mammut

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, you most be talking about dumb / feature phones, I guess? I remember a lot of people who had smartphones early on getting / sending emails on their Symbian devices or Windows Mobile devices. In around 2003 (years prior to the iPhone launch), Windows Mobile actually had something like a quarter of the smartphone market. So, in terms of smartphones, it was sizable. But, a lot of people didn’t have smartphones at the time, so that whole market was niche in a way. Most of the market at that time was Symbian and then there was also PalmOS.

  I still kinda wish smartphones now had the option to work more like those old ones. They were much less locked down. It’s fine for the vendor to offer a store, but the early phones would just let me install apps any way I wanted. Hell, you could buy some PalmOS apps at physical retailers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Were all phones this way? I was thinking on Windows CE phones you could just get paid via Paypal or similar and then send an installer file / unlock key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I still remember that I completely lost access to my Steam account in the early days. I forgot the password, and the password reset feature didn’t work. I contacted support and they never responded. I eventually just gave up and lost the games in the account. I guess if I had waited long enough they probably would’ve fixed it, but, holy fuck, Steam was really shit in the early days.

  To Valve’s credit, my understanding is that the support situation has improved marginally over the 20 years since my incident.