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> I bet people will celebrate this feature when Apple rolls around implementing it two years from now.

Not only will it be celebrated but people will claim its revolutionary

No need to wait for another two years, I already made an exact app you're talking about. it's not only a dash cam, but it's integrated with turn by turn navigation as well.

maybe I can claim it to be revolutionary :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dashmap/id1638360259

Cool app.. but why subscription? this should be a one time payment.

Why not a subscription given with each iOS version comes new APIs and deprecations requiring time and effort to fix?

Hmmm.. Id say thats a cost of doing business on the app store? App stores should be doing a better job of making sure everything doesn’t require rework ever so often, but I don’t see why end customers have to pick up that tab. On a continued basis like in a subscription.

Subscriptions for apps are like paying the service fee to a skilled mechanic for your car's maintenance and upgrades. The developer acts as the mechanic, using the subscription revenue to continually improve the app's performance, security, and features. Just as the mechanic ensures your car runs smoothly and can add better features (tinted windows, reverse camera etc), the developer can deliver regular updates, replace outdated components, and introduce innovative features. Subscriptions support ongoing app maintenance and enhancement, providing users with a reliable and up-to-date experience, similar to how a mechanic's services keep your car in optimal condition.

That's a lot of fluff for meaning to say that subscriptions earn more than one-time purchase fees.

How often do you pay your mechanic

Once per maintenance change, not once per car you buy

By that logic you should pay the app only when the version changes, not every month

Great idea but there isn’t an easy way to manage that

It is unfortunately because of API cost from Mapbox. In Google's use case, they can obviously do it for free (for being Google and not integrated with navigation within the app). The 1 week tier is aimed for rental car users, for normal users, I'd recommend 1 month.

the biggest cost for me is the navigation, mapbox charges quite a lot...on a per trip basis, but you guys can use the promo code HACKERNEWS for 1 month free trial

Thats a good point.. I hadn’t considered the continued use of paid navigation apis for this app

I love apps like this. There’s a world full of high quality software out there that is just waiting to be discovered.

Thanks for sharing.

Apple would never put iPhones up to something this low-brow.

This is the company that put a charging port under a mouse so you wouldn't leave it hooked up all day: they're not going to encourage you to stick your phone in a creaky phone mount in hot sunlight all day so you can do a bad dashcam impression.

In Apple world you don't need your phone to be a dashcam because you can afford stupid accidents and other expenses that mostly screw over the poors

You're saying that as if it's the same people doing both. HN has a large enough number of users for both to happen and it not being hypocrisy.

> HN has a large enough number of users for both to happen and it not being hypocrisy.

Why would that matter in this hypothetical scenario? Releasing a feature two years after someone else has would not be revolutionary regardless of which phone someone uses.

Yeah, those comments calling on the hypocrisies of a crowd are really getting boring. Same thing on reddit where people call on an entire subreddit for having been wrong or having a different opinion in a different thread.

We are talking of hundreds of thousands of user, is that really surprising that we see different opinions in different threads? I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that a comment thread about Google and Android might attract an entirely different crowd than an Apple thread.

The operative word here is "let", since any linux OS computer could do this.

It's only been goggle's abomination on top of linux that has prevented it...

Isn't it nice of the mulit-trillion dollar corporation to "let" you do things?

Let's all just worship the mega-wealthy a little more...

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