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For me reviews act as curation. If something is 7+ on one of my favorite review sites, i’m going to listen to it. A very useful service in a time when the music stream is seemingly endless and as you say, almost free.

A good measure for an Apple product was for me always: it makes tech disappear. That was always the differentiator, I feel: it doesn’t feel like tech and it doesn’t look like it.

Now, I guess, it makes reality disappear?

As somebody who worked for the European Commission, and a european national government, I agree with your sentiment, but the harsh reality is that government divisions in generally work on a shoe string budget, when it comes to decisions like these. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a “best effort given the circumstances” move.

Side comment: I respect the author’s right to choose words that ring well to them, but jeez, as a non native english speaker, reading this, i am happy my device has a dictionary function.

The film was released in 1940, I feel you are understating it’s timelyness.

Still doing weekly live dj sets with my macbook from 2013, editing in Logic, researching music online, listening to Spotify,… Except for the battery, there is nothing wrong with this device of more than 10 years old.

The use of icons lies not in understanding it the first time, it’s something that you learn to recognise. And that makes them more recognisable at the long term, or easier to find in moments when speed is of the essence. Like your example of the train. A conductor learned what they meant and trained with them. Just like a dj knows what every icon on his dj table means.

That also means icons don’t have to make sense visually, they just need to be recognised and distinguished.

Text is for when you have time or no idea, icons are for when you have to decide quick and you understand what you are doing.

A big proportion of visitors will never see these sites at their astronomical best, as they will visit it with their phone.

Sites with animations and crazy stuff happening on desktop, but then show a small subset of that design on mobile are like ad campaigns made for Cannes: fun for the industry, but misses the mark in terms of market value.

I wonder if you are trolling or being serieus, because me and literally everyone i know would use this feature extensively. For powerpoints, school presentations, birthday cards. 50% of the time I fired up Word, it would be for that feature.

In product design, Personas are a way to agree on jobs to be done, scope the work and help find new ideas for features.

In Marketing it helps to brief agencies and to talk about a big group of people in a less homogeneous way.

One person can be in multiple persona categories, and personas can change or evolve over time.

I don’t see the “dystopian” aspect in it, nor do Insee it demolish any idea.

It’s just a tool.

I’m talking out of ignorance her, so please educate me: if you take into account the black swan theory both kaplan meier and Lindy effect can’t say anything about anything, no?

Betting?

Thank you for taking the time and attention to write this up. I find your insights valuable, and I tend to agree.

I think my hesitance towards the ad world is coming from my personal experience. I’ve worked at marketing agencies and as digital strategist for a company, so I saw both sides of the chain. My guess is there are a lot of companies that don’t know how to get the highest value out of online ads, and these can be fooled easily by marketing agencies or ad sellers (that a lot of time also don’t really know how to optimize).

I guess as always: don’t blame the tool.

I still believe this, but am willing to learn. Honest question: Would you mind trying to convince me?

You don’t have control over what phone your userbase uses.

I’ve built multiple pwa’s for companies and organisations, mainly for internal tools. It worked very well and we were happy we didn’t have to deploy to different app stores, while still being able to leverage the device’s api.

Can you explain why having more options to offer apps to users is a bad thing?

Flakey code might be an advantage in this specific case.

As someone who started working at an ad agency during the online metrics boom, then went to a national news organisation to work as digital strategist, I tend to agree.

But I would pinpoint it to the inflated value of impressions. My experience (but i can not back this up) tells me that ad sellers tend to over estimate the impact of an impression, which makes the value chain completely inflated, and skews the business model. If ads were worth less (and, according to me, closer to the real value), less money would go round, and creating value for the end user would become more a necessity.

But I might be wrong, obvs.

You will have to define “news” first, or “politics”. As a former strategist for a big news room, I can tell you it’s not as easy as you make it out to be.

I respect your position, and in general I agree. But your position on what political is, feels a bit unholistic. When more than one person is involved, everything is political, and very much so if you talk about contracts between people, which licenses are. A contract is a construct, it’s something that doesn’t exist, and has a lot of grey area. There is a system in place to debate whether specific actions are respecting the idea of the contract, in the case of licences, this can be a court of law.

Wanting to write better software is a good, and I would think quite common goal. But so is wanting to have a good life. It’s on the road to that goal, with a lot of other people wanting the same goal but having just a slightly different idea of how to get there, that it gets political.

I can advice you the Nokia Tough 800, I got it for exact the same reason. it’s a decent device that runs kaiOS, has maps, whatsapp and browser. The browser is so slow that it doesnt really become a time sink, (The bulk of websites are clearly not made for this screen size) so, I just check what i need to and that’s it. Maps works really nicely on it.

Thanks,good tip! What did you end up being interested in?

and are fond of producing red+green hybrids for navigation at open sea

TIL Indonesians breed roosters like Chocobos.