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Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by gowld »

noch wrote: post #33
AsyncAwait wrote: post #22

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That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. I've recently got the PinePhone in and while actual Linux on smartphones is very early, it's also an opportunity to have some real impact. I'll never…

> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

Of you want to work for Apple at-will, go for it.

If your desktop product is good enough, your users will install Linux. Linux runs on Windows and Mac.

Your mobile app can be a web app.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

ksec wrote: post #108
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #64

And Apple is not even an isolated case. Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim. Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10. Pay…

>Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. That is why I am absolutely against abolishing paper cash. Edit: I know there are countries where you have a democratically elected representatives and every part of the government and even companies is held ( more or less ) accountable to the people and does not need to worry ( much ) about big b…

I could not agree more. I use credit cards a fair amount ( streamlined dispute process came in handy a few times ), but I can see first hand what kind of future is being pushed from various circles along the lines of "We can do it ( block a transaction that meets some criteria ; why are we not doing it ? ).

Yeah. If we want any semblance of actual freedom left, cash is a part of the future.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by gowld »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #96
noch wrote: post #33

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> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

I was thinking more of developers who can target the web/server, multi-platform. If you're dependant on Cocoa/SwiftUI then sure, but that means you'll always be at Apple's mercy. It's up to you to decide if you're fine with that. > For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. While I think I get what you're trying to say, I don't think it's necessarily unusable for regular users,…

Linux runs better on old commodity hardware than new "top-class" experimental hardware.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by rimliu »

g_p wrote: post #130

At this point I am hopeful (but not optimistic) that the EU competition/antitrust investigation [1] might go somewhere and get an outcome. The trouble with investigations like these, as we all know from previous cases, is they tend to drag on rather than yield rapid outcomes. In this case, it seems we've sleepwalked into a situation where there are conflicts of interest like never really seen before - companies with…

We already have the cookie law. Do you need another gift from EU?

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by Yetanfou »

zbentley wrote: post #185
Yetanfou wrote: post #171

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And that, dear reader, is why you should host your own infrastructure on your own network connection. Besides being cheaper than using hosted services it: - protects you from this type of arbitrary abuse of power - helps in keeping third parties from mining you for all your data - helps in resisting censorship - protects you from surprise changes or cancellations of services (Google Reader, Google+, Microsoft PlaysFo…

> on your own network connection ISPs can ban users just as capriciously as any other company. And they do. Decentralized internet alternatives are both harder to use (and "host your own infrastructure" is already impossibly hard for the vast majority of people) and too limited to be useful. It's time to accept that and emergent behavior of the internet is to become more centralized, not less.

Change ISP, then. Use a mobile ISP. Use Starlink for all I care. Just laying down to accept that and emergent behavior of the internet is to become more centralized is not an option if you want to retain a semblance of 'data freedom'.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

vinceguidry wrote: post #145
noch wrote: post #33

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> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

Unusable is waaaay overstating it. It's no harder to use for the average user than Windows or OSX. Gaming is actually easier these days on Ubuntu than it is on both other platforms. And it's just getting better and better every year.

For some markets, unusable is not overstating it at all - it's literally true.

Much as I loathe Windows and increasingly dislike MacOS, there is nothing like Adobe CC or any of the major DAWs, video editing tools, or VJ performance suites on Linux. Not even close.

There are toy copy apps run as hobby coding projects. But professionals need the real deal - for file exchange and for other workflow reasons - and Linux simply does not offer that.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by Yetanfou »

syshum wrote: post #182
Yetanfou wrote: post #171

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And that, dear reader, is why you should host your own infrastructure on your own network connection. Besides being cheaper than using hosted services it: - protects you from this type of arbitrary abuse of power - helps in keeping third parties from mining you for all your data - helps in resisting censorship - protects you from surprise changes or cancellations of services (Google Reader, Google+, Microsoft PlaysFo…

While I agree with that to a degree, and it does provide some protection it does not provide total protection They will then attack your Domain Register, or your DDOS protection (CloudFlare) or ISP (as more residential plan forbid running any server the ISP will ban you not for political or other reasons but for running a server on a residential plan), have your bank account / credit card cancelled (this has happened…

No, it does not provide total protection against malevolent third parties, nothing can. It does make it harder to catch each and every person who dares to step beyond the set boundaries of the narrative so it is a step in the right direction.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by vinceguidry »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #196
vinceguidry wrote: post #145

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Unusable is waaaay overstating it. It's no harder to use for the average user than Windows or OSX. Gaming is actually easier these days on Ubuntu than it is on both other platforms. And it's just getting better and better every year.

For some markets, unusable is not overstating it at all - it's literally true. Much as I loathe Windows and increasingly dislike MacOS, there is nothing like Adobe CC or any of the major DAWs, video editing tools, or VJ performance suites on Linux. Not even close. There are toy copy apps run as hobby coding projects. But professionals need the real deal - for file exchange and for other workflow reasons - and Linux s…

I did specify "average user". Obviously some people have needs that can't be met by just any old operating system.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by joshuaissac »

kungato wrote: post #163
fsflover wrote: post #151

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Why would you allow Apple to decide which bank you must use?

My bank doesnt support Google Pay so I switched. Life is full of obstacles but we should go around them and not through them. Only person you hurt in your case is yourself. Or you didn't really want to bother with the whole thing anyway so you stopped at the first issue

The person you replied to is not the same one from the original story. And there are many reasons to prefer one bank to another; in the poster's case, switching to an Apple-supported bank might have introduced more obstacles to go through than it would have avoided.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by TheHypnotist »

rbrtl wrote: post #189
mattr47 wrote: post #184

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I would not call Wikileaks political.

You would call it...?

The United States government called them criminal. My guess is Visa took the easy road on this.
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