One “issue” I have with Keep is there is no way to list notes or search notes without a label. And it’s from a search company. It must be hard for them to implement:-) or there is no more resources on Keep, waiting to be out like Inbox.
Chromebook is appealing for enterprise for its cheaper price and low support maintenance. There are many enterprises already running Citrix or AWS Workplace remote desktop to run enterprise app, I don't see how MS Office can not be run this way.
I'm curious why there aren't more app store outside China, as evidently from China example, the app store business is sustainable, and Android outside China has a bigger market.
Just curious why in China there are several app stores for Android (Tencent, 360, Baidu etc), while the rest of the world uses mainly Google Play Store?
My guess why Apple kill OpenGL besides being old tech, is to reduce one more stack to support with their port of macOS to ARM. So in 2-3 years time we likely see a version of desktop iOS or macOS ARM.
Firebase is very much easy to get started for mobile apps. You have nice console to create project, and as developer you deal with just its SDK, one CLI and simple API. For something similar to Firebase in AWS, you need to make use of Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito separate products, which has steep learning curve. And then you need to know the AIM security to get started. AWS has a Mobile Hub product which is trying to make things easy to create mobile apps by automate some of these AWS products for you. So now you have to learn awsmobile CLI tool on top of the core awscli tool. And if you develop for the web, they have this AWS Amplify Javascript library on top of basic JS SDK library which has a higher abstraction thus to make things simple (or worst). If you're new to AWS, you often struggle with which library should one learn and use. And if you use AWS Ampify and read the documents, it is as if the library is build for React. I'm not sure why AWS can be so married to one web stack. So much emphasis and priority is given to React and React Native in this library. They will give the excuse that React is what their customer wants. They now have mature React/React Native Amplify library thus giving the impression that to use AWS its better to use React/React Native. So they spend resource on AWS-Amplify, even move one of JS cognate-identity-js SDK under this umbrella, hoping the world will standardised on JavaScript and React Native for iOS, Android and web. So what happen if you're developing a mobile app using Unity, Xamarin and Flutter? No luck as they only have SDK for iOS, Android and web. Compare this with Firebase that has SDK for iOS, Android, web, Xamarin, Unity, Flutter and C++. AWS has an opportunity in AppSync to make a product as easy to get started as Firebase. What is required is native mobile SDK for iOS, Android, web, Flutter, Unity, Xamarin that is not just specific to AppSync and GraphQL, but also add in authentication, analytics etc APIs. Something like Firebase SDK API. AWS is still stronger for enterprise usage. And you can’t use Firebase in China due to its use of Google Play services. But Firebase is definitely a weapon used by Google to draw customers into other Google Clouds offering.
13” inch non touch bar is last year model, no upgrade to keyboard and with 7th gen CPU. This refresh updates only the touchbar models with new keyboard design and 8th quad core CPU, which could means significant CPU performance improvement.
I'm not a UX person but I notice bank ATMs places OK (Action) button on the right, and Cancel on the left. Recently I encounter an ATM by a new bank which places the button the other way, and feel weird. So my guess is there is no right way or wrong way. Just the way we're used to.
My guess is the upcoming MacBook Pro update this year will solve the keyboard problem. There is a reason how Apple name their new macOS. They want you to use the new MacBook Pro 2018 in Mojave dessert to showcase that the problem is gone.
Not sure if it's coincidental, I was offered two weeks back to try Apple Music again with one free month. I tried out when it was first launch and never subscribe to it. So my trial must have helped out with a +1 in the number.
What Dart library/framework do you use for the backend? The recent DartConf has only 5 mins of talk of Dart server end. The emphasis seems to switch to use Dart for front end clients.