Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

thebignewsletter.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

351–360 of 389 posts

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#351

Post by toyg »

nemomarx wrote: post #231
spacedcowboy wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought the AVP for one thing only - long haul flights. It makes the experience completely and utterly different, and it's less than the cost of a business seat. It "works for me".

what kind of flights are you buying that cost 3500 for a business seat? do you get them very last minute?

From the perspective of a UK flyer, $3500 for a return ticket over the Atlantic in business class looks fairly cheap. Last time i checked (with one-month advance), I was quoted 4500+ GBP.

Regardless, you don't throw away your headset after a flight, obviously, so even if the ticket were half the price you'd still come out ahead after two or three trips.

This said, headsets like AVP improve the flying experience but don't magically solve it: they are still too heavy and uncomfortable to wear for more than 1-2 hours. That's why I'm betting on the more lightweight (and cheaper) sunglass-like products to actually win that market.

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#352

Post by chmod775 »

nolist_policy wrote: post #341
kridsdale3 wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trust me, porn on the Vision Pro is plentiful and industry-leading. VRChat, I agree, should absolutely be there and unrestricted. It wont be though. It isn't uncensored on Oculus either.

> VRChat, I agree, should absolutely be there and unrestricted. It wont be though. It isn't uncensored on Oculus either. Can you elaborate?

The quest has some limitations on what avatars it will display, but it's more for performance reasons.

It just so happens that most of the more racy avatars also are more detailed/power hungry and run afoul of those limits.

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#353

Post by sensanaty »

kagakuninja wrote: post #129
mullingitover wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kinda dishonest to cite that 30% number when most developers don't pay it. The fee has been 15% for years now if your revenues are under $1M.

And it is the same cut that console companies take from developers. And then when we point this out, people respond with some bullshit that consoles are not "general purpose computers"...

Not in gamedev myself but have friends who are, and while it can be argued the 30% (I think they're also around 15% or 20% under X amount actually, so it affects smaller games less) Steam takes hurts, it also comes with a lot of benefits to the publishers. Global CDN and delivery network, all the steam social/community features, all the Steam APIs for multiplayer, cloud saves, achievement framework, hell even the steam community market. Steam handles a lot for you, whereas with Apple it's little more than a tax on just existing within their storefront.

Sure, they handle the CDN/Delivery part just like Steam (and Steam has to deal with assets that can easily surpass 100GB, mind), but beyond that? You're forced to buy Apple's hardware, and forced into paying them for access to their app store, while making it literally impossible (until recently) to sideload apps. Many games that are on Steam are also available from alternate storefronts like GOG, and Steam doesn't care if you link to those or mention them, and in fact many of Valves competitors have killed off their own equivalent apps because it's hard to beat Steam's quality (which is hilarious, cause Steam has so much room to grow and become better IMO).

As to the state of the consoles, I'm not entirely sure as I haven't had one since the PS2, but IMO if they're anything like Apple, then yes we should open them up in the exact same way Apple should be opened up

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#354

Post by Bluestrike2 »

throwanem wrote: post #220
Bluestrike2 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the issue is less the cost to developers and more the cost to users. Were there more users, no doubt a larger number of indie developers would be able to justify the expense. Without those users--or at least a reliable promise of those users in the near future--it's tough to justify even dipping your toes into it. It's a chicken and egg problem that's fundamentally tied to cost as well as hardware limitations…

Yes. That was my original point, just above the head of the branch where you responded. Could I have been more concise or more clear? Serious question, I am mildly retooling my prose style of late.

Ah, sorry about that. Any lack of clarity is on me; I had walked away for a bit before responding and ended up flattening the branch in my head by the time I started typing. You're fine :).

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#355

Post by h2zizzle »

TeaBrain wrote: post #289
h2zizzle wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did Bloomberg report that share prices fell because their sales in China under-performed estimates, or while/as their sales in China under-performed estimates?

The difference between an explicit and implicit narrative.

The difference between causation and coincidence.

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#356

Post by TeaBrain »

h2zizzle wrote: post #355
TeaBrain wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference between an explicit and implicit narrative.

The difference between causation and coincidence.

How predictable. I'm referring to the purpose of the publication grouping stats together in a story. Saying "causation and coincidence" is to say nothing. There is never a clear direct "causation" in financial price movements, and both the readers and the publication are aware of this, but that does not mean there is not an implicit narrative. Financial news publications don't mention random coincidental stats just for the amusing random coincidence. The language will always be ambiguous, but pairing specific stats with price moves in ambiguous language is still effectually to create an implicit narrative.

