This once again shows how the EU is toothless. making laws just for a show while allowing big tech to circumvent them while waving a big fat finger to the EU's face.
I can't think of any right-minded person who thinks their UI is snappy and modern. And then the terrible app exploration features. No reviews. Half the apps don't even have pictures. No videos. Lackluster app descriptions.
Tell me you haven't used GPlay store and Apple AppStore in a long time without telling me.
Bruh there are no reviews cause of privacy concerns . Photos and description is the app's devs job to provide not fdroids . I like their UI it is solid and good . Idk what you mean by apo exploration but I find it really good even tho the search feature is not the best .
yes I have recently went to play store and it was too eye candied and tries to shove shit down your throat if that is what you like good for you I don't like that.
Thinks that are wrong and bad UI design in my opinion:
the green and blue don't work at all together. Generally the coloring is quiet extravagant everywhere, especially with the message "this app has been built for an older version [...]"
the spacings and margins aren't coherent everywhere. Like in the app description where the margin to the bottom is okey but to the sides it's much smaller and almost non-existent.
the grid cells don't really stand out enough. White on White with such little shadown and spacing inbetween doesn't work.
the animations are janky and unpolished.
no support for Material UI 3
buttons have too little padding inside around the icon. Buttons are generally a little too small
Yes, on Android. From my own investigations, it appears to have a really bad malware problem despite it's claims of scanning for malware, especially for the free distributions of paid apps from the Google Play Store, which constitutes piracy and copyright infringement raising ethical issues.
iPhone have content blockers but those are paid applications. Mullvad (the paid VPN) has a custom DNS to filter that kind of shit (ads, trackers, gambling, social media, etc.) and it's so effective that I can't read Facebook or Twitter anymore. Or you have custom DNS like https://quad9.net/ but I'm not sure if they do block ads.
I think that the demographics of gamers have been skewing older and older, and it's finally reached the point where a critical mass are past the age where they place significant value on the "newness" of a game.
You can still find 13-year-olds decrying PS3 and 360 games as being "unplayable" due to their perceived technological shortcomings, but every year they represent a smaller and smaller slice of the total market. The surveys I've seen lump 18-35 into one group, but I'd be interested to see the results of splitting that into two groups at around 26-27.
For everyone downvoting the headline. It's an article on Amazon selling pirated games and hardware and somehow not getting in trouble with game companies. The author suggests that Amazon is such a huge corporation that they can blatantly rip off the IPs of other corporations and not get in trouble for it.
The article talks more about being able to legally play old games without downloading roms or anything, but that's a different topic from video game preservation. Video game preservation itself is doing just fine though. The vast majority of games are archived online and emulators provide super easy ways to play games that are impossible to find now.
Sure, companies should allow people to play older titles in easier ways, but to say "efforts to preserve gaming's rich history are failing" is just wrong.
Lately Microsoft has been friendly with Linux. They even released a guide in their website on how to install Linux alongside Windows. If anyone is guilty of actively trying to fight against Linux is Epic. For now, at least.
Until Microsoft opensources Windows, I won't trust them. Maybe not even then. The most dangerous thing they could do is become a linux distro, actually. Make a bunch of proprietary linux kernel modules required to run "Winux"-only applications and any distro unwilling to have proprietary kernel blobs will be killed.
Microsoft is known for Embrace Extend Extinguish. Their greatest feat would be killing linux.
They are pushing Linux hugely and one of its largest contributors.
Before the cloud you were spot on but they've realised windows can't compete in that area and actually costs them more when relating to their cloud services.
.Net is now open source and cross platform for exactly this reason.
WSL was created for exactly this reason as well and is awesome.
They won't create their own distro because, let's be honest, Linux isn't a competitor to windows as a desktop OS.
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