I'm assuming most jailbreakers probably don't want to enable piracy, but just want to use apps that Apple won't compete with fairly - like Steam game streaming, or a browser built with an alternate engine like chromium.
Request to Apple: Just let this slide and see how it plays out.
Remember when you took out SuperBowl ads [1] demonizing authoritarian, totalitarian megacorps that told you how to think and what to do - YOU are that company in 2019.
Maybe if you let this alt store be, and monitor it's metrics you'll see that your users really want cheaper, more-full featured apps that you'd never allow on the app store - like a competing browser engine (Chromium), or JIT enabled javascript core [2], ...
It may also happen that this alt-store becomes a piracy and malware haven - in which case, your thesis of totalitarian moderation might win. I'd bet my money on the former - a thriving alt-store filled with apps Apple is too cowardly to approve on it's main store - like Steam Game Streaming, Chromium Browser, JIT enabled js/node, ...
I'm not betting on the remainder of your comment being objective. In 2019 if someone can get under your skin by just politely asking for evidence, maybe just maybe, you aren't engaging objectively.
Nonetheless, while there is some evidence pointing to aggressive spying by the Israelis, if you disconnect it from the context of what the U.S. does in Israel, the suggestions of favoritism seem disingenuous.
Most of all, there's no real evidence that 3-letter agencies and career state department employees, who largely handle domestic and international spying, would undermine U.S. interests, regardless of who is in the White House.
Regardless of the attempt here at painting a country's foreign policy as partisan, any given country favors one U.S. party over the other. Right now, China probably favors a Democrat led government, so does Iran. The U.S. probably favors one Israeli party over the other. Your entire issue with this is likely because you perceive Israeli spying to oppose your political party. On those lines, would you classify Chinese/Iranian spying efforts as harmless, just because they currently bat for the Democrats? Or Canada, given that they are allied?
Also, it is being taken as fact that Israel is the originator of the sting rays, when in reality this isn't conclusive.
I believe the U.S. and Israel have proportionate response to each other being caught spying, it makes zero common sense for the U.S. to undermine it's own national security by repeatedly going easy on Israel.
So, citations outstanding on the following open ended claims made:
1. Extent and depth of Israeli spying in the U.S. is considered to be particularly extreme (and U.S spying in Israel isn't)
2. US is easy on Israeli spying efforts despite Israel being hard on US spying efforts
The money comes from lobbyists for previous incumbents in those industries, like legacy taxi, hotel, restaurant... businesses. Those legacy businesses also tend to have stronger Union bases
No you shouldn't be writing in Ada. Embedded software running all kinds of sensitive workloads, from pacemakers to routers/switches use C for it's superior tooling, universal support across compilers and chip vendors, massive user base and decades long best practices (like NASA's C coding guidelines) to mitigate some of C's potential inadvertent misuses.
Not to mention the bevy of advanced niche features, like SIMD support, and custom GCC extensions that lend superpowers to C coders that other languages typically lack.
Sure, ada may have it's benefits for certain narrow use cases, but for non-hobby projects spanning tens/hundreds of engineers, considering real world vendor support for ada and missing talent pool, C is the obvious choice
The lesson here is for Uber drivers to realize it can't be a career, and quit, just like you did. I don't believe they're being compelled or misled into driving for Uber/Lyft.
Additionally, mass exodus of drivers from Uber/Lyft will compel those companies to increase rates
Every one of those features appeared in Chinese & Korean Android phones 2-3 years ago. Neither are these "feats", nor are they unique to Apple. They're already behind the curve on these features.
The only commendable thing is scale, when Apple adds these features they reach 10X in unit sales per SKU compared to the competition.
Where is the analysis on the percentage of traffic served via IPFS to back up any claims of the benefits of IPFS.
It appears to me that Cloudflare accepts IPFS as (another) source for it's CDN operations & any benefits of flat CPU utilization are likely from the CDN and not IPFS.
In fact, 3 VMs in 3 regions is complete overkill. If the traffic numbers are to be believed, one could simply post their Hugo site to GitHub Pages or Netlify with zero extra steps or dollars spent. No IPFS needed
I've been cynical & critical about iOS Safari's standards compliance. I hope their own use of web components and other modern web standards leads to better compliance for iOS Safari.
Not going to happen. Apple has a very realpolitik approach to it's totalitarianism. China is not an adversary Apple can take on, by it's own internal judgement. Hence, iCloud China runs on Chinese government controlled cloud with possibly full access to data. Hence, WeChat and co. will never be meted out the same draconian polices that companies without state patronage get.
1. Sandboxing doesn't need apple's app store, it's manual policy enforcement and arbitrary anti competitive rejections. Many, many sandboxes have existed with well documented permissioning systems that don't need anointing by manual reviewers.
2. Speaking of flea markets and the false equivalency of the app store to a Walmart, Walmart doesn't require banning flea markets but the app store (Apple) bans sideloading. Walmart and flea markets coexist peacefully.
3. Just because you enjoy being chaparoned on iOS, doesn't mean everyone does. Go ahead and enjoy willy-nilly installs from the app store, but don't block user's choice to circumvent Steve Jobs' image of the universe
The truth is that Apple doesn't play a role in the sale of digital goods, or meaningfully increase security outside automated sandboxing. The real premise of the app store is totalitarianism and greed
What exactly is Apple's role in the sale of digital goods? You made a comparison to selling via Walmart, which is a false equivalency.
The app store can easily work like podcasts aggregating RSS feeds from developers, it's just that Apple has forcefully inserted itself into the transaction
So generous of Apple to allow the sale of physical goods, despite having no involvement in the sale or production process. We all need to take a moment to count the blessings our benevolent smartphone overlords have bestowed on us.
Better user experience. Certain things are better, faster, etc. as a native app.
Apple's policies are rooted in totalitarianism and greed. As both developers and consumers we shouldn't be enabling them.
You really should be asking the reverse, what motivated Apple to block software from running freely on their phones. After all, their marketing campaign for a whole decade was how secure their non-locked-up Mac was compared to a PC, so we know security isn't the driving force here
Why? Why does Apple insist on playing middleman, if not for totalitarian control over all commerce on the platform? How is this not monopolistic anti-trust behavior?