ahnesampo

@ahnesampo@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need an Apple developer account to even make software for iOS. Alternate app stores are distributed on the web, not Apple’s App Store. Since an alternative app store is an iOS app, Apple banning their developer account means they’re banned from making one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Third party browser & JavaScript engine + ability to install web apps on the Home screen = third party app store that doesn’t have to pay Apple’s fees.

  When Apple could force everyone to use Apple’s WebKit, web apps didn’t matter as much as Apple could limit WebKit features to push people to the App Store. E.g. it took ages to get push notifications on WebKit. If Google and Mozilla are free to make whatever improvements to their browser engines, the need to have native apps on the phone decreases considerably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finland has a housing first policy. The homeless often have multiple problems that prevent them from getting a home the normal way (e.g. drug problems that cause them to get evicted). Instead of insisting people get better while homeless, they’re given homes first and treatment for their other problems after. This coupled with welfare transfers that ensure you never end up homeless just because of lack of money leads to low homeless numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Next step: there’s a good argument to be made that the United States is not a nation. tldr: a nation is a group of people sharing ethnicity, language, culture. The United States is a country united by an idea, not an ethnicity.