Nice to know I'm not the only one that dislikes autocorrect on phones, and autocomplete / autoindent (and also auto close parentheses and quotes for me) when coding
ilmagico
joined 2 years ago
Few years ago at work, people were using them to clean electronics after soldering, etc. but once, they did it on a board with a MEMS device, a gyroscope and accelerometer chip. Took them a while to figure out while none of them worked until they narrowed it down to the ultrasonic cleaner...
Signal is better for privacy than whatsapp, and of course whatsapp is owned by meta and it leaks some ... metadata to them (pun intended), but as for their end to end encryption, it actually uses the same exact scheme as signal, so even if you're forced to use it, it's still not that bad. Way better than telegram, for example (avoid telegram).
Using Signal or other secure messaging apps should be normalized, not reserved for people who are at risk, else the simple fact that you use it raises suspicions. Not sure if this argument is enough to convince your friends ... maybe just tell them you like it better due to some feature it has?
While I'm a fan of GrapheneOS, I think it could still be considered "tied to Google" both due to it being based on Android, and also because it only runs on Google Pixel phones. Graphene focuses more on security, then on privacy, but not so much on reducing our dependency on Google's software and/or hardware.
If the competitors developed a highly wanted feature before you, either you were already in the process of developing it, can do so quickly (and let's say it's not patented or other legal issues), or if not, it's better IMHO to spend time to do it better then your competitor, or to come up with some even more compelling feature, to regain the lead. Of course, they'll try to do the same and so on.
So, more like:
CEO: competitor X just released Y, how can we make something better to get ahead? how quickly can we get that?
CTO: hold my beer
(actual dialogue irl might be a bit different 😄)
First, while everyone thinks the CEO is the boss, they aren't. They are hired and fired by the Board of Directors. The Board has a strategic objective for the company and has tasked the CEO with making that strategy reality
Unless the CEO also sits on the board of directors ... but at least they won't be making the decision unilaterally.
Are they still developing it? At this point I had assumed it was either abandoned, or otherwise never going to become a full browser, nor be used in any full browser (e.g. firefox). The tech is really cool, and Rust being a safe language by design would likely mean a much safer browser, and also really fast. Would love to see it become a real browser, not sure how much hope to hold.
You raise good points, but even if Apple was able to take some hit on the profit margin, and was able to find cheap-ish labor in the US (minimum wage likely higher than $7.25/hr though), the biggest issue in my opinion is that all the component the iPhone is made of are still imported and affected by tariffs, and making them in the US might be outright impossible for some, based on current manufacturing capabilities, or very expensive for the ones that can be made in US.