It is seriously easier to hack and launch the nuclear codes than it is to upload a Safari extension to the app store.
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The Xcode signing and upload process makes it clear that the iTunes UX team has been reassigned to doing crypto.
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Error footprint is now six times larger than the "app" itself. (For the innocent, Apple demands that you package browser extensions, which are tiny little helper widgets, as full-blown apps through its App Store)pic.twitter.com/rVebASalLG
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Ah, of course. My tiny browser button has been rejected by Apple for not having a tablecloth-sized app icon.pic.twitter.com/oso2NQizsd
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If I look at this through my 1998 eyes, we ended up in a weird place. I can build useful plugins using entirely open-source tools that are truly cross-platform, but the only way to distribute them is with the approval of monopoly players more powerful than Microsoft ever got
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The fact that everyone carries a universal tracker (and buys expensive ones for their home), the giant ugly grilles on cars, nonexistent space program, and the fact that you can't control your own computers are the things that would really shock 1998 me looking into this future
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Back in the 90's we correctly identified this argument as horseshit
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