They've come a long way from building personal computers in Wozniak's garage.
In the process they've transformed into the 'big brother' from their 1984 T.V. ad campaign.
Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
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Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing recent history has taught us is that Ivy Leagues are very good at pumping out individuals that know how to win at all costs, with 0 regard for actual expertise or moral compass. Ivy Leagues serve the purpose of giving individuals the minimal artifacts of knowledge and virtue to get ahead, without its actual substance.
The admissions process is a filter that selects for this. They also build class cohorts to include hierarchy climbers with people who were born at the top of the hierarchy — children of billionaires, politicians, etc. that perpetuate those hierarchies (and their accompanying morality). Ivy League schools are designed to be a filter for people who would make good amoral agents of capital, not an educational system in…
influential people's children who couldn't hack it in the traditional test based university admissions process in their own home countries love the ivies, i.e asian countries. There are a ton of brilliant people who go to ivies on their own merit but we can't deny that ivies do play a part in keeping the elite power structure intact (as you said). It is the same old game of capital vs labor, capital always seems to win out.
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#153Oh Apple is really starting to head up to the top of my vendor shit list these days. I’ve already dumped their entire ecosystem after the CSAM shit.
Me too. And I used to be an actual fanboy who defended them on Reddit. I have grown increasingly disillusioned with their philosophies to the point where I switched to Android and will soon be switching to Linux when my Framework laptop ships.
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#154Aptly put by the author: See you in court @Apple https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1437845736951992321
What exactly would the crime be? Haven't Watch keyboards always been banned?
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#155Apple's behavior here doesn't surprise me.. there's a history of this kind of thing.. what would surprise me however is if the developer didn't see this coming after Apple made purchase offers.. were the offers insultingly small?
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#156There's a very Australian term that perfectly describes Apple at this point, similar to Punts but starting with a C. That's exactly what they are, for pulling off stuff like this.
They're clearly abusing their monopoly here. I hope this will bite them in the face.
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#157Very typical of Apple, using opaque approval procedures. They're acting like bullies because they didn't get what they wanted and because they have the money/power to do so. Apple wanted to buy FlickType but they didn't agree on the price or Eleftheriou didn't want to sell (I doubt it), and so from then onwards started the downhill ride. I fully support Eleftheriou on this just for the principle, but if I were in his…
> I fully support Eleftheriou on this just for the principle, but if I were in his place I would have agreed at a very large sum from Apple (even lower from what I had in mind) just so that we could all be happy right now ;-) Seems like Apple has a very anti-competitive position, no? To me this goes all the way back to the walled garden argument. Apple sat on, what some may consider, a straw man arguing that they cou…
> walled garden argument
A watch is now a walled garden? Does Casio have to open its OS?
Either these are not general computing devices or there's no line, a fridge or microwave or a console are general computing as well -- and device makers have no rights to make a product from digital parts as well as mechanical parts without having to make it open to digital fiddling, and secure it dragging in that new threat model.
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I fully support Eleftheriou on this just for the principle, but if I were in his place I would have agreed at a very large sum from Apple (even lower from what I had in mind) just so that we could all be happy right now ;-) Seems like Apple has a very anti-competitive position, no? To me this goes all the way back to the walled garden argument. Apple sat on, what some may consider, a straw man arguing that they cou…
> walled garden argument A watch is now a walled garden? Does Casio have to open its OS? Either these are not general computing devices or there's no line, a fridge or microwave or a console are general computing as well -- and device makers have no rights to make a product from digital parts as well as mechanical parts without having to make it open to digital fiddling, and secure it dragging in that new threat mode…
If you gatekeep applications on your device then it's a walled garden. Simple, no?
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
>"The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community" TIL.
I think “Fluxxed” would have been a better term. Really captures the spirit of the thing.
Except that the term is about 15 years older than when it happened to f.lux
Re: Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
#160Watch keyboard? How does that work? Did it use the iPhone as a proxy to swipe on the watch (since there are obviously no APIs to custom keyboards on the watch).