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25,150karma·9,209submissions·June 21, 2020
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BTW if Apple wins, developers are fucked. Apples gatekeeping will become the norm. Developers would be resigned to the role of supplicant, who have to beg to sell their apps in the App Stores. Just as…
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Apple is about selling an image. And Apple is caring as long the money flows. Don't get fooled, it's always about money. Apple sells products with a high margin that's why they can do w…
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No. Imagine Microsoft would try do the same. Inconceivable.
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If it threatens their app store they will limit web apps.
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So you are against a free market. Instead of multiple shops you want one megastore. Only one webshop: Amazon Only one Social Network: Facebook Only one search engine: Google Only one OS: Windows Only …
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You are relying on a benevolent dictator. If Apple decided to sell you out you are fucked. BTW if you are such a security fan would it be good if Apple watches which websites you visit in your browser…
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Lower quality or equal worse human rights. You need a lot of man power and environmental ignorance to feed our needs.
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That's a clever trick. Make the medium you want to censor a private property than it's legal.
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And than? The whole system depends on cheap supply of goods. Look what happend during the lookdown in China And it's not people want cheap stuff, most only can afford cheap stuff. Money is a fin…
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"GitHub does not preclude you from using git for what it’s intended to be", yet. Never trust MS, FB, Amazon, etc. Sooner or later they lock you in or kill the service you rely on.
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Wait until you need a Microsoft account for accessing github, wait until your account gets blocked. All of sudden all of your code is out of reach.
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That monoculture means you can't change anything because it breaks the learned idioms. And there is no best possible UX. UX is mostly subjective measured.
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Is it five eyes or five Is like in Intelligence services? If it is eyes shouldn't it be 10 eyes? Two eyes per country or is it meant like "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king&…
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To take Apple to court you need lots of money. None of the good guys gets that much. So best you can get it is two bad guys fight each other.
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+vk has the same effect
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Misleading title "Apple didn't force in-app purchases on Wordpress" Apple did force it but they say it was a mistake. "Apple doesn't force in-app purchases on Wordpress anymor…
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Come on, the US an playing by the rules? The used Echelon to help Boing winning a contract against Airbus. The EU only stopped the investigation because 9/11 happend.
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We are living in the times of digital oligarchy. Guess we need to start a revolution to reach democracy.
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https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=9aca6c56-fe41... …
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It has nothing to do with moral high ground. It's about being the better alternative and about and free markets. But now everybody knows the US will play dirty to protect their it predominance. T…
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BTW this is about Facebook. Zuckerberg is just killing a competitor. This has nothing to do with freedom, it's about money. Just like Epic vs Apple.
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So because China doesn't play fair the west doesn't play fair too? So the west becomes like China? Guess China wins because the have proven that the west isn't any better than them. We …
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These restrictions are gone. China changed their laws.
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Still fallen
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Learn from history. Every empire falls.
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Ask the Chinese about Japan. It's more astonishing how russia acts to germany after the losses of WWII. The US had never an attack on home soil like the UK.
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Russia didn't have to do anything. The GOP weakend the coalitions and the diplomatic softpower by threatening their partners. And the last time I checked the sanctions against russia are still in…
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That kills the possibility of selling your account.
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And then? They file for insolvency but the data is still out there.
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At least PC users have a large range of playable games. I don't want to be in the position of a Mac users to hope and beg for a Mac port of a game. And the Apple app store has malware too.
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