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As an app developer, I'm looking forward to having to answer all the emails asking for me to transfer their purchases to Google Play.

Roger Penrose wrote about this decades ago, arguing that computers cannot contain consciousness and neither can anything in currently understood physics. https://www.amazon.com/Emp…

Carmack explicitly addressed this in his keynote last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo at around 43 minutes in.

Which is another non-discussed aspect to this. People are already upset that their digital purchases are controlled by Apple. Wait until the startup that they bought stacks of soft…

So why are we doing this then?

And these services would all take a 15-30% cut. It wouldn't be profitable otherwise.

I still end up with one more app store to deal with. Unless this 3rd party becomes a de-facto monopoly, there's no way you could afford to leave money on the table by not also deal…

It becomes everyones user experience when every big company only offers their software on their own app store so they don't have to pay anyone else a cut.

Oh goody. I get to manage my own payment system. And have to worry about being tax compliant in every country and state. And deal with logins, and refunds and fraud and uptime and …

So you're suggesting that either Google or Apple will just step aside? And the point of this monopoly busting legislation was to create a bigger monopoly?

As an indie dev, I'm really not getting this. Android has had alternate app stores for years. I don't recall any of them being a panacea for poor struggling devs held captive by Go…

The CGI got better for each movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2v8atzt5c I don't think there's anything wrong with how he looks but the subtle over-fluidity of his movement. …

Anecdata: https://twitter.com/simonpegg/status/276131329140215808

That's not it. We buy puppet Yoda as being real (or at least suspend disbelief) in a way we simply can't do with CGI Yoda.

I think a large chunk of the problem is that we've been concentrating on improving the rendering, which is clearly now phenomenal, and seemingly totally ignoring the animation, whi…

Came across this Gen-Z humour explainer video recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVlspd9hxFA In a nutshell, I think he's saying that it's funny because it's not funny.

Or maybe it's what happens when there's a global shipping shortage and a breakdown in the supply chain. Or maybe it's a combination of a lot of things. But chances are it wasn't be…

Where do you get the idea that the spirit of the law is not to consume more energy? Is this something you've studied? Why not be honest to yourself and admit you've literally no id…

If we're being nerdy about this then there are other considerations to worry about apart from just not pressing buttons. For example, if the elevator is going down the passenger we…

I used RevenueCat's API for Apple and Google just to avoid having to do all this crap myself and it's free up to $10,000 of monthly revenue. I was less happy with their Google impl…

Why 42: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.douglas-adams/c/595nPukE...

I've always been uncomfortable with the idea of advertising to children directly in an app.

For my latest app, which is free with in-app purchase area unlocks... Google Play: 10 times the amount of downloads than Apple Store Apple Store: 2.5 times the income of Google Pla…

From 2015. No reason to believe things would have got better since then. https://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/monument-valley-developer...

Why is that a simpler theory than "why pay when it's incredibly simple to download for free"? https://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/monument-valley-developer...