There is an interesting possibility that I haven't really seen written about with all of this consolidation and projections that companies will grow larger and larger as technology moves economies toward a winner-take-all model; And that is that when there is little competition in many sectors, there will be little incentive to spend on advertising.
I don't know what their ad spend is, but If AWS was the only player left, they sure wouldn't need to spend anything on advertising.
Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website. If your app is not particularly useful, unique, or “app-like,” it doesn’t belong on the App Store.
Would push notification support not be exactly the kind of feature that would qualify for this rule? In practice there are hundreds of apps like this on the app store.
Right! I ran in to this when I wanted our app to “portal” to the website and just move Bluetooth data along. Apple thought about this and doesn’t like it.
Is there a reason that the web is not a target of react native?
It seems somewhat insane to have a cross platform approach and leave out the biggest platform of all, the web.
Or - looking at it the other way round - what approaches are there to take a working pwa website and turn it into an app? What advantages over such an approach can react native bring to the table?
The Ionic team recently released React support so you can build a PWA using React and target iOS, Android, web, and electron. Uses Capacitor under the hood for full native access. It’s been getting a lot of usage since the release: https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/
Also you can use Capacitor with any PWA-style web application without using any of the rest of the Ionic Framework. https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/
It's currently the best maintained successor to PhoneGap/Cordova.
Depending on the complexity of your app - expo is the best place to start with react-native. Their managed workflows allow you to write in 100% javascript w/ a lot of the native libraries already linked an exposed in JS. If you need something they haven't bundled already then you can eject and have a good starting point.
Expo web is still fairly new but they seem to have prioritized it as highly as support for Android and iOS.
You can disable to storage of this data on the linked page.
But I'd recommend going to the source: Read the privacy policy of each party delivering data and check if they mention it. I already sent a mail to the DPO of an app provider which shows up in this list and doesn't mentions Facebook in their privacy policy.
I'm not anyone's lawyer. These are questions, not answers: GDPR is about collecting data from you, right? If Site X is sending data about you to Facebook, perhaps that's an issue with Site X's GDPR compliance, not Facebook's?
So, if Greece has a higher relative cost of living, if the distribution of wealth is relatively more unequal and if they have a relatively worse social welfare system then, yes, they'll face hardship.
A key news story for me from a few years back was how an elderly man lit himself on fire (or hung himself? committed suicide in public anyhow) in a central square in Athens as a direct result of the hardship brought about by austerity measures. And this, in an as you say demonstratively wealthy country. Sickening.
It's the price of housing, not one's income, that determines whether people are sleeping on the streets. (Assuming that they actually are in Greece.) Plus, GDP/no_of_people is an average. Some make more, some make a lot less. Especially those 25% unemployed.
> Wikipedia gives $16,138 vs $18,863 and $29,209 vs $26,773 PPP estimated for 2015, so Slovakia is actually a bit better off.
...on average, and Slovakia also has (as far as the most recent numbers I can find) a lower Gini coefficient, so should have smaller numbers far above and far below that average.
Which is exactly the point Zizek was making. You (in the guise of a so-called technocrat) say that your position is not ideological -- "contracts must be adhered to" according to you -- "while the EU technocrats talk as if it is all a matter of detailed regulatory measures" according to the article. Notice a similarity?
You wish poverty on millions? You wish social unrest? You wish the perpetuation of an unjust financial state of affairs then.
I've said this until I'm blue in the face, the €zone as it exists cannot function without fiscal transfers. That requires _political_ redress. Until that happens sovereign states within the €zone are not playing on a level playing field. Each state gave up a lever of power (sovereign currency) to join the club and a similar virtual lever must be established in return (fiscal transfers). Within the USA there are fiscal transfers. Between regions in sovereign states (Germany, UK, Spain, etc.) there are. The €zone has got to have them.
But nooo - "Pacta sunt servanda". That simple is it? Give me a break.
> You wish poverty on millions? You wish social unrest? You wish the perpetuation of an unjust financial state of affairs then.
I don't wish poverty on millions (or even on one). I don't wish social unrest. But I also don't wish to force the rest of Europe to keep throwing money into a sinkhole. That would also be to "wish the perpetuation of an unjust financial state of affairs".
Greece needs more than just an infusion of money. It needs more than just debt forgiveness. It needs a transformation of its society, government, and politics. Only Greece can do those things - the EU can't do it for them. Currently, to this outsider, it looks like Greece refuses to even try to do so. But they complain about the cruel Europeans who will let Greek children starve in the streets. Well, it seems to me that Europe is much more willing to help those who at least try to help themselves.
Sorry if this seems heartless. As I said, I am an outsider - not just to Greece, but to Europe. This is my perception from afar. But even with the best will in the world, it appears to me that no outsider can really do much to help Greece until Greece is willing to see that it must change.
How much does Greece have to pay per year? I think it's something like $5bn? AFAIK they have a GDP of $300bn and $100bn of that are converted into taxes. Why would paying $5bn result in poverty of millions then? Isn't their spending on military alone in the billions?
If more austerity measures are imposed the rate of unemployment will go up even more. This translates to increased poverty. Those repayments have to come from somewhere else within the Greek economy. That somewhere else will have a knock-on hardship.
If that is the case then Greece should default and leave the €zone. But that is not a great outcome. As the next weakest economy will come under fire. Also, others will be reluctant to join the €zone.
Restructuring and short- to mid-term solutions kick the can down the road. Ultimately a fair system of fiscal transfers needs to be put in place. Loans are _not_ fiscal transfers. Like it or not the €zone is in this together now.
There is no natural law that says this. People, organizations, and governments can very much accumulate debt that they cannot repay, it happens all the time. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but you can enslave a person or throw them into debtors prison if a punitive approach is what you're after.
No matter what you do the debt will not be repaid because it cannot be repaid. We would like to think that in our modernity we have come up with civilized and merciful ways to deal with this situation, like bankruptcy for example. Unfortunately in the case of Greece the creditors seem less then enlightened.
Greece has tax incomes of what, $100bn a year? Why do you say they cannot repay their debts? I don't know the numbers, but I guess it is less then $10bn per year they have to pay.
The question is if one should "fix" this at all. If you change the behavior from "foreign keys do not activate triggers" to "foreign keys activate triggers", everyone who uses triggers will have to audit their applications for potential problems. And for large applications, that can be a lot of work.
MariaDB documents "foreign keys do not activate triggers" as the standard behavior:
Personally, I am grateful for software that changes as seldom as possible. I don't want to spend time on "updating" my application because something down in the stack changed.
Giving an app full internet access is still too much for me. I wonder why Android does not implement a permission to access a specific domain. A Facebook app that has access to facebook.com would be fine with me.
Is this a commercial product?