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Any? As in one of them? Maybe. I think it’s incredibly unlikely though, and I think you’re making a huge and questionable leap. Boycotting a business isn’t normally a precursor to fascist dictatorship.

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Anecdotal evidence is not proof, and as I’ve seen two people in this thread saying the performance of their iPhone 13s improved after iOS 26, I don’t see how you could concretely attribute any of your issues to Liquid Glass specifically (especially since you say it has been resolved with 26.5 despite Liquid Glass still being present in the os).

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I don't think that the parent comment is making the case it's not a crime, but rather that it's not specifically counterfeiting. There comment reads as playfully snarky to me, since, when discussing counterfeit currency, we almost always take counterfeit to mean "to make a fraudulent replica of".

It's still fraud, and an attempt to deceive.

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Right, but the question was “how does this app make money?” And the app being ios/mac only isnt at all relevant to that question.

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That article is hardly conclusive. It states the biggest reason for the unpopular response was a belief that the incidence of traffic accidents involving young children walking to school increased. It also states that wasn’t factually supported.

It also cites one opinion poll. And we have to keep in mind this happened FIFTY years ago.

I’m not even a permanent DST advocate. It’s just weird to me the link you shared does nothing to substantiate your position.

Update: my suspicions were correct — there was a public panic caused by parents groups that had no basis in fact:

> Considerable opposition to observing DST during the winter had come from school groups, such as the National School Boards Association, which expressed concern over darkness during the morning school commute.[47][48]

> When members of Congress introduced legislation to repeal the practice, they stated it jeopardized children's safety, citing the deaths of eight schoolchildren in Florida since DST had been enacted a few weeks prior

Ironically:

> A meta-analysis by Rutgers researchers found that permanent DST would eliminate 171 pedestrian fatalities (a 13% reduction) per year

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This is soooo cool! Thanks for sharing.

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Being unapproachable on flights is a decidedly good thing IMO. Also, so many people already use noise cancelling headphones and/or sleep masks, how is this any different?

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  > > Apple Support Youtube Channel? I have to use a competitor's product to learn about the iPhone?
  > This is ridiculous.

  What exactly is ridiculous about expecting a company to provide support on a company's own facilities instead of using third parties?

This is absolutely ridiculous. You don't have to use a competitors product to learn about the iPhone. You can use the Tips app, the iPhone user manual, Apple support documentation, AppleCare over the phone and over chat, or you can even go to an Apple Store for a training session for free.

Alternatively, you can choose to view Apple's tutorial videos on YouTube, which is, without a shadow of a doubt the largest and most commonly used video sharing web service. You argue it should be on the "company's own facilities," and I'm not sure what exactly that means in this case, since Apple does not have a widely-used cross-device video sharing platform.

  Tips.app? You mean that piece of trash that tells me a bunch of useless noise?).

It's so strange to see someone call an app that helps onboard new iOS users a "piece of trash" in a discussion around discoverability in iOS. To make matters worse, it seems like you've never opened Tips.app, because if you had, you'd know that it is actually a great resource for new users (the homepage for Tips.app shows me tutorials like "Navigate your phone" and "What's new in iOS 16", which are not actually 'useless noise'. If you had even bothered to scroll to down one and a half screens on the initial view of Tips.app, you'd see a clear and obvious link to the 'iPhone User Guide'.

Your criticism's aren't compelling because they don't come across as the complaints of a real user making a sincere effort, your comments read like invective written by someone who has significant disdain for Apple as a company.

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> Was this their primary motivation?

> Was the intention here to cause someone harm? What the intention here malice?

Yes. Removing / archiving the project – not malice. This, however is absolutely malicious:

  let am = require('../lib/custom/american');
  am();
  for (let i = 666; i < Infinity; i++;) {
    if (i % 333) {
      // console.log('testing'.zalgo.rainbow)
    }
    console.log('testing testing testing testing testing testing testing'.zalgo)
  }

> Are they right to feel this way? Maybe, maybe not. However, is this malice?

Reasoning about Marak's motivation or intentions does have anything to do with whether his actions were ultimately malicious.

> Its an act of someone who is disillusioned, strained, and struggling.

You might be right, but there were a lot of things he could have done before doing what he did, and when he did act, he did it with the intention of causing people distress, frustration and confusion.

> ...its a lot more murky than this is an malicious act by a malicious maintainer acting in malice.

We're really far down a semantic rabbit hole at this point. Ultimately, adding an infinite loop to a widely used package deliberately and without warning is clearly an attempt to 'cause ... distress to another.' There's no two ways about it. Sure, Marak likely felt under-appreciated, mistreated and taking advantage of by large corporations etc but those possible explanations do not absolve him of blame, or mean his actions were not unequivocally malicious. In the legal system, mitigating factors can lead to a lesser charge or a shorter sentence, but even if they do reduce the severity of the outcome, you're still guilty.

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It's interesting that you strongly defend Marak here, and were also the one who shared his blog post ~seven months ago about how retool had stolen his code and his idea (which decidedly wasn't the case).

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> The attention to detail is also overstated when Apple cannot get basic things right. I have an iPhone for testing stuff and recently a numbered badge appeared on one of those built-in music related apps. It wasn't obvious what the number referred to, and to find out, I had to dig deep on the web on some user forums. The reason turned out to be that Apple pushed some kind of updates (e.g. new sound effects or something like that), which are hidden somewhere 10 menus deep. To dismiss the number badges, you had to go and open each of the effects from about a hundred of them, because there is no indicator which ones are new. There is apparently no other way to dismiss the number badge.

I'm actually really curious what this was. I'm not saying I don't believe you, but I'm incredibly familiar with apple devices and I can't think of anything that matches what you've described.

I also wanted to share a tip with you — you can turn off app badges in Settings -> Notifications -> Some App.

With iOS 15, you can also create a 'focus mode' where app badges are disabled, and just have it scheduled to be on all the time. If this sounds appealing, let me know and I'll walk you through it.

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Wait, what? Your edge case is something that no one would ever (should ever?) do? Are you going to complain about it not rendering scripts fonts correctly either?

Also, it's worth noting that this isn't a compelling argument in the first place because the windows terminal doesn't even come close to rendering readable Arabic, it fucks up emoji rendering, etc – all cases that Casey was able to basically solve after two weekends of working on this.