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Newpipe is amazing, if iOS users had access to it then YouTube might actually be forced to improve their mobile app. Out-of-the-box, you get video downloading, PiP, background playback, and so much more. No need to pay Google a dime for the best YouTube features on the market.
Sure. Just violate the TOS of YouTube and you can do all kinds of fun.
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The app store had 85B ($85,000,000,000) gross revenue in 2021. Apple made 30%. https://www.statista.com/statistics/296226/annual-apple-app-... From https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-apple-makes-money-underst... , > The devices and platforms help Apple lock-in the consumer into its ecosystem. First, Apple achieves hardware lock-in with the devices. Then, it achieves software lock-in with operating system software, ap…
As stated elsewhere on this thread, the 30% isn’t entirely going to Apple’s pockets — they have costs such as App Store bandwidth costs, support costs for purchases made, and the likes.
PS: In case I couldn't make it clear, my questions are not directed to parent comment.
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So instead of something imperfect you prefer nothing, great I am sure Apple stuff is not perfect so don't use it. We use open source docx tools and write code to work with docx format so the actual reality is that it works infinity times better then attempting to reverse engineer some proprietary binary stuff . People would make open sourse stuff to connect to Apple things and if Ap[ple is as bad as Microsoft we can…
For the trivial case where a document or a spreadsheet with just some text has to be exported out of a system, it works. But there are other formats such as CSV that already exist for this purpose and have a higher degree of. My point wasn't about writing to those formats for these basic use cases, but rather about building interoperable applications that can both read and write from the format. Since the spec is rel…
Google Docs and other open source tools can import docx and this is great even if not perfect, and if there is an issue you can read the code of the document and maybe figure the problem, is Infinity times better then the old ways where Word would probably just binary serialize the data and dump it in a file.
We are talking about giants having to interoperate with others, what is your point? It can't be done perfectly because giants are evil and we should not try?
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Forgive my ignorance, but how do we know that Apple doesn't track more data than they provide to developers?
This is a great point. You could probably sum up Apple’s strategy as “capture the most lucrative market through initial quality/vanity, learn more about it than anyone else, then ring-fence it and protect it.” They aren’t a monopoly as long as you don’t consider income demographics.
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> their incentive is to lock users All good apart from this. Apple does this magnificently, ie closed hardware protocols. For example there are significantly better earphones than airpads pro (and some cost +-same), but good luck getting same level of integration over apple's proprietary protocols. While rest of whole universe at least tries to adhere to open things so we users have freedom in how we design & evolve…
Umm, Thunderbolt was developed by Intel, in cooperation with Apple. And IIRC, Apple is a member of the USB consortium. Too bad design by committee sucks and has led to the disaster that is USB-C.
Apple is also a member of Khronos (and so is Microsoft btw) yet decided to push their proprietary API instead of working with open standards.
Membership in a standards organization makes just as much sense for a company competing with the standard as it does for one embracing it.
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Yes, but you can't get a devkit for a console without Sony/MS/Nintendo approval. No devkit, no game. Dunno if they still gatekeep the physical products. Apple takes the $99 developer license and that's it. You get full access to all tools and the App Store. Releasing a new version doesn't cost you anything extra. I wouldn't even know how to go about creating an Xbox or PS game. Who do I contact, where do I pay and ho…
What part of "reverse engineer" do you not understand? The point of paying the platform fee is that you can make games for the console with the assistance of the console maker. If you don't want to pay for the convenience, you can spend time and money reverse engineering an OS that will run your game(s). Also, the Apple fee isn't just $99. It's $99 plus 30% of every transaction through the app. Forever. The console p…
* Official company registration document, such as a Certificate of Incorporation.
* Latest Annual Return / Financial Statement.
* Copy of your entry on a commercial register (or equivalent) within your country or region.
* Passport (sole traders only).
* Your static IP address in IPv4 format
* Your private domain email address (public domains such as Gmail, Hotmail, etc. aren't accepted). Your email address must include your name.
* Your product pitch
Same for the Xbox store. You send an "application" and they may or may not accept it. At least Xbox doesn't want your product pitch beforehand. There is a "very modest one-time cost" though, no idea what's their idea of modest.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this EU ruling to extend to consoles as well.
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Umm, Thunderbolt was developed by Intel, in cooperation with Apple. And IIRC, Apple is a member of the USB consortium. Too bad design by committee sucks and has led to the disaster that is USB-C.
USB Type C is the connector and isn't a disaster. You could argue lightning is a better connector, but it's not _that_ much better. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 use the USB-C connector. The USB naming of the protocols: USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 1, USB 3.1 Gen 2 -> USB 3.1 Gen 2 x 1, USB 3.2 Gen 1x2, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, USB4 Gen 2x2, USB4 Gen 3x2 is ridiculous without even getting into the complexity of the protocol
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> This is naive and assumes that there aren’t bigger, badder actors to deal with - Facebook, Google, and others can and will abuse their position. This will make the iPhone worse for everyone, especially if chrome manages a dominant position and developers can stop supporting safari. It will probably make my Mac worse, too. That's why we have regulation, which is quickly ("quick" in terms of legislation at least) com…
> If the only reason people use Safari today instead of another browser, is because they are forced to use Safari, even if there is a better one, isn't that kind of messed up in the first place? The vast majority of people generally don't think a browser is 'better' outside of the chrome - tab functions, bookmark syncing, password management, etc. IMHO when people complain about Safari, it is usually web developers w…
Again, if the only reason people are using your browser is because they are forced to, you're doing something wrong.
Just because Chrome or Firefox could use their own rendering engine, doesn't mean the majority of iPhone users would switch to it. People who use Safari today would continue to use it even if Chrome/Firefox could switch their rendering engine.
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As a byproduct it does give a measure of privacy so what's it to you if apple users just don't care about your idea of freedom? I hope this European legislation at least lets apple customers opt-IN to these new features or choose the old way of doing business. I would prefer to keep access footprints to a minimum to stuff like NFC, contacts, hardware APIs, apple pay, etc on my phone.
In theory you already have the choice of opting-in by choosing not to install apps that utilize NFC, hardware APIs, other payment processors, etc. But that's if nothing changed. My concern is that if companies are given the opportunity to have their own stores, and their own payment processors, we're going to end up with de-facto-forced-install of a store and acceptance of terms, and it favors companies that already…
Better would be
a) to give the user control over permissions in a way lets them deny ALL permissions without the app being able to know that it was even denied the permission wherever that is remotely possible and
b) to restrict what what market leaders can get away with which should not just apply to Apple but also to hugely popular apps
c) to require interopability from social networks and other communication platforms to counter network effects.
The entire tech space is still a wild west in what corporations are allowed to get away with and eventually what will need to change if individuals are to retain any control over their digital lifes.
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Yes. Signal.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework
What's stopping Signal from creating their own native MacOS app?