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How long will this stay up?

How is the MAID <> IDFA link constructed?

> We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.

Fly.io and Render.com are alternatives to Heroku. How do the two compare in terms of maturity? Can they both be trusted with production apps?

And Apple will be carbon neutral in 2030.

> Some apps that I purchased before in full, later turned into subscription based apps(giving me a year of free subscription). This made me feel bad and I lost my warm and fizzy feelings towards these apps.

> That said, I understand why they are doing it. It doesn't make sense whatsoever to receive one time payment and provide updates forever.

This. While justified, so many apps messed up the switch to subscriptions.

We recently switched our app Genius Scan to a subscription model, but tried to do it The Right Way: users who had purchased the pro features automatically got subscribed to our Plus plan for life.

New users will have to subscribe though, as it's the only way to be sustainable.

We also introduced a new plan, Ultra, with more advanced features. This way, we still get a chance for long time users to support us if they upgrade to the Ultra plan.

> We collectively asked for more product/service diversity, more on-demand personalization and lower prices and we got it.

We didn’t ask for it. Corporations made it desirable.

> I live in Switzerland, 60% of my electricity comes from hydro.

Hydro isn't the panacea. It's destroying ecosystems. Climate change is a problem but the biodiversity collapse another one.

https://eu.patagonia.com/fr/en/stories/telling-the-dam-truth...

Wouldn't a healthier ecosystem better handle mosquitoes, though? Predators of mosquitoes are bats, birds, fishes, frogs…

It's kind of sad that his list only contains self-help book, and not a single novel, nor any classics.

What are alternatives to Google Analytics for mobile? We'd just like to collect basic events (eg. this feature has been used), number of active users, OS usage… nothing fancy.

You pay taxes on dividends.

It's free. What's the business model?

Same here.

There are alternatives to Google Inbox (Spark, Superhuman - that I just discover) but I don't want to add a third-party that can read my emails.

Given that Inbox is sunsetting and the trust issues I have with Google in general, it's the first time since I created my Gmail account that I'm considering moving to something different.

If Fastmail or Protonmail had the Inbox features such as Snooze and grouping of emails with the quick "Archive", I wouldn't hesitate a second.

It's not enough for a full context switch but if you start opening your email, you might stay there longer than the 20-40 seconds and become a full context switch.

Eye break is a great idea.

There is a difference between being abandoned and having the latest shiny new features. Not that I don't understand your feeling.

Instapaper exists since 2007 and has a trademark on the name filed in August 2010: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:v4h...

Instagram has their trademark since September 2011 (http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:v4h...).

So no, Instapaper is not "lucky" to still be in the App Store.

Don't assume that because Instagram is well-known that they have more seniority and the rights and abilities to do whatever they want.

It's a bit strange to call an app "Abandoned" because the last update was 6 months ago. When an app is mature and stable, it doesn't require a steady flow of updates to be good and useful (except as a way for developers to show that they are still active and "please" their users).

I'd call it abandoned if it didn't fit the platform standards, if it was buggy, if it didn't run on some new devices…

You should check Genius Scan (for iOS and Android) that does that for you automatically, and much more: https://www.thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-scan/

It also doesn't tie you to a specific ecosystem.

Disclaimer: I'm on of the authors of Genius Scan :)

Maybe they should also rethink how Facebook impacts people's lives in a negative way (https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-facebook-makes-u..., https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/study-using-facebook-makes-y...). The problem is that's incompatible with their business model: capture people's attention.

Treat the causes (some of them at least), not the consequences.

Have you been able to get in touch with Apple about this or were you told to just submit a radar? Do you have any sense if this is something Apple might fix sooner now that it's getting some exposure?