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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> If I didn't want a walled garden, I'd get an Android phone. Out of curiosity, if Android didn't exist, or was just as locked down as iOS would you feel differently about this?
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> So what happens if the Vision Pro becomes the best interface to general-purpose computing this is exactly my fear The people who present Android vs iOS as a matter of personal choice are being slightly disingenuous. They are pretending
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I thought about this quite a bit when my phone and table started supporting Samsung Dex. It's a great system and I could literally do every single thing I need to on my phone. In the end I couldn't justify it though. It's rea
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
same here, totally mystified. One of my favorite subreddits went over to Discord and apart from the UI/UX being horrific, it doesn't seem to replicate much of the Reddit experience. It's just a giant chat session with a few s
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Interesting. But I'd say it still fits with the narrative. 5% is a good "we practice fiscal constraint" message. To get back to a reasonable cost basis, they need to lay off 50%, which would send a totally different message.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
They'd be overrun by spam, bots and worse within hours without the moderators. That's the real leverage here.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I think a different approach would work better at this point. They need to stay up but use their subreddits to publicly plan Reddit "exits" for each community. Subreddits should start polls on where migrate to (discord, lemmy, mas
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Within an app, the challenge would be identifying they occupy the same space and mapping into the same coordinate system. Easier for VR mode than AR mode, where your mapping can be pretty arbitrary to the available bounds Absolutely. I
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
yeah it's sad I guess but half the reason I am recommending this is that it "just works" so much more easily than installing half the Python ecosystem into a conda environment (ironically, just so that Python can then behave
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I really like the idea of a micro-subscription. I want to contribute to online content but nearly always people are asking north of $5/month, and I have massive subscription fatigue at that level. I wish the UI was more basic. All the
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
to layer on top of those: half the modern developer ecosystem via VSCode.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> I do have to say, I really dislike the card design that seems pretty much ubiquitous at this point Maybe I'm showing my age, but honestly I think UI design for this type of site peaked at a list of blue links 20 years ago. It&#x27
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
If Apple allows it then I fully expect 3rd parties to make controllers. Now that Meta has demonstrated fully self tracked controllers, you don't need much OS integration to make that work. Of course, it depends if Apple allows it.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Shared space interaction was notably missing from the keynote. I'm very curious what the vision for the platform for it will be. Meta has put a lot of focus on it so there are a bunch of Quest apps and games where people inhabit the sa
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I think it's one of the things they got right with the Quest Pro. It doesn't touch your face and is carefully designed so that all the support is via the forehead. It causes discomfort for some people but the upside is you put it
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> When I sat down to write this article I was having trouble context shifting back from WWDC mode and wished that I could have gone up to a virtual cabin in the woods, opened a text editor and written it there I do this all the time with
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
An interesting corollary to this is how toxic latency is to productivity. If in attempting to do "one thing" I get blocked for say, 2 minutes - what then? The answer is, I switch to something else. But now, I'm not doing &quo
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
That's sort of the flip side of the coin. Google firmly believes that technology can solve everything and humans shouldn't need to be involved out of principle. So they build a great UI, great tools for devs and engineers to use,
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
The difference here is Zuckerberg gets to be the equivalent of both Samsung and Google in the Android analogy. That's going to unlock far more opportunities for ecosystem profit than Android did when split b/w OEMs and Google.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Definitely. It was a big surprise to me that they went for "giant thing on head with amazing performance" instead of "amazingly light weight thing you can barely feel and on par with best headsets available". I'm su
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
It implies that the bare costs of serving the API requests are the issue (subsidising means, it costs us more to provide you something than you pay us for it). Reddit wants to charge $0.24/1k API calls. That doesn't seem to be rea
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Wouldn't surprise me if the "official" Reddit app is now weighed down by a metric tonne of compliance that none of the other apps have to do. Not that it explains shipping actively user experience degrading features, but it c
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Whenever you see a smart person doing things that seem to make no logical sense you seek out missing information that would unlock a logical explanation. I am curious really here about Huffman's behaviour. He may be quite incompetent (
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
yep .... and Apple has the same problem The fundamental question is what are they really useful for after the novelty wears off. It's not clear to me that Apple has done anything to change that fundamental issue.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
20M people bought Quests. More than x-box in the same period. I find this writing off of their sales achievements as really superficial. Whatever else you want to say, they shifted units and the people buying them wanted something he was
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
For me the million dollar question is whether he chooses to try to compete directly with it (as in, Quest Pro 2 with increased specs) or if he tries to comfortably settle into the low end and leave the high end to Apple. I really do hope he
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Quest 3 will up the resolution and still be 1/7th the price. The question I think is whether it's enough, but recent head sets (Quest Pro) with pancake lenses are pretty close and Quest 3 will be more. It may be enough for most pe
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
That's fine with him, he doesn't want to make profits from the hardware.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position I think Zuckerberg would be elated if it plays out like iPhone vs Android.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
The sticking point is the silicon which they don't control. After watching Android flail for 10 years unable to match Apple's ARM processors in phones, I'm unfortunately not super optimistic that Meta can influence Qualcomm t

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