Yeah, not surprised at all. Apple’s known to recruit some of the smartest new grads and existing hardware engineers. At Berkeley, they were heavily investing in computer engineering such as our research and classes. One CE class was literally created by Apple.
Is the apple card even worth getting? I feel like I make maybe at most 1-2 Apple purchases a year besides the monthly $10 iCloud family subscription I have.
I’m kinda pleasantly surprised AllTrails won. I love the app so much for hikes and runs so glad it gets its laurels :)
Classic Apple. There’s a reason why they have the top 3 market cap
Features I’ve added since the feedback from this post:
UPDATE 11/29/23: Made the whole app with premium features free for now. Will work on building a better kids app and adding to the educational and entertainment value for kids.
If anyone has any feedback, please let me know on how I can improve. Thanks for taking the time.
Thank you to those who already emailed me. I realized it’s best to make this free for now and source as much feedback as possible.
Thanks everyone for their honest thoughts - especially those who gave feedback that was constructive and actionable.
Thanks man - appreciate the kind words. I had a similar line of thinking and glad that others do too.
lol just googled this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp. they kepp getting away w this
Here are some resources I took a look at that helped me get jumpstarted that are helpful: https://www.youtube.com/c/iOSAcademy, https://www.hackingwithswift.com/read/36/overview, https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS
Also, unrelated to iOS, but I love Designing Intensive Data Systems by Martin Klepman. Is very helpful for designing large scale software including iOS.
Added more ways to access premium feature
Thank you to those who mentioned about price. I appreciate it.
Yeah Apple prices everything - literally everything 3-5x more than everyone else. For example their developer license costs $99 compared to $25 for Google’s developer license. They also take a fat cut from developer in app sales.
They should be held to a higher standard IMO. 100% agree.
Amazing - glad to see indie developers getting the attention they deserve :)
Yeah we really need these antitrust reforms - just look up how many / what subsidiaries Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. own. For example, Microsoft owns GitHub (biggest market share for CI / CD platform) and basically owns OpenAI (biggest market share for GPTs / AI).
Woah - how does this compare to Samsung / Pixel flagship cameras?
That’s crazy… Do they have like a simple mechanism to detect this like if < .001ms?
Found this from my GF. When you send a message on a iMessage and hold down the “send arrow” button for a few seconds, you can send it in a fun format like “gentle”, “slam”, etc. It’s pretty funny to do
Do people think it’s worth upgrading from M1 MBP Stock 14inch to M3? Macbooks in general are pretty expensive so I try to wait till my laptop is way too slow / about to die to upgrade but M3 looks pretty great from a performance standpoint.
Finally Apple does the right thing… Seems like they only listen when regulators breathe down their shoulder. Man it was always frustrating to text my friends with android - I love all the iMessage features and wished there was a shared protocol much earlier.
Kinda surprised - goldman was losing lots of money with the Apple card. Surprised JP Morgan would take the risk per se.