The pricing doesn’t render properly on mobile. The responsive design puts what is presumably a table into a vertical stack, which means I have no idea which price corresponds to which feature.
This 100%. Hell, give me a way to write code to filter notifications and I'll do it myself.
I get so frustrated by apps that I need notifications on for but I don't want marketing BS, unfortunately there is no middle ground.
On top of filtering Apple should force app developers to segment their push notifications and allow users to block different types. This would be completely in line with Apple's _stated_ priorities and a great thing to advertise (I can imagine the commercials for it already).
I think you can do this on Android (or at least you used to be able to with Tasker when rooted, since it has [used to have] the ability to read notifications and dismiss notifications)
Some of the Uber competitors use Live Activities for when the delivery driver is on the way/outside, so you can bin their other notifications into a Notification Summary.
I really appreciate Notification Summaries and the distinction of Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications as "can break out of summaries". Unfortunately each app has to opt in to using these other two things for their non-promotional stuff, and also can lie and mark their promotional stuff as "Time Sensitive" (I'm looking at you LinkedIn, which for me is now banned from all notifications forever, you misused them too much and I don't need you).
Yeah I turned off all uber app notifications. It's pretty annoying as now I don't know when the food has come or when the driver is here, but the amount of ads I will tolerate is exactly zero.
Uber is blatantly abusing push notifications for marketing, it is so bad ... for smaller apps this would be an App Store ToS violation and grounds for removal. The double standard with larger apps is very upsetting.
I really dislike when people don't see this. They try to cut 10 grams of CO2 per day while other industries (shipping, aviation, rails) produce hundreds of tons per day and even this transportation modes are less that 20% with most CO2 produced mainly being in energy production and used by industry.
Plastic bags and papers straws is not about CO2 emissions and I wish people would stop repeating this like it's some "gotcha", it's about landfill and natural area pollution and damage to wildlife and natural areas, and that's how it's always been talked about by policy people who have advocated on this stuff.
This makes sense and I'm with you, people that are polluting beaches and natural areas should face harder punishments. That being said I'm missing plastic straws for drinking cold coffee.
Nothing stopping you from carrying your own reusable straw around with you.
Finally, most of the (local, not even thinking about the developing world) pollution is not deliberate. It blows in from other places, usually. I live rural and I'm continually picking up plastic garbage from my ditch or back forest or fields that blows in from the nearby highway and roads, especially after garbage pickup day.
Rituals define a school of thought (or a religion). These are rituals of folks who want to prevent catastrophe through conservation. To each their own.
Ultimately, individual habits do add up. But with climate, one would be hard pressed to find evidence that conservation is the path forward. It does not work, unfortunately.
It doesn't necessarily need to be actionable for now but at the moment there is an exponential growth in the datacenter power usages.
For now, sure it might be ridiculously minor, but when it starts to ramp up who's to say it wont be just a ridiculous amount of energy ? Maybe not even measure the CO2, but I would love to graph the increase of energy spent over time.
If you have some time, feel free to open a pull request — even just with a description or clarification of what's going on!
It all sounds super interesting, but I’m still trying to fully grasp the business logic behind it
Once I get the idea, I’ll be happy to jump in and implement it.
I was hoping this was an app that forced you to learn languages before opening instagram. Doesn’t seem to be the case at all, in which case I’m not sure why this is titled “Duolingo for screen time”.
Instead this looks like a clone of any of the many screentime apps, with similar egregious pricing.
hi! apologies for the misunderstanding. the 'duolingo' I'm mentioning is our mascot that encourages you to minimise your screen time. through interactions with the mascot it is proven effective so our beta testers that it helps reducing screen time! anyway, i appreciate your feedback and i'll be clearer onwards!
I don’t think gamers are as price sensitive as believed.
How many people purchased computers that cost in the same realm as a mortgage payment? I personally know a several people who paid >$1500 for a GPU during COVID.
The price hike sucks but I doubt it will convince people to transition to a different hobby.
> I don’t think gamers are as price sensitive as believed.
I think there are more or less two different useful definitions of gamers. People who do consider it a hobby, ie an area of active interest that they expect to spend considerable amounts of time, money, and attention on. And people who play games as entertainment or recreation only, but still prefer it over other consumption that could fill that time like streaming shows.
The time-use patterns might be similar (idk) but the price sensitivity may not be. If console and game prices are low enough it may be impossible to distinguish these two groups even. But at a certain point I expect them to diverge in their playing and spending habits.
Like nintendo's astounding success in the wii era was due to specifically targeting the second group. The different characteristics and pricing strategies of PC vs mobile games are a major split between them too. I think if console prices go up enough these groups will diverge even more. The less-price-sensitive "hobbyist gamers" mostly probably won't bail for another hobby, but the "entertainment gamers" certainly may; either for a different kind of gaming or for another source of recreation all together.
