doctorcherry

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

This was true a decade ago but now most apps interface with some external server, even if it's not hosted by the developer. The rest of the world keeps changing even if you don't; API versions increase with breaking changes or a service your app relies on gets shutdown, and now your app is broken. Not upgrading is a boring solution anyway. Keeping up-to-date with new features is what makes computers fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This is not my experience. Most apps I paid once for several years ago are either no longer around or now broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are a lot of abusive predatory subscription apps on the App Store that give subscriptions a bad name but what you’re saying is true. The time and effort to make a good quality app is very high and people expect continuous development, compatibility with the latest OS updates, and adoption of new features. It is simply not sustainable for a developer to be left with years of maintenance after selling an app for a few dollars one time. This is compounded as most app sales happen in the first few weeks of an apps release and then drop off to close to zero for the rest of the apps life.

Many of my favourite apps that only charged a few dollars for life access have been abandoned. I would have much preferred to pay a few dollars once per year and still have those great apps. Unfortunately, it seems few apps take this approach, usually subscriptions are unjustifiably high, sometimes obscenely, for the value the app delivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But even if you drive the car into the ground there is still an associated cost per year as a result of buying the vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think that is a feature

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds interesting. What was the subject of these tickets?

 

Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? You think this is some kind of secret?

No, I think that we should be critical of what we read online. Especially on topics where information is being actively manipulated. Thanks for the link.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I keep seeing this Israel funded Hamas rhetoric. But, I can find almost no information about it from reputable sources. The only information I can find that is not obviously biased is a freaking Quora post.

If you, or anyone else, has anything more solid then I would be very interested to read about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There’s some negativity about the price due to it being much higher than usual for a mobile platform. But I hope that it does well. Despite having good hardware games on iOS, iPad OS and TV OS are really lacking in quality. If this game shows there is a viable market for AAA games then that could change.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

In this scenario I think the largest mammals will go first? Like if you consider there was a higher concentration of oxygen during the dinosaur era and some dinosaurs were really big. So it seems larger mammals might need a higher concentration of oxygen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was mostly tongue-in-cheek. But I was basing it off 500 charge cycles which is what the iPhone battery is rated for. I just checked and the Apple Watch battery is rated for 1000 cycles so that’s about three years. I’m impressed that your watch battery is still lasting a day, do you use sleep tracking? And do you think your Apple Watch would still last a day if you did 45 minutes of outdoor activity using GPS?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Making it even less economical to replace the battery doesn’t sound very green. Although I guess you can sleep soundly knowing the electricity the Apple Watch used in its short two years of life has been carbon offset. And, in fairness to apple, I’m pretty sure battery replacement involves tossing, I mean recycling, the main unit and giving you a new one.

 

Sometimes when making accounts online the suggested password prompt doesn’t show up. Until now I had been using an online random password generator to make the password when the prompt is not available. I just found out that if I go to the passwords screen in settings an manually add an account the password field is pre-filled with a random password which is very convenient.

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