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Notion transitions to faster native mobile apps, and introduces new features(notion.so)
6 points by spideymans 4y ago|0 comments
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by spideymans 4y ago
Nothing I’ve seen from the major players in this industry (Meta, Epic, etc…), has convinced me that they’re capable of doing better. I do hope I’m wrong though.
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by spideymans 4y ago
> The children may have loved KidPix, but it was nearly impossible to teach with since they were fixated with the animated effects. KidsPix was the greatest :)
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Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Search and Maps(techcrunch.com)
1 points by spideymans 4y ago|0 comments
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by spideymans 4y ago
Users have been complaining about Google Search being awful for a while now. It’s only a matter of time before a radical incumbent totally changes the game. TikTok’s search solves the SEO spam problem, and the content feels more organic. If
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“I Don’t Google Anymore. I TikTok.”(buzzfeednews.com)
29 points by spideymans 4y ago|14 comments
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by spideymans 4y ago
I’m really disappointed that the M2 Air doesn’t support two external displays. I don’t need the bulky expensive MacBook Pro. The M1 Air is already far more powerful than I need. I really hope this isn’t artificial market segmentation by App
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by spideymans 4y ago
The developers at my company basically staged a revolt because we were so sick of out windows notebooks (yes, I’m being dramatic for effect). We’re all immediately moving over to M1/M2. > I've decided I want to work for a compa
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by spideymans 4y ago
Once you experience a computer that is absolutely silent, it’s really hard to go back to a normal laptop. My windows notebook spins it’s fan constantly and it drives me crazy. I have to put the machine to sleep and unplug the charger just t
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by spideymans 4y ago
I’ve realized that the only reason I desired a touch screen on windows notebooks was because windows trackpads are so awful. Even on high end $3,000+ machines. The Mac trackpads are so responsive that they feel every bit as good as having a
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by spideymans 4y ago
Phenomenal. The best computers I’ve ever used. My MacBook Air never has fan noise, never gets hot, and never thermal throttles. The battery lasts so long that I go days between charging it. The machine feels faster and more responsive tha
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by spideymans 4y ago
> I think the main difference (besides storage and peripherals) is active cooling Haha, I read your comment, and my first thought was a dismissive, “who cares about active cooling”. Which really says something about how insanely power ef
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by spideymans 4y ago
If the M2 Air supported two displays, I’d have no reason whatsoever to buy the expensive MacBook Pro. The M1/M2 Air is already so ridiculously overpowered for my needs. Which is probably why the Air doesn’t support two displays. Sigh.
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by spideymans 4y ago
>I concur, recruiting now and everyone wants to use swift ui, but uikit, horrible as it is, is the only option for our complex ui That's interesting. UIKit is by far my favoured UI development framework (whether on web or mobile). I
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by spideymans 4y ago
>This is a huge reason why “Open this in our app!1!” is a thing as well. The alternative isn’t browsing a mobile site through Safari, it’s using whatever social media app led you there in the first place. Yes. The popularity of Instagram
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by spideymans 4y ago
I agree completely. Native iOS and Android apps are fantastic in that, as long as you're willing to follow Apple's/Google's guidelines, it's pretty easy to create great user experiences and highly maintainable softw
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by spideymans 4y ago
This doesn't explain why PWAs are still a rarity on Android though. You'd think that the ability to target both desktop (web) and Android (web/PWA) would've attracted more developer interest. I can't really comment
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by spideymans 4y ago
Are you describing MVVM? If so, I completely agree.
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by spideymans 4y ago
I find that SwiftUI is fantastic for small, self-contained views, that don’t have any complex custom behaviour, and don’t deal with navigation logic. For anything more complex that that, I’d strongly urge falling back to UIKit
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by spideymans 4y ago
There’s some recognition within apple that push notifications were a mistake (at least as they’re implemented today). iOS 15 introduced notification filters and notification summaries iOS 16 doesn’t even show notifications on the Lock Scree
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by spideymans 4y ago
We’ve been hearing about web being the future of mobile apps for at least 15 years now. Yet alas, mobile users still spend the vast majority of their time in native apps. What’s going wrong here? I feel like we’re spinning our tires in th
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by spideymans 4y ago
At some point the industry needs to have an honest discussion with itself about the state of the UX of the open web. I feel like we keep telling ourselves the mobile web is fine because we have PWAs and all these other native-like gizmos, b
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by spideymans 4y ago
A lot of developers seem convinced that Apple will abandon UIKit for SwiftUI, but I just can’t see it happening for this reason
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by spideymans 4y ago
Yup, that would work. I wish the EU had gone with this solution rather than the current regulations. However I can’t help but feel that the “loopholes” in the current regulations were intentional. Politicians have a history of rolling out r
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by spideymans 4y ago
>The most natural implementation of the EU directive would be to have a place in User Settings where users can go and enable targeted advertising if they want it. And why would we assume that these companies would follow the "most n
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by spideymans 4y ago
Recall how Google gimped Windows Phone support on the web, presumably to advantage their own platform and web services. My fear is that they'd do the same to Safari on iOS. They could break support on iOS, to force users to Chrome, whe
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by spideymans 4y ago
Often times idealic and well-intentioned measure have negative consequences. Just look at how the EU's cookie banners have eroded the UX of the open web as an example.
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by spideymans 4y ago
But they could make someone unproductive in an otherwise productive environment. Engineers are expensive, and every minute they spend fighting with equipment rather than being productive is costly.
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by spideymans 4y ago
Excuse me if this is a silly questions, but you got my imagination going. >A tennis ball mass black hole would go right through the Earth without too much fuss. The black hole's radius would be too small (smaller than an electron) t
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by spideymans 4y ago
Apple rescinding the rule that banned promotional notifications is one of the worst UX decisions they’ve ever made.

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