They always win, unless they don't. History is littered with examples of the freer standard losing to the more proprietary standard, with plenty of examples going the other way, too.
Openness is an advantage in some cases, but tight control can be an advantage in some other cases.
Yup, this comic is very much a "simpsons did it" situation.
I mean, that's kinda exactly what I said
Yes, I'm agreeing with you and expanding on that, showing where the lines blur. Apple wants to get 30% of everything when it's only reasonable (and supported by historical practice) to get 30% of actual purchase of software. The history of the Apple App Store is an expansion beyond the original, relatively reasonable 30% cut on that narrow category, quietly spread out to a bunch of new categories that don't actually resemble the previous category.
Apple knows they can't take a 30% cut of every Uber fare or Doordash order or Amazon purchase of physical goods, and they don't try to. It's the categories in between where their policies start to look arbitrary.
And now Patreon in the crosshairs shows just how twisted it's gotten. Like I was saying, I see Patreon as something more like PayPal than, like, Netflix.
30% is a reasonable cut for the distribution of software for which almost all revenue is marginal profit. When it's a transaction for services that cost money to provide (like Uber or online shopping) or a transfer of money on behalf of someone else (think Venmo or PayPal or just a regular banking app), a 30% cut of the whole transaction doesn't always make sense.
Apple recognizes this and doesn't take a 30% cut for those types of services. But they don't always categorize things correctly. Patreon is something like PayPal, whether the app owner takes a a small cut of each transaction, so paying 30% represents a huge cut, like 10x as much as they make.
Apple (and Google and Steam) are taking a software distribution cut for a service that more closely resembles payment processing, which is usually a 1-3% fee, not a 30% fee.
Yes. The book itself was published in 2016, was on the bestseller list for over a year, and he basically renounced like 75% of the contents when he started running for his first political office in 2022.
It was the book's success that made him a politician, not his political connections making his book a success.
I wonder how much of it is that casual users are less likely to even own/use a laptop/desktop for personal use anymore. Mobile devices, and maybe tablets, have been the most popular way of connecting to the internet for a while.
Chess basically solved how turn based games can still be pretty fast.
Facing new threats in the form of arm and risc v.
I think the instruction set is basically irrelevant to the discussion. Intel is losing to TSMC at the actual foundry process. Intel is losing to AMD at the design of desktop/server class chips running the x86 instruction set.
Within the ARM world, Apple is running circles around the competition. Qualcomm can't compete on mobile SoCs, and Samsung's Exynos is even worse. Qualcomm is trying to get into laptops, but the performance and efficiency aren't competitive with Apple, and might not even be that far ahead of AMD.
Intel is betting the company on various stacking and packaging technologies to fit way more stuff into a small surface area, but basically is left hoping that this works.
We can't manufacture our way to using fewer resources.
Why not? Seems like a pretty simple formula: if it costs X amount of resources or pollution to save Y amount of resources or pollution per unit time, the break-even point is whenever Y times time exceeds X.
It's brat green summer, apparently.
Let's not pretend like Blizz or Bethesda will see the end of this decade anyway.
So if you're management, you face a choice: try to dump everyone now in a reorganization on a moment's notice, while it's still Biden's NLRB, or negotiate a CBA that probably bakes in substantial severance and job protections that will be expensive when they do try to reorganize for business reasons?
If it's true that the workers were likely to get dumped within the decade, then negotiating protections now actually protects them, or forces management to pay a high cost.
I'm surprised to be learning this, but I've never tried to use a non-Apple HiDPI display with my Macs. Weird that it works so well on the HiDPI built-in displays and their external displays, but won't bother to make it work right with non-Apple displays.