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Yes - Russia says they need to conduct their special military operation to rid Ukraine of Nazis (that don’t exist in any real quantity or position of power) and Nazis all over the world think “Fuck yeah, there are Nazis in Ukraine, we should help them!”. Then they find out that the Ukrainians aren’t Nazis, and the actual Nazis from the rest of the world don’t want to play anymore.

Or they finally realized the Russian propaganda was Russian propaganda and the Ukrainians aren’t actually nazis? And that made the real Nazis not want to support them anymore?

Where my game genie lovers at.

Juniper did a pretty good job of that themselves over the last few years.

Found the guy who’s never used a bidet.

Every single one of those apps supports in app payments/subscriptions. You can subscribe directly from the app.

So, no, you don’t.

And if Hey added that, they would be fine.

This is the reason Apple didn’t lose their antitrust cases - they apply their rules pretty uniformly unlike Google which made all sorts of exceptions and side deals.

Sure, but it’s infinitely harder on iOS to install malware, spyware or something else, I’m sure you’d agree. How many times have you looked at someone complaining about their computer being slow and they have 74 browser weather extensions and bars all siphoning data and doing who knows what.

It’s also easier to track down the publisher of a scam app to figure out who’s doing the scamming.

Simply put, I have less to worry about with older folks in my life using iOS than something else.

First off, she isn’t dumb at all. Just easily overwhelmed by technology. She was suspicious and took the time to try to find apple’s phone number to call them, but probably got bit by someone scamming google’s SEO so google spit out a scam number.

They started using USBC on Macs and iPads forever ago. They weren’t forced to do anything. When they switched from 30 pin to lightning everyone was pissed. They guaranteed 10 years of support for lightning. Which drum roll… expired in 2022. https://www.theverge.com/23312359/apple-iphone-lightning-cable-anniversary-10-years

If you don’t like it just buy android and windows devices? It’s not like there’s no choices and you’re screwed. It’s also not like they changed their stance over time. Whether you bought iPhone 1 or iPhone 15 the experience has been more or less the same ecosystem wise.

Apple does that for enterprise profiles and vpn profiles on iOS. Guaranteed you can talk most people into doing that without much trouble.

The issue is for the technically illiterate it’s often not nearly as intentional.

No one reads pop ups or warnings, they just click ok when they’re told.

My MIL was on her way to Home Depot to buy gift cards when my FIL called me because he couldn’t talk her out of it and thought I could.

She had clicked a popup and then called the number - then somehow googled for Apple support number and called another scam.

Literally anything that makes that more likely or easier is a net negative for a very sizeable percentage of users.

I am certainly a power user - but there aren’t really any android apps that I think I’m missing out on.

There’s 1/10th the spyware / garbage ware in the Apple Store vs Play store, and that’s before we get into 3rd party stores.

I mean… maybe? I don’t actually care. My MIL will absolutely get tricked into downloading some spyware or scam app from some shady 3rd party App Store if they existed.

The walled garden approach isn’t for everyone - but I don’t actually mind it at all.

The real issue is almost certainly that Hey doesn’t want to pay Apple 30% so you can’t do anything without an external subscription and they don’t allow you to pay with In App Payments/Subscriptions.

This guys entire marketing plan is generating controversy.

More accurately, it’s mostly because they’re doing it against their will. You get a bus load of people with no support system who don’t want to be here but can’t afford to get anywhere else.

The reason they should stop is it’s inhumane, not that we in NYC can’t handle more people.

The latter is the big one.

Defending this lawsuit will cost them more money than they made bussing migrants, even if they win.

Which will make all of them think twice about doing it - or at the very least charge Texas much, much more money.

Well, you see, the 2,000lb bomb was heavy and the plane was tired of carrying it.

Nobody expected it because turkey is governed by a tyrant who sucks.

And he won’t do anything until he gets his pound of flesh whatever it may be. Just like with the Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

That’s semantics - you aren’t a lawyer obviously. Nor, I imagine have you actually read the convention.

Around February 27–28, Turkey refused permission for three out of four Russian warships to enter the Black Sea as their home base was not on the Black Sea.

Surely these two new ships home base is in fact the Black Sea.

Really? If you buy a house, the closing happens at the bank, then you can’t return to your home?

Of course you can.

Ships have a home port, as defined by the owner of the ship. If a ship is sold, it would typically get a new home port, owned by the new owner.

All of Ukraine’s ports are in the Black Sea. Hence any ship owned by Ukraine not currently in the Black Sea is sailing back to port.

Why is that hard to understand?

Russia has several deep water ports outside of the Black Sea. It’s a slightly different ballgame, wouldn’t you agree?