I have exactly the same experience, usually after 3 years I'm desperate for new Mac but right now I genuinely think I'd prefer not to change. I have absolutely no issues with my M1 Pro, battery and performance is still great.
I expect the majority of people really aren't bothered about this though - just a vocal minority, so although maybe a bad ad for some, I expect the benefits of the publicity of this ad far outweight the downsides.
I wouldn't have paid any attention to a new iPad launch or known that it was the thinnest one yet, without this 'bad' press.
If anything, I'd say I'd be more likely to purchase a new iPad as a result
The publicity might be a short term win but there is a dangerous narrative for Apple that it feeds: that they are no longer a design-obsessed company that prizes art and creativity and channels that obsession to build the best products.
A vocal minority of artists and creatives who are precious about the tactile and aesthetic experiences of using the tools of their trades could also be called “Apple’s target market for the iPad Pro.” So Apple would definitely need to care about the sentiments their ads engender.
Use Lemmy which has a good number of FOSS clients already. If you miss the content from specific subreddits, there are instances that mirror the content. If you still really want to interact with people on Reddit, I am working on a bridge.
Not yet, but once the bridges are set up, you will be able to find the content on the Fediverse (it's stored in the mirrors) and you'll be able to reach the people no matter where they are.
I've tried on several occasions, but I just haven't found those niches yet on Lemmy (I use it through kBin). It's kinda there but also still kinda empty one you go outside the more general feeds.
The sad reality is a lot of reddit operated off the minority of power users. And those power users are either still on Reddit, went somewhere else entirely (maybe Discord), or are "retired". The network effect will take a while to overcome, if it's overcome at all.
That’s still like a 10 year lag time. If the process to find those answers involves anything beyond typing in the query followed by “fediverse” or whatever on google, it’s not going to happen.
This is a separate issue. I'm not saying "don't ever visit Reddit again", I'm saying "You should be able to follow and interact with the subreddits through Lemmy".
Apollo was the only way I used Reddit - the browser experience is meh, and I’m almost always using Old Reddit when I go there on desktop or mobile because it’s just easier to get what I’m looking for. Once Old gets the axe I’m sure I’ll be there even less than I am now.
It’s a bummer too - I think my weekly screen time report had me using Apollo on average like 6 hours a day, I was very active in a couple small and fun communities, and the places with news relevant to me were all subbed and easily surfaced. Losing my primary tool was all it took to take me from a pretty engaged and active user to someone who stops by because a search result took me there.
The idea is that Lemmy instance admins can use this service alongside their Lemmy server to provide two things:
- "Login with Reddit", to make it easier for people to create an account on the Lemmy server.
- A reddit-to-lemmy community map.
The idea is that when someone logs with Reddit OAuth, we can get their list of subreddits, and then auto-subscribe the user to the corresponding Lemmy communities, solving the onboarding issue and the content discovery in one go.
There is also a website, https://fediverser.network, where I'm crowdsourcing the data to make the mapping between subreddits to lemmy communities.
"Twilio Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Lawson is stepping down from leading the software company he co-founded amid slowing sales growth and pressure from activist investors."
“The move is not likely to stave off the activists at Anson Funds and Legion Partners. Both are pushing for the company to sell itself or completely divest its data & applications business, CNBC previously reported.”
What a shit sandwich. Not everything needs to be a hockey stick. There's is an angle of the growth line that should not be exceeded because above that level of growth seldom is a good situation for the consumer.
The problem is that Twilio is not profitable. They wouldn't need to show a hockey stick if they were. Investor-subsidized, non-profitable companies have to sell growth to their investors because they have no other fundamental to point to.
Indeed, either take the investment and the dragons that will come to burn your village or grow slow and own your future (Basecamp/37signals), but make peace with that you’re always going to be small (but it’ll at least be yours).
instead of posting a poorly informed take, you should go and have a look at their list of product offerings. They havent been just a "notification API" for a long time now.
I personally like brand names that _look_ like they could be words, but aren't like Spotify, Twitter, Monzo, Reddit, Google etc.
Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com.
Not particularly a fan of combining two English words together like Facebook, Freetrade, GitHub etc. but the worst is when companies try to own a common word like Apple.
> In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße.
