Well, they used to sell one, right? Windows Phone used to be a thing. As I recall though, it was equally locked down with an app store as the sole distribution method.

Yes but I don’t believe consoles are a target of the DMA or this investigation. While would be nice if consoles were opened up and forced to allow side loading and alternative stores, I think there’s an argument that they’re single purpose appliances - a PlayStation is sold to you with the intention of it being a gaming box and not much else.

A smartphone or tablet though is at this point a general purpose computer, and it’s reasonable to expect to have the same freedoms and open environment that you would on a PC. And Apple’s argument that they can’t open up the iPhone because security or whatever doesn’t really hold water, because the Mac exists and is both secure and open.

That is a US versus UK difference! In UK English it is simply a synonym for a program or policy, whereas in US English it implies something negative, often underhanded!

For instance:

🇺🇸 The scammers were running a scheme to trick people.

🇺🇸 Some consider cryptocurrency to be a scheme where one sells, leaving others holding the bag.

🇬🇧 Paying into the national pension scheme ensures you’ll receive a payment upon retirement.

🇬🇧 The company has introduced a new scheme allowing employees to work from home.

That is a US versus UK difference! In UK English it is simply a synonym for a program or policy, whereas in US English it implies something negative, often underhanded!

For instance:

🇺🇸 The scammers were running a scheme to trick people.

🇺🇸 Some consider cryptocurrency to be a scheme where one sells, leaving others holding the bag.

🇬🇧 Paying into the national pension scheme ensures you’ll receive a payment upon retirement.

🇬🇧 The company has introduced a new scheme allowing employees to work from home.

Not that this justifies the response of the US, but the phrasing is ambiguous. Wonder if they mean this in the sense of, they had booked accommodations for some but not the entire of their trip, or if they mean, they had booked none at all so their entire trip was open.

While technically cool, what is the use case?

Still doing everything they can to lose. Nice.

Laughs in European

Bold of you to assume that has any correlation. He’ll still throw his own sycophants under the bus.

Whichever one you say, I say the other one.

Sorry if a dumb question but what is a “tradwife”? (Not a native speaker)

Well, that’s what I mean by “not really”, as opposed to “not at all”. It’s a single as placement - searching in the App Store. One result. No user data. That’s it.

They used to have a real advertising business but shut it down some years ago, it was called iAd.

Although the overwhelming majority of American wine comes from the three deep blue west coast states, so probably not these farmers in particular.

Apple doesn’t really have an advertising business. You can criticize them for many things, but it’s hard to fault them for a market they don’t operate in.

I would be interested to hear trans’ users opinions on whether they view themselves and/or prefer to be treated as literally the same as the other biological gender, or something different.

E.g., male-to-female trans folks, do you hold that there is only one kind of woman and you are no different from those born as women?

Or do you think that transgender people have a fundamentally different experience, and thus trans women are a little different category of women?

I don’t mean any offense by the question, I’d really just like to know how people see themselves.

Makes sense considering both NPR and PBS are reputable news sources that report fairly and do good journalism. IE, they tell the truth and can’t be paid off. Exactly what Trump hates.

yeah I think this distinction is important. we don’t need to kill the working professionals who saved money and invested wisely throughout their careers. many of those people will eventually be millionaires, but like, ones of millions.

once you get to hundreds of millions it starts to look like there was no possible moral way to arrive at that.

But the FrEe MaRkEt!! Or something. Yeah, I don’t miss the /r/conservative idiots either.

So basically the bluesky source code is now public domain?

Makes sense.