As a longtime Android user, I can't imagine going back to iOS for a number of reasons:
- Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp
- No app cloning (multiple versions of the same app with different logins)
- Crazy monthly storage fees with no ability to control photo storage on phone
- All google apps including Chrome, Gmail & Maps work better on Android and sync with Chrome on desktop
- No gemini built-in
- No fingerprint reader
- No multiple physical sims
- Slower charging
I'm really not sure why anyone would pay more for an iPhone besides social signalling.
Distributed ledgers were not a Bitcoin invention. Proof of Work was - largely a waste of electricity. There's no reason why SWIFT or any other institution can't have far more efficient real-time payments. It's already the case in most countries (UK & EU).
Distributed technologies have largely been useful to actors that wish to remain anonymous (Napster, Tor). Money transmission probably shouldn't be (if we want to avoid scams as a society).
Anonymous cash is good, but BTC is not really digital cash either - it doesn't work in a warzone without internet for example. Any real alternative to cash would have to work offline. And any real alternative to bank transfers would have to be regulated.
These NanoGPT based models are great, thank you for contributing to OS. Would love to see this ported to CPUs ala llama.cpp. Any plans in that direction?
HTML and CSS were not designed for building software. There's a reason it's nearly impossible to implement a web browser from scratch these days. The spec is an ancient monster. Adding more layout options to CSS doesn't simplify things, but only complicates. How many ways are there to layout stuff these days? Try explaining flexbox to a newbie.
HTML was meant for hyperlinked documents. It may be ok for that, but it's inappropriate for apps. Who cares about semantic meanings of DOM nodes in an app?
I don't think people prefer web dev to desktop dev, but really there's no choice if you need to support multiple OSes. Swift UI is a much more consistent development experience for example. Visual Basic was that for Windows. But cross platform? The only real target there is Skia.
Sort of, but React is not a language. It's a runtime lib. JSX is not really helpful - still writing HTML and CSS.
TypeScript has been very useful and successful but it hasn't touched the UI stuff.
We need a better alternative to HTML and CSS. With WASM any language can now be compiled to run in the browser, and it's a matter of time until WASM integrates with the DOM as well.
This isn't web specific. Desktop UI APIs change frequently too. UI is hard, and only higher level of abstractions can simplify things.
I think what we need is a new spec that compiles down to whatever HTML/CSS/JS/WASM is supported by browsers over time. Waiting for browser vendors to agree on a new spec takes far too long.
The same thing happens in all of comp-sci: we create a new programming language that compiles to an old language (C to Assembly) because changing the old one takes longer than inventing a new one.
In PoS systems validators can vote for both chains in case of a fork, as there is nothing at stake. It's not about honesty. It's about resources being committed.
Google will only get worse with time because the core idea of PageRank relies on honest linking. Google saw the web before link farms were a thing, which allowed it to compute authority from a clean graph. As time passes and linking becomes gamed, the web graph becomes messier and the reliance on PageRank diminishes. AI doesn't replace PageRank, but it can be pretty good at predicting the results you're likely to click on with enough behavioural data - which doesn't work for long tail queries really
- Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp - No app cloning (multiple versions of the same app with different logins) - Crazy monthly storage fees with no ability to control photo storage on phone - All google apps including Chrome, Gmail & Maps work better on Android and sync with Chrome on desktop - No gemini built-in - No fingerprint reader - No multiple physical sims - Slower charging
I'm really not sure why anyone would pay more for an iPhone besides social signalling.