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Post by elashri »

realusername wrote: post #318
elashri wrote: post #311

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> The Saudi Arabian app to track what your wife is doing is still on the appstore, no need for a thirdparty store. While I usually don't like the saudi system but this app in particular is about making it easy to manage official government paperwork online [1]. This applies for all residents (citizens or not) and people really like it. So it is not an app to track females movements. While you can disagree or agree on…

The app is doing both purpose since they follow their local laws, you can also read the wikipedia entry on the impact on women. I'm open to some kind of argument like "apple has no choice in such dictatorship" but this argument is contradictory with the argument that its protecting from nation states. And since we mentioned Saudi arabia, we can also mention China where icloud is dodgy, it's not a unique case. I'm sur…

Well, I was just responding to your particular claim that this app is tracking "what your wife is doing". But unless the wife is exclusively moving by airplanes (so that the app will notify male guardian she entered airport) that's is not tracking what wife is doing. It doesn't give information about activities or locations like saying many other apps.

This is one service among all other government interactions services that the app provide. If the app is not here. Women still need to get male guardian approval because this is local law. You can disagree on that matter (I am not defending or debating it). I was just clarifying.

And yes, apple has to follow local laws. The app doesn't collect privacy invasive information used to track movements as your comment suggested. And it is not required to be on your phone.

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Post by crazygringo »

SeanLuke wrote: post #296
crazygringo wrote: post #87

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> "Both “bury the lede” and “bury the lead” are acceptable spellings of this phrase... Whether to use “lede” or “lead” depends on your audience and context. If you’re writing for a news publication or using the term in a journalistic context, “lede” is the preferred spelling. However, if you’re writing for a general audience or not referring specifically to journalism, either spelling is acceptable." https://proofed.…

etymologyonline says at least 1965. Other sources date to 1950. The term was invented to distinguish the head paragraph of a story specifically because it would cause confusion with "lead", which at the time was widely used in newspapers to refer to lead type and to actual strips used to add spacing between lines (indeed it's still called "leading" in typesetting). It is standard newspaper jargon. But more importantl…

But "lead" ("what leads in") is what it derives from, and nobody uses lead type anymore. So any motivation for "lede" is gone, except tradition of a handful of decades.

Every authoritative source says "bury the lead" is a perfectly acceptable variant, and nowadays there's no reason not to return to it. English spelling is already complicated enough that the last thing we need to be doing is to be introducing extra spelling variations.

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Post by therein »

joshmanders wrote: post #299
practice9 wrote: post #204

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Choose a better government, then. Preferably, a one without Soviet/death cult/imperialistic tendencies. The nation will be judged by its government's actions, because the gov is supposed to be kept in check by the people.

> Choose a better government, then. Do you know how ridiculous you sound right now?

People really enjoy pointing you towards the suggestion box, as if it is above all coercion, corruption and malfeasance.

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Post by ponector »

nmilo wrote: post #327
ponector wrote: post #172

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Governments everywhere along the globe are enforcing discriminatory rules based on passport and/or birthplace. And everyone is ok with such "racism".

If a border agent called me suspicious based only on my passport then yeah that is racism

Then US government is one of the most racist government on the planet. And people support it or don't care.

By applying tons of restrictions to the people based on their passport or place of birth.

For example getting a green card for Indian people.

Or visiting US. What is frictionless for people with Swiss passport is almost impossible for people with "hostile" passport. Getting a US travel visa is not trivial.

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Post by ponector »

nlitened wrote: post #313
ponector wrote: post #176

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Every person who use russian currency is sharing accounts with putin. Every transaction is taxed with VAT, which goes to support government and war.

Right, not the billions paid for Russian oil and gas by western countries.

Do you think that your fact will negate mine?

And yes, sanctions are half baked and poorly enforced. "West" continues trading with Russia.

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Post by ana_winters »

judge2020 wrote: post #40
Manuel_D wrote: post #8

If the fake reviews are indeed the reason why the apps were taken off the store, that does strike me as an inappropriate action. Take down the reviews, yes. But closing the developer account creates a big opportunity to eliminate competition by buying fake reviews for your competitors. There's also nothing developers can do to prevent this since they can't curate or reject reviews from what I know. That said, other c…

This was talked about by Phillip Shoemaker (head of App Store Review 2009-2016) in this talk[0], where some developers figured out that if they hired marketing firms to commit review fraud on a competitor’s app, their competitor would get terminated because there’s no clear way to actually attribute the fraud to the developer. I guess the App Store fraud prevention team hasn’t necessarily found a good solution yet. 0…

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Post by benjaminwootton »

madeofpalk wrote: post #28
mortallywounded wrote: post #4

Something feels off... those apps don't seem like 33K/MRR worthy. I suspect some kind of manipulation was being done to... help?

I've never seen these apps before. I have no idea who this company is. But these icons, names, and type of apps I typically associate with trash behaviour I wish was removed from the app store. Like a Video Joiner Pro that lets you concat two videos, has a 1 week free trial and then $20/month subscription. Edit: Ahh yup, that's exactly what this is > A simple and convenient collage maker will help you make cool video…

I find that a little harsh. The prices are clear, and you can either pass or remember to cancel.

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

stefs wrote: post #322
AlchemistCamp wrote: post #308

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the app store is the monopoly. afaik there's no other way to get apps on your apple device.

You are free to buy a non-Apple phone... because Apple does not have a monopoly.

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Post by rafram »

geoffpado wrote: post #279
rchaud wrote: post #261

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> They can and they have. YouTube Premium exists! You can pay for it! No they haven't. YT Premium price goes up by a significant amount each year, without a corresponding increase in value. That's not a business model, it's an experiment to see what the profitability price point is. If they knew what it was, they could go Netflix and make it paid-only. But then they'd lose out on all the sweet sweet ad revenue which…

Not even Netflix is paid-only any more…

Netflix’s ad-supported tier still costs money! As does Hulu’s.
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