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infotainment, 9 months ago

Eh, I think the problem is customers just prefer bigger phones. I mean, personally I prefer the mini, but I think it’s clear I’m in the minority.

Using a rebrand to try and downplay the compactness may work for sight-unseen buyers, but in the end if they’re shown the bigger phone in-store, past sales would suggest they’re likely going to pick the bigger phone. (Phones ended up so big in the first place because people preferred them, too.)

infotainment, 9 months ago

Eh, I think the problem is the customers just take what apple gives them

I think this is true to an extent, but my argument against it would be to point to the period where Apple resisted making large phones, while Android phones were getting bigger and bigger. (This would be approximately the era of the 5/5S) In the more wild-west product lineup of Android, it became clear that bigger screens equaled more sales, for better or for worse.

infotainment, 10 months ago

I just wish Signal had better history and backup features.

infotainment, 10 months ago

You just know this is going to get mentioned at Tim Cook’s next iPhone keynote.

infotainment, 10 months ago

Oh I wasn’t being sarcastic or anything, I think it’ll make a great addition.

infotainment, 10 months ago

Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.

infotainment, 10 months ago

Wish the TouchID rumors were true; I have the iPad Air M1 with the side TouchID button and it works amazingly.

I wish Apple would bring it to their phones, but they really seem to like FaceID for some reason.

infotainment, 10 months ago

This is absolutely the reason why Apple sticks with a rectangle, but that said, I’d still love to see them try for a round face.

Round faces look amazing for analog watch faces and only for that—but I’d still get one if they offered it.

infotainment, 10 months ago

Yup. Lest we forget, Android is Linux-based, and it’s the most popular consumer operating system in the world.

infotainment, 10 months ago

Well, to quote a classic film:

“Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.”

infotainment, 10 months ago

All Elon had to do was stick to the rockets and cars!

But no, he has to go pick fights with random people online and espouse stupid talking points. It’s like a masterclass in killing your personal brand.

infotainment, 10 months ago

Exactly! The great thing about Lemmy is that if your instance’s admins start doing stupid stuff you can just go to another instance.

infotainment, 10 months ago

I miss AskScienceFiction; it was always fun reading those in-universe answers.

There’s one here on LemmyWorld, but it’s pretty dead: !AskScienceFiction

infotainment, 10 months ago

Wow, the level of detail on this theme is really impressive!

As as aside, I didn’t realize that GTK had officially banned theming. That seems…dumb.

infotainment, 10 months ago

Attitudes like this are much worse for the health of the Fediverse, IMO.

A popular instance with users and content? Kill it immediately, we can’t risk people actually using the Fediverse.

infotainment, 10 months ago

What did you think of the second one? I liked how it was open world, though the story itself left a lot to be desired IMO

infotainment, 10 months ago

IIRC, my dad bought progressives from Zenni and said they were as good as the ones he got from an optician.

infotainment, 10 months ago

I remember people constantly asking for that to be a feature on Reddit, but I don’t believe it was ever implemented.

infotainment, 10 months ago

The sad part is that if this goes through, no more credit card rewards.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Depends on the platform.

If you’re on an Apple device at least, the built-in Books app works great for reading ePub files.

infotainment, 11 months ago

I think so, I believe you can open them in Books via the Files app on iOS.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Literally a Unicode character:

www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

infotainment, 11 months ago

Not OP, but personally I found their level of micromanagement a bit offputting, such as their deletion of every support-adjacent post.

infotainment, 11 months ago

It’s dependent on Apple fixing it, so no:

bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222654

infotainment, 11 months ago

Honestly I feel like this attitude is the reason GIMP’s UX suffers. They’re so determined to be “not like photoshop” that they’re unwilling to fix some of their more boneheaded UI decisions out of fear that they’d be seen as copying photoshop.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Anyway, I wasn’t aware that GIMP UX suffers, I’ve never used anything else and am happy with it.

My argument here is that by never having used anything else, you wouldn’t necessarily realize how much better other UX choices could have been.

