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I'm assuming most jailbreakers probably don't want to enable piracy, but just want to use apps that Apple won't compete with fairly - like Steam game streaming, or a browser built …

Request to Apple: Just let this slide and see how it plays out. Remember when you took out SuperBowl ads [1] demonizing authoritarian, totalitarian megacorps that told you how to t…

The only thing you haven't accounted for is buying power. Income comparisons have to be normalized along with buying power. $12K in China-2019 is likely greater than $32K USA-1984?…

> Because you managed to get under my skin... I'm not betting on the remainder of your comment being objective. In 2019 if someone can get under your skin by just politely asking f…

Regardless of the attempt here at painting a country's foreign policy as partisan, any given country favors one U.S. party over the other. Right now, China probably favors a Democr…

And how's this different from America spying on Israel, or any of the five eyes nations it claims to not spy against? Every country spies on everyone else.

The money comes from lobbyists for previous incumbents in those industries, like legacy taxi, hotel, restaurant... businesses. Those legacy businesses also tend to have stronger Un…

No you shouldn't be writing in Ada. Embedded software running all kinds of sensitive workloads, from pacemakers to routers/switches use C for it's superior tooling, universal suppo…

The lesson here is for Uber drivers to realize it can't be a career, and quit, just like you did. I don't believe they're being compelled or misled into driving for Uber/Lyft. Addi…

Do you really trust Apple with yours? [1][2]. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351 [2] https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/29/stop-apple-listening-siri-rec...

Every one of those features appeared in Chinese & Korean Android phones 2-3 years ago. Neither are these "feats", nor are they unique to Apple. They're already behind the curve on …

Tesla... Saving the lives of sleepy divers since 2018

Where is the analysis on the percentage of traffic served via IPFS to back up any claims of the benefits of IPFS. It appears to me that Cloudflare accepts IPFS as (another) source …

I've been cynical & critical about iOS Safari's standards compliance. I hope their own use of web components and other modern web standards leads to better compliance for iOS Safar…

Not going to happen. Apple has a very realpolitik approach to it's totalitarianism. China is not an adversary Apple can take on, by it's own internal judgement. Hence, iCloud China…

1. Sandboxing doesn't need apple's app store, it's manual policy enforcement and arbitrary anti competitive rejections. Many, many sandboxes have existed with well documented permi…

What exactly is Apple's role in the sale of digital goods? You made a comparison to selling via Walmart, which is a false equivalency. The app store can easily work like podcasts a…

So generous of Apple to allow the sale of physical goods, despite having no involvement in the sale or production process. We all need to take a moment to count the blessings our b…

Better user experience. Certain things are better, faster, etc. as a native app. Apple's policies are rooted in totalitarianism and greed. As both developers and consumers we shoul…

> as you don’t try to sell things through it Why? Why does Apple insist on playing middleman, if not for totalitarian control over all commerce on the platform? How is this not mon…

Internet killed the paper star. Before news went online, good, reliable content was paid for with subscriptions. Going online, paired with the rise of social media changed what it …

While the advice is valid and agreeable, many people have already used Facebook successfully for dating, based on many of the same parameters FB plans to use. Only difference being…