Talyen42

please list smartphones i can buy that have no suppliers with any history of human rights issues thank you

Apple's supply chain is more than 1,000 companies. Do you really think Apple has the expertise and personnel to replicate what 1,000 companies have spent decades mastering? Not likely.

No company on earth has ever been able to make a smartphone entirely themselves, and no company ever will, although i'd like to be proven wrong.

It's the most popular watch on the planet now, so... lots of people?

You can wear it for 22.5 hours/day and charge for 90mins

Games can have stores, marketplaces, platforms, and other arbitrary interactive stuff running inside of them, whereas movies and songs are more or less functionally identical in technical capability (although it would be funny if Netflix put a subscribe button inside a free movie to bypass Apple!)

Amazon didn't cut a deal, you can't subscribe to prime video in the app without using Apple's IAP payment system. You can only subscribe outside the app.

The reviewer (a lowly employee just trying to follow a process) clearly made a mistake and did not follow Apple's guidelines. Manual review processes have plenty of mistakes, resubmit it.

Most reviewers would not have rejected this, i'm sure.

Because it's Apple's phone, Apple's operating system, Apple's app store, not the developers. Does Disney allow lewd content on Disney+ or at Disneyland?

All of them have one thing in common: they want to be seen as "new tech" companies, not dying older companies.

Microsoft wants to be seen up against apple, google Oracle wants to be seen up against AWS Walmart wants to be seen up against amazon e-commerce

From a shareholder management of company funds perspective, I think it's a stupid decision, but as executives within these companies looking to make a name for themselves, people advocate for stupid flashy acquisitions and imagine seamless synergies with ecommerce and advertising existing product lines.

In most cases, according to studies, large acquisitions seem to harm the company long-term.

that's not what apple is doing

they're only revoking epic's devtools, and ability to make NEW unreal engine versions, old UE versions are unaffected

Can't wait to troubleshoot my parents iphones after courts force them to allow arbitrary code installs from any source without apple's curation.

The whole value proposition of iOS is they BLOCK CRAP.

I don't.

I really don't want to troubleshoot my parents iPhones after they install arbitrary code from the Alternative App Store #12 after clicking on a banner ad run by an anonymous chinese entity. Holy shit.

the only reason I recommend iphones to family members is because they are closed platforms, why are we trying to take away that option, a valid option to want to exist in an open marketplace, to make sure developers get more cash?

there's no inherent reason all platforms must allow arbitrary code to be executed, that's a very draconian rule to impose on the software world (ironically)

yeah, I get that, and the only reason I picked an iphone for my grandpa is because it's a curated closed platform. i'm glad it exists as an option, and it's not the most popular one, but it seems insane to make it illegal to create a closed software platform

Can someone explain to me why Apple's 30% tax is so different from every B&M retailer providing shelf space? I can't sell stuff in walmart without paying Walmart

"But you can't sell apps on iOS outside the app store"

I can't sell stuff on ANY platform/device without the permission of the platform/device maker. I also can't create my own platform within another platform, without permission of that platform. I can't open an Amazon store and ask Amazon to list or fulfill my goods but not charge me a fee.

Monopoly argument? with like 20-30% global user share? C'mon now

i'm sure they wrote this months ago

Good. Cross-site ad targeting/fingerprinting is digital stalking.

This is the democrats house bill, not the GOP senate bill.

Buffett thinks GAAP is almost useless now, and doesn't think accountants have a clue. He follows own "owners earnings" model, which is not a standard of any kind.

Koch Bros. Rural News for Boomers

She put "0" in the income field, didn't she?

Doesn't take a complicated algorithm to explain that.

Here I go making mistakes again, murdering people left and right, i'm so clumsy, mondays right? - Saudis probably

Related, my girlfriend just bought a refurbished iPhone SE for $125. It works flawlessly, I think they were released 3 years ago now?

You can also sell (or trade) your iPhone after 3 years for 30-50% of the original MSRP, while android phones you can probably get zero.

The current system is absolutely prohibiting good science from being done, through incentive structures on the faculty tenure/review process weighing heavily towards frequency/quantity of published material. faculty review processes are mostly new to the last 10-20 years ("accountability" suddenly became a thing in academia), as the quantity of published material has gone up by orders of magnitude more than the number of researchers.

UBI is not necessarily inflationary in the first place.

Too many bad arguments to count here... for example, he argues:

"Rather than giving everyone $1,000 per month, a guaranteed-income program would offer transfers only to individuals whose monthly income is below $1,000, thereby coming in at a mere fraction of a UBI’s cost."

Can you not see the obvious problems with giving someone $1,000 so long as they aren't making above $1,000? Why would anyone making $1k continue working for zero benefit?

With UBI, a minimum wage worker is still incentivized to work, as they don't lose benefits. That's kind of the point. Social safety net without getting trapped in the "net".

UBI has plenty of issues, but he's not making a good case.

The efficiency and environmental impact from delivering a single $5 item in a large cardboard box, possibly multiple times a day, several days a week via gig economy couriers is disgusting. I literally cannot leave my apartment complex without driving around Amazon vans parked in the middle of the street every single day.

At a minimum, without even shipping more items, the result of gig couriers vs. fedex/ups is 2.7x the number of vehicles on the road (due to size difference).

It also gets around legal liability costs, since you can just create and destroy hundreds of gig courier corporations around the country when issues arise from "pushing the envelope" in terms of safety and policy.

Can you imagine the world we would live in if 90% of current retailers went to the Amazon ecommerce + gig courier model? Our infrastructure (primarily roads) would immediately fail.

Yes. That was easy.

My theory is that it began with the discovery/utilization of new oil sources in the US 5-7 years ago. The price of oil crashed by 50% and stayed there for most of the last five years. Many countries around the globe dependent on oil (parts of south america and the middle east) had economic turmoil beginning five years ago, resulting in refugee crises (venezuela, syria, etc.). Refugee activity helped fuel dormant nationalism rhetoric in europe and america, leading to Trump/Brexit, and other movements gaining steam.

Oil discovered -> oil price crashes -> oil countries crash -> refugees flee to us/eu -> nationalism

This is why I don't buy the "IoT smart home" future. There's no such thing as a "smart" device that doesn't typically break within 4-5 years. Dozens of such devices in a house means you'd be dealing with a broken device every few months, which is my nightmare.

I want the LEAST amount of complexity possible to control all my critical living functions, from fridges to windows to lights to cars.

Apparently not, I live in a metropolitan area of >1m people and there are just countless markers for "Dumpster (non-edible)" spanning the map.