FOR EIGHT MONTHS this year, I used a flip phone. For most of those eight months, I hated myself and everyone else.
Frankly, I’m embarrassed to write about this semifailed experiment. Disconnection has become the most congratulated, least convincing narrative gimmick of recent times, a widely excusable hypocrisy.
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The topics covered here didn't fall into one of my usual categories.
Netlifx and Apple
If Apple wants to insist on a cut of in-app purchased subscription revenue, that’s their prerogative. What gets me, though, are the rules that prevent apps that eschew in-app purchases from telling users in plain language how to actually pay. Not only is Netflix not allowed to link to their website, they can’t even tell the user they need to go to netflix.com to sign up.
I agree with Gruber. This isn’t right.
High Speed Photography Workshop
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