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For me is the opposite, almost half the value i get from Spotify is about discovery (the other half is convenience).

Specifically, I discovered amazing artists through the Discovery Weekly and the Artist's Radios. But also the "Fans also listen to" section in an artist profile. I found all sort of things, even obscure indies with a few thousands of listens and other "hidden gems". I'm really happy they now added the "Enhance" function to playlists.

What I noticed though, is that I have to be very careful with my interactions on the platform to "train" the algorithm in the right direction. I have to like only specific genres that I want recommendations about, use playlists for anything else and use a lot the "i don't like this" feature on the discovery weekly. There was a period where I listened to more casual genres than usual and it completely broke my profile. My Dicovery Weekly was terrible at that time, it was a bummer.

What I think would be great is if Spotify would be more open about this. I would love to be able to tweak the discovery by myself (like suggest specific genres or artists, blacklist others). Maybe even create different discovery profiles for different genres. Instead I have to play the game of interacting blindly with the platform and see the results next monday on the new discovery weekly.

It's from Apple and it's the endorsed UI framework for native development in their ecosystem (more or less). Flutter is not for native development and Jetpack Compose is the equivalent of SwiftUI for Android.

It's been the shiny new thing in iOS development since it's launch and of course there's a lot of division about in the community (it's good, it's bad, it's the future, it will never be the future, etc.)

Maybe some user research? It can be argued for sure though, everything can be argued over all the time forever.

What's the problem with the pricing? It seems pretty fair to me, free for users and paid for teams basically.

OP was comparing it to the Pixel 5, that's why I chimed in since it's not much different to the 4a. I can't imagine myself being disappointed by it like OP and between 4a and 5 there wasn't a huge leap in performance.

Coming from a Pixel 4a to the 14 Pro I'm really impressed instead. Like it's the much needed upgrade that I felt I needed (I'm really passionate about photography). I'm seriously considering selling my DSLR now.

I think google computational might be better in some edge cases, but it comes at the cost that sometimes it over-processes things: some textures look painted on my pixel photos, some night shoot feel "cool" but do not capture what I'm looking with my eyes at all, no matter my settings. And with portraits I have this feeling sometimes that I capture a nice image only to see it somehow ruined when the processing ends, with the face that becomes too "beautified" (smooth skin, etc).

I feel the iPhone computation is overall better for the most common lightning situations and maybe less aggressive, but I would need to test it for way more time to form a more complete opinion.

What I don't understand is the lawsuit from Twitter. There's an high risk that this is going to damage the company in the long run, so why did the company decided to force him to finish the deal? Sounds a bit kinda suicidal

I know many people that mentally only perceive connectors as "the iphone cable" and "the android cable". The "Android cable" could be anything from micro-usb to usb-c to old propietary connectors of old nokia and motorola.

To this people this change effectively removes what's familiar and understood for something unknown, but I think it will still be for the better if eventually they will only perceive it as "the cable" that just works with pretty much anything.

> The expectations of Apple were higher only because of that brand recognition.

I think the expectations were high also because Apple had a really strong marketing push on the concept of "docking" your devices. I remember even cars had dedicated iPhones docks as additional selling points, along with speakers and many other devices. There was a promise that if you bought an iPhone you could dock it everywhere and so there was this big ecosystem of things you could plug it in. Then apple switched to lightning and quietly retired the whole docking thing.

Someone can't handle change so bad that they had to write a whole blog post about how upset they are at slightly different UI.

I've been on the internet for a long time and I've seen these kind of complaints in all kind of forms. Comments, forum posts, blog posts, video, podcast. Each time a UI gets updated, people start to write melodramatic pieces about how this ruins it forever and it's the point of no return for the platform.

I've heard it when facebook abandoned this UI (https://beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fbpag...), when youtube changed this homepage (https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/websites/youtube-websit...) and so on. You get the point. When a UI change happens it feels strange, but in hindsight they were right to do it.

Designers are not fools, if they are working on a good team (like at Apple) they don't take decisions on a whim. They prototype, they do user testing, the validate ideas and scrap others considering many many many different factors. If you see a design decision, it has been carefully thought out from different perspectives. This assuming that there are actual design team with enough resources behind, which is Apple case.

Whatever criticism you have for any design, they have thought about it at least 10 months ago. They know about it and took a decision balancing other 100 aspects and considerations that you are not even aware about.

> I mean, if 87% of teens own an iPhone, then that's very much by definition NOT luxury.

Yeah this is the point. Apple has a strong brand and pricing tactics that places itself as a high-end company. This branding works really well and Apple is perceived as luxury by many people, but the truth is that it creates consumer products and there's no luxury in that. If the iPhone was a luxury you wouldn't find it everywhere in almost all high schools. Luxury doesn't dominate a mass market.

Some tech guys seems to think that value comes solely by a sort of price/performance ratio. If you can get MORE POWER for less money then you are getting ripped off. The rest of the price is not justified, you aren't paying for anything else so you must be paying a luxury premium. That's really a shallow way of analysing apple products. You pay more because the following is included: long time support (software updated and that continues to work without random behavior for 5yrs), really high quality control and higher quality components (no things that randomly stop to work after one or two years), great customer and tech support (yeah, non-tech people actually need it), seamless software integration, privacy and security guarantees. There are so much more things included in apple devices beside than tech specs and people find a lot of value in that.

