
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And the secret ingridient to building those faster than others is... crime. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk... …
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3. They are going to start focusing on B2B implementation and deployment. See what happened to Aleph Alpha...
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Substack is such a big platform that they should have resources to make sure their product works fine on common device/browser combinations.
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Custom keyboards are really popular - especially a few years ago. Most cases/boards are wired only. I think his product enables those to be wireless too
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/security-review already exists so I don't think it would be crazy to have a /mythos-security-review as more thourough command as well. I think it's more likely it is going to be r…
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I would have expected them to wait with ads until OpenAI starts first and users switch to Gemini. Google is probably the player that could afford to wait the longest with this and increase their marke…
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Only via QR codes as I understand. So no replacement for paying via Apple Watch or card.
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I think especially restricting endless scrolling is a good thing overall to reduce the addictiveness of social media and its harmful effects. HN having pages instead of a feed or endless list is one o…
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According to their website [1] only some scanners support the 2L limit while others don't so you will only know on arrival at the airport which limit is relevant for you. [1] https://b…
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Lots of people who work in Luxembourg don't live there so anything "per capita" is a bit misleading. Additionally a lot of the EU's institutions are based there or have offices the…
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A real party killer if I have ever seen one.
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Looks like someone got sherlocked [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlocked... …
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Thank you for explaining this to me. That makes total sense!
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So, it's a French trademark. Not a lawyer, but from what I remember trademarks need to be registered in every region you want to enforce them in separately. If the author of "Notepad++ for M…
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While mostly correct it is missing that not all customers in all stores want the same. Customers in store A might have wildly different preferences to customers in store B. Starbucks can't accoun…
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Using the trademark is one thing. The authors brazen reaction another: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue... …
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Oh