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Re: Developer account removed by Apple

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Post by moralestapia »

dang wrote: post #444
moralestapia wrote: post #222

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You're really out of your element here. >It's the modern version of buying "art" that isn't valuable at insane prices. That was possible because the art world (at some point in time) enabled this. Apple and its App Store actively prevent this from happening, it's the complete opposite.

You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines very badly lately, such as here and (even more) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38396197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395894 If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you. We've already had to warn you about this more than once in the past. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com…

My apologies, you're right.

I'll tone it down.

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Post by mlyle »

Aeolun wrote: post #410
ponector wrote: post #335

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Do you think that your fact will negate mine? And yes, sanctions are half baked and poorly enforced. "West" continues trading with Russia.

Not particularly, but it probably does make yours irrelevant. Russians overseas send a grand total of $5M back to the country every month. Europe purchases a few million tons of oil, $5B/year. Numbers made up, and just for illustrative purposes.

> Numbers made up, and just for illustrative purposes.

Which makes it pretty dishonest, especially when you augment it with mixing month and year ;)

> Russians overseas send a grand total of $5M back to the country every month.

Remittances to Russian individuals are like $25B/year; this is a whole lot. Yah, oil industry revenues are 10x higher (after having about a 20-30% bite taken out of them by sanctions), but of course, in order to get that revenue a decent chunk of the hard currency has to flow back out of Russia to pay for various O&G related expenses.

It would be nice, of course, to trim down the O&G revenues more, but any policy actions that countries take against a hostile state need to hurt the adversary more than themselves, and it's not too clear how to go further on O&G and meet this criteria.

Re: Developer account removed by Apple

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Post by ericbarrett »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #450
ericbarrett wrote: post #96

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Apple's revenue is $12,000 per second .

The revenue you make is not important, the growth in revenue is important.

In the time it took you to compose this reply, Apple made more money (in profit, not revenue) than the amount in TFA. Your cynicism borders on conspiracy theory!

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Post by gorlilla »

oniony wrote: post #434
wongarsu wrote: post #203

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Android removed the big technical measures that gave Google's Play Store a competitive advantage over alternatives, in no small part because of EU pressure. And while the Play Store is by far the biggest player in town, Amazon's Appstore, Huawei's AppGallery and F-Droid are all notable alternatives. Meanwhile on iOS the best we seem to get is the EU Digital Markets Act setting some rules for fairness on the big marke…

They're really not notable alternatives. I love F-Droid but its selection is very limited. Good luck finding people who use Amazon Appstore, Huawei AppGallery or any of these other stores. Let's imagine there's a company called Ticketmuster that had a monopoly on ticket sales. If they tolerate a shitty little kiosk selling a score of tickets a day, does this mean Ticketmuster does not have a monopoly share of the mar…

They would probably somehow own the shitty little kiosk anyway.

Re: Developer account removed by Apple

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Post by Guvante »

judge2020 wrote: post #397
Guvante wrote: post #366

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I like how you call users dumb for choosing Apple and clever for wanting to sideload. Or how else do you claim there is two sides here? Pretending that Apple is protecting consumers is silly, they have repeatedly said internally the lock is for revenue alone. No claim of security protection has lasted past "wouldn't sideloaded apps be sandboxed the same as App Store apps and thus have the same security overall"? (App…

It sounds like the poster means that people who buy one or the other are choosing between either "(nearly) absolute" security or freedom in being able to install software without the manufacturer's consent.

Certainly but there is no dumb option it is a trade off.

They got in their head that users were stupid for choosing Apple when they wanted side loading but that isn't stupid in the context of "should Apple allow sideloading".

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