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What was the first letter of the city in which that happened?

This is why devs are afraid of publicly criticizing Apple, let alone testifying against them in the court. Apple has shown that they will then prevent you from accessing 50%+ of the US market. In short Apple is a bully, has been for more than a decade now, and it has worked out well for them.

To store dollars with a precision of 1 billionth of a cent, you store into your integers 1 billionth of cents instead of dollars.

To store dollars with a precision of 1/10 cent, you store into your integers 1/10 cents instead of dollars.

Wouldn't that be Microsoft? It's worth 2.9T, vs Apple's 2.84T.

To store dollars with a precision of 1 cent, you store into your integers cents instead of dollars. No need to mess with anything more complicated.

You start spending all your time programming in middle school. By the time you enter college you know everything needed to write simple emulators, and then you meet other students that motivate you to up your game and complexify your projects, like working on a Nintendo Switch emulator.

It doesn't require being a genius or a fast learner, it just requires the good fortune of having programming be your passion.

If you want to catch up to these guys when you only start to learn programming in college, it's doable but it requires you to be a fast learner and also be somewhat passionated in programming.