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Dude you're responding to someone in Belarus. Americans voting for nonsocialist candidates is not the issue there.
Wait what? Googling the user name that I am replying to leads to: https://github.com/baddox San Francisco, CA
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Do you feel the same way about anything sold on Amazon? Or in supermarkets? Or is that in some way different?
Just to emphasize your point, 30% take is relatively small in the retail world. A store like Amazon or Walmart or Target or Best Buy generally wants a cut of 40-50%, if not more. And that doesn’t include the cut many distributors want to take for being the middle person. (Source: I’ve been on the executive team at startups with products sold in retail stores)
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My layman understanding was Epic had to do this to be able to legally challenge Apple in court (to demonstrate damages or whatever). That's not quite the same as (covertly) breaching your contract hoping you get away without getting caught, which is the impression you're giving. Assuming that's accurate, then I'm not sure what else one would expect them to do— not do something that gets them banned, then have their c…
>My layman understanding was Epic had to do this to be able to legally challenge Apple in court This is obviously false because there are other antitrust cases against Apple pending.
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What are your talking about? I suggested an alternative, didn't force anyone to do anything.
The thread is about stopping Apple and people being forced to buy Android.
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> You don't need Big Government to do that. Regulations are there tools that citizens have to reign in corporate behavior. 'Big government' is just a catch name for many anti regulation lobbying entities to remove power from citizens and acumulats it on corporations. > Vote with your wallet. Yes. And also vote with your ballots, one person one vote triumphs one dollar one vote if you want freedom.
> 'Big government' is just a catch name for many anti regulation lobbying entities to remove power from citizens and acumulats it on corporations. This is completely reductionist, and completely uninformed. Banks, as an easy counter example to your worldview, don't have armies of third party regulators, corporate compliance staff, and auditors because they hate regulation. They love big government. It acts as a barri…
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The thread is about stopping Apple and people being forced to buy Android.
Exactly, and I said that we have more than just two choices, i.e., stopping Apple does not force you to buy Android.
Adding another alternative doesn’t change that.
I just paid for 12 months worth of Skype subscription which I have used for just 2 calls back in January. I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store. Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it…
SAME. Somewhere deep in my comment history here, I tell the story of trying to cancel NYT, and needing to do it three times, because I kept getting charged. Ughhhhh.
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It's also impossible to use (even for free apps) without IDing yourself, and your travel history (via IP geolocation), to Apple. The convenience comes at a cost.
It’s true that you must identify yourself to download any app from the App Store. But you continue to repeat this outright lie about Apple receiving your travel history. There is no evidence for it, and this has been repeatedly pointed out to you. We know if you opt in to certain services they send an anonymized location. That’s all we know. The part about your travel history being sent is 100% made up by you.
I have not seen sneak be repeatedly pointed out that his statement is incorrect. That is a lie. He is completely correct, which is why he has never been corrected.