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  1. "Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.

    blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook

    #apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog

  2. "Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.

    blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook

    #apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog

  3. "Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.

    blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook

    #apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog

  4. "Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.

    blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook

    #apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog

  5. "Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.

    blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook

    #apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog

  6. Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.

    blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-pr

    #apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog

  7. Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.

    blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-pr

    #apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog

  8. Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.

    blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-pr

    #apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog

  9. Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.

    blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-pr

    #apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog

  10. Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.

    blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-pr

    #apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog

  11. RE: hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/11709

    I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.

    #WebDesign #UI #UX #UserHostile #consent #privacy

  12. RE: hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/11709

    I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.

    #WebDesign #UI #UX #UserHostile #consent #privacy

  13. RE: hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/11709

    I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.

    #WebDesign #UI #UX #UserHostile #consent #privacy

  14. RE: hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/11709

    I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.

    #WebDesign #UI #UX #UserHostile #consent #privacy

  15. RE: hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/11709

    I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.

    #WebDesign #UI #UX #UserHostile #consent #privacy

  16. What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.

    blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphon

    #apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog

  17. What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.

    blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphon

    #apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog

  18. What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.

    blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphon

    #apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog

  19. What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.

    blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphon

    #apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog

  20. What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.

    blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphon

    #apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog

  21. EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have

    #ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog

  22. EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have

    #ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog

  23. EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have

    #ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog

  24. EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have

    #ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog

  25. EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have

    #ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog

  26. Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

    blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-know

    #bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

  27. Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

    blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-know

    #bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

  28. Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

    blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-know

    #bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

  29. Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

    blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-know

    #bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

  30. Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

    blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-know

    #bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

  31. So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-ren

    #bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

  32. So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-ren

    #bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

  33. So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-ren

    #bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

  34. So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-ren

    #bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

  35. So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-ren

    #bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

  36. Ok I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.

  37. Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.

    #userhostile

  38. Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.

    #userhostile

  39. Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.

    #userhostile

  40. Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.

    #userhostile

  41. Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷‍♂️

    #lamentável #cp #portugal #avaria #userHostile

  42. Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷‍♂️

    #lamentável #cp #portugal #avaria #userHostile

  43. Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷‍♂️

    #lamentável #cp #portugal #avaria #userHostile

  44. Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷‍♂️

    #lamentável #cp #portugal #avaria #userHostile

  45. Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷‍♂️

    #lamentável #cp #portugal #avaria #userHostile

  46. Apple sells you their judgment. The 30% cut is for your security. The compliance maze is for quality. The walled garden is for your protection.
    Let's check the work.
    Part 2 of the Apple series.
    blog.ppb1701.com/the-walled-ga
    #apple #bigtech #userhostile #blog #appstore #developer #lockin #icloud

  47. The NSA Would Like You To Secure Your Router...some of the same ones the FCC just ruled could no longer be updated in a year without special approval. 🤔 (Bonus update post)

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-nsa-would

    #blog #nsa #fcc #geopolitics #isp #networking #policy #routers #security #selfhosting #userhostile

  48. “Privacy. That’s iPhone.” — and Other Things That Need an Asterisk
    Apple isn’t lying about privacy. They’re just very careful about what they don’t say out loud. The Google deal. iCloud’s 5GB trap. The Meta silence. What “we keep your data safe” actually means.
    None of it required a lie. That’s kind of the whole point.

    blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-thats

    #apple #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog #icloud #security

  49. Microsoft's Copilot ToS: "for entertainment purposes only."
    Also Microsoft: $30/seat in your Excel, Teams, and Outlook. Training on your code April 24th. Same model, different price tag, quieter fine print.

    Bonus Post! — the ToS was too good to sit on.

    blog.ppb1701.com/for-entertain

    #ai #microsoft #copilot #bigtech #userhostile #anthropic #github #blog

  50. Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

    I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

    Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

    It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

    Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

    "Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

    #Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

  51. Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

    I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

    Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

    It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

    Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

    "Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

    #Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

  52. Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

    I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

    Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

    It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

    Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

    "Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

    #Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

  53. Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

    I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

    Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

    It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

    Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

    "Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

    #Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

  54. Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

    I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

    Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

    It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

    Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

    "Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

    #Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

  55. When I started this series I figured I'd be documenting slow burns. The gradual squeeze. The quietly updated terms of service. The feature that disappears in a patch note nobody reads.
    Nobody told Nvidia.
    Hello Phobos.

    blog.ppb1701.com/the-crowbar-o

    #ai #dlss #gaming #nvidia #grok #sora #userhostile #blog

  56. Jensen said "I don't love AI slop" on Lex Fridman this week.
    The 5090 is still $4,232.
    New post on why the apology tour changes exactly nothing

    blog.ppb1701.com/jensens-apolo

    #Nvidia #DLSS5 #Gaming #AI #GPU #blog #userhostile

  57. Jensen Huang sees $1 trillion in AI chip demand and thinks that's a flex. Meanwhile, Nvidia demoed DLSS 5 on a $10,000 rig to add Instagram filters to a game that runs on a six-year-old GPU. When people pushed back? "You're completely wrong."

    blog.ppb1701.com/jensen-huang-

    #ai #nvidia #gaming #dlss #gtc #userhostile #gpu #bigtech #blog