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Love it! Like the fair pricing scheme and no monthly subscriptions. Keep it going and we might move from helpscout’s overpriced bloated tool.

Just hate another subscription service.

Let’s just hope Adobe doesn’t buy it as they did and ruined Macromedia

Don't let me copypaste unnecessarily :0

Stop on holidays. Take champix. An cut alcohol and coffee for a few days and that'all you have to do quit.

So this is a direct pinboard comp?

Would be Nice to save enitre pages without paying extra

There are some basics you need to know: css/html/sql/php (or python)

Depending on your goal, the thing is that none of these you need to know as an expert, but need to know the knowledge to collaborate with other people on it.

But yes, the times that you could make “top notch” websites on your own: doing a photoshop design, doing the css/html and code it in bare php are over :)

This diagram is scrary and gives a feeling of overkill.

I’d love to switch to Linux - just to be able to work with a decent hardware laptop again. But can’t live without a few mac-only apps, like Sketch.

I find that iMac’s offer good value for money, but the Macbook Pro’s are horrible laptops.

I’m still convinced that Jobs was smart enough to build good machines for developers. Cook doesn’t care.

I still have an MBP 17”, still works great, battery is dead. I would’ve loved a new version of that machine under Jobs.

1500$ new iPhones, product lines not even being slightly updated... it’s a mess.

BUT: it’s nice to have your photos appear on your desktop and ipad and, it’s just easy.

As I got older, I started gaming less (or not at all anymore), and after alot of Mac bashing (14 years ago), and tired of installing Windows 93 every few months for every family member, a huge Apple adaptor: just because I want to get things done, work, get paid for that, and spend my free time not messing around with Window’s flaws. That’s biased, I know, things probably improved by now, but every time I picked up a MS tablet or was given one, I still felt it was wacky.

That said, I now have all Apple stuff, even though I’m not a Apple fanboy: I just want my stuff to work and spent my free time with my wife and kids.

This sums up that I have a Macbook Pro, Ipad Pro, and an iPhone. The Macbook Pro is imho, one of the worst products they ever made. Poor battery time, crappy keyboard, no escape key, the only nice thing about it is the screen.

My iPad Pro, on the other hand... is a work of art. An incredibly good battery time (btw, battery time is also not just living on the battery, but also: working on it without a electricity socket).

So it’s safe to assume that the Ipad’s are wayyy more energy friendly then the MBP’s.

What I don’t understand about Apple is that even though the iPad’s are great machines: we need people to build software for them. So, traditional PCs (where we can connect 2-3 monitors to, etc) are still essential. I think Cooke forgot about that. Jobs, nomatter what - still kept developers in mind.

I love my iPad, and am for regular browsing not using my overpriced MBP anymore. But to replace it? To get real work done? To have a “norton commander” like interface? I think it’s still along road to go to replace the traditional desktops. And btw, the Apple iMac’s are objectively good products, that’ll last a long time for a reasonable price.

It’s painful to see Lenovo releasing these frequent up-to-date great hardware laptops, and Apple, with all their billions in the bank, doing a minimalistic effort on even upgrading the Mac Mini, Mac Pro, etc.

Is it arrogance? Focus? Steve more awknoledging the coders, even in his own way?

Either way, with many Chinese developers introducing new hard and software features (foldable phones, wireless charging) and Apple always being late to the game (but then executing it well). I wonder what their strategy is there for the moment. I know no-one of my family is going to put +1000$ for a new phone.

To me, the biggest key Apple has is MacOS which is superior to any OS out there, in consistency and user-friendlyness for any end-user. Oh: and everything looks pretty and intuitive too. Even for my mom.

I hope they step up their game and make things more dev friendly, otherwise it’ll be a open game, and really soon.

They are basically not allowed to have a real army, still just like Japan, "only defence armies".

I'm not talking about offense acts or actions. I'm talking about being allowed to do miletary R&D and actually being allowed to have a real army out there. They don't.

So how far off is it to assume they're assertive with AI to make up for it?

Germany is still not allowed to have an offensive army, so it makes a lot of sense to at least stay first class in tech, and in AI, in order to stay relevant as a world leader for the future.

I’ve been pondering about a solution for this as well. Personal CRM, what a great idea I thought to myself.

Just even to remember all parents and kids names of the people I meet through my own 2 kids; at school, soccer,... it’s be great if there was a mature app for that

But it’d need an mobile app too.

Unfortunately availability of many of the products mentioned here are limited in Europe, require int shipping and which makes it also hard to try out and send it back. So it becomes tricky looking at a 300 Euro somehthing product

I would recommend normal online trainings (which you can do without pressure), getting some good books and have the discipline to stick with it.

MOOCs are trendy but hard to keep up with if anything uncertain popups up in your life, or you can't keep up because you don't have the skills yet etc.

MOOCs in it's current form are not particularly interesting unless, or even sustainable for the large audience it's been appealing to --- unless you're a student or someone with plenty of time.