I think our industry is past time to be burned to the ground
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
And in the next administration, there’s no reason to think it won’t be prosecuted as such.
Lol. The next administration will do everything Trump is doing, and will perhaps dial it to 11.
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
A reminder thst even if there was an alternative store that didn't have this problem, or if you wanted to support such a store, you coildn't.
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@morrick@appdot.net
I've made a few projects for myself, and my friends really like them. I can't make them a product: there are so many things to fix and make better.
And then I look at what people routinely release and despair.
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@gruber@mastodon.social
Yup, supranational trillion dollar companies whose leaders directly influence policy, behave with impunity, and are largely above any law are not like governments at all.
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
A completely ad hoc policy of “Whatever the White House says, goes” is the makings of a terrible regulatory framework for AI.
But when Apple denies its users access to any other models/agents/assitants, its totally fine.
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/
It's not about knitting. It's about everything
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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social
And at the same time they manage to show less information and actions while taking up more space
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@Hedgewizard@beige.party @sdw@mastodon.social
If you see swastikas everywhere, you should really see a doctor.
It's an aperture
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@sdw@mastodon.social
So... Everything is indistinguishable shades of gray? ;)
I would welcome buttons that start looking even remotely like buttons. And not whatever this is: https://mastodon.nu/@dmitriid/114583850874207930
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@sdw@mastodon.social
Ah, somewhat bad wording on there: I meant that I liked to have buttons to look like buttons or remotely like buttons (even if I don't necessarily agree with the other ideas)
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
"User"
and "choice" never cross @gruber@mastodon.social's mind. Unless it's 20 000+ words on how developers should have the freedom to use different shapes for icons on MacOS.
He writes "Google designed Android for its own services" (true) and doesn't even for millisecond consider why it could be a bad thing and why government action is required.
In his mind supranational corporations are always in the right and who can even dare question their actions?
Except icons. Icons are important.
Someone needs to re-index Internet Archive up to year 2022/2023, and provide results as a search engine. And freeze it there.
With Google turning its already useless search into AI slop machine, that would be the only useful search engine around.
There are 15 000 managers and 25 000 designers at Apple who looked at the Playground app icon (and product) and said: yup, this is an app and icon worthy of Apple brand.
(Well, it is, isn't it, these days)
OpenAI codex: "I've created 15 000 321 unit tests. All functionality from the plan implemented. Things not implemented: 99% of the functionality in the plan."
RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116932871625347820
Gruber has bow written or linked 5? 7? pieces of how "squircle jail" is bad, and Apple shiuld change it because developer and user choice or something.
When it comes to literally everything else? "Apple knows best how dare you question it?"
Codex is still incapable of producing any useful designs, and will constantly break existing ones.
v0 by Vercel is "Corporate Memphis, AI version"
Claude is close to v0, can actually work within existing designs
Variant deteriorated into 5 repeating templates
Funniest thing about World Cup final was Madonna basically being an opening act for BTS, and only being let out of catacombs for 10 seconds, flanked by guards so she doesn't escape
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@morrick@appdot.net
It's possible you clicked it randomly just to see how things work.
I guess that's how I got something like Ed Sheeran or something
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@morrick@appdot.net
Fully expecting Trump to post a tirade of how great Europe is at helping US defeat immigrants flooding the US or something.
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@Starfia@mastodon.social
In 00s when Microsoft was the most hated company in the world, they never even thought of imposing limits on what users could or could not run on their devices. And would often go out of its way to ensure that users could.
Now supranational corpos impose arbitrary limits on what you can run on your devices, and somehow people cheer them on, and anyone who says that users must have choice is for some reason hated and called delusional.
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
"what if Cook had a crystal clear moral compass" or something like that
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
This decision should still serve as good precedent for location data held by other companies, and I hope the decision serves as good precedent for any searchable Personally Identifiable Information susceptible to fishing-expedition warrants in general.
You don't say.
When is your next essay on how GDPR is bad, and how Meta will suffer without its lucrative ads business due?
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
So, the argument of "nly Apple knows how to run an app store securely, and in a trustworthy manner, and only Apple can keep its users safe from scams and bad apps" is bogus?
Who would've thought?
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
Do many words to again say "I believe only supranational corporations are allowed to tell users what they can and cannot do with the devices they users own. Oh wait. Not own: lease, and use only within the arbitrary limits these corporations let them out of the goodness of their corporate hearts. Anyone saying that users should have choice on the devices is own is delusional because supranational corporations say so.
Also: expect more essays on icon choice"
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
But the spirit of his advice is that you should avail yourself of bookmarklets and browser extensions that fight back against shitty ads and dickovers.
Oh no, really? I thought it was "lucrative ads business" that Meta was entitled to when EU was combating this and "clueless EU bureacrats with their GDPR" when it was EU trying to curb the ad/surveillance corporations.
But sure, "you should avail yourself" or something.
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social
And yet Temu is the reason (or a major reason) many countries impose import taxes or lower the taxable value to ridiculous amounts like 20€
Chinese goods overwhelm logistics that badly (and not even at Christmas time: all the time).
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@delric@mastodon.social @daringfireball@mastodon.social
"It's bad on the ither side, too, so it makes our side good" is not as good an argument as you think it is.
Google extracting 30% (or was it 20%) on purchases it has no part of, is just as bad.
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@delric@mastodon.social @daringfireball@mastodon.social
Ah yes. In a comment under the post discussing iOS i should especially call out every single platform with the shitty policies, not just iOS.
And I am the ding dong, not the brainless idiots whith the incessant "but what about" who think that if something else is shitty, it is an excuse to be shitty.
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@delric@mastodon.social @daringfireball@mastodon.social
Because, as history teaches us, after a corrupt government there's always a non-corrupt honest one. No one ever goes "oh, these were doing everything with impunity, we'd better not repeat that".
(Granted, there are sometimes slight improvements before plunging further)
Or do you mean "no" as in "there will not be a next administration"? :)