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Bizarre bill proposed to prevent Chinese currency 'spying' on US
When the most honorable and forthright politicians in your party are Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney... you do stupid stuff like this. Not because they need diversions - things are breaking their way right now anyway, because voters are too dumb to connect "people aren't wearing masks or getting vaccines/boosters" with "more Covid", instead expecting the President to come around personally to their house in his forbidden-voyage-submarine to enter their bodies and zap every individual virus himself.No, they do this because they really are insane, or are catering to insane voters. They've lost touch with reality.
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Sonnet introduces McFiver PCIe card with 10-gig ethernet, USB-C, SSD slots
Who would ever buy this? Can't be many Mac Pro users who need more 10GbE ports, or more USB-C. SSD PCIe cards are cheap and available. And if you are going thunderbolt, it'll be cheaper to get an SSD-supporting dock- like Sonnet's with 2x SSD slots for $350. Probably no more expensive to get *two* docks, in case you need the 2x ssds and the 10GbE. And that way you have the option of using independent TB links, for more total bandwidth.I'm sure they did this for a reason, they're not stupid. So... what is it?? -
Tim Sweeney says App Store is a 'disservice to developers,' wants to protect Metaverse
muthuk_vanalingam said:
Have they already left the "Google Play Store"???? They "can" leave Google Play Store, but they have NOT done that YET should give you a clue about what would happen with the Apple App Store.JustSomeGuy1 said:jimh2 said:Of course Apple is all about the creator as they want the revenue in exchange for having a frictionless marketplace. Even if there are other store options 99.99999999999% of users will not leave the Appstore.If that were likely to be true this wouldn't worry me so much.The problem is that there are two types of developers. Those that drive purchases, and those that don't. The latter benefit from being on the App Store - to whatever extent they benefit from discovery. They won't abandon the store, though they will likely list on other platforms as well.The problem is devs who drive purchases. Do you think MS and Adobe will stay on the App store one second more than they have to? The answer is likely to depend on whether it's feasible for them to offer free versions that advertise their non-app store paid versions. They would have to think that they're likely to lose at least 25% of their customer base by leaving the app store, in order to stay on it. Do you think that that's likely? I don't. They'll leave.Once that happens, the App Store is no longer the place you know you can go to get whatever you want. And once *that* happens, you *have* to start going to other stores to get things you need- even if you would rather give up that 30% cut for the relative (yes, I know, not absolute) safety of the app store. That's the big danger: For users without the time/patience/tech ability for dealing with malware and other issues, there will be no possible way for them to decide to play it safe. The Apple App Store will simply not have everything they need.I've been in tech for 40 years, I built a big part of the Internet, and I am well versed in security. But I have no interest in jailbreaking my phone and I am content to have Apple take 30% for the relative security of not having to think much about what I download from the app store. I don't want to give that up. If I did I could buy an Android. The sorts of laws proposed by Sweeney and Amy Klobuchar (who is, generally, an excellent senator) will deprive me of that choice.
Google and Apple champion the "open" and "closed" models. They should be allowed to duke it out in the marketplace. (Yes, I know that that's simplistic, and not totally true on either side. Close enough for this discussion, though.)That's a pretty good argument! But I was lazy, and left out a big part of it, so... let me expand.Right now, all the MS and Adobe apps are *free*. They monetize by subscription. In the GPS they're not barred from including subscription info/options in the app, as they presently are in the Apple store. No need to leave.So pick instead any app that's paid for up front, that is big enough to pull people to the app store to get it. Do you think they will stay? (My answer's the same.)Also note that there's not that much incentive to leave the GPS - revenue there is a fraction of the revenue in the Apple store, and if they don't want to leave that money on the table they can simply put their app somewhere else and direct people there, while leaving it in the GPS to pick up sales on the margins.Now, if you want to convince me, there's a way: show that big paid-up-front apps stay in the GPS, and also show that there's a healthy alternate-app-store ecosystem for Android that could easily accommodate those apps. If both those things are generally true, then my argument loses a lot of force. (Even better, also show that volume in GPS for those apps is meaningful, compared to Apple's store.) I don't know if this data exists. -
Tim Sweeney says App Store is a 'disservice to developers,' wants to protect Metaverse
jimh2 said:Of course Apple is all about the creator as they want the revenue in exchange for having a frictionless marketplace. Even if there are other store options 99.99999999999% of users will not leave the Appstore.If that were likely to be true this wouldn't worry me so much.The problem is that there are two types of developers. Those that drive purchases, and those that don't. The latter benefit from being on the App Store - to whatever extent they benefit from discovery. They won't abandon the store, though they will likely list on other platforms as well.The problem is devs who drive purchases. Do you think MS and Adobe will stay on the App store one second more than they have to? The answer is likely to depend on whether it's feasible for them to offer free versions that advertise their non-app store paid versions. They would have to think that they're likely to lose at least 25% of their customer base by leaving the app store, in order to stay on it. Do you think that that's likely? I don't. They'll leave.Once that happens, the App Store is no longer the place you know you can go to get whatever you want. And once *that* happens, you *have* to start going to other stores to get things you need- even if you would rather give up that 30% cut for the relative (yes, I know, not absolute) safety of the app store. That's the big danger: For users without the time/patience/tech ability for dealing with malware and other issues, there will be no possible way for them to decide to play it safe. The Apple App Store will simply not have everything they need.I've been in tech for 40 years, I built a big part of the Internet, and I am well versed in security. But I have no interest in jailbreaking my phone and I am content to have Apple take 30% for the relative security of not having to think much about what I download from the app store. I don't want to give that up. If I did I could buy an Android. The sorts of laws proposed by Sweeney and Amy Klobuchar (who is, generally, an excellent senator) will deprive me of that choice.
Google and Apple champion the "open" and "closed" models. They should be allowed to duke it out in the marketplace. (Yes, I know that that's simplistic, and not totally true on either side. Close enough for this discussion, though.)
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Everything new in iOS 15.5 for iPhone
Or, you could just learn to read.dutchlord said:I will not accept scanning of content by Apple through the Communication Safety feature. No update to iOS 15.5. on my devices. This must stop.
