Yeah, Amazon make their own App Store for Android that I assume nobody uses outside of Fire devices because it’s terrible. They still make their apps available on the Google Play store, so this theoretical concern seems like it will remain theoretical.
They can definitely manipulate the default (“recommended”) sort to bury bad reviews. Companies do that all the time. They can also reply to reviews. I’m not sure about control over visibility if a user chooses to sort chronologically, though.
That is basically scenario #2 (which is common), but for whatever reason they haven’t been very successful at pushing back against some of the changes that cause these issues. I don’t have much insight to offer there since I’m not at the negotiating table there.
Yeah, most of the time when patients send emails, they get responses from a nurse. At least at my wife's clinic, they do not always charge for emails. They only choose to charge when an email is asking something non-obvious or for the doctor to take some action that requires additional work/time outside of just reading and responding to an email.
Yeah, and typically when you do the same with a doctor the fee you pay has been negotiated with your insurance provider. This is no worse than anything else billing-related in healthcare.
There's a lot to unpack here, but in the US healthcare is delivered in a fee-for-service model very much like any other service you use. Unless and until we change that model, why do you expect doctors to give up income they could receive from seeing patients in-person in order to read and respond to your emails for free?
Trust me, they are all aware of this. The problem is that, for the majority of doctors now, they do not own or control their clinics. They are either: 1)employees of the health system or 2)partners or employees of a provider's group that essentially contracts with the system to provide doctors. The doctors themselves have no real control over how their clinics operate outside of contractual negotiations.
Are you sure about that? This makes it sound like updates also stop after 30 days:
"If you leave the European Union, you can continue to open and use apps that you previously installed from alternative app marketplaces. Alternative app marketplaces can continue updating those apps for up to 30 days after you leave the European Union, and you can continue using alternative app marketplaces to manage previously installed apps."
But I thought the only reason Apple prevented third-party stores and sideloaded apps in the first place was to improve security. Therefore, I’m sure that disabling app updates once someone spends a month outside the EU must improve security, too. Right!?
Yeah, I know it’s an intentional strategy. I’m just commenting that I wouldn’t have particularly high hopes in the near term for Mazda EVs due to the Toyota partnership. Toyota are one of the leading companies researching solid state batteries, though (or so it seems), so that could be a game changer.
I don’t lay into the horn like a jerk when someone is inattentive to a traffic light. I just give a quick tap to get them to snap out of whatever it is they’re distracted by. I also wait at least a few seconds. Most people seem to appreciate this because they don’t want to block traffic, either.
You can take comfort in the fact that the idiot’s repair costs will be ridiculously high. If you’re going to drive super aggressively on public roads, at least do it in a cheap car!
Most are pretty good in my experience, with the exception of Tesla. Tesla’s auto-wipers are comically bad. They NEVER work well because they try to use a tiny camera mounted to the top of the windshield to determine when to trigger them. The camera is probably unable to actually focus on the windshield itself, especially since it is also used for the driver assistance features and has to be focused at road-distance, so my guess is they’re using some kind of algorithm to try and detect distortion caused by rain drops on the windshield for an image captured with focus significantly further away than the windshield surface itself. And that challenge has so far remained unsolved. Tesla just pretend to have working auto-wipers.
If a normal person just wants a “simple laptop,” they can go to Best Buy or whatever brick and mortar and pull one off the shelf. They don’t need to dig into hundreds of SKUs unless they want to do so.
It’s not dead and that’s a correct statement, though perhaps with one needed clarification. Google gave RSS a lot of mainstream visibility with Reader which it now lacks. I think that partially explains its lack of popularity and is the reason why people write articles like this saying that Google “killed” RSS.