Readit NewsI won’t be surprised if they start convincing some third world counties that meat is bad and to eat their products making bank while causing widespread malnourishment in the process. It would not be the first time.
Speaking specifically for America, the government can barely even agree on where it wants to spend its current "budget".
Say you have a couple who constantly fights over how to spend their $10m/yr budget, of which nearly half is borrowed, and 11% of which is spent on policing their entire neighborhood. Each year, they nearly default on their debt because they can't agree on a budget for the next year to keep paying interest.
You wouldn't give them even more money to solve their problems, because the problems are clearly with the amount and poor allocation of their spending. Why would you do the same with the US government?
It’s kind of like if people argued that a bridge construction must be unsafe because they tried to make something similar in their kids sandbox and it fell apart when it got wet.
You could probably fit that under a king size bed. The bed would need about 25 cm of clearance from the floor though (203x193x25 cm ~ 1 cubic meter).
Apple is going to lose this fight in basically every market except the US.
It's very clear that their behavior is rent-seeking. If their product (the app store) is genuinely better for users & companies - it should be able to out compete other products (alternative app stores) on the platform.
Instead they arbitrarily prohibit any competition what-so-ever.
Apple doesn’t make and sell App Store. It makes and sells iPhones. And it’s not “genuinely better” and they do not dominate the market however it’s good enough that a lot of people are willing to pay a premium for that product.
It's a game. It's not reality. In reality belts need to be powered. Also, in reality, you do not shoot aliens or drive large mechanical spiders. The fact that they chose to implement a game mechanic means it's a game mechanic, not a bug.
The designer didn’t sit down and go “and logically when a circular belt is full, the items should stop moving while the belts keep moving”.
The fact that it was decided to not handle this edgecase does not mean it stops being a bug, no matter how much you love the game or how strongly you want your mantra of “factorial has no bugs” to be true.
Of cause factorial has bugs, lots of them. Just look at the thousands of fixes. This is one of them, and it’s a bug that has been there from the start and will likely never get fixed, but it’s still a bug.
Imagine if the same principles were used in other areas. You iPhone suddenly locking up after using Facebook to much because Facebook wasn’t paying Apple for access to its users.
Is this code word for "it's gonna be trash"?
If companies are producing just to get the lowest cost, it ends up being trash. Whenever anyone aims for sustainable products it’s obvious it will come at a higher price and quality becomes essential. That’s at least wha we see in all the sustainable products here
The app store, review process, and (especially) Apple's demands for 30% of everything make dealing with them easily the worst aspect of my work.
Apple makes several million/year off their cut from me, and I would drop the App Store in a heartbeat if I could.
You can. Nothing is stoping you. Just do it.