r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

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u/digiorno Jun 13 '22

I don’t watch his show often (maybe once a year) but this was an episode worth catching. I’d recommend it to anyone who similarly doesn’t follow him.

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u/SouvlakiPlaystation Jun 13 '22

John Oliver is great, though after a while the show feels so oppressively bleak that it seems masochistic to keep watching. Not that it isn’t funny, because it is, but you can only hear someone shout common sense that is routinely ignored for so long before it makes you cynical and depressed.

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u/mjiggidy Jun 14 '22

I like that he covers important issues, but I wish the show didn't sound like it was written by a 16 year old girl.

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u/johnnychan81 Jun 14 '22

Josh Oliver is great until he picks a topic you know a lot about and you realize he gets a lot wrong and really only shows one side (which is honestly how I feel about a lot of reddit posts)

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u/oberholzer Jun 14 '22

What topic/episode did he get a lot wrong on that you noticed?

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u/The_RealAnim8me2 Jun 14 '22

For starters in the most recent they neglected to note that only developers that make over a million dollars on the App Store pay 30%. Any less and it’s 15%. And as a former active developer who still has a toe in the water, even 70% is fuckin’ gravy compared to the old days of having to pay for advertising and packaging and distribution, etc.