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Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by gfodor »

simias wrote: post #76
gfodor wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I highly advise you write down somewhere what sort of event it would take for you to change your belief that this is nothing to be concerned about. Then, at least do a cursory check to see if such an event has occurred already, it may well have. https://mobile.twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1354194374...

Oh no, poor literary agent caught posting on Gab, a far right white supremacist website, and losing her job. Thoughts and prayers. More seriously if you think that's a problem IMO the solution is to ask for better employee protection laws so that people can't be fired at will. This is not a free speech problem IMO, it's a worker right issue. And if it turns out that her contract did mention that she shouldn't publicl…

The actual posts I saw were on Parler, and she wasn't posting anything even remotely connected to white supremacy, just normal things you would post on Twitter. She was banned for having an account, as best I can tell. This shouldn't surprise anyone. (And your comment obviously provides further evidence for why this shouldn't surprise anyone.)

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by [deleted] »

jitendrac wrote: post #94
quaintdev wrote: post #67

Author here, I am afraid my blog is hosted on a Raspberry PI and it might go down because of HN traffic. If that happens, the mirror of the post is at https://telegra.ph/GitHub-Should-Start-An-App-Store-01-31 Did not expected this to blow up. Thanks for the critical feedback. You guys are tough crowd :)

Do you Host it at Home with static IP or DynDNS?? and which internet service provider do you use? Edit:Found its BSNL

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Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by syshum »

simias wrote: post #70
villasv wrote: post #32

> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement. Release integration is trivial for anyone. It's the easiest and most irrelevant part of the app stores. > Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle. And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository. As any other, they'll listen if there'…

>This is situational and opportunistic. It can change any day. In fact, managing an important app store is exactly one way to re-(un)-balance this relationship. I agree. Sorting huge, multinational, publicly traded companies in friends and enemies list is so obviously bogus and immature that it baffles me that this is so prevalent. Microsoft is not your enemy. It's not your friend (unless you're one of the shareholde…

This really is a generational divide, those of US that were around for the 90's and early 00's Microsoft crap still have a bad taste for the "new Microsoft" that claims to love FLOSS (while still showing many signs of EEE.. )

During that time Google was very friendly to FLOSS, and open protocols (remember when GChat was just a XMPP client)

Today MS and Google seems to have flipped, Google now is fully embracing Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, where MS seems to be attempting to wind that back though with mixed success

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by gfodor »

kibwen wrote: post #59
gfodor wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I highly advise you write down somewhere what sort of event it would take for you to change your belief that this is nothing to be concerned about. Then, at least do a cursory check to see if such an event has occurred already, it may well have. https://mobile.twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1354194374...

The first thing would be for someone to actually define "woke", as opposed to slinging it around as a conveniently-nebulous catch-all to describe people they're opposed to (see also "liberal" and "conservative"). What is the woke manifesto? If you have something to say, then please just say it without couching it behind vague terms and "you can connect the dots yourself" conspiratorial thinking.

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Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by mdoms »

villasv wrote: post #32

> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement. Release integration is trivial for anyone. It's the easiest and most irrelevant part of the app stores. > Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle. And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository. As any other, they'll listen if there'…

> Microsoft won't have GitHub compete with the Microsoft Store and its newer efforts like winget. It would unermine their unifying vision that has been in the works for years for no benefit.

There has never been any indication that Microsoft would unilaterally shut down Windows software. If fact they are uniquely open in terms of modern proprietary OS's.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by confiq »

villasv wrote: post #32

> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement. Release integration is trivial for anyone. It's the easiest and most irrelevant part of the app stores. > Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle. And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository. As any other, they'll listen if there'…

I agree with you! With everything that you wrote! However, more stores the merrier! We have also amazon store

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by GekkePrutser »

phkahler wrote: post #79
villasv wrote: post #32

> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement. Release integration is trivial for anyone. It's the easiest and most irrelevant part of the app stores. > Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle. And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository. As any other, they'll listen if there'…

>> hone manufacturers like Samsung are in a much much better position to try. And indeed they have been trying an failing. Samsung is bothering me. I have an S8 and they want to replace all the standard Google apps - including the basic text messageing one - with Samsung equivalents. It's not clear why and I haven't gone looking. It feels like they're just trying to displace Google and be another company reading my m…

Samsung isn't much better than Google on the privacy side. They're just replacing all the standard apps to make them more in line with OneUI in terms of UX.

But things like Samsung health send data home too unfortunately.

They are stepping back from cloud services a bit now and letting Microsoft step in, also not privacy driven but more financial I think.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by Irishsteve »

vagrantJin wrote: post #72
Irishsteve wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be interesting for GitHub because they have a large developer community who push to these app stores already, so they have the dev audience, just not the consumer. They charge said developers a few dollars a month per seat. GitHub could somehow instead be taking a 0%-20% cut topline revenue from some of the apps they host. Lots of work to make that happen the upside might make it worth while.

The devs are the consumers. So it can be a niche store? I dont know what a normal person would be doing on github.

What I meant is - GitHub could create a Google Play store. The supply side (Devs) are on GitHub in abundance, so they could have a big catalog.

If GitHub could somehow solve the demand side (Phone users) they'd be sorted.

Re: GitHub Should Start an App Store

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Post by confiq »

mdoms wrote: post #106
villasv wrote: post #32

> They already host source code of millions of apps. Release integration should be trivial to implement. Release integration is trivial for anyone. It's the easiest and most irrelevant part of the app stores. > Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle. And controversial on others, like shutting down Popcorn Time's repository. As any other, they'll listen if there'…

> Microsoft won't have GitHub compete with the Microsoft Store and its newer efforts like winget. It would unermine their unifying vision that has been in the works for years for no benefit. There has never been any indication that Microsoft would unilaterally shut down Windows software. If fact they are uniquely open in terms of modern proprietary OS's.

The blog post I guess was referring to android ecosystem...
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