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by gffrd 1y ago
I do. The precedent it sets is bad. You're expected to show up as a real person … but the company doesn't have to?
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by gffrd 1y ago
Squint/blur your eyes as you skim the list of icons. Think of this as an approximation of peripheral / partial vision. Some new icons fare well, other are a muddy mess. The glass metaphor seems inconsistently used in iconography,
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by gffrd 1y ago
> there is no equivalent business model for selling local first software. Sure there is: “$500 upfront or $21/mo for 24 months *” * if you don’t complete you 24 payments, we freeze your license.
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by gffrd 1y ago
Huh?
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by gffrd 1y ago
I mean … it looks an awful lot like an evolution of the prior one to me. It's being billed as a major departure, but the elements, relationships, and how you interact with them remain unchanged. They're rolling it out across their
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by gffrd 1y ago
> If people cared, then all iOS apps would use standard styling, but the matter of fact is that every app has its own style, which does not stop at colors. This assumes they have a choice between equivalent apps that OS-integrated and o
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by gffrd 1y ago
… but people _do_ care about consistency. They're willing to accept a certain amount of "specialization" for things they care about deeply / use all the time / demand unique approaches, but people like things to loo
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by gffrd 1y ago
why is it a terrible idea?
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by gffrd 1y ago
Agree. There will always be operators … the goal would be to get numbers as low as possible while also forcing/keeping illegitimate operators out. I acknowledge this means funneling those left to a small number who will make lots of mo
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by gffrd 1y ago
I’ll go further: I hope they ban sports betting altogether. It was a mistake, and we should accept that.
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by gffrd 1y ago
From the article: "The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user's surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one's pocket or on one's desk" "Ive and Altman's intent is to hel
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by gffrd 1y ago
"We both got excited about the idea that, if you subscribed to ChatGPT, we should just mail you new computers, and you should use those," Altman said. Interesting …
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by gffrd 1y ago
> finally just dying Is this what would happen if we got slurped into a black hole? I was hoping for something more exciting …
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by gffrd 2y ago
A real user will be worse … but that’s kinda the point. The most valuable thing you learn in usability/research is not if your experience works, but the way it’ll be misinterpreted, abused, and bent to do things it wasn’t designed to
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by gffrd 2y ago
"Plenty of cheap houses in Minnesota!"
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by gffrd 2y ago
The good news: by the time parent's 13 dies, we'll all have computers embedded in our brains! Checkmate!
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by gffrd 2y ago
Hard-to-differentiate product offerings tend to drive people into the waiting arms of higher-spec (and cost) products, while still allowing a company to make a claim for a certain pricepoint. You see this in telecom a lot.
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by gffrd 2y ago
I would have loved to seen their expression … That's like an actor breaking character during a play and it pops the bubble of reality the audience has been living in.
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by gffrd 2y ago
True! On that … - It's generally easier for people to know what they _don't_ like than what they _do_. Preferences are defined by process of elimination. - The commonality is: get lots of people on the same page about you, and you
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by gffrd 2y ago
> the only way to achieve broad appeal is to not offend anyone's tastes and the only way to do that is to be bland Careful. While I agree with the premise, you make it sound binary. You can have broad-er appeal while still being ind
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by gffrd 2y ago
You’re missing the point. OP is saying don’t be the person who says they want to write about Frogs, but who then spends an immense amount of effort not writing about Frogs, and writing about procrastination instead.
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by gffrd 2y ago
How does it not? If I understand what you're saying, it's that you don't want the calendar to adjust any times based on location/timezone. What I believe tour perfect scenario to be: you enter an event for 10am (even if
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by gffrd 2y ago
Intersting. I have noticed that on the mornings where I do some exertion before anything else—a run, some yoga, etc.—that my ability to "receive" and process the things that come at me is so much better. It feels like there's
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by gffrd 2y ago
I’d be interested to hear how you’ve learned to moderate your response to frustration more effectively. Practices? Medication? Etc.
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by gffrd 2y ago
That does seem like it would be confusing, especially the first time around. That said, you are able to fix your calendar to a specified time zone: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/schedule-display-even...
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by gffrd 2y ago
I've had many mice, and I've never had one fail. I've got mice that are over 20 years old and still work. So unless you are the hulk and not aware of it, I have to wonder if something else in your environment is affecting the
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by gffrd 2y ago
> Those little mini speaker voice assistant things aren’t even in the same ball park. If they stick to their target audience they’ll be fine. Sonos' product is convenience, experience, and decent audio, in that order. Mini speaker v
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by gffrd 2y ago
It's like watching a transmission from an alien civilization: zero point of reference, zero shared language … and at the end, I'm left puzzling about what I even saw.
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by gffrd 2y ago
People love consistency, traditions, being in the loop, having their internal monologues reflected back to them … and most importantly, the possibility that things go sideways on live TV. SNL has all of these things. "The product is ne
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by gffrd 2y ago
It's hard for me to believe this is the main reason, but I'd love to be shown otherwise. My instinct is to think it's fuel on a fire that was already burning - declining sales across the market, smart speakers taking a big sl

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