The fact that the vast majority of quality mobile apps in existence are iOS only, because development and distribution on Android are complete and utter dogshit.

Why would they provide physical controllers on the early version when the mass market won’t have physical controllers?

Apple’s dev tools are fine. It’s not dumb luck that’s the reason iPhone’s software ecosystem takes a giant shit all over android’s.

They were a $3500 dev-kit to enable some base level of preparation when the costs come down. They were never going to be mainstream.

Information is information. Everything can be described in binary terms.

Binary digit is how actual brain scientists understand bit, because that’s what it means.

But “brains aren’t binary” is also flawed. At any given point, a neuron is either firing or not firing. That’s based on a buildup of potentials based on the input of other neurons, but it ultimately either fires or it doesn’t, and that “fire/don’t fire” dichotomy is critical to a bunch of processes. Information may be encoded other ways, eg fire rate, but if you dive down to the core levels, the threshold of whether a neuron hits the action potential is what defines the activity of the brain.

Binary digit, or the minimum additional information needed to distinguish between two different equally likely states/messages/etc.

It’s same usage as information theory, because information theory applies to, and is directly used by, virtually every relevant field of science that touches information in any way.

Actual neuroscientists do not create false definitions for well defined terms. And they absolutely do not need to define basic, unambiguous terminology to be able to use it.

Because actual neuroscientists understand and use information theory.

There is no other definition of bit that is valid in a scientific context. Bit literally means “binary digit”.

Information theory, using bits, is applied to the workings of the brain all the time.

There’s no particular reason for every app to search the web, though. There’s plenty of reason for a wide variety of apps to need maps.

Maps are a broad value tool. Searching the web isn’t. A web search engine is just a search engine. It’s not a meaningful value add to any arbitrary developer who wants to build apps for iPhone.

Maps is core to privacy and utility for their whole software ecosystem. They offer maps free to devs on iOS so they’re not forced to leak a boatload of data to Google or pay big API fees. It’s a built in that thousands of apps use.

Thousands of apps aren’t using search.

I’m not talking about the amount.

I’m saying they’re much less predictable, so nonsense like having obvious signs saying “don’t be stupid” can affect their ruling regardless of how necessary it should be.

Lawsuits often go in front of juries.

Civil juries do whatever the hell they want.

Every step a company takes to make sure that a reasonable customer will avoid hurting themselves makes it more likely a jury will blame an unreasonable one who hurts themselves being unreasonable.

Wishlist vs purchase is already a signal that maybe you’d benefit from a sale. Seems like it’s enough. “Suggested prices” from gamers would be way too noisy to mean anything.

The title is pushing the narrative that “real companies” doing hostile bullshit isn’t “real malware”.

When companies ship malware, it should be called malware.

If it’s unwanted, disruptive, and (allegedly) impacts performance, that’s not “malware-like”. It’s malware.

YouTube is the one pushing them to clickbait. Their metrics are designed such that if you don’t bait clicks a huge percentage of the time you’re shown, you won’t even show up in the feeds of your actual subscribers.

lol yeah that’s all nothing.

Except the bottle openers, “you can’t bring that on a plane” is perfectly fine. But you don’t need to play make believe that it’s some big bust either. Just let her throw it away or leave and get someone to take it for her or whatever and move on.

It’s a bunch of firecrackers, a couple little knives, and a couple bottle openers.

I don’t care visually, necessarily, though that sucks too.

I’m talking about the behavior. The fallen’s tools were built to play together to make encounters play one way, the hive a different way, the vex different, the cabal different. Each set was well balanced inside itself to work, but they also worked well allying with other races.

Their evolution over time has been into gimmicks and spam that don’t make encounters compelling at all.

It’s not the same thing.

It’s downgraded.