CaptainEffort @ CaptainEffort @sh.itjust.works

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Fuck spez

iPhone users aren’t a species, they’re human beings that don’t have to be iPhone users. Thanks to competition they are free to choose from a wide variety of other competitors.

This is the equivalent of saying that Walmart has a monopoly because Walmart customers are being forced to purchase items from within Walmart. That because Target isn’t allowed to set up a stall in Walmart, it’s a monopoly.

The App Store not being filled with predatory trash

Not worth me being a statistic that they can sell to investors imo. Fuck Epic.

Besides, that game’s been on sale for less than $5 on Steam.

it's out of self preservation.

It’s understandable though, if my entire business was fully dependent on Microsoft of all things I’d be desperate to make alternatives viable too.

Blue has all the antioxygens

Depends on what you mean by puns. As someone else pointed out, some signs in and of themselves are jokes, but there are also plenty of jokes in ASL in particular that don’t translate super well, so they’re really only funny in the language.

In the US at least, sadly, it’s imessage. It’s a weird social thing - if you have “green bubbles” people really look down on you.

It’s dumb and superficial, but it works.

Hmm, which one came first I wonder

You'll never know what it's like to enjoy a sunny summer day, not a cloud in the sky, with a high of 82. Unlucky.

God damn man this is embarrassing, and I say that as a Fahrenheit using American.

You realize the only reason that 82 sounds like that is because you grew up with it, right? That to someone using Celsius, 28 degrees sounds exactly the same in their head? We’re not the only ones who get to experience the feeling “of 82”, others do too, they just call it something different. This isn’t complicated stuff.

I swear the only explanation is narcissism. Just an complete inability to empathize and understand other people’s worldviews.

So either way the “human scale” idea is fucking dumb

Honestly tho yeah, just look at prohibition.

Wow, I feel more justified than ever in leaving World.

First they blocked the piracy communities, then the mushroom/psychedelic communities, and now vpns? No thanks.

Exactly this, if you can’t contribute to society as effectively then you have no worth

I was in a psychiatric hospital for like 6 months, but like a pretty nice place (I wasn’t institutionalized or anything, this was something I chose) and heard horror stories from some of the other patients there about those places. I’m so grateful that I never had to go through that…

I literally thought one of my friends had been exaggerating until we got a new patient and he had similar stories. Horrific stuff.

You think abusing a child is easier than, say, punching someone in the face as you would do in video games?

Dude if you genuinely think that I’d recommend reaching out to someone…

In all seriousness tho, way to take the most extreme video game example possible to dismiss my point. Video game violence can have an extremely low “situational barrier”, but that doesn’t mean that video games will make you do those things.

Like how video games supposedly normalize violence? Are you going to go shoot a bunch of people because GTA exists?

Ffs guys what year is this? Thought we were past this silly mindset.

Which is, imo, pretty dumb. If it gives these people an outlet that literally hurts no one, I say they should be allowed to use it. Without it they’ll just go to more extreme lengths to get what they need, and as such may go to places where actual real life children are being abused or worse.

So while it’s still disgusting and I’d rather not think about it, if nobody’s being hurt then it’s none of my business. Let them get out their urges in a safe way that doesn’t affect anybody else.

True, they were just so bad for so long that trashing them sort of became the default. I have to like, rewire my brain so I can treat them fairly.

Yeah, but I imagine Costco or Sam's Club don't manufacture products that then can't be used together with products made somewhere else, do they?

This is an entirely different argument about whether companies should be allowed to make their products proprietary and only work with stuff sold by them, which btw is also common outside of Apple.

This discussion is about whether or not Apple has the right to enforce certain rules and demand a bigger cut from those who want to use their market place, and as we’ve gone over plenty of other markets do this as well. Apple isn’t unique here.

I'm saying Apple is out of line because they don't let other people develop software compatible with their products and sell it without taking a cut.

Is Sony out of line because they won’t let you put your games on their marketplace and sell it without taking a cut? Nintendo? Microsoft?

Hell, even ignoring Costco and Sam’s Club, nearly any market you decide to sell your product in will be taking a cut, some more than others. This isn’t a new concept - if you want access to a company’s “user base” then you’re going to have to give the company a cut.

It's as if I was manufacturing trailers, and had to pay Ford a 30% cut just because it can be hitched to a Ford.

Not quite, as the ability to hitch your trailer to a car, luckily, isn’t proprietary and works the same across the board. If instead you wanted your trailers to make use of a proprietary feature of Ford’s then yes, you’d have to pay a premium. Whether that’s parody with their OS throughout the trailer, or some other feature that’s specifically theirs, you don’t get access to that for nothing.

A better analogy though, as we’re talking about markets, is if you wanted to sell your trailers on Ford’s car lots. Yes, you alone manufactured these trailers, but if you want to sell them on Ford’s lots, to their clients, then you’re going to have to pay a premium.

By the way, this is how you know Apple is monopolistic; in a competitive market standards…

But you’re not talking about Apple here, you’re talking about the App Store. Apple itself isn’t a monopoly, as it quite literally has direct competitors. While the App Store is a “monopoly” in the same way that the PlayStation Store is a monopoly.