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by fpgeek 6y ago
According to https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1336163726345441280 it appears to be fixed now.
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by fpgeek 9y ago
It's not just just Verizon. AT&T, in particular, has a habit of locking important features (VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling) to phones running AT&T-branded and certified software. So unless the device you want is sold by AT&T and yo
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by fpgeek 9y ago
I've seen plenty of devices implement this. Of course, they were all ones I'd flashed with CyanogenMod...
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by fpgeek 9y ago
As a practical matter, I don't think either the phone manufacturer or the phone company want to be in the position of certifying that every replacement dialer meets regulatory requirements (911, for example). If customers can always ro
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by fpgeek 9y ago
> - Someone else pointed out that the article isn't about a choice, the dialer was forced on the user. If you want the phone to come with a dialer (I think most people do), then some dialer will inevitably be forced on people. And u
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by fpgeek 9y ago
So when Google updated the Nexus dialer to include search-based "Caller ID" that was a bad thing? Or when Google upgraded Messenger to include RCS support?
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by fpgeek 9y ago
I think you're missing large parts of Amazon's consumer-facing value. First and foremost, they have Kindle. To a first approximation this means that "everyone" who reads ebooks uses part of their ecosystem (even people w
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by fpgeek 9y ago
This is shortsighted attitude that, in the long run, will be toxic for Apple. It's one thing to not give developers what they want because you can't ( doesn't fit the technology or the product, don't have the resources o
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by fpgeek 9y ago
Makes me wonder if this is at least partially intended to create a reason to roll back common carrier status.
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by fpgeek 9y ago
Yet
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by fpgeek 10y ago
It's been good enough to support their Kindle Fire ecosystem without using Google Play (I don't think anyone else has succeeded with something like that outside China), but they're still propping it up on non-Amazon devices b
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by fpgeek 10y ago
> Desktop app stores never really took off with steam being the only exception. And steam isn't for apps. Mobile app stores aren't for apps (or at least paid apps) either. If you filter out all the games, the frontends for exte
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France, you do not own the internet(computerworld.com)
3 points by fpgeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 10y ago
As long as you get your mutable code right. If there are any unintentional holes in your instantiate/operate/consume box...
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Except, in the general case, that isn't true. Many of the Park Service social media accounts that were shut down do disseminate emergency information. That part of the "shutdown" was rolled back once the issues were understoo
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Well, teacher salaries are lower in other parts of the country (though it is also true that salary vs cost of living is less out of whack in most of them).
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by fpgeek 10y ago
I'm not saying the permission request isn't overbroad, but "manage downloads" seems potentially reasonable. I'd imagine that some permission along those lines would be required for a PDF viewer to start displaying a
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Or it may just mean that the brain drain won't have a direct day-to-day impact, just an indirect, growing decay in capacity and capability as people leave and the team struggles to replace them.
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Choosing to take (or not take) a position on protecting people's rights is part of running a public company. This sort of thing shapes Apple's brand, makes a difference in recruiting, makes some employees feel more valued (and oth
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by fpgeek 10y ago
May? What kind of crazy optimist are you? Personally, I'd bet on will.
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by fpgeek 10y ago
> Even the richest persons on this world would not be "allowed" to "buy" their freedom from the "social contract". What do you mean by buying your freedom from the social contract? The US, at least, allows p
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by fpgeek 10y ago
I'd say the goodness of Boston's public transit depends on your comparison set. If you compare to the rest of the US, there aren't many cities with better public transit. If you compare to the rest of the world, it's ano
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by fpgeek 10y ago
> Assuming that the equity packages of both companies is $0 throws away useful information. Well, no one said that all the $0 equity is valued at the same zero. There's nothing wrong with comparing those zeroes, but that's not
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by fpgeek 10y ago
People? So Apple isn't interested in selling to families and couples anymore?
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by fpgeek 10y ago
I don't know that they will. If the first recall had been enough - that they'd really found the problem, fixed it and made things up to their customers, I think they could have done well. Taking decisive, painful and effective a
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by fpgeek 10y ago
Yes, that's exactly what is going on. Apple has market power from the lock-in they've established. Apple is abusing their market power to force customers on their platform to use their browser engine (and no others). Whether or no
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by fpgeek 10y ago
I agree that Apple's management of their platform is the underlying problem, but there's no compelled speech here. Writing code to provide better HTML5 support is only one of the ways Apple could satisfy this complaint. Lifting th
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by fpgeek 10y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges. Apple doesn't provide anything like YouTube. If they did, they would have similar issues - there are all sorts of legal and business constraints associated with that kind of service. A more app
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by fpgeek 10y ago
I could be wrong, but my impression is kovrik wants to back up the iPod to the Time Capsule directly. In other words, the backup shouldn't go through the MacBook at all (or, speculating based on my experience, kovrik wants to avoid sto
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by fpgeek 10y ago
1. Search for x (or y). 2. Ask for directions 3. Replace your location with y (or x). 4. Reverse start and end if necessary. Personally I think is flow is better than directly entering start and end for two reasons: - The common case (go fr

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