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  • Supreme Court argument casts doubt on Facebook, Twitter free speech rights

    EsquireCatsEsquireCats
    Whether or not their actions are protected by the 1st amendment is irrelevant - it's an issue of breaching the terms of service. If this fool of a judge thinks invalidating the concept of terms and conditions is a good idea, then the bigger issue isn't what a few idiot users are capable of, the big issue is what these tech companies can do if not beholden to their own rules. (Basically arbitrary blocking without any rules being broken and the ability to fully shape the online discourse to however they want it to be.)
    montrosemacsjony0baconstang

  • Apple rejecting apps that collect data for 'device fingerprinting'

    EsquireCatsEsquireCats
    No this doesn’t stop developers from monetising their free apps with targeted ads (this fundamentally misunderstands the current absurd reach of tracking.)  It’s also not a “slippery slope”, or other conspiracy theories that try to paint this as some secretive way apple is going to benefit behind the scenes.
    There’s being pragmatically cynical and clever and then there is being a stupid conspiracy nut. 
    lkruppjas99watto_cobra

  • Arizona App Store bill likely isn't coming back any time soon

    EsquireCatsEsquireCats
    Let's take a quick moment to note that serial liar Heinemeier Hansson immediately took to social media to push a conspiracy theory as to why the bill wasn't brought to vote.
    He's also the type that thinks liars being cut out of public discourse is censorship and not people being tired of his b/s
    StrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • South Korea fining Apple $265K for impeding antitrust probe, may prosecute

    EsquireCatsEsquireCats
    As said prior: if a government accepts a payout to end an investigation is justice served or was this a shakedown? 
    watto_cobra

  • Epic ratchets up UK antitrust pressure on Apple with new App Store complaint

    EsquireCatsEsquireCats
    This is one of those situations which doesn't really benefit consumers, it just benefits very large companies that can bankroll their own stores.

    Just imagine all the end user license agreements that every app will need to show, then followed by all the confused customers who can't call apple when they have a mistaken or unusual purchase.

    Now consider the app stores that simply break because the developer can't keep up with Apple's well known advancement/deprecation cycle. Or those which simply stop because there isn't enough profit, their company goes bust/gets bought out, or is trying a new direction.

    Also who defines what's an allowable alternate payment system? That seems like an opportunity to defraud users, or honey-pot their financial data like the good old russian music and movie websites. (All of Mp3 et. al.)

    At the end of the day it's incredibly short-sighted from Epic. Epic believe that if they get their way that everything will stay the same, that Apple will keep offering access to the store to developers for just a fixed price access fee, and that massively popular apps can be downloaded and used from the store without incurring any cost. That's nonsense, Apple would undoubtedly change the terms which will make the entire effort a zero-sum game. Instead of a fixed fee, it could be based on traffic, file size and backups, it could even cost money just to submit a review request - all of these are reasonable fee schedules and completely on par with cloud computing providers. They would also disproportionately cost Epic and similar popular store items. I think sometimes developers overlook how incredibly generous the store is, they just see the parts which incur cost and put a bullseye over them without thinking about the holistic consequences.
    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra