Posts by Richtea

> Just give me the Apple Store where I know things will work.

And when it doesn't work?

You're quite a trusting person.

Re: Swap him for

'the guy' has a name. Harry Dunn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn

Name an alternative mobile OS that is trusted by banks.

Re: Is this even legal?

You still need an Apple dev account, a Mac to run Xcode, and some Apple devices to test on (you can wing it with emulators, but I'd recommend against that if you're serious).

Android Studio running on a Mac builds and install an .ipa using XCode and scripts.

So it's 'legal'.

This won't save your Apple-related outlay, but it saves you time. For newer devs, it might also save you having to learn Swift.

Re: It's in its infancy, but it will improve

> My smartphone has data and location services turned off most of the time, and the cell phone tower data is not available to the police without a warrant.

Not true in the UK, in 'special' cases. You ring on Android, they know your location - and you didn't opt in:

https://crisisresponse.google/emergencylocationservice/how-it-works/

Re: Bendy phones

Double the viewable area is extremely useful. A magnitude more useful than wireless charging and wireless buds, just to pick a couple of easy targets.

It's merely time before they're standard on 'average' phones - several years, admittedly.

Re: 100% 999 coverage?

> the back-end of beyond

Ha. 23 minutes to civilisation (Waitrose).

Re: Oh what a lot of whinging eurobootlickers we have here

> At last Britain has another chance of being Great Britain again.

This IS sarcasm, right?

From the excellent link earlier to the Sir Ivan Rogers Cambridge speech

Page 20 extract:

As Xavier Bettel, the Luxembourg PM, summarised Brexit in a sentence better than anyone: “They were in with a load of opt-outs.Now they are out and want a load of opt-ins”. Spot on.

And also well worth reading are the '3 brief confident predictions' - mid-page 20 onwards.

Re: I learned something

Back in the distant past (2001 - 2008) before OS-based mobile app stores it was normal for the developer to only get 25% of the published price.

The split was roughly 45--55% to the mobile network, with the remainder split 50-50 with the 'aggregator' - a 3rd party quality gate / company used by mobile networks who didn't want to get involved in app stores, they just wanted the income.

I'd say losing a mere 30% is reasonable, but for the fact that its barely possible to charge for an app nowadays. Its just pixels and bytes right, so why do I need to pay for it?

Re: loads of email about GDPR asking me to sign up

> Bin every GDPR email unless it's something you did sign up to and still want.

Keep every GDPR email, and make sure they stick to what they said they would do.

Re: Ummm...

> I also seem to recall the higher frequencies are better at penetrating buildings.

Other way round. Low is generally best for building penetration and long rural distances, hence why Three obtained some much-needed low spectrum a few years back. But higher frequencies can support higher throughput, which is what you want on crowded high streets. You need a mixture to build a national network.

As ever, those spectrum allocation figures indicate that the Three-O2 merger would have been 'fair' - based on percentages.