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Pay up or get out: Apple's options for South Korea's App Store law
A post with too many silly questions. Funnily enough, you have answered ALL of your questions in the last line of your post. NOTHING changes for you.darkpaw said:What does this give to an indie developer? I can see it only affecting those developers who have the means to implement their own payment processor.
What happens if Apple have to allow third-party stores onto iOS? Do I, as an indie dev, have to decide which stores to put my apps on? It's hard enough to deal with the one App Store at the moment, but adding extras will make it very time-consuming for me.
Will Apple have to create some way for any third-party store to check our developer profiles and certificates?
And what about updates? If I've signed up to three or four stores, every update has to go to those three or four stores. That multiplies my work with every store I sell in.
Where are the updates stored? My own server? AWS? Who's paying for this?
Will every store use the same image sizes for their marketing etc., or will I have to do a 2048x2048px image for Apple's store, and an 1896x1896px one for a different store?
And what store is going to do this out of the goodness of their hearts? None. There will be a price. Will it be $99/year like Apple's? SO now I have to pay $99 plus $49 plus $35 plus $50 for those other stores every year.
As an indie dev, I can't afford that. I'd stick with Apple's way of doing it.
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Apple 'poisoned the well' for client-side CSAM scanning, says former Facebook security chi...
Come on, you should know better than this, being a moderator. GatorGuy clarified this point multiple times, that the iCloud photos are encrypted using Apple's keys, not device keys. It is an important distinction. So Apple DOES have the ability to decrypt the photos which are present in iCloud.auxio said:
The argument is that, if you had no problem working for a company which scans everything people upload to them to build an advertising profile, how can you now speak out against Apple doing a very limited version of that when you're uploading to them? Simply because it's happening on-device rather than server side? Uh yeah, that's because it's the only way to maintain end-to-end data encryption. If they had to generate the image hashes server side, it would mean you'd have to upload your photos unencrypted (or encrypted in a way which allows Apple to decrypt them).corebeliefs said:
I'm not tracking the argument here. If anything, an ex-Facebook security chief would be more credible on this subject for the reasons you and others are stating, for the same reason the government uses embedded informants. They know what they're talking about.auxio said:
I was just about to say the same thing. If people are outraged about CSAM scanning, they surely know about Facebook scanning everything (and not just hashes). A former Facebook employee weighing in on it? That's a joke right?lkrupp said:Remember, people, this is the former 'Facebook security chief’. Facebook and security are mutually exclusionary terms.
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Qualcomm thinks it can make a laptop chip better than Apple's M1
You must be living deep inside a cave for a long long time to think that way. Why don't you get out and read more about Qualcomm before making such silly comments?mark fearing said:
It's an odd statement. I don't think anyone wants them to, and I don't think anyone asked them to, and I don't think they have any particular love of what they do but have a plan to get Windows on ARM. Certainly ARM has advantages but there are other paths as well. I think Qualcomm just likes to pretend it's more than a patent troll and looks for opportunities to get their name out there. So make some chips. And...then... PROFIT!rob53 said:I doubt Qualcomm will be able to match Apple’s performance while having to deal with Microsoft. It doesn’t really matter to Mac users because it will never run macOS.
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Lower 15% Google Play fee offered for Wear OS, Android Auto integrations
The problem with the likes of @Beats is - their narrow circle of life starts and ends with Apple and nothing else. They do not explore the outside world, which is fine. But then, they should not comment of topics that they have no clue in. But they still come out and chime in with silly ignorant posts, day in day out.gatorguy said:
How many iPhone owners use CarPlay? My guess is as many use Android Auto. You have any stats that indicate otherwise?Beats said:
The last I could find is from four years ago and there was actually a higher percentage of Android users interested in Android Auto, and a much higher number of them considered it a "must-have", than there were iOS owners interested in CarPlay. Do you have something more recent to offer? Everything I find is relatively old.
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Microsoft Windows 11 revealed with dramatic increase in system requirements
Come on, did you even read the article? It is clearly mentioned - "Microsoft's requirement of TPM 2.0 and other requirements will limit processors to ones delivered in approximately the last six years.". We are talking about specs that belong to 6 year old computers here. How and why would that increase cost, that too to Apple levels?omasou said:One can only hope that this will put an end to the "a Windows machine cost less" FUD. Those specs should raise the base computer price?
