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Use Android
Android is actively in the process of trying to kill off the ability to install your own software that is not Google-approved, so this is temporary solution at best.
Just stop publishing the app, not every little thing needs an app. What the use for the app anyway? Notifications and apple pay?
Why did we let mobile go down the one-app-per-website path?
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A nickel for each iMessage…
Some countries still charge for SMS. That's why WhatsApp is so popular in many places of the world.
Its still widely used :-D
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I've yet to encounter one in the US, but I suppose that would make me install it.
Which banks do you use? I’m looking to switch away from Chase (which does this). It’s a surprisingly hard thing to search for online…
My local credit union (TechCU) does none of that nonsense, and I highly recommend a credit union over any of the big banks in any case.
How long until they make the argument that they're entitled to 30% of your salary because you use Apple hardware to do your work?
Hilarious how this is more than my tax rate. My tax rate gets education, healthcare, policing, etc etc.
Think about how many lives were improved just by M* CPUs or Siri
/s
You can be the patron of a creator and Apple in the same time! Jokes aside, this is awful...I like/use Apple products but this unacceptable, I hope everyone dodges this and pays through the website
In all seriousness, finance people see everything through the lens of margins and money primarily. Since any company's function is to deliver value to its shareholders, if allowed, bean counters will scorch the earth for it.
Ultimately, this is at odds on how Jobs approached things, i.e., money was not the end all be all.
I think it’s not that simple. These are not my words and I cannot only post the link [0] as the author uses the referrer to hide his articles from HN, but here’s the text: Once again, Patreon is going to strong-arm all of us into "charge at the moment of sign-up" instead of "charge on the first of the month." They have wanted this for years, and once again they are saying that Apple has given them cover to demand it.…
Why is this person selling “nightclub” memberships via patreon?
The person in question is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
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Hilarious how this is more than my tax rate. My tax rate gets education, healthcare, policing, etc etc.
On the other side Apple gets money, so they can make *whole* world better, not just your country. Think about how many lives were improved just by M* CPUs or Siri /s
But these were paid for by the hardware purchase.
You can be the patron of a creator and Apple in the same time! Jokes aside, this is awful...I like/use Apple products but this unacceptable, I hope everyone dodges this and pays through the website
Another outstanding decision vetted by Tim Cook. In all seriousness, finance people see everything through the lens of margins and money primarily. Since any company's function is to deliver value to its shareholders, if allowed, bean counters will scorch the earth for it. Ultimately, this is at odds on how Jobs approached things, i.e., money was not the end all be all.