This is why you are not an investor. (Cue McMahon meme), A marketing campaign to get eye balls across all the major tech outlets and take up headspace in everyone's trending feed? Oh yes. A potential, closed source alternative to github you can slowly wrangle your users to move to? Hell yeah. An always online centralized design requiring users to stay connected with the server for every operation? Let's go!
Allowing dynamic prices only hurts people with less means who will find themselves wasting a lot of time hunting for the lowest possible price. And businesses may claim to charge based on wealth, but what they will do is charge based on desperation. There are also repercussions on wage, like what's the point of a raise, if I'm going to be paying more for expenses and make the same savings at the end of the day? Fixed prices simply eliminate a lot of inefficiency and headache from the system and prevent everyday shopping from being a cortisol ridden experience for the average person.
Besides, what you're proposing does not result in draining of wealth. It simply moves wealth within the capitalist class and keeps it there. If Bill Gates is paying 150k for a banana at Whole Foods, he's just paying himself because he likely owns a big chunk of equity in Amazon. To fix wealth inequality you have to transfer wealth to the working class. It has to be a tax so that the money moves to the public and is spent for the benefit of the public.
Countries like India and Brazil have shown that you can successfully run payments infrastructure nationally. Turns out it's not all that difficult or expensive or at all. India's NPCI processes 500m transactions daily with an annual budget of about 50m dollars. They make a profit over that while keeping the system free for a majority of users.
What's the significance of warm speedup in the benchmarks? For most new installs, cache would mostly be empty, shouldn't the cold numbers be more significant for day to day use?
> If some vibe-coded clone can compete, can manage updates, win market share, produce value superseding the original does that version not deserve it's share?
I don't mean to judge whether the outcome is better for society over all, but just wondering on the kind of impact it can have on the production side for now. Whether people are going to hesitate going open source and guard their IP in more ways than previously.
The builds are reproducible. Developers can also choose to fetch binaries directly from their repositories, and fdroid will verify that those binaries match the sources. So this is actually safer than downloading directly from developer's repo.
Do you rely on Google Play reviews? Those are known to be highly manipulated and you can find any number of services offering to "boost" your reviews. I personally find online posts where people discuss about some app to have more meaningful feedback on it.
I rarely look for positive reviews, these are often the ones that are manipulated. Negative reviews are usually more interesting, they can be fake too, but, marketing campaigns are usually more focused on promoting your own product than undermining your competitors.
You still need judgment, many negative reviews come from people who don't understand the app and where the problem comes from outside the app control. Common with apps that interface with hardware, for example, if you have a remote control app that makes use of a IR blaster, some people will complain that it doesn't work, but that's just because they don't have a IR blaster. But some are clear red flags like "wants me to create an account for not good reason", "intrusive ads", regular mentions of crashes or "since the last version..." comments which suggest enshittification.
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