The continuing enshittification of Apple software is so unfortunate. It has already gone too far.
Apple was the one vendor you could buy stuff from to be able to look down on the peasants bombarded by ads all the time. Now, when I specifically search for an app in the App Store, the result is barely on the screen because it is filled with an ad for another. You get deeply embedded ads and nudges for iCloud pretty often. It already sucks. It‘s like they hate USPs.
It’s quite interesting how „boring“ (traditionally enterprise?) their backend looks on the occasional peeks you get publicly. So much Apache stuff & XML.
I like this and would like it to continue! FOSS chat UX is, in average, not good at all in my opinion. I don’t need an exact copy of Telegram, but something with a similar amount of care put into it (which is a lot!).
> There's currently no Matrix to speak of, but it's the thought that counts.
Welp! I was going to ask about it. I’m curious how that goes because Matrix is the natural thing to support, but I’ve been quite critical of that being too hard to actually do. The Rust SDK supposedly provides a lot of support here, so maybe the experience won’t be too bad. Some inherent protocol stuff may still limit the UX and I‘d love a thorough writeup on it.
I like Umbrel’s technical approach: Its apps are just docker compose files with a little extra, making it very easy to support. The UI layer is Next JS, which gives tight coupling with the backend (so good state sync).
I also like their marketing approach: They really have a nice app store and a nice page for each app.
I did not like the reliability around app installations and the disappointment that it’s actually quite proprietary.
I wish there was a standard „server app“ format similar to what Umbrel uses with a strong ecosystem and multiple solutions. It‘s a key missing piece to self hosting stuff, IMO.
A format to easily wrap containerized applications in an app store or like a package manager? Sort of like a lightweight proxmox?
I’ve had the same idea. It’s the missing piece to beautiful UI wrapping around a homelab. I think this is one of the cooler pieces of what Umbrel is providing.
I suppose this isn't the case here, but found it funny how these 3 successive positive comments read almost exactly like those bot comment chains that I see on other platforms trying to pull people into crypto scams.
Apple was the one vendor you could buy stuff from to be able to look down on the peasants bombarded by ads all the time. Now, when I specifically search for an app in the App Store, the result is barely on the screen because it is filled with an ad for another. You get deeply embedded ads and nudges for iCloud pretty often. It already sucks. It‘s like they hate USPs.