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Post by jacquesm »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #365
jacquesm wrote: post #361

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This makes no sense. These companies dictate what you see, when you see it and how you see it. They are just not throwing their weight around as much as they could yet. But if Google decides that your website no longer exists it effectively doesn't exist any more.

I recall visiting websites before Google was even made. In any case, the internet does not only exist within Google’s search index. For example, I can post a URL in this comment, and you would be able to visit it, even if Google did not keep it in its search index. The only question is how much work do people want to do to spread knowledge of theirs or others’ website, and how much work do people want to do to find t…

Good luck with that. If Chrome won't display it that's that for 45% of your possible visitors. If the domain-without-a-tld doesn't come up as the first link in your average browser that's another 40% or so, if your ISP doesn't like you or if your certificate is the wrong color (or your bits for that matter) then that's the remainder. To compare the web as it is today with what went before is a bit silly because we have moved on from there and the party that controls your browser, your search, your income, your document store, your email and your phone may well be one and the same.

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Post by volkk »

practice9 wrote: post #204
mm263 wrote: post #101

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The company is liquidated, which means he doesn't do business in Russia. Also, I love living in the world where doing business is suspicious because of my nationality.

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.

wow i saw a really stupid take just earlier today on an unrelated thread, but this one actually wins. great job!!

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Post by emmelaich »

slezyr wrote: post #43

Russian guy saying that he is in Chile in the first sentence? Absolutely nothing suspicious. https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1215600010141-obschestvo-s-ogran... It is even a Russian company. It was registered a bit before the war started and liquidated not so long ago.

I wondered whether the fake reviews are being made by well-meaning but misguided friends or family. That the reviewers names are Russian is interesting.

OR maybe they're by acquaintances of the author that have some beef with him and have decided to sabotage him?

Is it possible that Apple is discovering some connection between these reviewers and the author that the author is not aware of?

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Post by crazygringo »

jacquesm wrote: post #369
crazygringo wrote: post #368

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> It's not about the likelihood of it happening, it is about the principle of it being possible But honestly, that's just life. Every business takes risks. You take a risk every time you step out the door. It's silly to say every app developer is enabling the situation. I mean, you might as well say anybody who allows payment in USD is enabling American foreign policy. But it's not helpful. The risk/reward ratio for…

The internet was specifically designed to limit the number of such gatekeeping options and commercial entities were never supposed to be able to maneuver themselves into a position like that.

The internet was designed specifically for IP traffic to be able to route around failed communication nodes. And for TCP to handle things like throttling and retries and packet order. That's pretty much all.

App stores are an economic matter we can choose to regulate or not via existing mechanisms of representative democracy. For now, the US population hasn't shown much interest in it.

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Post by ponector »

mike_d wrote: post #364
ponector wrote: post #334

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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.

> Then US government is one of the most racist government on the planet. ... For example getting a green card for Indian people. As an American it is basically impossible for me to immigrate to India and establish citizenship without my parents being Indian and knowing an official language fluently or by "investing" approximately $2 million USD and hiring at least 20 people to work for me.

That is the world we live in. And people are fine with such rules.

There are countries where it is much harder to get residence (not citizenship) than your case with India.

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Post by janc_ »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #370
tristan957 wrote: post #362

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It isn't Apple's hardware. It's your hardware. You bought it.

This kind of reasoning is perfect if you want to halt all future innovation. Why would someone advance the state of the art in any device if the immediate result is attacks for the new device being a "monopoly" within the scope of the new device or improvements?

The legal term is abuse of a dominant market position, which does not only apply to pure monopolies ...

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Post by brookst »

munk-a wrote: post #198
judge2020 wrote: post #40

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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…

If Apple isn't able to police this then maybe it's unhealthy for the market to be completely controlled by them. They make billions off the AppStore and their refusal to reinvest in proper moderation (especially for an app worth hundreds of thousands in revenue) is quite telling.

I think you just said any company that cannot practice moderation with absolute perfection should not be in business?

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Post by lmm »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #263
silenced_trope wrote: post #145

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pretty clever, it reminds me of the early days of the app store when apps would be taken down for copyright strikes but if you provided proof you'd be given "immunity" from further strikes taking down your app while Apple investigates it became a strategy to copyright strike your own app, have proof ready so that no downtime was necessary, then you have the temporary immunity so that competitors couldn't submit a cop…

I don't get how this sort of short-term thinking to the extremth degree is ever worth it or sustainable...

It probably isn't now, but in the early days the iphone app store was a giant pinata full of money for anyone who wanted to knock up a flashlight app or whatever.

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Post by mattashii »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #370
tristan957 wrote: post #362

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It isn't Apple's hardware. It's your hardware. You bought it.

This kind of reasoning is perfect if you want to halt all future innovation. Why would someone advance the state of the art in any device if the immediate result is attacks for the new device being a "monopoly" within the scope of the new device or improvements?

What? Aren't AMD, ARM, and Intel advancing the state of the art of CPUs because they have open platforms, and have no monopoly or gatekeeper position on what software can run on their platform?

I can't see why you would be unable to advance the state of the art if you don't block (thus allow) everyone from building on your platform.

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