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There are plenty of ways someone could expand their horizons and develop a hobby in VR that doesn’t involve or require them to do any of that.

>This is just as true of paid, closed source software. And when it gets abandoned, you can't fix it if it's important to you. It's not true of most paid, closed source software, th…

Capitalism can't even solve normal problems in the way you're suggesting. How in the world would it solve any of these problems?

What's to say (and who are you to say) that a VR headset may not broaden someone's horizons, though?

...and get none of the benefits of it. This is like saying "for the price of car, you could buy 20,000 bicycles". While that's true, I'm not going to ride my bike from Texas to Dis…

Yeah. They're wrong. I've been playing 3D SBS videos from my collection since I got the AVP.

Isn't that a little naive and idealistic, though? I love FOSS software as much as the next HN user but, for the vast majority of it, it only does the most basic tasks possible and,…

This is factually inaccurate. It doesn't stop working in a moving car or train. The reviewers/users that were using it in those instances simply didn't turn on the Travel mode of t…

Your VR enthusiast is wrong. The issue he's describing was because of the two video players that launched in the App Store. There are video players for the AVP that can play stereo…

The intake form asks for certain things (like prism vision) and it also asks if you know your prescription ahead of time. I can't imagine that they'll have all of those specific fi…

Apple has the prescription lenses in the stores. If you bring your glasses, they have a device that will shine some lights through your glasses to determine your prescription and p…

Thanks for that. That was a great read. It's really interesting to see a perspective from someone that understands that the current state of systems came from years and years of in…

My only hesitation with these rules is that I feel like Apple, as a business, has a right to do whatever they want with their business so long as there are alternatives and I do co…

This isn't a summary. You basically removed all the positive things he had to say and just left the negatives. That's not what a summary is.

You’re discussing this in the context of a case that deemed that it wasn’t an anti-trust violation because it was determined Apple doesn’t have a monopoly, though. They’re not cons…

I’m not the one pretending. You’re pretending like people don’t have a choice in what phones they buy. They do.

I think you're conflating their designation as "markets" because they are marketplaces of apps with the economic term "markets" which has a specific definition for a sector of indu…

That's irrelevant. Both iPhone users and app developers have options on both sides. Developers can ignore Apple's platform and end-users have lots of options for phones that aren't…

You're not forced to make apps for iOS or any Apple product. Making your app for the second most popular OS is acceptable because that's what iOS is. I know you tried to make it se…

They're not in a position where they could have standing, though, since they were in that position and violated the terms of their agreement. The judge has not ordered Apple to rei…

>How are they even going to attempt to enforce compliance. Per the judge's own words, Apple is allowed access to the company's financials and other information that would allow the…

Yes, you do. You have the choice to put your App on Google Play or host it yourself and make it available for Android.

iOS is not a market segment. Smartphones is the segment and so you do have a choice. The courts have already ruled that Apple doesn't have a monopoly in their segment.

That's not true in the slightest, though. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Steam all take 30% for distribution and hosting, same as Apple. It's not artificially high if it's in line …

No one gives a crap about your pedantry. I never said anything about "legally stealing". They took something that didn't belong to them and that they didn't have permission to give…