dan-allen

Oh lord. Sorry they’re doing that to you. Chargeback?

Of fucking course

Of ducking course they are.

There’s not a strong enough incentive not to.

Companies have pulled crap like this a million times and the vast majority of the time just get a slap on the wrist.

I keep checking in on OpenTelemetry every few months to see if the bits we need are stable yet. There’s been very little progress on the things we’re waiting for.

I don’t follow closely enough to comment on possible causes.

What I do know is that the surface area of code and infrastructure that telemetry touches means adopting something unfinished is a big leap of faith.

Oh that’s interesting and I think you’re right. Software as it’s developed today is very abstract but spreadsheets have a visual representation that makes them much more approachable.

Good!

I’m not sure what to expect. Apple is better than average at finding good applications of technology for regular people.

On the other hand, Apple is below average in integrating network functionality (iCloud’s many early problems, frequent performance issues with Music and the App Store).

Finally, they had a huge lead with Siri but never settled on a path for growing it.

I’m hopeful they’ll do some really interesting stuff here. I also wouldn’t be surprised if they miss the mark.

Project management actually seems like a good candidate for open-source. It seems like companies often need customizations. I could imagine forks for different industries.

Yeah iPad hardware is sadly limited by software and I think Apple shoots themselves in the foot.

It took them a long time to start allowing apps to use meaningful amounts of ram and managing custom fonts is a mess.

I also suspect the limited number of “pro” apps is partly thanks to how the App Store runs. If I were going to invest in developing powerful software for iPad, being at App Review’s whims and ever-changing policies seems like a pretty big risk.

This isn’t the first time this has happened.

They’ve had the exact same issue just affecting a smaller number of users and have never acknowledged it.

You can find lots of reports on the OpenAI discord.

I have exactly the same workflow: VSCode when I want a specific extension and Sublime as a fallback.

I think a lot of people don’t notice the difference but I can’t un-notice it.

Huge generated files and whatnot, VSCode just spins but Sublime opens them instantly.

Not to knock VSCode: it’s amazing what they’ve done especially comparing it to other web-stack apps (like what is Slack doing that it’s slower than VSCode with 6 extensions running?!).

Even when things are running smoothly, the just-perceptible delay in switching files or a slight stutter scrolling feels like the digital equivalent of working with a cheap tool.

The cheap ratchet is a little sloppy and occasionally the pawl doesn’t catch but it still does all the same stuff. Yet Snap-On still has customers.

Thanks for sharing this. You’ve articulated a nuanced balance very well.

Like how a serf could move their crops to a more generous lord.

It’s a false dichotomy that you either have one monopolistic company or perfect competition. Like almost everything, it’s a spectrum.

Apple and Google aren’t monopolies, they’re oligopolies. That’s better but a far cry from efficient competition. Compare their 30% App Store cut to online stock brokers which charge single-digit percentage fees and also require significant infrastructure and compliance overhead. They’d love to charge more but they’re in a sea of competitors who would eagerly steal away their customers.