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If ever there was a valid application of monopoly abuse laws, it is Apple's extortion for no value provided. Saying that as a blue blooded iFan who owns one of nearly every Apple p…

Fresh looks inspired by Remix. Is that right? Not that there is anything wrong with that. But given that Remix does claim to be production ready, what makes Fresh better? I have be…

First off, being a "monopoly" (dominant market share) does not make one a "despot blinded by hubris" as the OP suggests. Anti-trust laws target "abuse" of monopoly. Secondly, YC ma…

Well, cost of doing business. So it’s not perfect, nothing is. But is it still a better store of value than your bank and pension which you may not realize, but are getting robbed …

I am an gadget fan. I wouldn’t be caught dead with an Android or a Windows thingy in my hand. Also a small dev. Here is the thing. Apple offers no revenue promise when I publish my…

What Apple is going is just obnoxious and as clear a case of anti-trust as has ever been. 30% of revenue for no services offered, just because they can, is the definition of extort…

fuck yeah brother.

Haha, take your point about the tendency to "classify". There is good reason for that however: he is a VC. One of the big things that keeps VCs busy is classifying/stereotyping tea…

Yo "Andy", you have nothing to offer by way of why huawei should not be banned. You go on a rant about racism and western war crimes which even if true don't imply that huawei is i…

Desperate move to keep up the charade of not being a CCP shop. On a slightly separate note, given all the virtue signaling of companies like Apple in the context of BLM, its worth …

You'd imagine the Chinese communists would be smarter having been in business for 50 years now. But when pushed into a corner on taking the responsibility for the deadly virus, all…

This was amazing on Google's part. We are a small company with a teeny-weeny seed round, struggling to take off and Google's credits literally extended our runway and saved the tea…

In 30 years if not sooner, humanity will look back and be horrified with this time when we let a whole vulnerable generation fall prey to social media and hyper connectivity while …

Well put sistah!

Apple charges 30% from newspapers and magazines - an industry that is struggling to make any money. But not Facebook which makes way more money than all the newspapers in the world…

Very magnanimous of big G! Obliging us with virtual trinkets that cost them nothing when most of us be out of jobs soon and a few really unlucky ones may die. Bet their PR departme…

There should be only one regulation for fb, display following warning on all pages/screens: Statutory Warning: This product is specifically designed to cause behavioral addiction s…

Or he is quite happy to have cashed out instead of wasting his life away trying to run a low (if any) margin, weak network effects business with local competitors and regulators ni…

Exactly. The real reason why FB is evil is not because it makes a ton of money from data that you willingly provide it, its simply because of what it is - a platform that takes adv…

User friendliness aside, the 30% that Apple keeps is just plain & simple monopoly abuse, especially on the iOS App Store where Apple does control a majority of the market in US. Th…

Public cloud is definitely a great value for startups. When you are small and want the flexibility and speed and the sophistication that cloud providers make possible. The premium …

I recall a case study about the telecom industry and how it was a race to the bottom laying undersea cables and then the bubble burst. But that assessment was in hindsight. I guess…

Care to spare some details? Your first hand experience even without the names can be most useful/interesting for HN types.