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Nothing worse than breaking into the debugger and seeing a "ThingAdjectiveVerb" and you need to actually look for "ThingAdjective" and look at the "VerbFoo" entry under it.
Does it use your private messages for advertising? It seems like "no" for now, but nothing is stopping them.
There are plenty of paid games that do not include any kind of microtransaction. I'd consider the paid-games ecosystem to be surprisingly healthy these days. But to be fair, it's all console/PC. Mobile games are likely to remain a F2P wasteland.
Gallus looks interesting, I haven't heard about it before. Any thoughts on when you're bringing it back?
Fix (1) and (2), maybe (3) and then we're talking.
Not exactly. The way this phone is being marketed is very strange - this phone is designed as an "add-on phone", it can only be used as an add-on to an existing line.
As a standalone phone $350 isn't too bad, but asking people to pay $350 in addition to whatever they want to pay for their "main" phone is a little much.
They're in Apple Watch territory with this pricing and I don't think they have the ecosystem to demand that kind of price.
Using it today feels like a "Show HN" MVP version of their full product.
So when Windows says you have an update available, the design is that it did all the work that is possible and all that's left is (in theory) the copy bit that's left.
My completely ill-informed guess is that there are exceptions to this rule by teams that aren't fully aware of how updates work under the hood and as a result upgrading takes longer than it really should. As time goes by those teams get hit with a stick and they fix things, but the upgrade team probably plays a fair bit of wack-a-mole.
This leads down a privacy/metadata rabbit hole, but there are probably ways to make this a lot better. In any case, the phone OS can do some out-of-band signaling and just avoid dealing with the carriers altogether.
Although if you're doing all that then why not just make a call using voip...
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You could say the same thing about every side-scrolling fighting game.
You used to be able to do that. The problem (from fb's point of view) as the sibling comment points out is that you'd never visit facebook.com unless you wanted to actually wanted to interact with the content.
I'd argue that this is because we all have the sun in common. On a planet that orbits a star with a different spectrum or a planet that has a different atmospheric makeup, "vision" might look very different to what we're used to.
- XR $749
- XS $999
- XS Max $1099
Yikes. And that's for the lowest storage available.
I'd argue that while it might be easy today, that's just an implementation detail. The play store does not advertise anywhere that you can backup APKs for installation later in case an app is pulled from the store. Tomorrow Google could invent a new kind of delivery mechanism that makes this stop working.
I'd like to see someone interact with it - is it possible to get "wet" from dry water? Can you get the water back out?