It’s also worth pointing out that the cost of games has been decreasing over time due to the AAA price remaining stagnant while inflation surges forward. SNES titles in the 1990ish era retailed for $60 USD, which is roughly $145 USD today.
Current console gamers maybe, I always cared about prices on PC, and during my PS2 days, like 90% of the games I bought were 2nd hand and no more than 20 euros, between 2001 and 2004.
Where I did spent more money was the 300 euro for PS2Linux.
My solution to this is a combination of Game Pass and only buying games on sale. If you’re patient enough there is very little reason to pay full price for games.
When the iPhone first launched, it had to pull a lot of weight to convince people that a touchscreen keyboard could work as well as physical keys. One of the tricks it used was to predict the next letter and invisibly adjust the hitbox of each key.
If you type “h” and then hit the space between “w” and “e”, it will assume you wanted “e” and register that.
This could easily be implemented by dynamically adjusting the ranges where a letter can be selected from the joystick. You don’t even need to render it differently; just adjust which letter registers at a particular angle.
That's cool, I haven't heard of this idea before. There's a lot of prediction magic possibility in many places. For example I've tried the swift key keyboard on Android for comparison with the Google one and it's so bad at swiping. Somehow gboard can guess almost every single word correctly, but swiftkey chose the wrong one almost every time. (I stuck with it for a month to make sure it's not just my familiarity)
After 18 years of iPhone I still can not type on my iPhone. My average is literally 3 corrections PER WORD! It's super infuriating >:(
I must have fat fingers or some perception that means however it was tuned doesn't fit me. The most two most frustrating keys, period ('.') to the right of the spacebar which I seem to press by accident when I'm trying to add a space, 3 of 4 times. I don't think my finger is near it but a period appears so.I.often.type.like.this . Maybe this is the invisible button size increase. The other is delete next to 'm'. I also hit that 4 of 5 times when I didn't mean to. I wanted to screen capture my phone experience and post it as just how band the experience is but if course I'm mostly typing private stuff.
I'd think just from every day usage of 18 years I'd some how get it but it's been 18 years and I don't
Wow. Both of these things happen to me all the time, and somehow exactly as you’ve described.
It won’t be just one space that’s been replaced with “.”s but several in a row.
The trailing “m” is something I often hit as I do the double “ “ to get the “.” and then backspace over the final space but often hit the “m” and tap “send”/“submit” without reviewing.
Speaking of which, it would be nice if it could trim the last trailing “ “ when leaving focus of the text entry if it had been entered due to a doubled “ “ to obtain a “.”.
Can confirm the . thing happens to me also half.of.my.google.searches.are.like.this so I have even learned to be cautious that the last word does not look like a tld :)
I read somewhere that this happens primarily in a browser address bar, because they've tuned the keyboard in that context to strongly prefer dots over spaces. I'm not sure if that's true but I have also found that it happens to me the most when doing multi-word Google searches from the address bar, and not anywhere else.
Also, I used a couple alternative keyboards a few years back, but I have found that some point some iOS update within the last few years made the stock keyboard the best for me. When I type on the gBoard on my wife's phone it might as well be dvorak, everything comes out gibberish.
Let me add, I clearly see people around me who manage to type super fast so clearly it works for some. Maybe I need a class on how to type on iPhone :P
Nvidia also created a GPU tier to manipulate prices years ago.
Most people remember the 3090 being a flagship card that was overkill for most people. So why did so many gamers spend $2000 on it? Because Nvidia told them to.
Prior to the 3000 series, the card existed in the form of a Titan. If you wanted the best gaming card, you’d get a 2080. If you wanted a card for scientific computing, rendering, etc, then you could splurge for the Titan. Two different audiences. No one was buying a Titan for gaming.
Nvidia realized if they throw some RGB on the Titan line (so to speak), gamers will happily pay the premium for it, making them more money AND anchoring a much higher price bracket for video cards in the future.
Your time does have value, but it’s in terms of opportunity cost, not hourly wage. Presumably you wouldn’t have made $200 had you not gone to the Apple Store (unless you went when you were supposed to be working and have a job where that time becomes unpaid).
I'm paid by the hour and the Apple Store is a block away from my place of work, so in this particular case it is pretty clear cut. I realize it is different for people paid a fixed annual salary.
Although in hindsight it probably felt like I spent more time there than I actually did. I think the $200 is fair given that I would normally be quite willing to pay to avoid that kind of unfortunate circumstance.
And of course that leaves out the complication of pre- vs post-tax wages, retirement savings, etc.
