You use the same computer every day? Now that’s unhygienic.

I thought we solved this for good in the 80s?

I guess that particular question didn’t age so well.

We run Linux on them because they’re cheap and disposable.

Only if you want a visit from the thought police.

It was the bees knees a few years back. It feels like they’ve lost momentum.

Today, I’d imagine safetynet puts a lot of road bumps in running apps with DRM like Spotify and Netflix. Also banking apps and apps for bus tickets and such.

Apple had this undocumented function for screenshotting back on iOS 3.1, and kind of let you use it while waiting for better frameworks in iOS 4.0

At some point they started rejecting your app automatically if they found the symbol for that function in your app. I didn’t want to leave my 3.1 users in the dust for no reason, so I did the same trick to obfuscate the symbol name before dynamically linking it in.

It worked right up until they stopped supporting iOS 3.1 completely.

I’ve tried some of scopely’s games. They’re following this playbook to the letter.

You’ll be getting freebies when your friends spend cash. You’ll get time limited offers. You’ll be paying to “try again”, against other players.

Who wins when a wall street broker and an oil sheikh use their wallets to fight over a Pokémon gym? Scopely wins.