The problem is that we place a responsibility on competition in the market to favor consumers by reducing prices and preventing companies from having excessive margins. Allowing a single marketplace means there's no competition, and we're not sure if 15% is a fair rate at all.
I could make the assertion that I'd be able to provide everything that Apple does, but with a much lower cut, but this can't be put to the test because there's no way for me to start another app store that iPhone users can access. I suspect a lot of the arguments for the 15% cut will change once we have alternate app stores offering the same things Apple does, but with a much lower cut. You'll then see app developers with skin in the game, and we'll know if everyone actually really thinks Apple does this better or if they'd rather have the extra money from other app stores.
That was a bad way to make the point, because you could serve five orders of magnitude higher with PHP, or node or go or python or pretty much any language right now.
On top of that, You don't need massive k8s infra for any other framework either, so it isn't really a selling point for PHP itself.
How I do this:
* Create a unidirectional push only sync between the phone and a remote
* Remote has a cron that syncs to backblaze regularly, and deletes from the server (this does not affect the phone)
* Delete from the phone whenever I want
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 42 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 23%
Data Units Read: 439,149,863 [224 TB]
Data Units Written: 407,143,345 [208 TB]
Host Read Commands: 2,930,228,690
Host Write Commands: 1,777,317,283
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 103
Power On Hours: 1,691
Unsafe Shutdowns: 49
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
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> Nothing in GP's comment suggests that women should spend their twenties finding a husband, nor that they shouldn't do the things you just mentioned.
That is in fact exactly what the comment seems to suggest, in these lines.
> as opposed to when you were in your 20s (when the woman should be finding a potential husband
room500's response was exactly what I had in mind too, when I was reading the parent comment.
It very much feels like the GP had something specific in mind for "high-quality" that insinuates that caring for someone else's children is not a high quality thing to do.
I believe that quality is not what they are showing when they focus the comment on what women "should be doing", or if they're still seeing it as "someone else's kids".
The author is Raymond Chen, and the blog is probably the single most influential blog on windows internals. He has decades of amazing posts that are well worth a read.
* Apple does not allow other App Stores on their platform
* Apple does not allow other payment processing or even instructions on where you can purchase things outside of their platform. This reduces even big players like Netflix to just throw up a message that says "You can only use this if you're a memeber", rather than give users a helpful link where they can purchase a membership outside the app.
Neither of these are things that Android does, so the case against Apple is significantly stronger.
In my experience, ALB scaling is opaque, and constantly lags behind herds of traffic. This is very noticeable if you're running services that experience sudden spikes, there's a noticeable lag of ALB scaling.
That said though, it does do it's job for the most part.
Interestingly enough, people really good at understanding the complexity in systems are also people that seem to fall prey to, as you said, cultivating a false impression of understanding. Taleb is one that I think deserves criticism in that regard.
I could make the assertion that I'd be able to provide everything that Apple does, but with a much lower cut, but this can't be put to the test because there's no way for me to start another app store that iPhone users can access. I suspect a lot of the arguments for the 15% cut will change once we have alternate app stores offering the same things Apple does, but with a much lower cut. You'll then see app developers with skin in the game, and we'll know if everyone actually really thinks Apple does this better or if they'd rather have the extra money from other app stores.