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The news story you are linking was incorrect and based on a typo in a report.

Nobody is saying it's enforceable. It's just a shitty thing to do when someone shows you something in confidence, asks not to share it, and you publish an entire news article about it. It's just a dick move. Obviously nothing illegal about it.

Lol no definitely not all

Sadly Musk said he's not interested in ever going to space himself.

Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be harder than colonizing Mars. Not that either is a great idea, but just saying.

According to the article police opened fire at the car because she refused to stop when they tried to pull the car over. Which is just as unacceptable (to my European mind it's ridiculous police carry firearms), but contrary to the title there is no indication what she was wearing had anything to do with it. In fact the article says her windows were tinted so the police couldn't know what she was wearing.

Yep. It just sucks when you are a smaller developer. I was told by Google Play Developer support I can't make the app I wanted to do, and no, the fact other big apps are allowed to do the exact same thing doesn't matter.

How do I play my VR games? How do I test the cross platform application I develop runs correctly on Windows? How do I update the firmware on a device for which the firmware updater only works on Windows?

I use Linux. These are some of the reasons I keep a Windows VM around. So no, it's not true there is "literally no good reason".

Sure, but not for this reason. CNBC goofed and made this article based on a typo. The regulators didn't find any such thing.

Try to campaign for and get up and running such a nationwide government issued ID system and then tell me how inexpensive it was to do. :P

I absolutely agree Apple is worse in general.

But no, you can't use a different payment system (except in South Korea). And yes, there are big apps to whom magically rules don't apply, including Patreon or Steam. If you include the same thing in your app, you will be banned, and pointing to examples of other apps is not allowed in any appeal. Between anticompetitive rules being applied to everyone and them being applied selectively based on backroom deals, I'd rather have the Apple approach, since at least it's fair in that regard.

Official policy is that only payments for physical goods, physical services, utilities (water, gas) and credit card payments (paying back a bank for credit card usage) are allowed to use non-Google payment systems.

But again, rules don't apply if you are a big fish.

Yes, them too

Android Developers, using emulators or physical devices remotely on a PC. Buttons are much faster when using a mouse instead of a touch screen.

It really depends on which language you want to use.

Yeah, you don't have to, but then nobody is getting your app. Most people don't have other stores and will look at you weird if you mention side loading. Samsung/Galaxy Store maybe, but even Samsung users mostly don't use it.

So technically your don't have to use it and your app is obtainable without it, but If you want to actually reach some users, you have to be on Google Play.

Google search was just declared a monopoly, when there are obviously other searched engines anyone can use. If that's a monopoly then Google Play is a bigger monopoly.

That's up to the game developers, not Steam. Many games on Steam don't have any DRM, you can copy the files anywhere you want and just start the exe without Steam even being installed.

Female leads are fine as long as the game is good? Why are male leads fine even if the game is not good? Why does the gender matter either way?

Keep in mind explorer.exe is not just the file manager, but also the entire desktop itself.

Because if a poor person living in the projects dies of starvation? Oh, that's fine. That's a feature, not a bug.

What's "the projects" in this context? I'm not a native English speaker and have seen this used in similar contexts but I don't know what it means. Translation fails me, I know what the word means but it clearly has some different usage here.

That's fair