It’s almost certainly also tuned to prevent excessive or “spiky” traffic to their service.

The server that acts as the control plane needs to have full access to the outside internet. You can’t do NAT hole-punching through STUN if you are yourself behind a NAT.

(There is Headscale though)

I feel like “web wrapper” apps aren’t super popular nowadays. Most apps are either fully native or use something like React Native, that renders with native widgets.

Actually it was originally "champing" – to grind or gnash teeth. The "chomping" (to bite) alternative cropped up more recently as people misheard and misunderstood, but it's generally accepted as an alternative now.

It’s actually accepted as the primary now and telling people about “champing” is just seen as archaic.

Do you have a source on this, or a definition for what it means to be "primary" here? All I can find is sources confirming that "champing" is the original and more technically correct, but that "chomping" is an accepted variant.

Doesn’t affect the validity of your comment whatsoever, but there was the attempt by the Browser Company to implement Arc on Windows in SwiftUI lol

You wouldn’t be able to use a Faraday case. The physics principle behind it requires it to surround the whole device which is being shielded.

A faraday cage is different than your hand attenuating your phone signal

Attenuating RF is exactly what a Faraday cage does.

Though as you suggest, relying that would be a bad idea.

For some reason manually turning off RF transmission seems to have been ruled out, so we are looking for an unusual solution to the problem.

While this would obviously be harmful to the consumer, I don't see this as plausible.

Amazon was able to achieve this by positioning themselves as the primary distributor of the goods in question. Apple is in no position to leverage a monopoly over fiat transer or housing supply.

With regard to municipal transportation, perhaps they are edging closer with Apple Pay, NFC, Wallet, etc.. but I can't imagine municipalities supporting, or constituents accepting, a tax on their existing taxes.

Of course, maybe Apple.gov is the long game. Hard to say whether that would be better or worse that the status quo..

They currently do charge 0.15% on Apple Pay actually.

Apps are allowed to link to web services to offer payment as an alternative to IAPs and offer a discount for doing so, thanks to Apple v Epic.

While you're correct, it's worth noting that this only happened because the judge in the Epic lawsuit ordered an injunction forcing Apple to allow it.

Apple then "maliciously complied", allowing it while demanding a 27% fee on any web-based payments, which was found to be a violation of the injunction.

https://technologylaw.fkks.com/post/102ka4o/apple-violated-u...

Can they, or will they be delisted if they do that?

From the Patreon FAQ:

> Can I opt out of the App Store Fee?

> For U.S. fans, there’s still a way to avoid Apple’s fee. When signing up in the iOS app, they can choose web checkout instead of Apple’s in-app purchase system. Apple’s rules require that any paid content shown in the iOS app is also available to purchase through Apple’s in-app system.

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/28801582599181...

The result being worse generally doesn't stop humans from being displaced. Clothes made today are notably worse than the handmade ones.

Is clothes today really worse?

We have clothes and materials like gortex now that blocks rain and snow no handmade jacket could ever hope to perform at the same level to be lightweight AND dry.

> We have clothes and materials like gortex now that blocks rain and snow no handmade jacket could ever hope to perform at the same level to be lightweight AND dry.

At the cost of massive environmental, animal and human health.