That said, I do have to give the devs some credit, as they have fixed two major issues, by adding single-window-mode and unifying the transform tools. Having each transform be its own separate tool was just awful UX IMO.

The biggest remaining UX problem, in my opinion, is the way GIMP forces layers to have fixed boundaries. Literally no other layer-based image editor has fixed layer boundaries, because it makes very little sense as a concept. Layers should solely be defined by their content, not by arbitrary layer properties set in a dialog box.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Voyager is seriously the best example of a PWA I’ve ever seen.

infotainment, 11 months ago

It does work as well as it can, but it’s sometimes a bit flakey. Sadly that’s Apple’s problem to fix.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Remember that Android is Linux-based – so keeping that in mind, a massive amount of normal users use Linux on a daily basis.

I think the key is, operating systems are meant to exist in the background. If it’s working well, you don’t think about it at all.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Not yet, but they’ve said it will be. Personally I’m excited to see “mainstream” social media using ActivityPub, but you’ll find that it’s quite a divisive issue.

infotainment, 11 months ago

I’ve said this elsewhere, but I don’t really agree with the article’s premise about what happened to XMPP.

XMPP was a niche thing before Google appeared, and it remained a niche thing after Google left. That said, it would have been much better had Google continued to support it!

infotainment, 11 months ago

This is a great idea, Voyager’s mobile experience is super polished.

Long shot, but would it be possible to get Mlmym installed at old.lemmy.world? Would be a fun throwback!

infotainment, 11 months ago

Completely agree on all points.

An additional one I’d argue is a huge part of HN’s success is their employment of a full-time moderator, dang, who does a great job.

infotainment, 11 months ago

I love the idea of this, but the only reason I check Instagram is to see what my friends are posting, which I couldn’t do on an alternative, sadly.

infotainment, 11 months ago

This is actually why I’m excited for ActivityPub in Threads. I’m hoping that it can function as a gateway drug to the Fediverse.

“Like Threads? Then continue to follow all your friends there while moving to an ad-free Mastodon client!”

infotainment, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I’m really wondering how the prescription lens part will work. At WWDC, they custom made lenses based on your glasses prescription, but the cost of them doing that for anyone who makes an appointment seems excessive.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Right, but when you try on glasses you don’t need lenses pre-made, you can get away with just blanks.

For the Vision Pro, the lenses are required to even try the headset, so there’s a chicken and egg problem: people aren’t going to want to pay for lenses just for a try-on.

infotainment, 11 months ago

On android?

infotainment, 11 months ago

I’ll post a positive option to mix things up:

It’s a polished product, with no ads, no TikTok style video knockoffs, high quality photo uploads, and a decent recommendation engine. It has all the ingredients it needs for success.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Meta will likely ruin it eventually by A/B testing it to death to maximize revenue.

infotainment, 11 months ago

While all that is true, you actually shouldn’t do that in your review, as that will often get it flagged/removed. (They’ll think it’s not a “real” review and instead part of a review bombing effort.)

infotainment, 11 months ago

Really hoping the EU finally forces Apple to open up their devices and we can be done with their nonsense. Let me use real Firefox on my iPad already!

infotainment, 11 months ago

they have full control over the app

Yup, this is also my problem with Signal; you’re stuck with whatever boneheaded decisions the devs make and there’s nothing you can do about it. Personally, my pet peeve is their refusal to add any kind of data export. As someone who likes backing up chat history, this is a dealbreaker for me.

infotainment, 11 months ago

A more likely outcome is Big Tech coming in and fragmenting and dissolving ActivityPub servers like all the Lemmy servers.

How? If, say, Facebook built a Lemmy-compatible instance, the worst they could do is eventually defederate it from other Lemmy instances, in which case we’re right back where we started.

infotainment, 11 months ago

If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.

infotainment, 11 months ago

Really hoping we get an official Apollo client for Lemmy! (Granted the current clones aren't bad, but I'm a fan of the OG)

infotainment, 11 months ago

I definitely recommend Dracula — not only is it good, but it’s also the prototype for basically every subsequent vampire book/movie:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345