Can't wait to have to log in to a different game store, one for each publisher, to buy games!

Honestly direct sales does seem to be where this might be headed.

Between safe, secure payment technologies such as (heh) Apple Pay and and safe, secure login systems such as (heh) Login with Apple, then really its super easy to not worry too much about the signup friction.

The problem with direct payments is users trust. Crypto is a already available form of payment and there are many tools to take payments directly but it never took of besides for drugs and ransom payments.

There are plenty of services such as Apple Pay (or equivalent tokenized services on other phones), 3D Secure, and/or PayPal that don't expose your PAN.

Europe is already essentially running on 3D Secure with 2FA. Becomes noticeable when buying from stores not having the EU as a significant market, usually American, which does not implement it. After the transaction is declined I'm forced to open my bank app and click the scary sounding "open my card for all internet purchases for 60 minutes" button.

That's not a problem, the problem is converting a user into a paying customer and the payment method is one serious friction point that Apple smoothed out so nicely. I am not concerned that I wouldn't receive the payment, I am concern that less people will bother going through the payment process.

I can't wait for the open source store that has less than 5% fees.

I heard that it exist on Linux. It must be very lucrative.

This is the price we paid for killing brick and mortar stores.

How about freedom of thought? Am I still allowed to have that?

Hopefully you don't get fired for this comment 30 years from now.

>its hard for me to understand the motive but alas here we are.

Some personality types probably just like having the feeling that they hold power over other people.

So they brought you into the interview just to have an argument with you over your blog post? Did you get the job? xD

With a neural network trained debugger, of course.

Deepfake?

This article is an experiment to see how easily hacker news people can be manipulated. "When I was in the military..." Yep, confirmed.

I prefer light mode, therefore let's remove the option to choose dark mode from everywhere because only my opinion matters. Here's some scientific studies that back up my opinion.

E-book? Electronic books??? Have you gone mad, sir? Our robotic carrier pigeon service is far superior.