There will be a middle man for 99.999% of the apps out there. No indie/small dev runs their own stores. You just dont know who the middle will be anymore. Could be some 3rd party in Nigeria working with the Prince so Flappy Bird can sell you new flaps.
Yay! I can worry about who Im give my Cc# to again, and how they store it
Well considering Epic and Tim Sweeney are really shifty people, im not sure it will change anything.
Epic is a scamming company that rips off 13 year olds.
Tim Sweeney can't keep his word or follow through on what he said he'd do, except sue Apple. Fuck his local community, they don't maold.
The Epic store is so shifty that the only games anyone has on it, we're given away in a weekly special in an attempt to get users. But no one even gets the freebies anymore, it's just not worth it.
Tim Sweeney and Epic are EXACTLY the kind of organization Apple was trying to protect against and they were right.
OMG yea, Apple doesn't take 30%. WHO THE FUCK CARES. No one that matters cares that Apple takes it. The only people that do are the greedy grifters (Epic) and shifty business models on the verge of failure (Spotify). No anyone can take your money, personal information and detailef purchase history and sell it to the highest bidder.
Congratulations, you get to go back to the Internet shitfest that was pre-iPhone. That was wonderful. Every half wit without a clue running their own insecure, ready to hack "shopping cart".
If you're happy about this, you utterly fail to understand what you've lost and are the type of person to cut off your nose to spite your own face.
Its worse than just tracking cookies. If you use google to login to them, the try to sneak in a consent to monitor your email - the literally read the email looking for stuff related to other retails and put it in their app and website for tracking. Got an email from amazon? The shopify app will notify you with a device notification everytime AMZ sends an email update about the product.
After I dealt with them for a single transaction - never again, scummy fucking company
I'm not sure what was supposed to be gained by such ignorant statements.
You are the CEO of a company thats been involved in net neutrality fights and law suites for decades - and you claim you don't understand anything about it?
You suck at your job, or you're posturing lying ahole.
To be fair, its verizon, he sucks at his job and is a lying ahole knowing full well that everything he says related to this topic is bullshit
I have average complex taxes - home, stock, and few properties, cars. No business of my own.
ALL of the documents related to those are sent to the IRS electronically at the exact same time they are shipped to me.
There is nothing for me to do but agree with what they've already been told assuming it's correct (it has been for the last 5 or six years at least.
There is no value in me filing taxes with paper forms and There is only additional cost to use some shut like TurboTax - which, BTW costs as much as a human being and you STILL DO ALL THE WORK, you just don't use a pencil and calculator. And TurboTax has very little special sauce to find you taxes breaks. It's complete shit.
The vast majority of the population has ALL of There tax data sent directly to the IRS already. You are an exception, not the rule. To be fair, a fairly common exception - but let's be honest, it sounds like your one of those people who will itemize their taxes and spend 6 hours doing them in order to save a couple hundred dollars - which is less savings than the time you spent doing them.
The rest of us would like proper free electronic methods to file and say "yep, that's right!"
That list of alternatives is pretty out of touch with reality.
GIMP will never be a photoshop alternative. The ignorant attitude of its contributors, and ignorant fan boys that insist it's just as good are more of the problem there than the software.
The software could easily be fixed, but it's managed by a bunch of aholes that think the problem with it's horrid UI is the users.
The Dreamweaver alternative list might as well include notepad. Seriously, NetBeans is the top listed Dreamweaver alternative? Nothing on that list of alternatives for Dreamweaver is even in the same category.
Has anyone contributing to this list actually used Dreamweaver or Photoshop?
OSS fanboi-ism and thinking some app that feels like Oracle designed the UI in 1970 are alternatives to the industry standards just makes you look ignorant and disconnected and it's why no one listens to you. Some photoshop guy tries GIMP - and immediately regrets questioning giving Adobe money.
You guys don't understand that learning that shitty UI will cost an efficient designer 10s of thousands of dollars in time lost to relearning some shifty half assed gui.
Sure GIMP can do almost everything PS can do
These artists don't have the time nor interest in learning some shifty app because some techies insist that buried deep in it is the most unexpected way.
They aren't that popular, I didn't know who they were until last year and I've spent a bit of time sense banning them from my email and getting them out of my Gmail, which they gained access too cleverly during a checkout because I wasn't paying close attention to the oath consents.
Luck shopify, used them ones, was such a shifty experience I won't buy from the store again even though the product was great.
They seem to be that really godaddy of shopping sites, shifty in every possible way
I don't need to ready anything in the article, and could be entirely wrong - but there is no chance in hell I would tie my hardware business to Adobe license/tax hell. Even if its 'open' according to them. Without knowing anything more I know this is a way for them to achieve a lock-in of some sort so they can force their will on manufactures.
There is exactly 0 chance that any of this was done for the good of the industry. Its Adobe, they want to be the industry by themselves.
Isn't that what Trump is doing while trying to seizashore?
Like are you stupid, blind, or a lying asshole?
Then your load is too big.
#1 problem in these cases is almost always someone filling it up to nearly the top and then being shocked it doesn't work well.
If your wash basket is more than half full before the cloths get wet, it's absolutely not going to work right.
They are too expensive to repair, and designed that way intentionally.
I have a fridge I have to replace because a fan isn't working right and it's part of "the sealed system" for the coolant system, so to fix it, they replace the WHOLE cooling system
And that one "part" literally costs $200 USD more than a newer model of the same fridge
Except if I read it right, at least for rippling - they do EVERYTHING for you. IT, HR, business strategy, ect.
It's another one of those "we unify everything" companies
The valuation at 12b for these companies is by the companies themselves, not anyone willing to pay for it.
As your title said
WHO?
No one that will ever amount to anything more than a lawsuit, that's who.
Both are vaporware "consulting" companies with no real products or real customers
but the current administration doesn't give a flying fuck about national security in the sense of protecting our way of live.
They are entirely fine with fucking the nation up, destroying decades of work, and throwing the american people under the bus so that Russia has free run to take over Europe while we're berating our next door neighbors and theating to take them over.
There is nothing about the current administration that gives a shit about anything but white raciest security and dictatorship. Asking the DoJ today to care about things is like asking Trump or Elon to not be a flaming fucking douche back to the entire world - its just not going to happen, we're in full on destroy the country flaming fucking asshole douchebag mode for the next 4 years or until one of the dies, hopeful both of them will sooner rather than later.
You have to be a complete fucking idiot at this point to think the DoJ would possibly do the right thing.
If google doesn't want broken up, they just need to pay Trump and Elon for the favor. Thats how it works now. They don't need to ask the DoJ, they just have to pay Trump like Musk did and he'll promote Google. Its very transparent, pay to win
... his reason is pretty simple, WPE directed all user downloads to Automattic servers and didn't pay for the privilege.
Automattic isn't going to lose here, they don't have any reason they have to provide services to someone else's customers.
Open source doesn't mean it's your job to support leeches and freeloaders that built their business by selling someone else's stuff without a contract or compensation.
Automattic can 100% take their toys and go home because the leadership at WPE is stupid and built thier business on selling someone else's bandwidth.
WPE was literally using Automattic resources without paying.
Automatic cut that off and said you need to pay me for the bandwidth your customers are using on my servers.
There is nothing at all surprising here. The free ride that was taken without permission by WPE was ended by Automattic. Automatic is under NO obligation to support WPE freeloaders.
The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department.
