These companies charge money for their services and have competitors. AWS’ entire business models is providing developer services, and if I don’t like their offerings I can go elsewhere. Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.…
Thank you! And not just any website, a good mobile website, too.
> because Patreon.com is not just a website, it is a complex web app I don’t agree with this as someone who uses Patreon relatively frequently. It’s actually quite a simple website, and the main thing I care about is…
No, you just don’t have an argument. Patreon has a perfectly working mobile application called Patreon.com that doesn’t have any gatekeepers. It’s fully mobile, responsive, and allows me to do everything I want to do…
If Patreon doesn’t like Apple’s rules, they should just take their app off the App Store. All these companies moaning about Apple yet aren’t doing the one thing they have the power to do which is just leave. If they…
> There are also users who want to take the responsibility on themselves. They want the ability to host their own apps for free (or lower costs), faster update cycles, and just overall freedom. Those people don't want a…
Ctrl+click. I find it more intuitive than right clicking personally.
Unlike Reddit, Apollo was stopping users from seeing ads and Reddit gaining ad revenue from them, so they went to charge the Reddit app devs for this loss in revenue. The YouTube embed API supports ads, and works…
Everyone who makes this kind of comment must not play video games online. The "money play" is a cut on digital sales, and balancing subscription fees with the cost of services rendered. I can't imagine how little they…
Look up Xim, it gives an unfair advantage to console players by allowing a mouse and keyboard input when the developer hasn’t intended so (official APIs exist if they do). Cronus is also especially bad. It also allows…
Xim users destroying the integrity of multiplayer FPS causes this, unfortunately. The fact of the matter is if you’re allowed to plug in any peripheral into a game console, you can and will get prolific cheaters in a…
So you go to purchase a device from a company who has been doing this since their very existence, is known for doing this, and has never pretended or tricked consumers into thinking they don’t do this. A closed…
And a business has freedom to restrict their products to prevent what they believe isn’t the use case they want. And users have the freedom to put their money where their mouth is by purchasing alternatives on the…
I think inventing a new screw would be a design thing? In a perfect world a screw that is easily replaced and allows them the design they want would be used. However if that doesn’t exist, as an engineer, I am aware of…
Why would a consumer like my mum care about opening the phone up? You still haven’t explained how choosing to tradeoff design over repairability is anti-consumer when the consumer can buy a FairPhone right now (who, I…
I assumed the reason Apple’s phones are stolen for parts are that, unlike a lot of Android counterparts that can be reset, Find My is so bulletproof that (without phishing) iPhones are essentially expensive paperweights…
I don’t understand how this is Anti Consumer in any way? I have an iPhone and a FairPhone. One’s niche is that it’s repairable, and the other is that it’s not. A consumer who wants a repairable would buy something like…
I don’t know if there’s data to back this up. I’m simply assuming based on what I know. What I know comes from people I went to school with who have stolen phones before telling me at the pub. There is a price for the…
It’s an important conversation to have. My mums phone got stolen with Find My active. The police refused to do anything about it, they tried to phish her details, failed and I followed it to Shenzen. I’m not saying…
When people stop robbing phones for them to end up in Shenzen and stripped for parts, this will stop. This is a deterrent to make stealing iPhones less convenient and I’m all for it. People already have to try to phish…
I believe older iPhones still get security updates for a very long time. Much longer than 5 years, making them one of the longest-term supported devices on the market currently. The 5s got one in 2023.…
Did you mean to make a lisp joke here?
Because a huge amount of value in AirBnB is its reviews. That’s how you’re supposed to know where is worth staying and where isn’t. If those can’t be trusted, then it’s an inferior B&B platform with doctored reviews…
Nuke’s in the game in a different form as a “hidden” permanent kill streak (MGB nuke). Agree with your sentiment though - it’s lots of fun!
Isn’t Discord’s primary monetisation strategy Nitro?
These companies charge money for their services and have competitors. AWS’ entire business models is providing developer services, and if I don’t like their offerings I can go elsewhere. Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.…
Thank you! And not just any website, a good mobile website, too.
> because Patreon.com is not just a website, it is a complex web app I don’t agree with this as someone who uses Patreon relatively frequently. It’s actually quite a simple website, and the main thing I care about is…
No, you just don’t have an argument. Patreon has a perfectly working mobile application called Patreon.com that doesn’t have any gatekeepers. It’s fully mobile, responsive, and allows me to do everything I want to do…
If Patreon doesn’t like Apple’s rules, they should just take their app off the App Store. All these companies moaning about Apple yet aren’t doing the one thing they have the power to do which is just leave. If they…
> There are also users who want to take the responsibility on themselves. They want the ability to host their own apps for free (or lower costs), faster update cycles, and just overall freedom. Those people don't want a…
Ctrl+click. I find it more intuitive than right clicking personally.
Unlike Reddit, Apollo was stopping users from seeing ads and Reddit gaining ad revenue from them, so they went to charge the Reddit app devs for this loss in revenue. The YouTube embed API supports ads, and works…
Everyone who makes this kind of comment must not play video games online. The "money play" is a cut on digital sales, and balancing subscription fees with the cost of services rendered. I can't imagine how little they…
Look up Xim, it gives an unfair advantage to console players by allowing a mouse and keyboard input when the developer hasn’t intended so (official APIs exist if they do). Cronus is also especially bad. It also allows…
Xim users destroying the integrity of multiplayer FPS causes this, unfortunately. The fact of the matter is if you’re allowed to plug in any peripheral into a game console, you can and will get prolific cheaters in a…
So you go to purchase a device from a company who has been doing this since their very existence, is known for doing this, and has never pretended or tricked consumers into thinking they don’t do this. A closed…
And a business has freedom to restrict their products to prevent what they believe isn’t the use case they want. And users have the freedom to put their money where their mouth is by purchasing alternatives on the…
I think inventing a new screw would be a design thing? In a perfect world a screw that is easily replaced and allows them the design they want would be used. However if that doesn’t exist, as an engineer, I am aware of…
Why would a consumer like my mum care about opening the phone up? You still haven’t explained how choosing to tradeoff design over repairability is anti-consumer when the consumer can buy a FairPhone right now (who, I…
I assumed the reason Apple’s phones are stolen for parts are that, unlike a lot of Android counterparts that can be reset, Find My is so bulletproof that (without phishing) iPhones are essentially expensive paperweights…
I don’t understand how this is Anti Consumer in any way? I have an iPhone and a FairPhone. One’s niche is that it’s repairable, and the other is that it’s not. A consumer who wants a repairable would buy something like…
I don’t know if there’s data to back this up. I’m simply assuming based on what I know. What I know comes from people I went to school with who have stolen phones before telling me at the pub. There is a price for the…
It’s an important conversation to have. My mums phone got stolen with Find My active. The police refused to do anything about it, they tried to phish her details, failed and I followed it to Shenzen. I’m not saying…
When people stop robbing phones for them to end up in Shenzen and stripped for parts, this will stop. This is a deterrent to make stealing iPhones less convenient and I’m all for it. People already have to try to phish…
I believe older iPhones still get security updates for a very long time. Much longer than 5 years, making them one of the longest-term supported devices on the market currently. The 5s got one in 2023.…
Did you mean to make a lisp joke here?
Because a huge amount of value in AirBnB is its reviews. That’s how you’re supposed to know where is worth staying and where isn’t. If those can’t be trusted, then it’s an inferior B&B platform with doctored reviews…
Nuke’s in the game in a different form as a “hidden” permanent kill streak (MGB nuke). Agree with your sentiment though - it’s lots of fun!
Isn’t Discord’s primary monetisation strategy Nitro?