I’m really enjoying mine so far for a few specific use cases, like watching movies while lying down in bed, and as a giant, private display to surf the web and such while on trains and flights. I think it shows a lot of promise but I can’t blame anyone for not finding $4,000 of value in it today. I bet the third or fourth generation is going to kick ass, though.

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Apple engineer here, you don’t need the physical port for that either. You need only plug in your device once, to pair it with Xcode, and from then on out you can run and debug the app over the network.

Therein may lie the point; when I worked there, teams were forever over-burdened with outstanding tasks and under-budgeted with time and resources. So the only way to work in that environment is to stack rank priorities and defer less important stuff to later updates. And well, a journal app is a pretty low priority, compared to performance and stability of the OS as well as more important features like iMessage, Maps and so on.

Yes, it is free. But the only thing you can use it for is contacting emergency services.

I think that’s true but the point stands, that’s an essential feature for a new car, as I believe CarPlay / Android Auto should be :-)

I agree with you. CarPlay is a must have feature in 2023. I wouldn’t buy a car without a backup camera or parking sensors anymore, and I sure as hell won’t buy a car without CarPlay either. It’s such a bizarre decision by GM.

I’m a frequent globetrotter. I find Apple Maps’ quality is basically proportional to the install base in the region. In the US, UK, Canada, Germany… it’s as good or better than Google Maps. In Android-dominant countries though? Good luck. Try it Poland or Portugal and the results are mixed. As for less developed countries? In Mexico or Brazil it’s next to useless.

It’s pretty telling that a large portion of the switch game library are ps3/360 ports. I love first party Nintendo titles as much as the next guy but it’s beyond time for a refresh. Console was a potato at release but now it’s a fucking dinosaur. really just not beefy enough for modern stuff.

No problem!

I said this in another comment but, if you’re looking for a modern take on Mail.app as if Apple themselves made it, but with best-in-class PGP support and modern features like Inbox had (snoozing, read receipts, etc)… check out https://apps.apple.com/us/app/canary-mail-ai-email-client/id1155470386

Works across iOS / iPadOS / macOS

I mean, you asked for the best mail app without any criteria! If you don’t care about anything but the basics, then you already have the best one - Apple’s Mail.app.

Canary’s features are really useful for work. If you use encrypted email, it’s really the best client out there because it “just works” easily without all the encryption configurations and shit.

I cannot recommend Canary Mail enough. It’s like the redesigned Mail.app that Apple themselves should have made. Looks, works and feels like a system app that Apple shipped, but adds a ton of neat stuff like PGP encryption, read receipts, GPT-powered email composition and email thread summaries, and more.

It’s not always public, but it’s designed for use in a cloud application environment, so it’s not literally DropBox, but the metaphor is useful to understand it in that, it’s a remote store not accessible by the local file system / device explorer, and it lives on a server whose specifics you don’t know or care about.

Block storage is also another option, but I believe it then becomes your problem to mount it, etc. You can think of object storage as a “cloud drive” that has its own web serving capabilities; you upload your files “somewhere” that now live in a cloud that you don’t have to manage, and that end users’ browsers can directly pull files from. it does tend to be cheaper as well. So some advantages there for our use case.

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I finally did this today. Well, my instance accepts applications, but right now it’s only me, and I want to keep it small. It wasn’t too hard to deploy, took maybe an hour if you have some Linux knowledge. As for costs, I launched it on a VM with Vultr.com, one of the cheapest ones at $8/month. So far it’s running very well and the CPU usage is below 30% all the time. The benefit of being tiny, I guess. Anyway, what I’m saying is… go for it! It’s relatively easy and cheap.