@stroughtonsmith Multi-User support baked into #ipados is severely missing too - e.g. almost all streaming providers have their own account switching UX - ON EVERY APP START.
@gernot current Mac&i at hand? They compared the BenQ DesignVue PD2706U, Lenovo ThinkVision P27pz-30, LG 27UP850N, Phillips Brilliance 27B1U7903 and Samsung Viewfinity S8U S27A800UJU
Something I realized while developing Glisten for iOS first, and trying to launch it in today’s market, is that I don’t understand anything about this market at all. It is completely foreign to me now. I can only really make a living in this space because my main app is for Mac, and that market hasn’t changed much.
@drewmccormack as I may venture into that indie space soon as well: by market you mean the distribution/marketing side and not the competence in „Note Taking“ or „Language learning“ side?
I really wonder if any „proficiency/patience“ in an apps feature space is more important than marketing skills…
Avoiding #Amazon as the warehouse to get everything, I'm exploring small online shops more.
But one thing truly stands out:
PayPal makes the shopping experience so much more bearable than, well, before PayPal was as big a thing 15--20 years ago.
No need to enter shipping address or payment details anywhere. So it's truly one-click shopping. Plus five more clicks to finish the process, of course.
I wonder what the PayPal stock price over the years wants to tell me, though.
@ctietze give Apple Pay another try - it‘s way more convenient compared to PayPal: Address pre-filled, no cookie/session hassles, verified via TouchID/FaceID, some web shops offer it very early in their process, often nicely integrated with your bank. Even supported by Sparkassen without being bound to a CC.
@joshua@christianselig@steveriggins just start and look around. Soon you will „see“ possible 3D/IKEA/DIY hacks all over the place. Then design it, then print, then refine all while smelling the melting plastics.
Over the year I‘ve collected like over 100 small models. So much fun and cheap as printers are much more affordable nowadays.
@joshua their marketing team is hiding the private edition quite aggressively and it received some limitations recently (not sure about the impact for 3D printing though) @christianselig@steveriggins
Having become obsessed with #Cyberpunk2077 over the last several weeks and watching the #AppleVisionPro reviews, here’s what I want. Apple should take the Cyberpunk IP and fund a VR #mmorpg.
Or take their own SciFi IP - Foundation or maybe the upcoming Murderbot Diaries. Wouldn’t that be massive.
The personas are starting to look really good in #visionOS 1.1, take them all the way.
@finestructure as Cyberpunk runs ok with the Game Porting Toolkit and Luke Ross patched it to work with the Quest on Windows in VR maybe there is a mega hack to join both approaches..! That‘s be ACE! But as his patch is already a resource hog I guess it‘s not easy…
People who have worked at an office longer than me: when do you like buy pants? Sunday stores are closed in DE & Saturday is busy with all stuff like getting food and whatnot 🤔
@icanzilb Watch + cellular for me is only a convenience for fitness tracking, notifications, Shazam (on festivals) and ApplePay. Due to small screen most interactions happen on phone.
Anyone in my timeline with an opinion on scripting?
To design the plugin system in The Archive (note editing app) using JavaScriptCore, I'm faced which two options:
1️⃣ Make all plugins share a global context.
👍 Plugin authors could (ab)use this to share data between plugins via global variables. Cheap interop.
👎 Global let/const declarations share the global namespace. To be safe, wrap the script in a function?
2️⃣ Isolate/delete plugin contexts.
👍 Privacy! Easy to clean up!
👎 No free interop.
@ctietze I‘d vote for 2️⃣ and then offer a simple (aka UserDefault) shared data container from the start.
Maybe @simonbs has more insights from Scriptable on this?
The Apple Watch seems more popular than ever, why are Watch Apps disappearing?
More and more apps are losing their Watch Apps when they are updated. The new #vw App comes without watch app, and the "DB Next Navigator“ by #deutschebahn is lacking it as well. And these are only two examples.
Apple is making it a lot easier to create Watch Apps. Does anyone care to check if these are now React or Flutter Apps, which can't take advantage of the shared technology?
@below while 90% of use cases are covered by Apples app already, creating a useful #watchOS app is either blocked by limited SDK or poor 3rd party support by Apple: sync, connectivity, background processes, view updates in complications are a major PITA. A USP like streaming services for aTV is non existent as well - still no custom watch faces. And let’s not start discussing dicoverability and monetisation.
@gernot@below widgets indeed sound promising but in reality their limiting interactivity (slow single tap? after a decade of multitouch?) is a pity. Me guessing they will fade soon…
How Strada with #turboNative renders both HTML and iOS native buttons.
I've been meaning to look into Hotwire and Turbolinks years ago but never had a cool web project to even start with this. Naturally I didn't understand the docs either. So Joe's overview is very useful!
