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How does the App Store affect Swift?

I know it's usually not accurate to call something a hit-piece, but this is a hit piece, and it's frankly dishonest.

Given that the author is a visiting fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, it's hard to accept that they reasonably don't know this.

Case in point:

"Within seconds the Vision Pro had photographed more of my apartment and body than my laptop saw over the decade I've had it."

A statement that is simply untrue by any reasonable interpretation.

It’s not lifelike if you critique it, and especially if you look at detailed scenes with some distance to them - e.g, if I look at trees in the street outside my front window.

However in my living room during daylight, if I’m using the Vision Pro normally - i.e. interacting with apps, and not just staring at real world scenes to critique passthrough, then it easily creates the illusion that the content is in the room, and it doesn’t feel like I’m looking through a device. It has a long way to go, but it’s definitely capable of creating the illusion.

That actuarial figure is not releavant, and is deliberately misleading. Almost all of it is an estimate of the impact of suicides on families. Based on comparisons to countries with stronger gun control, it’s clear that the majority of these would substitute other methods, and even in the case of gun suicides, insurance policies generally do not pay for suicides.

Separately, how do you think this would help poor areas, where most guns are owned informally and would likely be uninsured, just as many drivers are?

How would that help? The damage would still be done.

If it were calculated based on actual risk, insurance would be minuscule for most people since almost no gun owners cause any damage with their guns.

It would also be highly discriminatory, since gun violence is highly inversely correlated with poverty, and so underprivileged communities would be charged the most.

And they are free to make that choice. Surely consumers who care about this choose Android.

The EU legislation wouldn’t fly for a second in the US system of law.

Why hasn’t Android, with it’s support for alternative app stores and side loading eaten the world anyway?