Ah but you forget; think of how dumb (at times) the average person is, half of them are dumber than that… Also you don’t need the knife to get the pit out, just squish the sides a little bit and the pit just falls out, no more knife danger.
I agree that is should just be a part of infrastructure like roads, but I’m not sure about the punishment. As long as people are prosecuted by local laws of residence, e.g. the laws might differ in my home country from the place you live. I don’t want to be judged by the puritan laws of the USA, which seem to be sliding backwards into what the christian religion says is okay. But we should take control away from the mega corporations before it is too late to do anything about it.
Don’t forget to do the dance
They still do, HMD Global, a Finish company that started with ex Nokia employees and made the Nokia smartphones for Microsoft, also lives across from the Nokia headquarters in Finland and still makes dumb phones to this day:
Or just fix it with this easy but entirely unreadable command in the terminal. Oh it did not do what I expected, welp you’re on your own now. I want a complete UI so I can move my non technical family members over to it, but the Linux bro’s think it’s fine to have a half functioning UI and just do the rest in the terminal. And yes I know the terminal fix is faster and usually simpler to run, but I can’t explain that to my non technical family members, nor do I want to cosplay as a sysadmin for them.
I though that Steam required content parity e.g. you cannot create a cheaper bundle for your own storefront and not sell that exact bundle on Steam. But they have no issue with you generating keys on their platform and either sell those off for cheaper yourself (Humble bundle) or give them away.
It’s not the gamers, it’s a commission and there is a lot of misinformation on their website (it can be viewed in English). https://gameclaim.consumercompetitionclaims.com/
Also tweakers.net a Dutch tech enthusiast website had a good post about it, most of the commenters do not agree with this as well https://tweakers.net/nieuws/249010/steam-laat-klanten-te-veel-betalen-voor-games-volgens-nederlandse-massaclaim.html (Dutch only so you’ll have to use a translator if you want to read it)
People keep forgetting that in the olden days, the left over cut for the publisher was about 40% of the game value, the rest went to warehouse, shipping, and the retailer all got something. The rough estimate left over cut for the developer was 10~15%.
Now a days as a developer you can sell directly to the customer through Steam, and you don’t need a publisher or a network if you only sell on Steam. So that 10~15% cut went to 70% (till x amount of revenue and then it gets lower).
Next to Steam not being a monopoly and Valve providing all the other companies the blueprint for a success in the PC market, none of the competitors follows it, or compare to the customer service of Steam. And it seems that none of those other billion dollar competitors (Microsoft, Amazon and Epic) wants to invest in a solid platform to stand up to Steam.
It’s big pee, big pee is everywhere man!
So trees have 5G now?
All the extra’s it brings;
Epic has:
Epic has had plenty of time to copy the success of Steam by just using their blueprint, but they won’t switch to being customer friendly, so instead Tim Sweeny (Epic CEO) is just hating on them (Valve). The other launchers are just terrible to begin with, the EA launcher has been buggy from the start and really unstable, Uplay is equally as bad. The only real competitor is GOG in my opinion, but they are small in comparison to Steam.
Publicly shame, actively blacklist them from ever working in any of their companies, and making sure everybody in the IT space knows this, would ruin this person’s ability to do any more damage and might be the upper limit? Well that or doing a Boeing… Take your pick.
Faraday cage, it’s going to be a hassle to wiremesh your entire apartment, and you can forget using a mobile phone inside of it, but there are no outside signals getting in that way.
It also didn’t help that they did a complete rebuild of Windows Phone OS 3 times, making old apps incompatible and forcing the very little support of app developers to get alienated from the platform. Why would you completely rebuild your app 3 times for a super low market share product.
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Not really, Valve has a dominant market position because they have done no moves to against their consumers (although they did mess of a few times in the past) and have always tried to resolve issues. The other companies keep shooting themselves by continuously implementing anti consumer rules, horrific handling of their customers, or just have the worst implementation of their version of a launcher. Their support behind Proton has been a enormous and the main reason why pretty much every game I own works on Linux.
Getting back to the case though, the whole reason Steam has that big of a market share is because they seem to care about their customers, create tools that can be used for non steam games (like the controller adapter layer, or Proton).
So it’s not like the other billion dollar companies can’t, they just won’t create something that comes even close to what Steam is offering in software, hardware and their support behind the products.
That is not really the same, Signal is a donation and Proton is a subscription where a monthly (or yearly) request has to go to the payment provider for your fee, for this you need to keep the payment information on file and linked to the account. Signal can say I got donated by someone but they do not need to keep this information linked to a specific user, just the payment record (that still has your cc/bank details on it) for tax purposes.
Yes they do, for tax purposes. With cash they can only say that an account was payed for by cash, which is not (easily) traceable to you as a person.
Sony is also not actively getting patents that are so broad the it stifles competition like Nintendo does, and did specifically to try and win the Palworld lawsuit.