blunderkid

If ever there was a valid application of monopoly abuse laws, it is Apple's extortion for no value provided. Saying that as a blue blooded iFan who owns one of nearly every Apple product and service out there including the Apple Cloth. It is disgusting what Apple is doing. And it makes no sense that it is getting away with it. And if Google is doing the same, well then both need to be set right.

Fresh looks inspired by Remix. Is that right? Not that there is anything wrong with that. But given that Remix does claim to be production ready, what makes Fresh better? I have been playing with Remix in a side project. I do like their simplicity vis-a-vis Nextjs. And the fact that it is all server rendered by design and not as a special case.

First off, being a "monopoly" (dominant market share) does not make one a "despot blinded by hubris" as the OP suggests. Anti-trust laws target "abuse" of monopoly.

Secondly, YC may very well be a "new age monopoly" much like Google or Amazon or Facebook i.e. the customers of those companies (in YC's case - founders) gravitate to them not because there is no choice but the value that they offer is so far above and beyond any competition that exists today. The point to note is - traditional definitions of monopoly abuse don't apply, unlike for example: Apple extorting 30% from app devs, which is a blindingly obvious case of abuse.

YC just put out a superior product for their customers who'd otherwise have to pitch to 20 other angels. If you consider YC like the Amazon marketplace, this new deal can be considered a new private label (like AmazonBasics). It is quite likely that this hurts the economics of some angels. But YC is still makings it primary customers happy.

And talking about superior products, by virtue of its early stage and program design, YC does in fact add substantial value when your company is most vulnerable and needs the most help. A16Z/Sequoia/etc founders, are happy with the money and the short lived legitimacy the branded money confers.

But most YC founders seem to owe their existence to YC i.e. they love YC like an alma mater, which is exactly how YC positions itself. No angel/fund can compete with that emotional connect with checkbooks. Soon YCG will be giving later stage VCs a run for their money.

Disclaimer: I am a yc alum. YC is far from a guarantee of success as my dying company can testify. And they are quick to remind that the Harvard analogy doesn't go very far because the median YC company is still a dead one.

Well, cost of doing business. So it’s not perfect, nothing is. But is it still a better store of value than your bank and pension which you may not realize, but are getting robbed by the Robinhoods you voted to power to replace the manchild?

I am an gadget fan. I wouldn’t be caught dead with an Android or a Windows thingy in my hand. Also a small dev. Here is the thing. Apple offers no revenue promise when I publish my app on iOS. If I don’t figure out how to market my app, it will just sit there and rot. But as soon as someone buys my app, I have to pay 15% to Apple. What for? It did NOT help me get my customer. If my app gets featured then may be I ll pay for the purchase bump. But what if I don’t want to be featured if it’s not worth the cut. I am paying plain and simple because Apple has the key to my customers phone. Where I come from, that shit is called extortion.

What Apple is going is just obnoxious and as clear a case of anti-trust as has ever been. 30% of revenue for no services offered, just because they can, is the definition of extortion. The only thing stopping them from asking 30% off of your Amazon orders placed via Safari is because the consumer has a choice of another browser for free. Otherwise these high priests of design and aesthetics would make the shirt on your back cost 30% more. Your app can't even tell the consumer that they can pay outside and avoid paying the Apple tax infinitely AFTER paying for their really expensive device. This is keeping the consumer in the dark to exploit them. This isn't capitalism. This is monopoly abuse.

fuck yeah brother.

Haha, take your point about the tendency to "classify". There is good reason for that however: he is a VC. One of the big things that keeps VCs busy is classifying/stereotyping teams and looking for patterns of success. Yes, he should probably keep some of these "frameworks" to himself. There isn't enough since in there to be taken seriously in a peer reviewed paper. But hey, he is PG! And there are weaklings, probably not members of his favored quadrant, who swear by his views :).

Desperate move to keep up the charade of not being a CCP shop. On a slightly separate note, given all the virtue signaling of companies like Apple in the context of BLM, its worth reiterating that any US tech company helping the imperial CCP spy and silence its citizens is unambiguously although quite duplicitously with the dark side. Any doubts the world had that the CCP is peace loving humans just like us, now stand well and truly shattered. They are communists and they are rich. They are more dangerous than the Soviets ever got to be.

You'd imagine the Chinese communists would be smarter having been in business for 50 years now. But when pushed into a corner on taking the responsibility for the deadly virus, all they can think of is grabbing land and starting wars with their unfortunate neighbors. But better sooner than later. Now you know that when the dragon becomes a super power, it will be nasty, petty, manipulative, bloody, totalitarian & downright ugly. American capitalism propped up CCP. But CCP covets land and power more than money. And they'd rather go to war with their neighbors than accept that they were responsible for the breakout and the spread. The only fault of TikTok, just like that of Huawei and every other Chinese company is that their ultimate masters is the CCP. And yes that's enough reason to ban them.

This was amazing on Google's part. We are a small company with a teeny-weeny seed round, struggling to take off and Google's credits literally extended our runway and saved the team a lot of anxiety in the next 12 months. Just wanted to share with HN, not least because this is what I had criticized Google for in the past right here.

In 30 years if not sooner, humanity will look back and be horrified with this time when we let a whole vulnerable generation fall prey to social media and hyper connectivity while parents bought stocks of the very same recreational drug manufacturers and peddlers who hooked our children to their product.