They DO though. They sell the default search engine to Google for billions knowing they’re profiting from the ads indirectly… So, they’re really just subcontracting it…

I was implying the fact that Apple doesn’t need to though, because they monopolise things via the app store, and with other foul play (like requiring additional intervention if you want to run an app from outside the store on Mac). They have full control over monitoring what apps and what kind of apps are popular, so they can target them with their own competitors.

They also have some fairly hefty requirements from developers, and even try to get a cut of subscription fees despite doing nothing.

In the case of Pebble as an example, they delayed the pebble app, launched their own watch at the same time, and because they fucked Pebble over, they never stood a chance.

Just to further things, Republicans have a clear bias. When the head of google was in congress, they weren’t really asking questions, but they were incorrectly stating things like Google was tracking their phone anywhere it moves

And yet, Apple seems to dodge every single case. They don’t even allow IOS to run on other platforms. Whereas, there are Android phones which are completely degooglified.

And yet, as per normal, Apple is innocent… apparently

No surprise from a guy who was convicted of tax fraud.

I’m sure he’s gonna start blaming it for his tax issues soon

Don’t bother arguing with that person… They’re a fascist…

A server admin told me they basically report other people they argue with to try to suppress any discussion (they did it to me, and its what fascists do), and I know they’re banned from a lot of servers.

Anything you say, will basically just result in them calling you genocidal. And they spend all hours of the day arguing too (so, I suspect they’re a lobbyist, or not allowed to work for psychological reasons, which makes sense because they seem to think everyone but themselves love murder). Or, the other possibility, is that they feel guilty and are overcompensating…

ML is likely the only large lemmy server they’re safe on with no risk of getting banned

Just letting you know so you don’t waste your time

Haven’t you heard though?

Both parties are the same apparently

Also “hunter bidens laptop” /s

It’s literally 1 party which isn’t following any laws and getting in shit fights with literally, vs a party where Israel is the only bad thing that can be said about it…

It’s like that black mirror episode with Waldo.

We shouldn’t even call him Trump anymore. Gives him too much attention

Call him only by his number: 45 or 47

Except doesn’t this replace their old tool? So, its not really fragmenting anything if its replacing an existing project.

Fragmentation isn’t great, but it can be beneficial in some cases too. I’ve contributed to a number of projects.

Over the last 20-30 years, I’ve seen plenty of projects fail, and new ones take over.

If you take a look at arts/eaudio and the other sound servers of 20 years ago. All failed, because Pulseaudio consolidated and killed them eventually. Now, Pulseaudio is on its way to getting killed by Pipewire. And one could argue its a waste of resources… but, the changeover is actually super awesome (for JACK)

One other good example of the fragmentation argument was Xfree86. Lots of people argued against Xorg at the time, and ultimately, Xfree86 died ages ago. If you asked me 20 years ago, I would have said KDE was dead, but now Gnome and KDE and carved out VERY different products, that suit very different people. Both are awesome in their own way

Everyone was freaking out when devFS got deprecated. But, udev was an amazing replacement

Linux is evolving FAR quicker than Windows or MAC (mac OS has barely changed in a decade). And, many ideas introduced in linux are stolen by Windows and Apple.

At the end of the day though, sometimes a rewrite is needed of things. What really matters is that it doesn’t fragment the desktop experience (and, it won’t in this case)

Rather than downvoting. This is a good teachable moment

I used to think this way, that it was about efficiency exclusively

But the reality is, any contribution is better than none, and a lot of these things implemented you don’t really understand how important they are until a while later often

One consideration also is that Germany is apparently considering to continue their Linux migration, so things like this may also be based on feedback from admins

Suse has definitely carved their own niche as a Linux distro and it’s actually sad they’re not more successful because a lot of their tools are pretty cool

Lol. You weirdo. Go give the rapist another win

It says a lot about the kind of person you are when you aren’t behind a keyboard

Lol

Go supply more school kids with guns mate

Did you notice how he’s using figures from the last trump presidency? Trump last time had people to stop him. Not this time.

He’s gonna blow through it

What the fuck are you on about?

You’re targeting 1 issue specifically. Have you got anything other than Israel to compare the two?

My point is, Trump is actually behaving eeringly similar to Hitler at times. I mean, fuck… Trump is literally asking Israel to clear out so he can steal the land for trump hotels, whilst telling Ukraine to give their land over to russia.

They’re NOTHING alike. I don’t agree with Israel with either party. But, there is a HUGE fucking difference. Trump is literally committing crimes against US people, and tried to deport LEGAL citizens, UNTIL SUPREME COURTS STOPPED HIM!!!

Now, it was discovered he deported people who shouldn’t have been, and the supreme court can’t get them back.

You’re so focused on the 1 issue (and the good things they’ve done), that you’re ignoring the 50000 other ones Trump is doing (and I doubt Trump has done anything good for anyone except himself)

Tim walz was literally bragging about feeding school kids. Trump did nothing but talk about himself and “crooked hilary”, “sleepy joe”, etc. He didn’t really speak about helping others… He spent the whole time bragging

And how many times did the supreme court need to intervene for each president because they were trying to illegally deport citizens?

Oh wait… Only trump…

You don’t realise it, but people like you would vote for hitler or claim hitler was the same as other parties.

I don’t recall the democrats supporting rapists… Or threatening others.

You’ve literally got Trump now trying to become third term president to avoid jail. It’s a dictatorship mate

Exactly this. They’re trying to soften the blow for the party of Nazis

No, they’re not alike at all

One of them is openly dehumanizing immigrants