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RMS is an extremist, openly and unashamedly. He doesn't try to hide it, he tries to argue that his extremist position is the morally correct and long-term best for society though. > from a personal bias he has against Apple. Many of the points he is specifically isolating for Apple are quite true of most of the big tech firms. He bashes all big techs for most of those points too. See the links at the top where he com…
So by this standard, is there a computer that I should use, or is all computing in 2019 unethical? I see he's using a >10yr old Intel CPU, presumably to avoid the Management Engine, so presumably he thinks it's OK to pay money to these companies in certain circumstances?
Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
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What do you mean by "distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free"?
Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores. They take 30% of paid app revenues (15% of long term subscriptions). Apple has distributed over 300M downloads of Spotify to iOS users, since Spotify is a free app it hasn’t paid a cent for over 30 Petabytes of bandwidth costs.
>Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores.
You have to pay every year to be in the appstore.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores. They take 30% of paid app revenues (15% of long term subscriptions). Apple has distributed over 300M downloads of Spotify to iOS users, since Spotify is a free app it hasn’t paid a cent for over 30 Petabytes of bandwidth costs.
That's how the internet works ... and Apple is hosting the app only. It doesn't deal with the streaming
I don't have too much knowledge about how the delivery of apps in iOS store works, but I could infer that it is not only hosting files. They need at least to keep multiple versions and delivery the one that fits the proper iOS version of the device. And, based on my experience with delivering desktop apps I think there is much more to that.
For example I was just delivering one single app to customers and still I needed to allocate time to infrastructure and versioning and automating some tasks and signing the code and much more.
I imagine that for an iOS store there is more.
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And a few good reasons to choose Apple: My new iPhone XR needs to be charged only once or twice per week. For development, I get a certified UNIX machine with an excellent user interface, best of both worlds for the vast majority of tasks we need using computers. Apple makes money off me because I buy their products. I am myself not the product, their hardware is. This has so many natural side effects that benefit us…
> My new iPhone XR needs to be charged only once or twice per week. It's not the only phone that does that and it's not a new feature. Even with older phones, you can simply get a battery case. > with an excellent user interface The user interface is terrible and all the core features are extremely limited with no extensibility whatsoever. Just about every other desktop OS has a better user interface. > Apple makes m…
> Actually, their iProducts are not even yours after you buy them. If you want to build an app for your own device you have to give Apple $100 every year just to be able to install it. So that puts them into a malignant category of their own.
FYI this has not been true for years.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My new iPhone XR needs to be charged only once or twice per week. It's not the only phone that does that and it's not a new feature. Even with older phones, you can simply get a battery case. > with an excellent user interface The user interface is terrible and all the core features are extremely limited with no extensibility whatsoever. Just about every other desktop OS has a better user interface. > Apple makes m…
> Actually, their iProducts are not even yours after you buy them. If you want to build an app for your own device you have to give Apple $100 every year just to be able to install it. So that puts them into a malignant category of their own. FYI this has not been true for years.
It is true for all practical purposes. Nobody is going to resign and reinstall their apps weekly.
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Are you serious? Does Sony prevent me emailing my friends my game source code? They "JUST" need developer system with expensive proprietary software and developer accounts, certificates and agree to a few EULAs and ToSs but I am not prevented to send them source code.
You don’t need to do that on iOS. Xcode is free with $99/year dev account, you can TestFlight builds to all of your friends, up to 10,000 of them.
Is there a 7 or 30 days limit? I found something about this but I am not sure if I am looking in the right places. So if you know this from your experience can you list all the downsides(don't omit anything that won't affect an app that I would send to someone on Windows,Mac, Android or Linux) ?
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#197The problem I have with Stallman is that he’s usually right, but he is remarkably horrible at coming across as someone with valid opinions. It is disingenuous to come to the table with clearly cherry-picked evidence, and calling companies and their products with stupid names is just childish. There are a lot of problems with companies, and Stallman is very good at recognizing them, but he’s just pretty bad at getting…
I find the stupid names childish, but I don't think the evidence is cherry picked at all. Linking six different examples of Apple bowing to China's censorship isn't cherry picking, it's making the point well. I wish more writers had Stallman's obsession with linking previous material on a topic.
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the Dystopian Orwellian Nightmare is even worse than what Stallman is saying here. First of all, one of the most critical top secrets (ab)used by NSA against us in the Snowden cache has been kept secret from us. in the Wiretap Act of 1968 (Title III), it explicitly defined what is a wiretap and who is authorized to perform them and what the legal procedure is. if you read the Wiretap act in the most literal fashion,…
as a final bonus, about halfway through those slides about DTNs, there is a map showing an NSA "mobile wireless testbed." you HN nerds outta recognize that map. look familiar? see the Lat/Long coords at the bottom. it's the Richmond district in SF. you'd think NSA would be careful to not use US locations as the examples in its surveillance programs, since NSA is not chartered for domestic spying. but you'd be wrong.…
> "We're an empire now [..]"
An exceptionally well written and chilling quote I thought. I looked it up to see what book or potentially movie/series this might be from:
"Karl Rove. American Republican political consultant and policy advisor."
How can creative writers possibly compete with this caliber of actual villain dialogue?
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> the mobile telephony system only works in the first place if the system knows how to route incoming calls and SMS messages to a person's telephone Like every other messaging system. Because you know, in order to send a message you need to know where...
Not quite. Ricochet IM[0] is a messaging system based around Tor hidden services. The entire purpose of Tor is the ability to route messages to people without finding out where they are. [0] https://ricochet.im/
Tor is power hungry and can’t scale for billions of users.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
as a final bonus, about halfway through those slides about DTNs, there is a map showing an NSA "mobile wireless testbed." you HN nerds outta recognize that map. look familiar? see the Lat/Long coords at the bottom. it's the Richmond district in SF. you'd think NSA would be careful to not use US locations as the examples in its surveillance programs, since NSA is not chartered for domestic spying. but you'd be wrong.…
> "We're an empire now [..]" An exceptionally well written and chilling quote I thought. I looked it up to see what book or potentially movie/series this might be from: "Karl Rove. American Republican political consultant and policy advisor." How can creative writers possibly compete with this caliber of actual villain dialogue?
Ah yes, Karl Rove. The Grima Wormtongue of the Bush administration. The man who used "reality based community" as a pejorative, and led the American right towards its current embrace of "post truth" ideology.