Michal

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[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago

The ecosystem is open. The app isn't.

If the ecosystem is truly open, anyone can make an app for it and charge for it if they want.

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Haha, haven't heart about that. Sounds ridiculous!

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 124 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Cycling is environmentally friendly, but let's not equate world championship to cycling as transport. The event itself must have a lot carbon footprint. Still, weird choice of event to protest, but I can see them doing what they can to get the publicity they need.

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Interrupting motorsports may give then more sympathy.

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except when they're used in court as evidence, then they're called "xzibits"

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you know what code it contained? For all you know it could be a simple build flag that disables the ads the same way iap would

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That doesn't sound like a benefit at all...

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

Force stop is not a state. It's an action, unless it's some feature I don't know about.

Apps don't have to actively listen to events. They can subscribe to broadcast and the OS will trigger the app whenever that occurs.

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hate it when they do it.

I was on a development end of this and managers always pushed for the ios and android apps to be identical. It always ended up being the ios being the main and android being the afterthought copy.

Whenever i see an android app trying to look like ios, it signals that the quality is lacking.

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 years ago
[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're free to use any app you want. Some people prefer free open-source apps, some people want to pay for a quality app. It's good to have a choice unlike with Reddit. I don't understand people complaining about having additional choice because they don't like it.

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