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Post by chrisseaton »

kabacha wrote: post #121
ksec wrote: post #108

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>Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. That is why I am absolutely against abolishing paper cash. Edit: I know there are countries where you have a democratically elected representatives and every part of the government and even companies is held ( more or less ) accountable to the people and does not need to worry ( much ) about big b…

At one point abolishing paper cash is even remotely plausible? maybe in 100 years? So far cash rules majority of the world and I don't see it going away any time soon.

Cash is already going away in some countries.

Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

amelius wrote: post #79
bsaul wrote: post #9

This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed. It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't li…

Exactly, this is why I vote with my wallet and don't buy Apple products. Apple's hardware is perhaps only marginally better than the competition's, which by the way is much richer in choice. Developers should look further than Apple. It is better for the profession. Remember: developers : Apple == taxi drivers : Uber

> Apple's hardware is perhaps only marginally better than the competition's

Microsoft and other brands are getting better at making quality hardware faster than Apple is innovating in the space.

Apple still has the lead in their os just feeling so much nicer and solid to use but again it's still stagnant while windows is slowly evolving and when it comes down to it you can't even build a mac with the power you're working with on the Windows side so it stops really being an option if one means your work can be done multiple times faster (GPGPU workloads for example) than on the Mac side.

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Post by mpartel »

worthless-trash wrote: post #53
mpartel wrote: post #29

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Even if it weren't the only option, the sad reality is that, for most, it'd be financial suicide to not be on the App Store. Compare that to games on PC: even though competition has fortunately started to pick up recently, it'd still be madness not to publish on Steam. All platforms seem to naturally tend towards monopoly, with an enormous first mover advantage. I wish I knew of a solution :/

> it'd be financial suicide to not be on the App Store. I find it amusing that people and businesses are willing to put their future in the hands of a company that has historically destroyed anyone who gets enough users on their platform. If this is the best option, I think that the best option would be to actively work with a platform competitor. Do developers have a sense of stockholm syndrome ?

This is one of those nasty Prisoner's Dilemma type problems where everyone would probably benefit from a collective action in the long term, but it's hard to agree and coordinate when so many individuals derive (smaller and/or short-term) benefit from the status quo. Most societal problems seem to be of this form.

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Post by readarticle »

vetinari wrote: post #135
kabacha wrote: post #121

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At one point abolishing paper cash is even remotely plausible? maybe in 100 years? So far cash rules majority of the world and I don't see it going away any time soon.

That would depend on a country. Sweden? Probably easy. South-Eastern Asia? 100 years would be too optimistic.

I’ve never been nor kept up with SEA, but this is still surprising to hear! I would have assumed WeChat type mobile payments situations were well in place, is cash really that dominant or are there other factors?

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Post by vinceguidry »

noch wrote: post #33
AsyncAwait wrote: post #22

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That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. I've recently got the PinePhone in and while actual Linux on smartphones is very early, it's also an opportunity to have some real impact. I'll never…

> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

Unusable is waaaay overstating it. It's no harder to use for the average user than Windows or OSX. Gaming is actually easier these days on Ubuntu than it is on both other platforms. And it's just getting better and better every year.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by pokemongoaway »

vetinari wrote: post #135
kabacha wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At one point abolishing paper cash is even remotely plausible? maybe in 100 years? So far cash rules majority of the world and I don't see it going away any time soon.

That would depend on a country. Sweden? Probably easy. South-Eastern Asia? 100 years would be too optimistic.

Obviously incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...

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Post by kungato »

bnastic wrote: post #81
bsaul wrote: post #9

This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed. It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't li…

> i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed How about Apple telling me they don't like my business bank (a well known UK bank I've been with for 10 years) and simply refusing to set up the account. In a very cold, "go away already", manner. I wasn't going to kill the relationship with…

OT: why do you care which bank you're in?

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Post by kungato »

vinceguidry wrote: post #145
noch wrote: post #33

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> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

Unusable is waaaay overstating it. It's no harder to use for the average user than Windows or OSX. Gaming is actually easier these days on Ubuntu than it is on both other platforms. And it's just getting better and better every year.

I would understand if you said it's on par with other platforms but saying it's easier is bs

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

franze wrote: post #61

> Mignori is a client for Image Board websites (we informally call “Boorus”). These image boards are popular in the anime community, although there can be image boards for anything you can think of. I just googled this, found some references to the anime image boards. Most were Hentai / Porn. If the main purpose of an app is viewing adult content, its main purpose is viewing adult content - even if you have to add th…

Twitter and Reddit have endless amounts of pornographic content and seem to be allowed on the app store just fine.

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Post by pschastain »

nickflood wrote: post #131
andy_ppp wrote: post #92

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I have this horrible feeling that you'll soon buy the government you want; Amazon or Facebook Gov is a terrifying idea: "do you want to add on the international development budget for £14.99 per month". I wonder if it would be better than what we currently have?

Competition in a government space would be a good thing, imo. For a while at least. Beats being quite permanently attached to a shitty gov at birth.

Kinda what voting is for - to change the current gov't.
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