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It was published on a Telegram channel: https://t.me/A000MP97/93
Honestly Apple's Russian executives look very weak and unprepared in this video. I suspect they're just hired from some agency or consultancy as FAANG have very limited corporate presence in Russia. So they just keep being sheepish and stumbling because they have no incentive to stand their ground. Just hired guns.
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Regime collapse doesn't mean something better will replace it. Russia collapsed end of the 80s, but what replaced it leaves a lot to be desired...
Well, yes. But for Russia's former satellite states things definitely improved.
The fall of the USSR may have been overall a good thing and even inevitable, as with any huge disruption it was not an unequivocal good thing for every single person.
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In fairness, people have been asking Apple and Google (plus many other western businesses) to pull out of China for a long time. The point your making isn't something new nor overlooked.
But Google did pull out of China, did that improve the situation in China? Meanwhile Apple makes billions in China and barely anyone says anything. If you're Google you're looking at that like a raw deal.
Page and Brinn started Google with the intention to improve the world. They weren't short of money, so not being part of what China was doing was productive, even if it did not make cash.
I know plenty of people that are driven by things other than money, and its not a raw deal at all.
Of course, after that, Google went Evil Incarnate so now there is no logic for them to be out of China.
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I guess because Russian authorities did not make a proper requests for doing so.
It is a totally different thing. App store apps are localized, Youtube is currently global.
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It's not clear what does the app do? What is protest voting and how do you coordinate it ?
It's voting for the candidate most likely to win against the main party's candidates. The app's purpose is to concentrate protest voters on one candidate without spreading them over all of them.
Like turnout percentages have ridiculous percentages of ratios that end in 0 and 5 - as do growth in turnout.
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Specifically, could you list features that would be relevant to a PWA that takes your electoral division as input and returns information on who to vote for? Honestly I'm confused that if a PWA is a viable solution, why this isn't just a website?
> Honestly I'm confused that if a PWA is a viable solution, why this isn't just a website? PWA was touted in the comments as a possible alternative, but PWA on iOS is not a very viable alternative to a native app in my view. Just because a native app could be a PWA which in turn could be a website doesn't really say much about which of these it actually should be. Most apps I use on a daily basis could technically be…
Conversely, just because something could be a native app, doesn't mean that it should be.
I use as few native apps as possible, as I much prefer the stronger sandboxing provided by the browser.
Why do you think that Twitter and Reddit nag you to install their shoddy native apps every time you visit their shoddy websites?
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I'm no fan of political power in Russia (my home country) or anywhere else in the world, but come on with this double-standard bullshit. Every country does exactly the same thing. Just look at how much suppression of "alternative voices" happens in real time all over the world and what apps were banned, accounts closed etc. Jan 6 was painted as bad as 9/11, ffs. It may be staged differently so it's not the "governmen…
> Every country does exactly the same thing. They don't though. Sure, there is some level of corruption and media bias in every country but few countries have dictatorships which will threaten imprisonment (or worse) of anyone who speaks out against the current government. However I do agree with your secondary point that the solution isn't to create a tech vacuum, it's to create technology that can't be controlled b…
Here you have an app that literally tells people how to vote. This is pro-US, so again, Russia bad.
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To an extent they do but they've refused to implement a lot of important features in iOS safari that are needed for fully capable PWAs.
Which features? getUserMedia is now supported in WebViews, so one can build, for instance, a FaceTime competitor that runs on Chrome on iOS, where it wasn't possible a few months ago. But the Fullscreen API still isn't supported, a blow to the web-based FT competitor. What else?