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In a law change that will be enacted in 2021, the BBC reports drivers won't be able to pick up and use a mobile phone or satellite navigation system while driving.

The bolded is what I have issue with.  How do you know where you are going?  I suppose we all have to go back to the MapQuest days where we print out our directions, and then look down at the paper And fumble through pages instead... because that’s totally not more distracting...

Rayz2016 said:

Hmph. Their website locks up if you don’t accept their tracking cookies. 

Yup, think I’ve got the measure of this lot. 

Agree.

However, using safari, if you enable the developer tools, there’s an option in the develop menu to disable css, which will allow you to read all the content without explicitly accepting the use of cookies.  That said, they’re still tracking you via a cookie unless you disabled cookies, but it makes me feel better that I’m not accepting their terms.  

“I never accepted that!”, it’s a moot point and would probably never be relevant. But it makes me feel better.

As a developer (primarily Java) myself, we try to avoid this scenario at most costs, but sometimes it’s unavoidable without considerable cost:

I’d like to see Apple include gallium nitride chargers.  I don’t need the EarPods... mine have sat in the drawer in the original packaging since I bought my phone 4 years ago.  It would be cool if apple gave a discount if you bought a new iPhone and AirPods at the same time, but highly doubt that will ever happen.

Apple is just a middleman?  Ok so why not just cut them out and build a quality world class mobile device, a paired operating system that is optimized for the hardware, supporting add-on services, a dev toolkit to make software, and a distribution platform with infrastructure, all of which requires teams to support it 24/7 to make sure it meets their high availability standards.

All that just so your customers can play a game that’s hard to play on a mobile device which is much better suited to consoles, laptops, desktops, and maybe tablets, just to squeeze more out of them through the pay to win model.

30% begins to sound not so bad.