Xed said:

Are people with CarPlay also using a vent clip for their iPhone?

Well... I’m certainly not.

Got an adaptor to convert a Mazda to wireless carplay, and the phone sits on a Qi charging pad, which is powered from the adaptor usb out port...

cornchip said:

I’m not the maths, but how is a tick over 30% “nearly double”? 

Because 19 billion is nearly double 10.3 billion...

”

App Store nearly doubles Google's Play Store revenue”

some more detailed info on this thing here
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3570156/microsoft-surface-duo-android-specs-features-display-price-release.html

“ The Surface Slim Pen, which seems central to the experience, costs extra and can't be stored on the device. The Duo also doesn’t support 5G, Wi-Fi 6, nor will it have an NFC chip for contactless payments.”

and no external display at all for notification/call display, and no wireless charging.

commentzilla said:

bitsandbytes said:

commentzilla said:

bitsandbytes said:

Any app made in a day could have been made in Excel, PowerPoint, or HTML.

Nonsense.

Their app replaced a piece of paper

They replaced it with a multi-usr networked relational database application which could be accessed from computers and mobile devices, instead of a piece of paper hanging on the wall of a single room.

Or they could have scanned the piece of paper to PDF and put it on a free dropbox account for anyone to access from computers or mobile devices - and call it a multi user networked flow chart.

Then make an electronic flowchart for free on Word or Powerpoint with no coding at all and put it on a network drive, as the electronic document is easier to modify...

A one-piece-of-paper decision tree would be simple enough to get going coded in Swift and distributed to ipads and phones then tidied up and given some bangs and whistles as time permits.

Maybe this comparison needs to be updated with this information about privacy:-
I use an Apple TV 4k with my Sony A8 tv wifi turned off. I only turned it on to update the TV firmware - which also updated the Google TV software to include ads on your home screen.... lovely. Another reason not to use the built in TV 'smart' software, on top of its poor performance (the newer Sony OLEDs even have less RAM than the poorly reviewed A8g smart software).


https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1571722074

""Over-the-Top streaming devices such as Roku and Amazon Fire TV, which currently sell between for $30 to $100, are cheap alternatives to smart TVs for cord-cutters. Instead of charging more for the hardware or the membership, Roku and Amazon Fire TV monetize their platforms through advertisements, which rely on tracking users’ viewing habits," said Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam, one of the authors of the study by Princeton University."

"Google's tracker appeared on 975 of the top 1000 Roku apps, while Amazon's tracker appeared on 687 of the top 1000 Amazon Fire TV apps. However, many others trackers also ranked prominently across apps.

- "Out of 100 randomly selected channels on Roku and Amazon, we found 9 channels on Roku (e.g., “CBS News” and “News 5 Cleveland WEWS”)  and 14 channels on the Fire TV (e.g., “NBC News” and “Travel Channel”) that leaked the title of the video to a tracking domain. On Roku, all video titles were leaked over unencrypted connections, exposing user video history to eavesdroppers. On Fire TV, only two channels (NBC News and WRAL) used an unencrypted connection when sending the title to tracking domains.""

oh, and by the way:-

" "OTT platforms provide privacy options that purport to limit tracking on their devices: “Limit Ad Tracking” on Roku and ”Disable Interest-based Ads” on Amazon Fire TV. Our measurements show that these privacy options fall short of preventing tracking. 
Turning on these options did not change the number of trackers contacted."