For some context: there was a Government politician (Peta Murphy) who had broad support for a ban/restrictions on gambling ads, who passed away while in office in December 2023.
Since then all that talk went away and there’s been 2 years of this social media ban.
Surely a coincidence.
[edit: not a senator, a member of the House of Reps]
"Using a diesel or petrol car produced nine times more carbon than going by train.
The figure was four times more polluting than a train if driving a plug-in hybrid electric car, or almost two-and-a-half times more if using a battery electric car."
Sorry but you misquoted me. Siri Shortcuts isn’t Siri.
It’s the iOS automation tool, and the context was controlling the car via the app in lieu of directly in their app, which isn’t something you do while driving.
Agree with most of this, but to rebut points 5 and 6:
5) I don't trust the cruise control at all. It will frequently disengage for no good reason (e.g. a car parked on the side of the road). If you don't have your foot on the accelerator (which you typically won't when in CC), the cark decelerates HARD suddenly with little time to respond.
Obvious fix: Option to disable "adaptive" part of cruise control, so it doesn't automatically disengage.
6) The app is kinda quirky. For example, if you open the "Charging" screen, the start/stop charging buttons jump up the screen slightly after it's done loading the list of superchargers. This frequently causes me to tap "Stop Charging" instead of "Start Charging".
Obvious fix: Offer Siri Shortcuts to all the car control functions in the app. That would be a killer use of shortcuts.
Their claims change depending on the day, but they include:
* Better long tail of older device support
(meaningless if the app doesn't work, and completely debunked now that ENF supports iOS 12)
* They want to control contact tracing, rather than have the app directly notify the user
(this isn't a requirement of ENF, but the Govt falsely claims it is. In fact, ENF can still notify authorities so a contact tracing phone interview can take place. The only difference is that with ENF, you can't force a user to enter their phone number to start using the app)
* They want a better picture of the entire social graph, since ENF gives more vague / anonymous data.
This is the only partially valid claim they make, however, this is predicated on the current app actually working and providing that information, which is does not.
My reason: they recently rolled out message snoozing on the server side (this is normally achieved by client apps), however the native Mail app doesn't support this.
Fastmail's iOS app does support this functionality.
Having better apps and a stronger ecosystem makes the platform better for everybody.
As an indie dev* making a living from Apple Watch, I concur with the difficulty of having to debug these things.
For example, some arbitrary resource limit may have transparently been applied, leading to some unexpected behaviour in your app.
Now, make a minor change to code to diagnose this issue and deploy to device - could take 2-3 minutes to copy to device, and another 30 seconds to run the binary.
Series 3 still has its issues but it is 1000x better than the original.
Since then all that talk went away and there’s been 2 years of this social media ban.
Surely a coincidence.
[edit: not a senator, a member of the House of Reps]