Would there likely be a fork at that point for those that wish to continue?

Surely we van look at apps that allow more informed data but without the anxiety. Like, here’s your data, this is less frequent than average. Or, here is your data, its the same as before. Or here is your data, its slightly different again, so we’ve already notifies your doctor, but usually this is nothing to be concerned about. Etc.

Lots of patients with other conditions have yo do similar, like diabetics monitoring sugar levels. Or asthmatics who can induce attacks by getting stressed about attacks.

We could build in some mindfulness exercises which help with anxiety. I’d say overall, its better.

Also the rise of containerised software that is more easily cross platform for self hosting what would once have been cloud only.

Broken clock.

I’m surprised they made 440m. However, investing in r+d is not unusual. This amount is not a huge investment for them based in overall revenue.

After the expiry of the copyright i assume.

Is it still ludicrously overpriced? Like worth more than the combined value of other companies with more profit, more sales and bigger market share? All while other companies are catching up in tech with better build quality, better marketing and no poisonous head?

Why does a company that has already achieved it’s success need investment? When company potential is how we value society, this is an inevitable end result.

Nah, they’ll just add a chat app. Then destroy it.

Aor Canada already tried that and lost. They had to refund the customer as the chatbot gave incorrect information.

I don’t disagree with your point. I think that is where we are heading. How we interact with computers will change. We’re already moving away from keyboard typing and clicks, to gestures and voice or image recognition.

We likely won’t even call it coding. Hey Google, I’ve downloaded all the episodes for the current season of Pimp My PC, can you rename the files by my naming convention and drop them into jellyfin. The AI will know to write a python script to do so. I expect it to be invisible to the user.

So, yes, it is just a different instruction set. But that’s all computers are. Data in, data out.

It can’t tell yet when the output is ridiculous or incorrect for non coding, but it will get there. Same for coding. It will continue to grow in complexity and ability.

It will get there, eventually. I don’t think it will be writing complex code any time soon, but I can see it being aware of all the libraries and foss that a person cannot be across.

I would foresee learning to code as similar to learning to do accounting manually. Yes, you’ll still need to understand it to be a coder, but for the average person that can’t code, it will do a good enough job, like we use accounting software now for taxes or budgets that would have been professionally done before. For complex stuff, it will be human done, or human reviewed, or professional coders giving more technical instructions for ai. For simple coding, like you might write a python script now, for some trivial task, ai will do it.

It doesn’t make him wrong.

Just like we can now uss LLM to create letters or emails with a tone, it’s not going to be a big leap to allow it to do similar with coding. It’s quite exciting, really. Lots of people have ideas for websites or apps but no technical knowledge to do it. AI may allow it, just like it allows non artists to create art.

I want a robot to fill and empty the dishwasher.

It wasn’t the app. It was the idea that rather than continue to default to a good app, they would default to their own poorer product, attempting to force it on consumers. I knew it would only get worse from there. No regrets. It’s just unfortunate that android continues to be further locked down too. It used to be more open and customisable.

It used to work years ago. It’s not a technology problem. They changed their policy around location based reminders. One of the reasons I’m degoogling. I got rid of apple products too when they got rid of Google maps in favour of apple maps. Forcing a poorer product on users shows contempt for users.

Yes, they could call it spinal batt.

It’s a pity they don’t offer the option to ‘supercharge’ to 100, so you get extended battery life when desired, when you know you will need it. Say, going camping, or plan to use the phone a lot for whatever reason.

Wait until the software updates to be basically an Amazon device.

Not stamping him down would pose the bigger risk long term then.