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> 1_000_000$

The way most publications would write that value would be $1,000,000, or just $1MM if you're nasty. Either are acceptable because they are clear and follow widely-used conventions.

As to the substance, I think the pricing changes hurts small developers who strike gold, which is bad, but I don't really care how it affects Facebook, or TikTok, or Amazon, or whomever else would hit 1MM downloads. That's a personal choice. I agree with the author that only allowing third-party browser engines in certain locales would create an undue burden on companies like Mozilla, or really anyone who wants to compete without WebKit, and seems mean-spirited in that it follows the letter of the regulation without following the spirit.

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> most publications would write that value would be $1,000,000, or just $1MM

Commas, dots and spaces are also used. Underscores are unusual, a bit of a vestige of maritime communications.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

As I said, most publications would use commas, and they'd put the dollar sign in front of the value.

That's a US thing. in the EU we use periods and currencies go after the value.

Well, the currency in this case was presumably USD, so I don't think it's relevant.

But in any case, the convention for both the Euro and the USD is to put it in front of the number when writing in English, according to EU standards for internal writing. If there's another standard that just says "do whatever" then I'd love to see it.

And again, as I believe I mentioned, most publications would put the dollar sign in front of the number, and use commas. Dots are acceptable, but I can't find a lot of publications that do it the way it's written in the linked article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign#Use

It’s used in Apple’s programming language swift.

> The way most publications would write that value

He doesn't appear to be a "most publications" to me. He's a computer programmer, blogging his thoughts, presumably speaking to other computer programmers.

The convention he uses is widely used, in computer programming languages. Swift, Python, Rust, C and javascript all allow it.

Yeah, that styling reads like something out of an exceptionally unconvincing scammer email.

This is about the EU, and in the EU it would be written 1.000.000. Since that could be confusing for US readers, they used 1_000_000, which happens to be a convention that Swift supports, so many Apple developers would be familiar with it.

Or perhaps, you know, perhaps they happen to be a French citizen. "In France, the full stop was already in use in printing to make Roman numerals more readable, so the comma was chosen." [1] By using an underscore, they avoid using the English style separator.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#:~:text=In....

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