dkonofalski

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by dkonofalski 3y ago
There are plenty of ways someone could expand their horizons and develop a hobby in VR that doesn’t involve or require them to do any of that.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
>This is just as true of paid, closed source software. And when it gets abandoned, you can't fix it if it's important to you. It's not true of most paid, closed source software, though, while it is true for most open s
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Capitalism can't even solve normal problems in the way you're suggesting. How in the world would it solve any of these problems?
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
What's to say (and who are you to say) that a VR headset may not broaden someone's horizons, though?
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
...and get none of the benefits of it. This is like saying "for the price of car, you could buy 20,000 bicycles". While that's true, I'm not going to ride my bike from Texas to Disneyland.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Yeah. They're wrong. I've been playing 3D SBS videos from my collection since I got the AVP.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Isn't that a little naive and idealistic, though? I love FOSS software as much as the next HN user but, for the vast majority of it, it only does the most basic tasks possible and, with few, rare exceptions, gets abandoned or obsoleted
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
This is factually inaccurate. It doesn't stop working in a moving car or train. The reviewers/users that were using it in those instances simply didn't turn on the Travel mode of the device. In order for the 3D windows to per
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Your VR enthusiast is wrong. The issue he's describing was because of the two video players that launched in the App Store. There are video players for the AVP that can play stereoscopic video without issue.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
The intake form asks for certain things (like prism vision) and it also asks if you know your prescription ahead of time. I can't imagine that they'll have all of those specific fixes but, for the majority of people, you can simpl
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Apple has the prescription lenses in the stores. If you bring your glasses, they have a device that will shine some lights through your glasses to determine your prescription and pop out the correct lenses needed for the Vision demo.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Thanks for that. That was a great read. It's really interesting to see a perspective from someone that understands that the current state of systems came from years and years of intentionally working within a paradigm and that changing
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
My only hesitation with these rules is that I feel like Apple, as a business, has a right to do whatever they want with their business so long as there are alternatives and I do consider Android to be a viable alternative. I wouldn't w
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
This isn't a summary. You basically removed all the positive things he had to say and just left the negatives. That's not what a summary is.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
You’re discussing this in the context of a case that deemed that it wasn’t an anti-trust violation because it was determined Apple doesn’t have a monopoly, though. They’re not considered their own markets.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
I’m not the one pretending. You’re pretending like people don’t have a choice in what phones they buy. They do.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
I think you're conflating their designation as "markets" because they are marketplaces of apps with the economic term "markets" which has a specific definition for a sector of industry.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
That's irrelevant. Both iPhone users and app developers have options on both sides. Developers can ignore Apple's platform and end-users have lots of options for phones that aren't iPhones.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
You're not forced to make apps for iOS or any Apple product. Making your app for the second most popular OS is acceptable because that's what iOS is. I know you tried to make it seem like Android is but, worldwide, Android is fa
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
They're not in a position where they could have standing, though, since they were in that position and violated the terms of their agreement. The judge has not ordered Apple to reinstate Epic's account and the termination was fo
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
>How are they even going to attempt to enforce compliance. Per the judge's own words, Apple is allowed access to the company's financials and other information that would allow them to audit developers' use of third-party
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Yes, you do. You have the choice to put your App on Google Play or host it yourself and make it available for Android.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
iOS is not a market segment. Smartphones is the segment and so you do have a choice. The courts have already ruled that Apple doesn't have a monopoly in their segment.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
That's not true in the slightest, though. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Steam all take 30% for distribution and hosting, same as Apple. It's not artificially high if it's in line with the rest of the tech industry and if you
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
No one gives a crap about your pedantry. I never said anything about "legally stealing". They took something that didn't belong to them and that they didn't have permission to give to someone else or copy. That's th
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Loss of data is irrelevant. If you don't have permission to take something or copy it, then you're stealing. Again, I think the benefits of what happened in this case are obvious so I'm not arguing the morality of this. I jus
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Having access to it is not the same as having permission to take it, make copies of it, or remove it or its copies from the owner.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
You're taking something that doesn't belong to you and copying it. It's stealing. In order to even make the "unauthorized copy" you mention, you have to take the thing first. That's the stealing.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
Can we please stop with the mental gymnastics? Taking something without permission that doesn't belong to you is stealing. It may be justified stealing but it's still stealing.
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by dkonofalski 3y ago
That's partially because of web security, though, if I'm not mistaken. I have an old Windows PC and an old Mac mini that I use as servers and, outside of local stuff that's bridged to the outside network (and heavily crippled

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