More on this. The reason I’m so opposed to government intervention with the internet, be it sec 230 reforms or TikTok bans or FOSTA/SESTA is because there is a direct line between laws that say “oh we’re just trying to protect the kids or keep the communists away” and “we’re just going to make any site that doesn’t adhere to US IP laws inaccessible” - and then once you do that, it’s another direct line to prohibiting “harmful” speech or content. It’s all bad! https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/112242822574942600
I’m very sympathetic to criticism that many of Apple’s policies around the App Store and some of its products are anti-user and anti-developer. Some of them absolutely are. I’m not convinced that that’s something that should be illegal. Otherwise, please explain the existence of Nintendo.
This sucks but is sadly not at all surprising. If you pay for a Filmic subscription, I would cancel now and start migrating to the Blackmagic Design camera app. It is free b/c it is a loss leader, and is actively developed. But I hate this for the Filmic team who I truly believe erred in underpricing their app for close to a decade before selling/moving to a very unpopular subscription model. https://petapixel.com/2023/12/01/filmics-entire-staff-laid-off-by-parent-company-bending-spoons/
This is for TOMORROW/SATURDAY: OK Portland friends, Apple shipped the laptop to the store a week ahead of schedule and will only hold said laptop for one week. Thus my train to/from Portland has me arriving at 10:47am and leaving at 3:56pm. If anyone wants to meet up near the Pioneer Square Apple Store for lunch/drinks/donut, LMK.
Something comforting about watching The Wizard of Oz, a film I literally know every line of, every musical note in the score, every song lyric, every movement in every scene, on Thanksgiving. As a kid, when it only aired once a year, I had to rely on a VCR recording of one of the CBS airings the rest of the year. Anyway, perfect movie is perfect.
I fully expect Apple to implement the minimum on the RCS spec. There will still be different colored bubbles. I do not expect them to adopt the encryption stuff Google did (using Signal’s libraries fwiw) or to go out of their way to make RCS anything other than SMS that you aren’t charged for internationally. The Blue Bubble stuff is not going to go away. This is going to be bare minimum stuff.
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