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Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring (www.youtube.com)
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I don't agree with the conclusion that they should just have bought more AI chips

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[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they're not as bad as some of the others.

Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they've also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I'm sure there's also something they do right.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's also something they do right.

VS code continues to be an amazing product. Of course it's Microsoft so it has a confusing name, there is VS code and VS Code Studio which is a different, and terrible product.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.

Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah I know. Like I said it's a stupid name, one only Microsoft would ever come up with.

Calling it visual studio is redundant now because visual studio code doesn't actually have anything to do with visual studio anymore, it's just an IDE for a load of different languages, none of which necessarily have anything to do with Microsoft or Visual Studio. Yet it still called VS Code.

At this point the VS effectively doesn't really stand for anything.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android.

Symbian and Maemo were better.

Also Nokia was the only non-US company of these.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Isn't there supposed to be a phone OS from Mozilla as well. No idea what's happening with that.