> 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.
> iMessage is still only available on Apple hardware.
Yes, but I think the pressure is external. RCS brings many iMessage capabilities cross platform. As adoption increases I think the power and influence of iMessage will wane.
RCS is an open standard that Apple now uses as well.
I think there's a legitimate concern about having essentially two phone platforms, and how anything can really be "open" in that environment. But it's definitely a step forward.
And Google has built proprietary things on top of the standard, which is indeed concerning.
"Open" is an overstatement when it comes to RCS. You can't go out and write a new RCS client for Android, and you can't provide RCS on a new platform (or even unGoogled Android). It's open to the extent that both Google and Apple can use it; other major hardware vendors and carriers could, but don't (Samsung used to, and dropped it earlier this year).
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.
> In Germany if you’re mid to high earner, a private insurance can cost you less than half than the public healthcare system and you get much better service. Starting with appointments with specialists, who always give preference to privately insured people.
The solution here is to get rid of private insurance in Germany and only have public. It creates a two class system and private is a terrible choice once you are older, as costs will skyrocket.
Costs when you get older skyrocket, but not your monthly contribution.
You subsidize your own elderly costs by paying slightly more during your younger years. That slightly more is part of the insurance companies Float, which gets invested and is used 30-40 years later to cover your extra costs in old age.
In a public system there’s no float. Everyone pays to cover the costs of the healthcare for that budget year. Which has the consequence that whenever there are population age shifts, the system becomes not sustainable, which is our current situation in Germany.
If everyone (except unemployed) had private health insurance, population age would be non-problem.
So your complaint is that the young subsidize the old in a public system, and your solution is a private system that somehow doesn't raise rates on high risk (older people) and to use the young...to pay for the old?
You also ignore that you can't switch and magically have 30-40 years of float for old people currently receive healthcare, so you have to keep the same system in place until they are gone because insurance companies would instantly go bankrupt under your plan (since they have yet to build a float but have payouts instantly), so now young people subsidize old and have to pay for their non-subsidized future so they will basically have to pay double. Or do you plan just leave old people out of the public system? Pretty nice demographic to just ignore in your plan.
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.
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