> Antitrust pressure has slowed consolidation, opened app distribution, killed the anti-competitive iMessage and AirDrop moats
iMessage is still only available on Apple hardware. Apple’s malicious compliance has made developing apps for third party app stores a no-go. I have AltStore installed but there are no apps worth installing.
You should learn whatever field you are interested in, doesn’t matter if others are already masters in that domain. You life shouldn’t be oriented around how you can be most appealing to capitalist companies, but instead what interests you.
Imagine telling students in school to not bother learning physics or calculus, as others have already mastered those fields.
I think the main argument that it is theft, is that they contribute nothing to the continued surplus generated after their loan was repaid. So they effectively steal the profits like a parasite.
Why should they get ownership of the business? When you get a mortgage for your house, the bank doesn’t permanently own part of your house after you pay it off.
High quality hand made clothes still exist and people do want to pay for them. Mass produced clothing made in sweats shops are what the majority of the people buy because that is where the capitalist companies drove the production.
Local first isn’t limited to web apps. It’s a style of application development in which you locally store and operate on the data rather than fetching it from a cloud backend every time. For native apps that means a local database or individual files on the file system.
> phoning home, telemetry, and other privacy violations; forced upgrades; closed source, etc.
This describes proprietary software developed by capitalist companies. This has nothing to do with local first.
Mojave was the last macOS version that had any features I cared about. Now each release is about how bad did they trash the macOS UI. Switching to Linux has been great.
This is really bizarre, the decline of western quality life is caused by capitalism and wealth inequality. Coinbase is a massive Silicon Valley capitalist company.
You should check out Darling if you like Objective-C and Apple/macOS development. It is implementing a macOS translation layer on Linux. There is lots of work needed implementing Apple’s frameworks in Objective-C.
I never really understood company hackathons. Usually they involve people submitting their own ideas and trying to implement them in a crunch mode for some meager reward. This just comes off as the company trying to exploit people for new ideas rather than have a proper R&D department work on coming up with innovations.
You can setup your ImGui program to only render new frames when there are new input events or your UI changes, but that’s not what the AI generated.
As it is now, it will max out one CPU core at 100% redrawing the same frames since glfwPollEvents() was used in the main loop.