Comment is a bit of an aside, but it's a shame what happened to JSONFormatter.org. The UI was preferable to alternatives for me, it ranked highly in Google so I could just search "JSON formatter" and access it, etc.
Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.
1. Xcode 15's "Replace Container" feature replaces the app container with incorrect permissions that results in the app not being able to write to its container (ex. the documents directory). This is an important feature for debugging and flat out doesn't work.
2. Apple's AVPlayer has an API called MTAudioProcessingTap which allows you to get access to low level audio data. Since iOS 17.1, it is not possible to have more than one MTAudioProcessingTap running at the same time.
3. AVPlayer's `addPeriodicTimeObserverForInterval` function will randomly stop calling back to its observer, and never recover, when connected to an Apple TV via AirPlay on iOS 17.
Issue 1 makes debugging more arduous. Issue 2 stops my app from being able to crossfade audio together or play more than one audio stream at once. Issue 3 requires me to build my own time observer which is further technical debt, versus being able to rely on Apple's API.
I've spent hours debugging each of these and trying to find a workaround before resigning myself that it's a platform issue and relegating myself to abandoning that specific API or feature.
I estimate that around 10% of my Feedback Assistant reports ever receive a reply or acknowledgement.
These are for reproducible bugs in iOS, for which I've provided an isolated sample project with a 100% reproduction rate. It takes time to create a thoughtful and detailed bug report and the lack of replies are beyond frustrating. I'm glad to see this post and couldn't agree more.
The advent of sports betting has become so fatiguing. It's impossible to watch a football game without back to back to back betting commercials. Announcers pre-game talking about odds, over-unders, etc. I can't help but feel like the chickens are going to come home to roost.
I've had a bunch of friends that went from never gambling to spending a few hundred dollars per Sunday placing random bets. All destined to lose eventually due to the insane 10-15% vig (ie. a coin flip is priced at -110 or -115).
The few friends (sharps) that I had that were able to earn a profit over a large enough sample were all eventually backed off by the major sports betting sites. One site backed off a large long term winner in order to "protect the player against creating a compulsive habit or addiction". It's literally a racket. You can't win long term. You can only lose.
I push telemetry to Amazon CloudWatch (my infrastructure is on AWS) and then setup alarms accordingly. If I'm concerned about a service failing or becoming unresponsive, it's easy to create an alarm based on the existence or non-existence of data.
Hard to really say without having more details about your app and its user base. Personally speaking, having my content interrupted by some sort of audio ad, even by the content creator, is 100x worse than ad banners or other visual ad content.
As ridiculous as it sounds, have you considered adding report functionality to the other (non-UGC) content in the app? It seems like the review team isn't budging with your current argument so it may be worthwhile to add report functionality (even if the actual reporting is basically a no-op) just to appease them.
Heck, even feature flag it and disable it once the app gets in. Probably won't be flagged again in subsequent reviews.
Thanks for linking these. What a fun read. The first few years of the App Store always seemed like the golden age. Users had no idea what these devices could do and were so eager to download and try new things, which fuelled some awesome indie creations.
I’ve rarely had my Radars receive any attention unless they were coupled with a TSI. Probably makes sense based on the volume of bug reports that Apple likely receives.
The ones that were accompanied with a TSI received attention in 1-3 weeks which seems pretty quick.
This past week I setup an e-ink display using a 32” screen from Visionect. It displays the front page of the New York Times (setup by following this guide [1]).
The compliments from friends/family have been insane. It looks like I cut out the page and put it on the wall. Unfortunately the Visionect solution is fairly cost prohibitive and seems like ArtFrame is in the similar price ballpark.
> There IS risk to the employee; they now have a real loan outstanding and 100% personal recourse, so if the common stock becomes less than exercise price, their personal assets are on the hook [1]
This seems insane. All they're doing is giving employees the means to take on a very large amount of debt/risk.
Conversely, I would think that a lot of imposter syndrome stems from feeling like they “beat the system”.
When I applied at Google, my screening interview consisted of a question I was already familiar with. Naturally I passed the interview with ease. Did I deserve to move on further or did I just beat the system? Feelings of imposter syndrome followed.
Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.