There is a difference between invention and innovation. Apple is often late to the party (mp3 players, smartphones, tablets, smart watches, wireless earphones, ...) but when they arrive they often shake things up with category-defining products.
There is a good argument to be made that Apple introduced the modern smartphone (Android switched to multitouch and a virtual keyboard in response to the iPhone[1]) and app store ecosystem.
It is an extraordinary achievement, especially considering the skepticism expressed by dominant incumbents such as Nokia, Blackberry, Palm, etc. in 2007. iPhone would, at best, have less impact than Windows Mobile.
As GP notes, retro web workflow isn't terrible for simple sites. Editing static html seems like something that anyone can learn, and html editors still seem to exist (including the editing mode built into most browsers.) Then you just need to find a hosting provider (maybe github, or neocities, or wherever.)
For more complicated web sites something like squarespace makes a lot of sense if they can manage technical complexity (web frameworks), business issues (payment systems), and the constant security patch treadmill.
It's a shame that self-hosting isn't viable for non-experts, due to management complexity and constant security issues.
I do understand the appeal of just using discord though.
> Editing static html seems like something that anyone can learn, and html editors still seem to exist (including the editing mode built into most browsers.) Then you just need to find a hosting provider (maybe github, or neocities, or wherever.)
Anyone could learn it, sure, but very few people will unless it's out of interest or it's part of their job. A restaurateur should not and will not learn HTML to put up their menu. The closest they will come is to export a word doc into HTML and put it on their site via a windows mapped FTP/WebDAV.
Look, I like self-hosting as much as (almost) anyone. I run my own DNS, email, git, etc. I hate telling people to use something like squarespace/wordpress/wix/whatever for a simple site.
It's just that if someone needs a site and wants a reasonable chance of not needing to think much about for 3-ish years and be able to update the opening times for christmas 2026 without relying on the goodwill of others I don't know what the option is besides paying a lot more to a web agency (Or falling back to just having a facebook page which is worse).
Sure (which is why I included it as an example of an alternative to learning HTML), with a few caveats. The problems with it are that the HTML output is usually very bad, it'll probably not be well parsed by google or others (for SEO, integration with maps and opening hours) and it will almost definitely not be usable on mobile.
The second two of those are pretty important for local restaurants.
A proper local WYSIWYG, well made, with integrations to accounts on traditional shared hosting would be a viable option for many WP/squarespace/similar sites. I just don't know of any that actually are well made.
My start in this industry was copying CSS zen garden, modifying in dreamweaver and uploading to a shared FTP host, which is not that different.
Multics (written in PL/I) didn't suffer from buffer overflows. Ada was (and is) memory safe. Pascal had (and still has) range checks and bounded strings.
But we do have -fbounds-safety in clang (at least on macOS).
> All thanks to Epic for spearheading this effort. We do not want 30% cut takers in the age of digital distribution.
I can see why Epic would not want to pay a 30% platform fee to Apple's game store, much like the 30% which they pay to Google Play, Nintendo eShop, Microsoft Store for Xbox, Sony PSN Store, etc.
BIOS is underrated. Basically the driver portion of a DOS- (or CP/M)-like operating system. As demonstrated, you don't need to add too much to it (program loader, simple file system, maybe a command shell and system utilities if you are ambitious) to get a functional mini-DOS.
Do DeepSeek speak different English than Llama, by influence from Chinese language?
I can't immediately quantify such phenomenon, but it feels so to me that they tend to be more noun rich with preference for longer and academic terms, than making heavy use of conjugations and series of idiomatic expressions with a tempo.
The vibe of the internal thinking monologue is different from the English models, I think. The same applies to QwQ, but it's also different from R1, and in its own unique voice.
There is a good argument to be made that Apple introduced the modern smartphone (Android switched to multitouch and a virtual keyboard in response to the iPhone[1]) and app store ecosystem.
It is an extraordinary achievement, especially considering the skepticism expressed by dominant incumbents such as Nokia, Blackberry, Palm, etc. in 2007. iPhone would, at best, have less impact than Windows Mobile.
[1] https://simpleprogrammer.com/history-internet-part-15-androi...
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