machello13

No, but if that's the only benefit, I'll happy give that up in exchange for not having to deal with HTTPS.

This is definitely offputting:

> If you're unhappy with the price, then please feel free to take 6 years to learn, test out, write-up and maintain everything contained in the 100+ pages of my new eBook.

Or maybe I'll just buy a cheaper book from someone else?

> those who are often don't think it's fixable

Yeah I pretty much agree with you and I fall into this category myself. It's obvious we need a movement like that, but society (as it exists right now) won't even acknowledge the need, let alone would actually tolerate the existence of such a movement. Maybe my grandchildren will be able to live in a world that's kinder to men.

> While "man flu" is a popular term for men getting excuses to complain and play on a computer during a minor infection

I always find it funny how we're supposed to be in an age of fighting sexism but the rise of bizarre gendered stereotypes like this — to the point where articles are getting written about them as if they're real phenomenon! — is baffling. Imagine articles about "woman flu" for the (also stereotypically common) phenomenon of women constantly being sick.

Is it a web app or just a static site? I still haven't seen a good argument for why static sites (blogs, personal sites, etc. that process no user information) should implement HTTPS.

Which regions have this? I'm in the US and haven't seen it.

Right, it sounds like we're on the same page. My point is that those apps are _worse_. They're just also cheaper to build.

> For reasons I don't totally understand, the platform vendors are themselves constantly invalidating the information in users' heads, so there's simply less in there for application developers to build on anyway.

To be honest, I'm not sure this is true. macOS has had pretty much 1 major redesign in recent memory (Big Sur), and even that is mostly a visual update -- functionality is all still there and works the same. Toolbar buttons are still toolbar buttons, you can still drag and drop them around, etc etc. In practice, the amount that actually "churned" is pretty small.

> Does it need to be? Not anymore.

I disagree. The fact that most users don't explicitly care is irrelevant — platform conventions are important. They teach a user how to use a new app without having to poke around. Users can drag and drop from one app to another and it just works.

I certainly see the argument that for many companies, it's simply too expensive to write native apps for every platform. But I don't think we need to pretend that non-native apps aren't worse — they're just economical and generally, even at their best, just _okay_.

> it's easy to mistakenly compare a $1000 laptop with a $500 laptop that doesn't have a video card.

Lol, come on dude. "Yeah I can see where you're coming from, if you're an idiot it's easy to think Apple is good."

> The employees now have a proof ("my work output hasn't decreased during covid") and want to renegotiate their contracts.

Are you sure? Plenty of companies have experienced lots of issues with communication and velocity during covid. I don't think you can declare, in general, that WFH was not a blow to productivity. Granted, I don't think you can declare that it _was_, but it certainly seems dependent on the type of person and the type of company. Your experience is not everyone's.

No, not natively in the sense the built-in Camera app can do it, but that's not what the comment was saying.

Nope, previous iPhones also supported RAW photos (my iPhone Xs does).

you knew what he meant so what difference does it make?