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

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Post by AsyncAwait »

gowld wrote: post #193
AsyncAwait wrote: post #96

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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.

Not from my experience.

Linux does run better than Windows tends to on old HW, sure, but comparing that experience to macOS on new hardware is less than fair.

There's plenty of new hardware Linux runs great on, I am not sure what you call "experimental" hardware, but I am using a Surface Pro 7 as my main machine with exclusively Linux on it, no problems.

Any recent standard ultrabook should also work fine, heck I even have a random, no-name Chinese UMPC that works well.

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Post by dijit »

bnastic wrote: post #187
dijit wrote: post #169

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All the issues people have with apple can be applied to most corporations. Don't get me wrong, I think it's abhorrent, but it's something you should think about. I once tried to open a new bank account with my bank of 10y, and set up direct debit to it. The point was that I was going to pay my rent from that new account (both me and a roommate would pay into the account, and a direct-debit would go to the landlord).…

> Especially the ones that implore you to trust them With long established institutions (like banks) you still have lots of competitors to choose from, and legal recourse if you are wronged. There is no recourse when PayPals, Amazons and Apples of the world decide to scrub you. In my case it was Apple refusing to work with a bank because they don't have branches, apparently. It's a well known private bank, with a gaz…

> because they have enacted a rule that doesn't exist in any laws, just because they can?

Which is the same as my example.

Legal recourse for your bank to lock down your account is actually very limited. But I agree that banks are at least more competitive so they're less likely.

If there were two banks (a duo culture, like google/apple in phones) then you can be very sure it would be the same.

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Post by dnh44 »

dijit wrote: post #169
bnastic wrote: post #81

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> i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed How about Apple telling me they don't like my business bank (a well known UK bank I've been with for 10 years) and simply refusing to set up the account. In a very cold, "go away already", manner. I wasn't going to kill the relationship with…

All the issues people have with apple can be applied to most corporations. Don't get me wrong, I think it's abhorrent, but it's something you should think about. I once tried to open a new bank account with my bank of 10y, and set up direct debit to it. The point was that I was going to pay my rent from that new account (both me and a roommate would pay into the account, and a direct-debit would go to the landlord).…

About 10 years ago HSBC got caught helping drug cartels launder money and they got massively fined for it. In the subsequent years they made it really difficult to open an account, but they wouldn't tell people what the hold up was because it's illegal for UK banks to tell customers that they are performing an anti money laundering investigation.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-probe/hsbc-to-pay-1-...

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

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Post by NullPrefix »

philliphaydon wrote: post #153
NullPrefix wrote: post #122

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You can already do that on your website. Check if client IP matches and then don't print JS that loads ads

For parked domains you can't tho, you point the domains to google adsense.

Yeah, that's correct. Initially I thought that you can control html on the parked domain.

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Post by AmericanChopper »

duncanawoods wrote: post #186
chrisseaton wrote: post #141

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Cash is already going away in some countries. Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.

Small shops with card fees is the last remaining hold out for me. Payment systems should be nationalised and run by a country's central bank. It's a very boring infrastructure equivalent to roads. There shouldn't be a private company taxing every single transaction someone makes. Do that and the small stores can drop the fees.

I’m not sure I see your logic here. Do you think the payment networks will be cheaper to operate if they’re run by the government? Or would you prefer an actual tax to the fees you’re comparing to taxes? Do you expect banks would drop their transaction fees? Do you think payment gateways would drop their fees? Do you think payment terminals would become free, and their networks free to use?

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Post by leadingthenet »

qhwudbebd wrote: post #111
nromiun wrote: post #45

> The big problem is that when Apple tells you that the reasons “are not limited” the ones they listed, it could be anything. They could call my face ugly and remove me from the Developer Program under that reason and tell me it was because of “fraud”. Seriously, just how hard is it for these companies to communicate properly? Would it kill them to send something like "We saw X on your account so we are closing your…

Apple's strategy against the web app workaround appears to be two-pronged: abandon any pretence at maintaining webkit whilst continuing locking out more competent browser engines. Even Microsoft in the IE era didn't actively ban Netscape from running on their platform...

WebKit is clearly being actively maintained, though.

And, might I add, Safari performs way better for me than Chrome, on macOS.

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Post by CydeWeys »

chrisseaton wrote: post #141
kabacha wrote: post #121

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At one point abolishing paper cash is even remotely plausible? maybe in 100 years? So far cash rules majority of the world and I don't see it going away any time soon.

Cash is already going away in some countries. Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.

Are you sure that applies generally, and not just to you and people like you?

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

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'm in Denmark, I believe this is pretty much the best example of the kind of country you are talking about, unfortunately I have some personal problems along various spectrums that mean I am not good at keeping track of things that I cannot control through a computer, anyway Denmark went nearly cashless for a bit and because of my personal problems I did not have a credit card for a portion of that time.

A cashless society would mean a society where some neuro-atypical people might periodically have to worry about starving to death.

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Post by chrisseaton »

CydeWeys wrote: post #207
chrisseaton wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cash is already going away in some countries. Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.

Are you sure that applies generally, and not just to you and people like you?

I don't live in the South East and I'm not in a tech bubble, if that's what you mean.

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Post by chrisseaton »

duncanawoods wrote: post #186
chrisseaton wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cash is already going away in some countries. Almost nobody pays for anything with cash in the UK anymore.

Small shops with card fees is the last remaining hold out for me. Payment systems should be nationalised and run by a country's central bank. It's a very boring infrastructure equivalent to roads. There shouldn't be a private company taxing every single transaction someone makes. Do that and the small stores can drop the fees.

They aren't 'taxing' it - they're charging for a service rendered, which is a valuable service to me so I'm fine with it.
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