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#357

Post by sitkack »

bitpush wrote: post #290
sitkack wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Tim does a better job, but he is the mirror image of his counterpart at Google. Made from the same mold. Great peace time substitutes, lousy leaders.

The CEO of Google seems to be navigating the AI war pretty competently. A few months back everyone was writing the eulogies for Google and how they fumbled AI. Now Gemini is one of the top models (if not the best) and it is extremely capable and price competitive Meanwhile Apple is still trying to wrap the head around AI. (Didn't stop them from making a splashy marketing campaign though) So no, both companies are not…

I didn’t say the companies were the same.

Google has no idea how to survive in the new paradigm.

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#358

Post by Ray20 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #66
jordanb wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The upside is that executives are cowards (also there's no way in hell I'm going to prison for my employer and most people I know feel the same) so even one high profile successful prosecution will have enormous deterrance effect. There is this despondent feeling among most people that the law no longer applies to the powerful and we watch the behave with ever more brazenness. The saving grace is the amount of pushba…

> Once they see any consequences for their actions they will fall in line. We're seeing this with just how fast and ruthless many executives were after Trump won the election, actually. The behavior of some of these people is best described as "swearing fealty": donations to Trump's circle, dismantling of anything remotely smelling as "DEI" instead of standing up for what was sold as "core values" over the last years…

>We've been asking ourselves "wtf are the Russian oligarchs doing"

No, we have not. There is no oligarchs in Russia, money has no political subjectivity in Russia, and they are owned by those whom Putin put in charge for this.

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#359

Post by bigyabai »

JustExAWS wrote: post #350
okanat wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yeah. Don't blame all the German companies that used slave labor in concentration camps either. Unhinged capitalism is a mind disease that only ends up in fascism.

Right, because showing up for a photo opp and kissing up to the person in charge is the same as genocide. See Godwin’s law. This is the country that the people wanted and the demographics who voted for it are going to be hurt the most. It’s like if the Jews voted for Hitler if you want to use that analogy.

No, I think it's an appropriate "slippery slope" comparison.

Hacker News has insisted, for years, vehemently, that Apple is not abusing monopoly power. You can search every single DMA/DOJ threads comment history and end up with the same conclusion. They were "the good guys" even when they were explaining away the Butterfly keyboard, CPU throttling, on-device scanning or arbitrarily blocking competition. In the face of absolute madness, Hacker News was unable to admit they bet on the wrong horse.

So here we are, watching Apple execs lie under oath. And Hacker News is still jumping up to "uhm aktually, shareholders really like crony capitalism" to once again defend Apple now that they've become indefensible.

This is the tech industry's volkssturm. An unwinnable fight in hopeless conditions, sabotaged solely by poor leadership.

Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

#360

Post by scarface_74 »

bigyabai wrote: post #359
JustExAWS wrote: post #350

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, because showing up for a photo opp and kissing up to the person in charge is the same as genocide. See Godwin’s law. This is the country that the people wanted and the demographics who voted for it are going to be hurt the most. It’s like if the Jews voted for Hitler if you want to use that analogy.

No, I think it's an appropriate "slippery slope" comparison. Hacker News has insisted, for years, vehemently, that Apple is not abusing monopoly power. You can search every single DMA/DOJ threads comment history and end up with the same conclusion. They were "the good guys" even when they were explaining away the Butterfly keyboard, CPU throttling, on-device scanning or arbitrarily blocking competition. In the face o…

Absolutely no one gave Apple a pass for the butterfly keyboard. You can look back at Jason Snell’s “Apple report card” where he sends surveys to 40+ people in the Apple punditry ecosystem during those years and Apple was derided by everyone.

No one gave Apple a pass for on device scanning or the piss poor Johnny Ive inspired thin laptops that removed ports and that over heated during the latter x86 days.

Everyone was glad to see Apple walk back some of his bad decisions during the last generation of x86 laptops. People were complaining in real time.

It’s not just shareholders. None of the 70% of iPhone users or 30% of Android users would be happy to see their phones go up in price by hundreds of dollars because of 145% tariffs (not exaggeration).

And it’s an appropriate “slippery slope” that Apple is going to go from kissing up to Trump to mass genocide?

Post reply on HN