beeflaw
Joined 8 years ago
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Feb 17
Recent submissions
Comment · 8 years ago
Funny story, so did mine. It was a nightmare. That was almost a decade ago. If you want an experience as bad on modern Android, you need 512MB ram.
Comment · 8 years ago
End users aren't supposed to install KaiOS, vendors are supposed to ship handsets (like the new Nokia 1) with it preinstalled.
Comment · 8 years ago
Apple didn't start out with a curated store, they started out with "open" HTML5 apps that couldn't do shit.
Today, Apple barely can do quality control on the iOS store, Google essentially doesn't bother, why should a small shop deal with the issue right off the bat?
Comment · 8 years ago
If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't. It's for people who buy a phone for its low price, who don't care what the OS is.
Comment · 8 years ago
Remember all those feature phones with a plethora of custom operating systems? Almost none of the users cared (or knew) what the OS was. This is an OS for that kind of device. Nokia is shipping it right now.
Comment · 8 years ago
How do you define success? This is not a competitor to iOS/Android, it's for cheap low-end devices, which is still a sizable market. Try running Android on 256MB of RAM...
Comment · 8 years ago
It's a good way to not get developers on board. Yes, you can easily develop for iOS/Android and as a result the respective stores are drowned in crap. Merely publishing on there will give you zero visibility. On curated platforms, there's the benefit of being a big fish in a small pond.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
"Once this is done, they can entrench themselves and raise prices"
If that strategy really worked in the long run, you would see countless examples of it. So called "price dumping" can actually be illegal, but it rarely needs to be enforced.
Comment · 8 years ago
Amazon logistics without retail is pointless, retail without AWS (etc) would be highly unprofitable.
Comment · 8 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the shareholders eventually got their way and have Amazon split its profitable businesses (like cloud infrastructure) from the unprofitable ones.
Comment · 8 years ago
Amazon has been consistently losing money on retail since its inception. If they raised prices, they would lose their dominant position. The main reason you don't see more competition is that retail (online or offline) simply isn't very profitable to begin with.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm still looking for an "open" alternative that is strong on free speech without being home turf for white identitarians (gab.ai).
Looking an Mastadon's policies makes me give up hope: https://mastodon.social/about/more