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Submission + - Microsoft Is Bringing Edge To Linux Developers (venturebeat.com)

Krystalo writes: Edge is finally coming to Linux. At Ignite 2020 today, Microsoft announced that Edge for Linux will be available in the Dev preview channel starting in October. Linux users will be able to download the preview from the Microsoft Edge Insider website or from their native Linux package manager. Microsoft will start with the Ubuntu and Debian distributions, with support for Fedora and openSUSE coming afterwards.

âoeLinux stands out in that, while it has a relatively small desktop population in terms of what you might call typical consumer or end user, developers are often overrepresented in that population, and especially in areas like test automation, or CI/CD workloads for their web apps,â Pflug told VentureBeat. âoeEdge on Linux is a natural part of our strategy to reduce fragmentation and test overhead for web developers. By providing the same rendering behavior and tools across platforms, developers can build and test sites and web apps in their preferred environment and be confident in the experience their customers will have.â

Comment Re:Internet only (Score 1) 93

The scary thing is the flip side, When these Telco's turn cable companies turn ISP's suddenly find their money business is gone, and everyone only wants internet to watch Netflix/Hulu/CBS/Disney+/HBO/AmazonPrime/etc... they'll just drop the Data caps on your home internet, and start offering 'internet capless bundles' where a select 'package' of streaming services don't count towards your cap.

For a low fee of $50 a month on top, you too can get HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and NBA center court all included in your $120/month internet bill. Want Disney+, you can add that 'all access' for an additional $5/month, and act now and you can bundle Disney+, Hulu, and CBS for just $10/month...

ISP's know they have everyone by the proverbial ballsack, and they're not going to let go until they've squeezed every last drop from your wallet. Bundle's won't go away, they'll just change what they look like.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 167

Not necessarily, from the sounds of it this was the equivalent of a hospital having a fire/flood in the patient records room. File folders of patient data, allergies, medical history, etc... would have been lost in that case as well, and doctors would be guessing as to whether or not 'medical sedative X' is going to knock out the patient in prep for surgery, or kill the patient.

Comment Re:Walmart, E-bay, Amazon (Score 1) 272

You're misunderstanding the lawsuit.
The lawsuit isn't about the 30% that Apple charges for purchase of applications in the app store. Epic isn't suing Apple because Apple charges them 30% for the sale of Fortnite.

The lawsuit is about the in app transactions. Epic sells cosmetics in fortnite, using Epic's payment processor, in Epic's application, with downloads coming from Epic's servers to Epic's clients, in Epic's application. Apple is demanding a cut of that. Epic is suing them cause that's a bit silly.

A brick and mortar comparison would be this:
You walk into Bestbuy/Staples/Target/Walmart/etc... take your pick, you buy a Dell Laptop and take that laptop home. You pay Dell X dollars, and X-30% goes to dell, 30% goes to the Brick and Mortar store of your choice (B&M). All's good so far, this makes sense, Dell pays B&M to have their laptops on display, B&M puts them on display, and you buy them, everyone gets what they want.

Now, you go home with that laptop, and decide that you want a keyboard, mouse and monitor to go with it as well. So you open up your Dell laptop, connect to your wifi, and go to dell.com. You find a nice Dell Keyboard, a sweet Dell mouse, and a fantastic 4k Dell Monitor to go with your shiny new Dell laptop. You check out on Dell's website, you use your credit card on Dell's Payment processor, and you finalize your Dell purchase with an email from Dell's email servers. Dell then packages the nice fancy new computer equipment into a Dell Box, in a Dell warehouse, and contact a Dell delivery employee who drives a Dell truck out to your house to drop off your new Dell hardware at your house.

At no point in this transaction now has B&M been involved. And in the real world, that's the end of it.

But in Apple's world, B&M now contacts Dell, and mentions that that Dell laptop that this equipment is for was purchased through them, so Dell owe's B&M 30% of the purchase of the Dell Mouse, Dell Keyboard, and Dell monitor that were all purchased from Dell directly, because the original sale was theirs.

This is why Epic is suing Apple.

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