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Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by dpoloncsak »

jasomill wrote: post #433
b112 wrote: post #297

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I pirated a lot when I was younger. Downloaded movies, books especially. Back then, ebooks were barely a thing(early 2000s), and scanned/OCR copies were the only way to get most books to read on a device. I even contacted a few authors and sent them money directly via paypal. But then the market matured. I bought what I could on Amazon. Exported to epub to read as I pleased. Then the Kindle app became horrendous. Now…

As a Disney+ subscriber, I occasionally pirate content because the Web app acts up and refuses to play content I'm entitled to, even at degraded resolution. I do this even though my desktop display is a smart TV that's perfectly capable of streaming 4K content, because side-by-side display of app and HDMI content is not an option. Speaking of which, how do Disney and other streaming providers benefit from blocking 4K…

>how do Disney and other streaming providers benefit from blocking 4K streaming in browsers once the 4K version is readily available to torrent, often at higher Blu-ray bitrates? Is this part of some backroom deal with TV and streaming device vendors?

Im pretty sure torrenting/piracy is a VERY small subset of people. I think it's been growing again, but everyone still thinks I'm doing things 'old school' when I mention illegally downloading movies for my Plex server

Edit: Google Search Trends for "torrent" suggest it is NOT on it's way back

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Post by lern_too_spel »

b112 wrote: post #297
randycupertino wrote: post #247

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> This is how Amazon is too with the movies and tv shows you bought. There's no way to search your owned library anymore. You just have to page through it to find what you want. And your library is hidden away behind a tiny little unlabeled icon in the upper right corner. This happened with (amazon owned) audible now too. When you try to search your own library instead it shows you books for sale. Even if you search…

I pirated a lot when I was younger. Downloaded movies, books especially. Back then, ebooks were barely a thing(early 2000s), and scanned/OCR copies were the only way to get most books to read on a device. I even contacted a few authors and sent them money directly via paypal. But then the market matured. I bought what I could on Amazon. Exported to epub to read as I pleased. Then the Kindle app became horrendous. Now…

I just get my ebooks from the library, the same way I get my physical books.

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Post by qwerpy »

int_19h wrote: post #238
qwerpy wrote: post #161

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The hardware is still marginally better but the experience is no longer better. In fact with android at least you can sideload and install full powered ad blockers. At some point once the iOS experience degrades beyond a certain threshold, android will be a more attractive option.

From the perspective of a casual user, on Android you get mobile Chrome which doesn't do extensions at all, while on iOS mobile Safari has extensions including ad blockers.

On Android you can get Firefox with its own rendering engine which can run full uBlock Origin. On iOS sure you can get some ad blockers on Safari but not the full powered uBlock Origin. Or you can get Firefox but it's just a reskinned Safari and can't run the powerful ad blockers.

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Post by ninetyninenine »

notanastronaut wrote: post #506
ninetyninenine wrote: post #465

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Let us be clear from the start. This thread is not about piracy. Everyone pirates. Everyone knows everyone pirates. The internet is a vast floating marketplace of digital oranges stolen from the same tree. The practical question is boring. The interesting question is psychological. How do you, personally, live with yourself while doing it? Why do people in this thread need to build entire theological systems of justi…

These comments feel like an LLM. Which would be peak irony, considering how people feel these models have stolen from humanity.

Cute. You can go to any comment you disagree with and make up lies like this. What's the point?

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Post by mulmen »

toast0 wrote: post #392
mulmen wrote: post #200

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So what’s the lesson for future business leaders? Someone has to be first. What can a first mover do to get to that second generation product?

> So what’s the lesson for future business leaders? Someone has to be first. Let it be someone else. Maybe spinoff promising new ideas where you can't follow others. If you can find ideas to be second on, look at old product annpuncements from companies that tend to be too early and shut down products that don't have engagement. Microsoft and Yahoo are good ones. Or, do the new idea, patent the hell out of it, let it…

> Let it be someone else.

But this can't work. Then why would anyone innovate? I reject the assertion that it's impossible to innovate and develop a viable product. My question is what makes a company able to do both?

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Post by int_19h »

qwerpy wrote: post #513
int_19h wrote: post #238

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From the perspective of a casual user, on Android you get mobile Chrome which doesn't do extensions at all, while on iOS mobile Safari has extensions including ad blockers.

On Android you can get Firefox with its own rendering engine which can run full uBlock Origin. On iOS sure you can get some ad blockers on Safari but not the full powered uBlock Origin. Or you can get Firefox but it's just a reskinned Safari and can't run the powerful ad blockers.

Casual users don't care about rendering engines. They care about things working or not working, and in practice Safari with AdGuard is "good enough".

Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by qwerpy »

int_19h wrote: post #516
qwerpy wrote: post #513

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On Android you can get Firefox with its own rendering engine which can run full uBlock Origin. On iOS sure you can get some ad blockers on Safari but not the full powered uBlock Origin. Or you can get Firefox but it's just a reskinned Safari and can't run the powerful ad blockers.

Casual users don't care about rendering engines. They care about things working or not working, and in practice Safari with AdGuard is "good enough".

I agree, what I said should not have conflated "rendering engine" with "ability to install fully powered ad blockers". What I meant by that was that Safari's renderer on iOS doesn't allow the full uBlock Origin no matter if you use a reskin of it or not (firefox, brave, etc.), but if Firefox and its rendering engine were allowed on iOS (similar to how it is on android) we would have the full power ad blocker.

It makes a difference. I have uBlock Origin lite on my iPhone and it misses ads on Facebook that uBlock Origin on my PC blocks. Facebook has the most advanced anti-ad-blocker tech, so they're a good benchmark for how effective an ad blocker is.

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Post by staplers »

czl wrote: post #378
staplers wrote: post #101

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I very much doubt the execs understand how much they're damaging the brand for that little bit of extra revenue. Our entire societal system is based on increasing revenue (due to inflation). Until we measure, define, and value experience in nominal terms through data, most leaders won't care because it will remain an estimate against hard data.

> Our entire societal system is based on increasing revenue (due to inflation). Yes that is capitalism however if inflation cuts value of money in half and in the same time your revenue doubles, did you actually double your revenue? Do you even need to change your service or product to justify raising prices when the currency is being devalued? For both these questions there is a strong case that the answer is no.

Thus begs the question why monetary inflation exists. Govts and banks are given god-like power over who gets access to the new money. From there it simply devalues all else.

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

shantara wrote: post #446
Obscurity4340 wrote: post #415

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You're better off with a local first reader/ebook /library manager like Yomu or Marvin.

Yomu is what I’ve switched to

Its such a great belweather too for when my phone has too little free storage. I always find it out from Yomu ha
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