conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No, you are.

Your presentation implied he owed someone something because he made an app that had a free version once.

It absolutely is not, and does not resemble, "fair" to complain that a guy followed the bare minimum rules for an app to be allowed to exist.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

All of it. He was never an advocate for software being free or against the right of companies to monetize their API in any context. He was against a specific company using "monetizing" their API as an excuse to make it impossible for third party apps to exist.

His position has not changed in any way and there is nothing that is in any way consistent between any of his statements or behavior.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You may wish to pick a distro that makes a point of nvidia compatibility.

I use nobara, who have a few options in the welcome script specifically to improve compatibility with nvidia. I've specifically heard popOS mentioned several times as one people have liked with nvidia as well.

Some only ship with or distribute alternative open source nvidia drivers that tank performance.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Absolutely not. Your statement does not have anything in common with the truth.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Awesome. I'm super jealous of you.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I haven't looked, but I wonder if you'll be able to connect a Bluetooth mouse to it. All the cursor support they added to the iPad is really nice, and being able to pop up a Remote Desktop app in a window while doing whatever other shit would be really cool, too.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)
  1. He did plenty of monetization on the app, and made good money with it with volume that doesn't exist on Vision Pro. He never said anything implying apps don't deserve to be paid for.

  2. In literally every discussion he ever had about the API pricing change, he said that he entirely supported their need to monetize the API. His issues were not any sort of issue with the premise of the API changes. It was the specific nature of the API changes very obviously being for the sole purpose of making using the API to make an app impossible, when the app ecosystem was the entire reason Reddit was successful to begin with.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I really want to build out apps for it. I'm also really into actually having sufficient resolution to have virtual displays that can actually have a meaningful amount of text on them without being a trainwreck.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Except your characterization of it is a lie.

He never said anything that could possibly be interpreted as being against paying for access to content, or as a subscription to an ongoing service being in any way inappropriate.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Well I got an in person demo reservation for next week.

Can't buy it any time soon, but I very much want to.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (13 children)

That's not anywhere close to anything he said.

He was perfectly happy to pay reasonable pricing for API access or to pass through ads if Reddit included them as part of the API.

His issue was that Reddit's pricing was obscenely more than they generate per user, functionally made it impossible for developers to pass the costs on to the users even if they wanted to, dropped it on him with minimal warning after very recent statements that they had every intention of leaving API access alone, and then repeatedly fucking publicly lied about him when he had the audacity to tell his paying customers what was going on in the very near future.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

It's going to take time for meaningful AR apps to exist, because this is the first device even capable of testing it in a functional manner on.

But ARKit is already out there and extremely capable on iPhone. The Vision Pro will be able to do way more than the phone due to the field of view and freeing your hands.

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