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Post by elliekelly »

nicolas_t wrote: post #102
jrockway wrote: post #76

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I kind of assumed. You can't just take the price in dollars and convert it with the exchange rate, because customers don't want to buy a "89.398723 yen" app. It has to be $0.99, £0.89, ¥99, etc. It is interesting that things are not priced in "buying power", but in numbers that aim to most deceive. ("It's not even a dollar!")

Steam is very often priced in buying power. Depending on the country you live in, prices can be half as high as in other countries.

Why don’t more digital platforms take this approach? Are they worried people from higher relative income countries will log in with a VPN and buy it cheaper?

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Post by horsawlarway »

iNate2000 wrote: post #217
TheJoeMan wrote: post #178

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I was hoping Apple was ceding some ground in this, it’s what puts the dirtiest taste in my mouth. If you go to even Walmart (a company very strict on their suppliers) and pick up some object, on the back of the packaging will be www.exampleproduct dot com. And on that website you could theoretically sell your product directly. What does Apple do? “Oh on that privacy policy we mandated you could click here and then he…

But Walmart wouldn’t let a vendor set up a kiosk in the middle of the store and accept payments with a Square reader on a phone, would they?

Walmart has already purchased the items they're selling in their stores - in most situations.

That's how distributers work - They purchase an order of items up front and then sell them at a price point of their choosing.

Not to mention - In the walmart case, the user is free to go shop at safeway/publix/kroger/target/etc if they want. Where as with Apple you can only shop at the company store.

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Post by majormajor »

allwein wrote: post #227
gambiting wrote: post #191

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>>incorrect the teacher. Did you just use incorrect as a verb?

Reminds me of this comic. https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2003/04/27

Verbing weirds language.

Beaten by ten years: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 :)

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Post by 58x14 »

bogwog wrote: post #205

Is this enough to open a competing store? * Put your app for free on the appstore, but with a paywall * In order to activate the app, you must buy it on an external site * A web-based store allows users to browse and purchase apps, and "download" links send them to the appstore * Customers can link their Apple IDs (or another account) so that purchases can be confirmed without having to sign in to every app individua…

One of my first thoughts. The purchase of a license would need to occur on the web-based store, where presumably you'd create an account, download the free (with in app purchases, because you don't want to restrict sales even if they're at a lower margin) app from the App store, and sign in with your account to activate.

Seems like entities wishing to operate a secondary app marketplace would continually be balancing tradeoffs in UI/UX (v. native Apple experience) and cost of acquisition for a relatively small reduction in fees.

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Post by layer8 »

UglyToad wrote: post #184
mynegation wrote: post #54

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Lol, few things trigger my OCD more than misspelled words in identifiers. I legit missed important use case while amending legacy system just because someone decided to have “priveleges” in the variable name. I hope all those ways to spell number 90 are part of the joke.

This reminds me when I was learning to code I was working through the Project Euler problems in python, one of them has you write code to do something with the English words for numbers. I wrote my code and was fairly confident it was correct, submit the answer and it is rejected, spend the next few hours trying to find the logic error. Of course it's because English is ridiculous and it's "forty" instead of "fourty"…

What about twoty, threety, fivety and eightty?

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Post by UglyToad »

layer8 wrote: post #245
UglyToad wrote: post #184

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This reminds me when I was learning to code I was working through the Project Euler problems in python, one of them has you write code to do something with the English words for numbers. I wrote my code and was fairly confident it was correct, submit the answer and it is rejected, spend the next few hours trying to find the logic error. Of course it's because English is ridiculous and it's "forty" instead of "fourty"…

What about twoty, threety, fivety and eightty?

I think it's the amount of prefix that gets me with forty. Plus fifth / fourth versus fifty / forty

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Post by sgerenser »

mynegation wrote: post #54
jrockway wrote: post #48

> Apple will offer more price points for apps. Today there are less than 100, but the company is committing to increase that to more than 500 options. I really hope they implemented this as an enum, so someone has to wade through: enum PricePoint { UNKNOWN = 0; NINTEY_NINE_CENTS = 1; ONE_DOLLAR = 2; TWENTY_DOLLARS = 3; NINETEY_EIGHT_CENTS = 4; DEPRECATED_NINETY_SEVEN_CENTS = 5; TEN_DOLLARS_PER_MONTH = 6; PORTUGAL_NAT…

Lol, few things trigger my OCD more than misspelled words in identifiers. I legit missed important use case while amending legacy system just because someone decided to have “priveleges” in the variable name. I hope all those ways to spell number 90 are part of the joke.

Even worse than misspelled is when it’s inverted polarity! Like uninitialized=true means that it IS initialized. I’ve seen something similar to that in multiple jobs.

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Post by monocasa »

hurflmurfl wrote: post #161
monocasa wrote: post #148

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As a dev with dyslexia, I apologize. I've for sure committed some sins there in places that are nasty to fix.

Well, pasting the enum example into IntelliJ highlighted the spelling mistakes and suggested replacing NINTEY and NINETEY with NINETY. I think this is how my dyslexic colleague works too - copy pasting instead of writing and looking for various wiggly lines in code editor.

Yeah, spell check in editor is killer, and I work in strongly typed languages so it's a compiler error if I misspell a variable name is another big one.

It doesn't catch everything however.

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Post by xmprt »

jsjohnst wrote: post #202
xmprt wrote: post #122

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I also feel like this is a buffer overflow waiting to happen. If somehow someone makes the header length way longer than expected (eg. referrrrrrrrrrrrrrer).

? is 0 or 1 instances of the preceding character, so referrrrrrrrrrrrrrer wouldn’t match /referr?er/ , only referer or referrer . Proof: https://regex101.com/r/s56ebD/1

I'm replying to the grandparent comment. I said "Also" meaning I was adding onto your comment.

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Post by heavyset_go »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #204
ksec wrote: post #103

>Apple agrees to make sure the search results in the App Store are based on objective criteria. I cant help but laughed when I was reading it. What were they doing before that? I thought the most important part was the next bit, >The settlement, which must be approved by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, comes as Apple is awaiting a ruling in a separate lawsuit, brought by Fortnite developer Epic Games, which seeks to fo…

Here's another possible entry for a class action suit, I had a arachnoid type game on Appstore under 'Arcade' category for couple of years and one night I received an email telling Apple is moving my game from 'Arcade' category to some X category because it's naming it's new game subscription as 'Apple Arcade'. I'm sure every other game in the Arcade category was bolted out unless it could be part of their subscripti…

You can still report this to the various agencies and offices in the US that hear cases like yours and have the power to investigate and prosecute Apple for antitrust violations.

I have a post here[1] with a list of federal antitrust departments and how to send them info.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176193

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