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  • Telegram app update was held up over iOS-inspired animated emoji [u]

    rorschachairorschachai
    crowley said:
    GrannySmith99 said:
    So ripping off Apple's emoji and animating them now would inspire Telegram to explore their own in-house style in the future? Yeah, right. Just develop your own in-house style right now!
    No, he’s saying that Apple blocking it will encourage them to pursue their own style. 

    Not sure what Apple gains from blocking the original design, their emoji are system wide so blocking other apps for keeping to that style is only harming the system’s consistency, making apps discordant with the OS.  No one wins from that.
    You can already use Apple's emoji in any app. That's consistency.

    If Telegram is allowed to wholesale copy the built-in emoji and rebrand it as their own, users will wonder why their emoji in other apps aren't animated. Because to the user, these look exactly the same as Apple's. "My emoji animate in Telegram but not in Apple's Messages app. Apple's app must be broken!"
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  • Telegram CEO claims Apple is delaying update that will 'revolutionize' messaging

    rorschachairorschachai
    Hedware said:
    CheeseFreeze said:
    These app developers are right. As a game developer who created over 20 games on the app store (often tied to theatrical releases) I can only applaud these developers protesting. It's time this gets addressed. Apple's become a shit company with good hardware.
    Another whinging developer. Set up your own phone company and App Store. Game developers do not add anything much to the benefit of the world. Get a proper job.
    People act as if Apple's ecosystem is some kind of natural resource like water that just "exists" and should be available for free to all, rather than the result of years of deliberate planning, design, and hard work by thousands of people costing billions of dollars.
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  • Telegram CEO claims Apple is delaying update that will 'revolutionize' messaging

    rorschachairorschachai
    Steve Jobs at D8 in 2010:
    What happens sometimes though is that some people lie. Some people use unpublished APIs and their app gets rejected. Some people submit an app that they say does one thing, but really does something else. They try to hide it from us, they get very clever about that. They try to hide it from us and we find it and we reject it. And they run to the press and tell a story about oppression and it gets written up and they get their 15 minutes of fame because they hope it will convince us to change our minds. It never does, but they keep trying to do that. And it’s unfortunate, but we take it in the chin. That part of what we do. We don’t run to the press and go, “This guys a son of a bitch liar.” That’s just not appropriate for us to do. So we take it in the chin and we move on.

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  • Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS

    rorschachairorschachai
    "But Apple Music is on Android!"

    The only apps Apple has on other platforms are ones that it makes money from directly or indirectly.

    - iCloud (subscriptions)
    - Apple Music (subscriptions)
    - Apple TV (subscriptions)
    - Beats (for controlling Apple hardware you buy)
    - Move to iOS (for moving to Apple hardware you buy)
    - Tracker Detect (for controlling Apple hardware you buy)

    Would people be willing to pay a monthly subscription for iMessage on Android? If not, what benefit does Apple gain? They would literally be throwing money away.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple & Google facing new class action lawsuit in Portugal over 30% app store fees

    rorschachairorschachai
    foregoneconclusion said:
    The 30% commission has been a big nothing-burger in the courts and with legislators so far. Hard to see that changing. Apple charges the commission to cover their costs for running the App Store + add some profit on top. That's no different than the app developer themselves. 
    If Apple went 100% side loading — no App Store, no commission — I guarantee that these developers would then complain that Apple was “forcing” them to spend way more money for all the services the App Store offers: payment processing, hosting, customer support, marketing, etc. 

    What these people really want is Apple to provide all the services and infrastructure for free. That’s what they would consider “fair”.
    watto_cobra