Why did I make it?

During my travels to the US and Canada, I wanted to see prices in my currency. however, in both countries, prices are shown BEFORE tax. which adds more confusion.

This conversion apps uses location and locale to try and automatically provide estimations closer to what you'll pay based on your location. It's limited (since tax differs between products) but it's good enough to get a better estimation.

It also includes nice overview of tipping customs (I do hope to make this into an open wiki based if enough demand exists), and Tax Free information.

While I do hope to introduce Android release, It's written in SwiftUI and benefits from Apple's frameworks. so it targets iDevices (iPhone, iPads/Apple Silicon and Apple Watch)

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Currently I pay about $5/month for my VPS provider and $0 for some static sites CloudFlare's free deployment connected to my git repos is more than sufficient.

Just searching for “pric” in the comments will show you hundreds of references.

At the end of the day, it’s a streaming stick.

For $300 or here it’s €350 - this is unjustifiable.

But as always, there are rivals trying to set their tone on what’s the standard. We all wish there was one unified agreed concept that will work but I guess the most common one will eventually survive.

Just as Microsoft in a sense embraces Linux with WSL and also Apple has their virtualization framework.

I hope we’ll eventually get unified model management system to include also permissions designed properly

Now here we see a fully blown suite which is already alarming for basic testability.

Also, we had several apps targeting directly at Adobe in the past.

* Blackmagic DaVinci is the biggest, and it also bought several companies to start fusing a one-stop solution.

* Affinity also started with single app that got attention before being swallowed into Canva.

Leaving compatibility and ui-workflow (which is important to existing users), It's much more sane to start and focus on a single app instead of a fully blown package.

From Adobe/Creative Cloud users, I do know Acrobat Pro is one of the problematic apps they have in terms (it freezes, guess a lot of legacy code, etc). And yet, even where there is some competition on PDF editors, Acrobat is still strong also due to UX and features.

But I think the "new world" is, we are over stimulated (eg. agents ask us 'permissions' for a long command) so we might give a sudo not fully aware of it where a big bold UX message box after a 'pseudo' sudo would better catch our eyes.

So it seems this is about adding additional layers over already existing ones in a way?

Interesting if this is due to concrete reason or not.

I know some younger gens are looking for phoneless experiences, but for that price you can find old devices and simply recycle their usage. There are enough roms aimed and making a “dumb” mp3 player and include 3.5” and decent audio.

So I wonder if I miss something. The fomo here is messing with me.

While testing it locally Codex by itself suggests using CF Tunnels but what's more interesting it actually used the Quick Tunnels.

Coming from days where I get warnings of vibe-coded generated code using deprecated code or older APIs, I must say using something so fresh is quite impressive.

And I'm sure everyone remembers ransomware.

No one is saying OS shouldn't have security measures, permissions/entitlements and app sandboxing, user land, etc.

I still don't understand why my desktop/laptop is allowed to be 'owned' by me. but my iPhone is a closed-gardened where I'm just a guest in a device I own. and that's nearly what Google is now doing.

But is it just me or other folks feel uncanny seeing "a machine" playing Doom with low-latency as the first demo.

While I'm optimistic that humanity is good (but sometimes makes bad decisions), My first thought was seeing such models used by armies.

My banking works in my 'unprotected' computer browser. So I'd expect giving anyone equivalent freedom. I don't mind if there's a default for gate-keepers as long as they allow competition. but I would expect to have same freedom on my mobile devices as on my laptop.

With mobile devices especially where ideally models could be shared across several apps.

But this specific code I'd assume is targeted to comply with EU regulations more than anything.

OT:

Since I've moved to Spain my principal Apple account is still in my home country but I've made another one for local app-store (since some local apps aren't available if you're not in the Spanish store).

iPhone is acting really strange, I'm logged to my principal account for iCloud+ and anything and local App Store.

If I log back to my principal account, I loose HCE mode and my building NFC app stops working until I re-log in the Spanish Apple Store.

If I'm logged at the Spanish account, I loose Siri AI which is blocked in the EU...

Personally, the landing page itself hurts my trust of the goal.

Why?

When we think of a browser, before anything. We want something that feels snappy and performant. Even if the browser IS snappy. the fact that this page feels unresponsive in a way on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro. already raises concerns of performance.

For my sanity, I've tried Vivaldi's website, Brave's website. All feels "light" and scrolling is a breeze on Safari.

Those are just my few cents, but I'm pretty sure others might feel the same when making a landing page for any product where it should feel responsive.

Regulation.

For China I would assume like other services, if there's some cloud involved, it should be on Chinese soil and accessible to China.

For EU harder to guess, but again the lock-in with "Private Cloud Computing" feels related.

While the Duo is more subtle for some changes, it might show us the "new" Apple where the innovation comes from fine-tuning and getting a mature product to the market.

At least from their presentation, it looks like they sat on the fence and looked at pretty much any good or bad thing that happened during the past years.

Seeing some reviews on the Samsung Fold for example, mentioned the speakers feeling weird as the audio orientation is fixed to the speakers location. Those little details make a difference.

I really hope modern Apple would go back to the details and nuances.

[1] https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_XP_Tablet_PC_Edition

Then you have experience and skills.

Someone with zero skills in music will be able to make a 'song' but a savvy producer would use tools differently and could leverage them to actually make something creative.

Anyone can make an app those days (or a website or whatever) but mileage varies based on one's nature, also the gotchas of someone with zero knowledge of a field could result issues that someone with experience would've noticed and resolved much earlier or avoided completely.

Me with zero knowledge in architecture can "design" my house but I wouldn't trust my plan without someone looking at it.

AI and AGI provides great lengths in empowering but it might also introduce the false feeling of being capable.

Creativity, capability and motivation still takes important place even with AI.

Anyway, the flying toasters has some meditation vibe. Even compared to screensavers back then.

Nice anecdote, With all the changes, screensavers have become less usable with screens being able to simply turn off pixels while toasters are still being used everyday.

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to get your order at rush hours, but the culture tolerates patience and waiting.