Truthfully, over the course of a decade in tech, my experience working with this group has revealed certain cultural issues that make collaboration challenging.
These include poor language fluency, a large gap in power dynamics, insufficient attention to detail, a reactive approach to problem-solving, and a lack of motivation to question and improve upon the status quo.
It's hours of work - recompile, test, publish, test again once new versions hits the App Store. Upgrades and maintenance are a bigger time sink than most consider.
And this assumes there aren't any new issues that need fixing during the maintenance.
Interesting! I looked at the demo, and found myself scrolling back and forth to see how the map/text changed. That was a valuable interaction for me.
Would love to see more demos about more popular world events.
The current demo is interesting, but its content sports an "odd" writing style. That is - until the reader realizes this is a translation from ancient Greek.
Business plain and simple. iOS lives, and dies by its already low market share of ~15% in the USA.
Making iMessage accessible on all platforms is a win for the end user, but almost surely results in existing iPhone users moving to Android. Kiss your already tiny, non-USA market goodbye with a move like this.
Another example of technology encouraging rampant consumption. Netflix, YouTube, HBO, etc. all wait less than 10 seconds to begin playing the next content.
I'm of the mind that this conditions society to constantly consume, and lowers the collective attention span.
Originally a project to gain comfort with local LLMs + function calling. Currently, Ollama runs too slowly on Macbook Air M2.
SMS messaging handled through a cheap Android phone with TextBee.dev