If it's meetings they are targeting, then it's not a consumer product. They probably want to sell it to enterprise clients and that changes completely the approach for them. You don't have to sell it to a picky consumer with many opinions and few money, but to a corporate buyer with a huge budget, many incentives for innovating a the ability to purchase them in multiples.

Are you actually losing $Xk worth of sales every month due to piracy though? I remember this author with a wildly influential book inside a small online community. He too claimed that due to piracy he suffered great economical loss. He posted a detailed account of this on his blog and i delved on it a bit and I came to the conclusion he was delusional. For sure piracy dented his revenue, that was without the shadow of a doubt. But the major reason that he lost revenue was due to the fact that a book, as with many products, has a lifecycle and he wasn't considering that as a factor at all.

His book was considered "the bible" of that subject, but it was also starting to become old and the community was becoming more established. At that point there were tutorials, youtube videos, other resources talking about the same thing, explaining concepts of that book and so on. So while, in the beginning a user strictly needed to buy the book to have access to those niche information, now info were more readily accessible (even the reddit wiki had basically the same stuff in it). So buying the book was more of a choice ONLY if the user wanted to dive deeper into the subject. All the rest of potential users that a few years back would have bought the book due to the "monopoly of information", now weren't interested in it anymore. Even more established community users only recommended the book as an advanced thing for people that wanted to go to the next step. That's quite an evolution for a product that is guaranteed to lower sales.

Besides this, the community was still relatively niche and this means that doesn't have a huge influx of new users. This means that over time people won't buy his book because the only people interested in it already have it.

The product lifecycle was clear from the data and kinda textbook behavior, with the product having surpassed it's mature phase and been declining. On top of this, for sure piracy further made things worse.

The point is that the author was convinced that piracy was the only reason revenue was dropping. He was convinced that his book (being influential et all in the community) would give him constant revenue potentially forever. That was delusional and so was his analysis.

Are you entirely sure that piracy is the only thing to blame? Maybe that's just one factor in a more complex situation and writing another book is specifically what you need to do. The previous one was successful, you have a brand and an audience to leverage. That's valuable and, maybe you just need to develop a new product because the old one is, well, getting old.

It also thrives in "hot takes" that might sound smart at first glance but are incredibly ignorant if you analyse them. Everything is oversimplified to fit the character limit, but nobody seems to notice. It's ignorant hot-takes in answer to other ignorant hot-takes. TikTok is basically the same btw, but in video format.

People on twitter are already sharing Linkedin profiles of employees connected to the recorded videos, asking for more or acting like they found the leaker. Which is absolutely idiotic since the video were stolen from Slack and the people who recorded them have nothing to do with the leak.

What I think it's harder to preserve is the fact that modern games are often constantly updated with new content to the point that sometimes not much of the original experience remains. For example Terraria 1.0 is wildy different from 1.4 released almost 10 years later and this can be said of most modern titles, especially ones that were released in early access. Not to talk about online games, titles like Fortnite, Warframe, Destiny to name a few are all constantly evolving with new content releases that alter basically everything. Good luck preserving and replaying some specific updates if you ever feel nostalgic about it.

These numbers are really low, I think I'm missing something otherwise I don't understand why 51% aren't a common issue.

For what it's worth, I absolutely have no patience and do not take care. If i need it open or close i just yank it. No straightening, no taking care and especially no patience or slowing down. If the first yank doesn't work i can just use two hands and yank the zipper and the fabric in opposite directions and it will function properly, no really a need to patiently straighten anything. Yet, can't even remember the last time I had issues with a zipper. You might be overthinking this a bit.

Please burst your bubble and consider that there is WAY more going on in the world than tech and software. The idea that you can point at something as complex as monetary economics and say "I know what's happening and I can trace it back to 15 years" is absurd and over-simplistic.

TL;DW: a legal battle between a youtube channel and Alphabet about copyright infringement. The interesting aspect is that the channel that stole their content is RT (Russia Today), but the lawsuit is against google as it claims that they purposely and in bad faith refused to take action and terminate RT channel, which they were required to do by law.

Yes, some security researchers at Johns Hopkins found an issue in older models (before 2013) that was since fixed and now it's should be impossible to circumvent it by software. https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams

HN became just another community where it's trendy to talk in a smug way about everything, like it's this elite community of smarter people and everyone acts like one. The only problem is that people know nothing and still act this way, like they are major experts in the field spreading the truth.

It's easier to notice when they talk about non-tech related things, because with tech you are prone to give the benefit of the doubt that they might now what they are talking about, since if it's not your field of expertise it's harder to doublecheck the claims. With news instead everything is crystal clear. Just the usual average internet user that believes he understood everything and acts as a major expert when in reality it completely misses the complexity of the issues he's talking about.

Why? .tk was popular because it was free, so it was really useful for teens and young adults in an era when you still had to host things somewhere if you wanted them online. On the other hand .it is the tld of Italy and used legit by all businesses of EU's third largest economy.

Because it has terrible ux

But isn't Tumblr userbase mainly teens and their subcultures? What's the value of not having ads, sponsor and astroturfing, if there's not relevant or interesting community to join to begin with?

Why would apple self sabotage itself by not hiring and allocating good developers to their frameworks?

The irony is that most NFT do not include any copyright or commercial rights. Only the "respectable" ones do, others are just a link to an image and a pinky promise that it won't be on another marketplace.

Yes, most are just Tumblr and Instagram trends.

Linus from LinusTechTips did a series of videos on how he trained his cats to do this: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiNYRHLggAj39fRHaUYE42D2v...