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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209082
They can also be used as hearing aides
https://www.hearingtracker.com/news/airpods-pro-become-heari...
Are you saying that paying for the AWS product is too expensive and you want to pay a consultant to talk about alternatives?
Are you looking for flat rate consultants to answer infrastructure questions for you?
Clarify your question and your goals.
Some recent threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25487130
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25496166
If you don't like privacy then you don't need curtains in your house.
Ask them to unlock their phone and hand it to you. Most people will balk.
One thing to think about is that some people don't mind losing their privacy to the government or a corporation but they do care about losing it to real humans that know them. As an example, if a husband is cheating on his wife he doesn't care if the NSA or Big Tech knows about it because they (most likely) won't do anything negative with that information. But he would want to keep that information from people he knows because they may use it against him and will definitely treat him differently by having that knowledge.
Food for thought.
In essence it's a UI library with a HTML-like syntax. You write your application in Angular, React, or Vue and you don't have to mess with recreating UI elements. Here is a list of the pre-made Ionic components that you can glue together to create your app [1]. Here is a site where you can play with the components and see them in action. [2] You can also purchase "starter apps" that have boilerplate such as Facebook login, geolocation, and more built in [3]. You can also use Capacitor JS to access native platform features (camera, clipboard, localstorage) without knowing any native code. [4].
I too am new to this and to me it makes much more sense to use Ionic rather than learn the deep and ever-shifting platform specific-code.
[1] - https://ionicframework.com/docs/components/
[2] - https://ionicsvelte.firebaseapp.com
[3] - https://ionicthemes.com/product/ionic5-full-starter-app-pro-...
Unpaywall is a free, open-source project from Our Research, a nonprofit dedicated to making scholarly research more open, accessible, and reusable.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpaywall/iplffkdp...
Some workplaces value consensus and some workplaces value correctness.
Sound about right?
Unfortunately there's nothing you can do to change the culture.
Instead of trying to change or deal with or adapt to culture, ask pointed questions about correctness vs consensus culture during the interview.
EDIT: One book to suggest is Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success
Other examples are calling a tissue a Kleenex, calling a vacuum a Hoover, calling a cola a Coke, and so on.
Many mainstream people call a video conference a Zoom and it happened to stick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions
It's not an answer to your question but there are a lot of "sleeper comapnies" out there.
The premise was simple: In 1959 a white reporter used makeup to make himself have black skin. He then traveled around the southern USA. Even as a child it was easy to see how people treated him differently even though he was a white man underneath. The racism was undeniable.
Animal Farm, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 gave me even more reasons to question authority.
From a non-technical perspective I would say convenience. A link is a click or a tap that would open a new window and walk me through the reset process. A password-in-email I would have to highlight it, copy it, open (or move to) another window/tab, then paste it then go through the "change password" process.
A link is a much smoother user experience.
I have looked into mobile development in years past and I always got the impression that it was a hot mess. An ever changing everything, undocumented everything, tons of languages and frameworks to choose from. I was immediately turned off by how complex, immature, and ever-changing that everything was.
To me, the most important selling point of Ionic is that I can write code once (Ionic UI Framework + Angular or React or Vue), then run it through Capacitor and it spits out a NATIVE mobile app that runs in a WebView (not a PWA, but they support PWAs).
I don't have to know anything about Android or SwiftUI. If I want to access native features (such as camera or location) I simply use a Capacitor plugin. Again, zero native code, the plugin handles it. There are plugins for things like storage, clipboard, file system, haptics, and more.
If you were ever turned off by the complexity of mobile app development take a look at Ionic. If you know HTML, CSS, a JS framework, and can learn their (simple) framework language you can write a fully functional app without knowing anything about the native coding.
[1] https://ionicframework.com/ // https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework