I think you’re right - by leveraging everyone who has now learned to create apps for iPhone and suddenly empowering them to create for Mac, too, we’re going to see a flood of underwhelming iPhone apps on desktop.
But that’s exactly the catalyst you need to motivate the more capable of that bunch to cut through the noise with powerful applications specifically tailored to desktop — and a very healthy App Store for desktop begins to emerge (just like the one we have for iPhone now). But faster, because now there are so many people who suddenly know how to create for Mac.
One must not forget that AppKit is pretty awful compared to UIKit. It is much easier to accomplish things with UIKit.
SwiftUI helps though and will end up being the way of making cross platform apps
As the beam diverges, you need larger and larger receive antennas to discriminate between the modes, more aperture than you need to compensate for path loss. That seems to be why OAM research is now mmWave (better collimating) and more applicable to short range backhaul.
Did you look at the screenshot? The small, greyed-out “Sponsored” text is quite small and everything else is identical to a real listing.
Really is a dark pattern. Especially given that the purpose of the list is to avoid unwanted/unneeded items. The user is already doing the work of directing purchases to your platform already.
Nicely done! This is not trivial work. Have spent a lot of time working with ImageMagick + lots of tweaking to try and get background removal working.
Getting it working for a more rounded, universal set of images is the toughest bit but you seem to be using a tried and true method for content identification.
Have you had any success applying it to images other than of drawings?
I believe a number of brands use software to monitor social channels for tags/locations related to their brand. This happens, of course, in near realtime and then it becomes fairly simple to identify them and start manufacturing instagrammable circumstances - comp'd bottle of wine, pretty amenities sent up to the room, etc.
The problem is particularly bad for packages sent to condo buildings. Amazon pickup points are good, but still require you to go pick it up (and delivery notifications are usually quite delayed for me for some reason).
I've been throwing around an idea where condo residents can sign up to be a package hero and accept deliveries on your behalf... maybe even deliver to your door on demand. Is there a reason this doesn't yet exist? Just trust or something else?
We had one in my building. First package I ever received the door got stuck and I couldn't get it out. Had to get on the phone and wait for a maintenance man.
Like one person it the building who volunteers (or is compensated) to sign for all packages? Not a bad idea. Makes a lot more sense than the startups where you have packages shipped to a receiving center and then a random worker redelivers them to you.
I think fraud might be tricky. If my neighbor steals my packages, what do I do? Doubt the carrier's insurance would apply.
