This was posted 1 year ago on this exact day!

https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

Why should I believe this report over the one from 2019?

Doesn't matter. If 1 major store says no, that kills it.

There is no point in using a cross-platform toolkit if you can only target 1 platform. Might as well go fully native.

Qt requires a stupidly expensive all-in-one commercial license ($5k/year) to build a proprietary app for the mobile app stores.

The free LGPLv3 used by desktop apps is not compatible with mobile apps because the stores apply its own legalese that prevents you from adhering to all the LGPLv3 clauses.

You caused them damage because by repairing the old device, you did not have to buy a replacement product. In short, you saving yourself money causes financial damage.

If you think that argument is utter nonsense, I invite you to take a look at this 1942 Supreme Court case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

TLDR: A farmer grew his own wheat on his own farm to feed to his animals. U.S. sued him for dodging wheat growing limits. Farmer argued that the wheat was not bought nor sold and is thus not interstate commerce. The Court said by growing his own food, he was doing economic damage because he was no longer required to buy and thus is effecting interstate commerce. Farmer lost.

The included license says "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"

https://media.xiph.org/video/d...

How can competitors use this if noncommercial clause attached?

I am sick of hearing about how desktop apps are dead. How am I supposed to develop embedded applications through a web browser? I suppose a cloud compiler could do it --- assuming it supports my extreme customizations, and even then, I can't imagine how slow it'd be.

What about network tools? My open source project is a network test utility: http://packetsender.com/. How can network test utilities exist other than a native desktop app? Am I supposed to create a browser add-on? Now we are just arguing semantics. Depending how deep the add-on is developed, might as well call that native.

The app world is more than just a means to consume video, music, etc. Some people need to do real work.

I've been waiting for uBlock to be fully published before installing. I've been waiting a long time. It seems forever stuck in "preliminarily reviewed".

Is there any particular reason Mozilla has not fully released it?

Planet Money did a good podcast episode on why buying a car is so horrible:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

The latest version of IE does not send "MSIE" in the user agent. Microsoft did this intentionally to encourage feature detection instead of browser detection. Most detection code relies on "MSIE" being present.

If you must, it is still easy to catch IE though. "Trident" is still present.

Does E-ink support touch?

If not, that's the only reason I can think of e-ink not being used. I assume essentially all android apps require touch support.

Fire TV has a mechanism to simulate touch with its remote. Something like that could be used, but it was pretty awkward the few times I used it.

Dyn has been abandoning the free service for a while. Companies are responding to this.

The IP cams and routers I've bought in the past couple years (Foscam and ASUS) have rolled their own dynamic DNS service and built it in to their product. They use to just use Dyn until their customers started complaining saying Dyn is no longer free.

I have not needed Dyn's service in a while.

Documents with "shared" access on network drives do not open properly. The render correctly, but LibreOffice will remove the shared status causing the next person to open it to lock the file and have it no longer shared.

That's the only situation I've found, but it is a pretty big deal at my office. I use LibreOffice everywhere except there.

Yes, those are extensions, but it is *extremely* common. Maybe it is not "standard", but it may as well be part of it. I have yet to find a DVI that a dumb DVI/HDMI adapter cannot do a proper conversion and work with all TVs.

It is very common for A/V companies to use the audio extension for DVI instead of HDMI. They do this because they do not want to pay the license fees for the "proper" HDMI port. Just toss in the 50 cent adapter in to the box and your done.

We've been sending audio over DVI for at least 5 years. It is not a hack. It is part of the DVI-D / DVI-I standard.

It is the go-to choice for small business manufacturers not wanting to pay expensive HDMI license fees.

I graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering with High Honors back in 2003. I found an EE job without much difficulty. In 2006, I quit Electrical Engineering and went to Software Engineering.

I'm very pleased. I earn more, enjoy it more, and I have no problems finding work. Last time I looked, I had 2 good offers in a little over a month.