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janekg commented on Ask HN: Have You Upgraded to iOS 16? · Posted by u/gnicholas

gnicholas · 4 years ago

Which new features are you looking forward to? I expect to be asked by family members whether to upgrade and at this point I can't really recommend it.

The new lock screen stuff will just be confusing for my parents (to whom I provide tech support), and I'm not aware of any amazing new features that would make life noticeably better for people in their (or even my) demographic. I watched the WWDC keynote several months ago, and I follow Apple news daily. But it just now occurred to me that there aren't any new features that I'm particularly looking forward to. What am I missing?

janekg · 4 years ago

I will certainly not like the new lock screen stuff but looking forward to editing in iMessage and multiple stops in Maps. Nothing special, but lockdown mode seems interesting.

The revoke mail feature seems useless, technical this means that the mail is send some time later, and in this time frame it is possible to revoke? (bringing more delay into delivery)

janekg commented on Ask HN: Have You Upgraded to iOS 16? · Posted by u/gnicholas

gnicholas · 4 years ago

I can't tell if this is sarcastic. I assume most people on HN do eventually update their iDevices, but the rest of the post seems possibly tongue-in-cheek. If you aren't being sarcastic and have upgraded, please do share your thoughts on stability and new features, since that's what this community is for!

janekg · 4 years ago

according to my experience it is true for most iOS users, but definitely not for Macintosh users.

janekg commented on Ask HN: Have You Upgraded to iOS 16? · Posted by u/gnicholas

janekg · 4 years ago

now downloading the update, will test it later :)

janekg commented on Ask HN: Leaving Germany – where to find quality of life as experienced engineer? · Posted by u/bartminton

bartminton · 4 years ago

You touch a number of very important points here. Thanks for that. We're aware of the fact, that the overall situation in many countries in the world is much, much worse. So it's kind of a luxury problem. What is actually a challenge, is that I work as a freelancer for 20 years now and still have to go a long way to secure my private pension. I once calculated my personal "real" tax rate in Germany, and ended up at around 71%. Especially due to the fact, that we both are in the highest income tax band but also due to the fact that there are taxes on close to everything. But since we're not really consume oriented, we're fine with lower income, IF we find a place, where life is just more relaxed. Thank you for your thoughts.

janekg · 4 years ago

How do you come to the 72%, I'm just interested.

janekg commented on Ask HN: Leaving Germany – where to find quality of life as experienced engineer? · Posted by u/bartminton

janekg · 4 years ago

> that allows us to buy / rent a quality house (which is close to impossible in Berlin even making 200k/year [due to neck breaking tax and cost of living]).

This is more likely to be due to the tight situation on the housing market with several monopolists than to excessively high taxes.

janekg commented on Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? · Posted by u/leakbang

janekg · 4 years ago

comp.lang.c ;-)

janekg commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl

janekg · 4 years ago

Well done, he won't be on the Supervisory Board - so bought the shares for useless. Now complete takeover announced - rejected - share price rises - shares sold again, good money made

janekg commented on Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? · Posted by u/jaytaylor

dddw · 5 years ago

Yes I miss it everyday, I feel so clumsy typing on a piece of glass, and make soo many typos. I could type BLIND without typos whole emails while maintaining a casual conversation (much to the annoyance of my girlfriend). There are a lot of BlackBerry-stans still on crackberry.com holding out on older and newer BlackBerry phoned (key2 being the latest).

Really loved my Q10 with bb10os and my Keyone running Android! Sadly security updates stopped so had to get a slab, and run Blackberry Inbox on it (unified inbox of all your messaging apps, it is quite nice).

BlackBerry licensed Onward Mobility to make another keyboard phone, although they promised one this year, they are so silent I would be surprised if they are able to.

Bb10 was really a supernice OS, a lot of android and iOS stuff is inspired by it. blackberry still has some amazing patents and software, so it isn't a goner, but no phones directly from them anymore, only licensees (India, Indonesia, and hopefully worldwide via Onward Mobility)

I never knew the glorydays of bb07, but sure know if they stayed succesfull then (I.e. made less catastrophic mistakes and made strategic choices away from business products when they had a significant mobile phone marketshare ) how cool it might have been now with them still in the mobile phone field.

janekg · 5 years ago

> BlackBerry licensed Onward Mobility to make another keyboard phone

I would instantly throw away my IPhone (despite being happy with macOS/iOS) for a Blackberry like phone with LineageOS.