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  • Tim Cook calls on Apple's suppliers to decarbonize by 2030

    Alex_VAlex_V
    person said:
    And the new world order commences it’s road to chaos 
    I certainly hope so, because the old world order sure is a mess. 
    muthuk_vanalingamthtDAalseth

  • Social media apps must pay App Store 30% for boosts

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    DAalseth said:
    I have always been bothered by Apple demanding a cut of sales not through the AppStore. Apple wants 30% of the price of an App, fine. But demanding a third of anything bought or sold with that App when it has nothing to do with Apple or Apple’s store just feels wrong. So if somebody wants to Blaze a post on Tumblr, and Apple wants a cut because a year before they downloaded the Tumblr App? No that’s just wrong, wrong and abusive. It may make more money for Apple in the short run, but it’s that kind of crap that’s fuelling the push to call Apple a monopoly and force them to allow people to load Apps from outside the AppStore. Then everyone loses.
    Apple’s App Store is like a shopping mall. If you want to set up shop in their mall, you’ve got to pay rent. Their rent is 30% of your sales (or 15% if your sales are less than x dollars per annum). If your shop is doing business in their mall, it means that you’re contractually subject to their conditions. 
    omasouwatto_cobra

  • Russia regulator demands answers for VK removal from the App Store

    Alex_VAlex_V
    lkrupp said:
    Alex_V said:
    You’re right. Mao’s policies were devastating, but I meant “I’ve never known in my lifetime.” Mao was quite before my time. The Chinese have been behaving themselves on the international stage for the best part of half a century. (Since the Korean War, if you consider their support for North Korea as misbehaviour.) Can the same be said of the US?
    Okay, how about the invasion and forced replacement of the population of Tibet? How the the Muslim Uyghurs? Funny how your ilk is always ready to equate the U.S. with the autocratic dictatorships of the world. You really think the U.S. and its western democratic allies are no better than them, huh. At least you can post your drivel without being arrested or disappearing.

    Tibet was in 1949. Muslim Uyghurs -- appalling, horrible, but I was commenting on another topic altogether: the likelihood of the Chinese launching an invasion of a neighbouring or other country, as they haven't engaged in such things since the 1950s. Your drivel argument is known as: straw man. I am not American, nor do I reside in the US. I owe you no allegiance, understood? It is a perfect time to change the discussion to the topic of the US’s psychopathic mass-murdering wars since 1945.
    JaiOh81muthuk_vanalingam

  • Russia regulator demands answers for VK removal from the App Store

    Alex_VAlex_V
    lkrupp said:
    Alex_V said:
    I’ve never known this Chinese government, nor ones before, to act irrationally. Bit by bit they are advancing their own economic and geopolitical interests, just like everyone else does. Taiwan is a blind spot. Every so often they rattle their swords, but nothing comes of it. Who knows? Maybe one day… 
    Oh really? Mao”s Great Leap Forward was rational, forcing intellectuals out to farming communes? When have communist economic policies ever been rational?
    You’re right. Mao’s policies were devastating, but I meant “I’ve never known in my lifetime.” Mao was quite before my time. The Chinese have been behaving themselves on the international stage for the best part of half a century. (Since the Korean War, if you consider their support for North Korea as misbehaviour.) Can the same be said of the US?
    watto_cobra

  • Russia regulator demands answers for VK removal from the App Store

    Alex_VAlex_V
    I’ve never known this Chinese government, nor ones before, to act irrationally. Bit by bit they are advancing their own economic and geopolitical interests, just like everyone else does. Taiwan is a blind spot. Every so often they rattle their swords, but nothing comes of it. Who knows? Maybe one day… 
    watto_cobra