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Bored Online posted:save us ubuntu phone (lol) 
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Aug 18, 2020 15:42
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carry on then posted:amazing how these companies can also ban the installation of binaries through web browsers on the device and require all installs go through their trackable, givable to police app store yes, clearly the solution is arbitrary executable installation through a web browser, that would definitely improve mobile computing and not brick everyone's phone with 200 dueling crypto miners [and police surveillance apps]
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Aug 18, 2020 15:58
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that’s the Play Store
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Aug 18, 2020 16:03
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I’m sure Steam or UbiSoft or loving EA aren’t great platform keepers to deal with either, but you tend not to hear the same nightmares as with Apple. I’m not saying that Apple is inherently worse but I think their stebe jobes “my way or you’re outta here buster” act leads to a lot of unnecessarily bad feelings and optics. So it’s not just the 30% cut, it’s also how much of a petty tyrant you look like in the process and how much of a hypocrite you look like too. Like I remember a big viral story a few months back had nothing to do with 30% or payments dick-waving, some poor schmo just had their account locked for weeks without explanation: https://rambo.codes/posts/2019-11-05-apple-has-locked-me-out-of-my-developer-account
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Aug 18, 2020 16:05
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Aug 18, 2020 16:17
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if i was epic, and upset about apple taking my hard-earned v-bucks money, i would simply sell more v-bucks
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Aug 18, 2020 17:35
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its almost as if computers are fundamentally incompatible with humanity
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Aug 18, 2020 17:39
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endless mike, you are epic. let noone tell you otherwise
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Aug 18, 2020 17:39
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The gamers are revolting
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Aug 18, 2020 17:41
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Bored Online posted:save us ubuntu phone (lol) people unfriended me for telling them phone bloks was horseshit
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Aug 18, 2020 17:52
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ah yes, the time when we thought PCIe over micro-pogo pins was a good idea and would save everyone from the tyranny of buying a new phone
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Aug 18, 2020 18:05
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graph posted:people unfriended me for telling them phone bloks was horseshit i hate to tell u this but those people weren't your friends
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Aug 18, 2020 18:08
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Why is the PinePhone so cheap, is it a completely useless brick
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Aug 18, 2020 18:10
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President Beep posted:endless mike, you are epic. let noone tell you otherwise i know his posts give me mumps
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Aug 18, 2020 19:29
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idk why apple also just couldn’t have a policy where 30% is negotiable if big enough companies asked
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Aug 18, 2020 19:36
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uh... https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348108/apple-amazon-prime-video-app-store-special-treatment-fee-subscriptions
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Aug 18, 2020 19:40
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echinopsis posted:idk why apple also just couldn’t have a policy where 30% is negotiable if big enough companies asked they literally do this lol epic won't be happy until they get to be on the app store free
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Aug 18, 2020 20:58
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Maximo Roboto posted:uh... i thought they’d been pretty open about subscription charges being negotiable?
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Aug 18, 2020 21:25
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oh I thought apple was saying everyone has the same 30% rule. welp
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Aug 18, 2020 23:29
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Shifty Pony posted:huh, strange that every single major store has the same take and the same non-negotiable policies. almost like the variety of stores/platforms only give the illusion of competition and there is an unspoken truce between providers to keep a profitable market division and price fixing scheme in place. see we have a free market and the limit of App Store profit margins as efficiency goes to infinity approaches 30. its simple math.
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Aug 18, 2020 23:55
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lol edit
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Aug 18, 2020 23:57
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hobbesmaster posted:i thought they’d been pretty open about subscription charges being negotiable? go negotiate with them and report back lol
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Aug 19, 2020 00:01
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Apple doesn't mention anything negotiable in their statement to Spotify, from last year. If anything, this shows that Amazon got a sweetheart deal.
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Aug 19, 2020 00:12
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wow. stebe would never tolerate that.
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Aug 19, 2020 00:13
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Maximo Roboto posted:Why is the PinePhone so cheap, is it a completely useless brick lol what does your heart tell you about the linux phone
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Aug 19, 2020 00:14
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it’s like the last part of the good earth when the dying father is all like “sons, take care of the land” and they’re all like “sure dad!” as they wink at each other.
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Aug 19, 2020 00:14
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Maximo Roboto posted:Apple doesn't mention anything negotiable in their statement to Spotify, from last year. If anything, this shows that Amazon got a sweetheart deal. more like bezos personally twisted tims balls until he cried uncle
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Aug 19, 2020 00:35
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amazon got that deal in exchange for selling apple products again, its that simple
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Aug 19, 2020 02:04
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Maximo Roboto posted:Why is the PinePhone so cheap, is it a completely useless brick at no point was the PinePhone designed or tested, it was merely assembled
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Aug 19, 2020 02:57
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Shifty Pony posted:huh, strange that every single major store has the same take and the same non-negotiable policies. almost like the variety of stores/platforms only give the illusion of competition and there is an unspoken truce between providers to keep a profitable market division and price fixing scheme in place. So Apple should let Epic put a free game on their store, provide the bandwidth for distribution, the servers for storing the game, the hardware to play the game on, the SDK, and the support for free because why?
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Aug 19, 2020 03:30
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30 TO 50 FERAL HOG posted:amazon got that deal in exchange for selling apple products again, its that simple apple’s online store isn’t difficult to order from. they probably wanted amazon’s content because it’s exclusive and didn’t want prime subscribers to start getting looking into getting a firetv box whereas spotify just licenses the same music as everyone else so who cares
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Aug 19, 2020 03:31
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ratbert90 posted:So Apple should let Epic put a free game on their store, provide the bandwidth for distribution, the servers for storing the game, the hardware to play the game on, the SDK, and the support for free because why? those are paid with the apple developer program which costs $99 a year, if thats not enough they should just increase it
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Aug 19, 2020 03:44
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also its apple that mandates the use of apples distribution system so any costs are self inflicted
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Aug 19, 2020 03:46
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tiered levels obviously have their own host of problems but it's perhaps an issue that a company the size of Epic is in the same pool as say, Panic, let alone the billions of single-dev apps.
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Aug 19, 2020 03:50
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was panic trying to sell an ftp client for your phone in 2020 i dont think its the app store making that unprofitable
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Aug 19, 2020 05:17
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ratbert90 posted:So Apple should let Epic put a free game on their store, provide the bandwidth for distribution, the servers for storing the game, the hardware to play the game on, the SDK, and the support for free because why? no one has suggested that this is the desirable or expected outcome.
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Aug 19, 2020 06:40
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:was panic trying to sell an ftp client for your phone in 2020 they stopped making an ftp client for your phone like 2 years ago now they are making their own game console with the screen from the Pebble watch
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Aug 19, 2020 08:09
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for one hundred and fifty united states doll hairs lmao
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Aug 19, 2020 08:50
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Panic gave us Audion, and later Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game. Panic good.
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Aug 19, 2020 12:49
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some would say they were in a state of .... pamic
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