How limited? We packed booleans inside integers instead of allocating separate booleans :P

That's just good old fashioned hacking. Wasn't this more a reflection of the various platforms' limited memory resources, and not really anything to do with J2ME?

J2ME had much more trouble. Basically on every OS and variations of those for different phones your app could behave differently or not run at all.

Ha, nostalgic! Was part of a small 3 person team that built the Skype app for J2ME back in the day. Fun times.. :)

This article is fully written by an LLM, correct? It's just summarizes random forum threads and press releases. Or am I just paranoid?

I'm pretty sure you're right. Stinks of something.

> The rest of the world is on WhatsApp

That's not true at all. Random data point. Estonia. I have a _single_ contact that uses WhatsApp. Everybody else is reachable via FB Messenger/Discord/SMS/Signal/Google Chat/Instagram.

Last time I checked the usage percentage of whatsapp was extremely high in the whole world.

China is always an exception,but they are locked partially out of the whole internet

I have WeChat and WhatsApp. From a user perspective they do not differ much.

There is a rumor when both companies tried to enter the Indian market: Whatsapp won.

WeChat assumes there is good reception and fast data transfer anywhere so there is no need to compress pictures and videos.

Whatsapp could be passed as Android APK between phones. And it resizes and recompresses every picture you send.

So thats my guess why WhatsApp won 1/6 of the planets pooulation in India.

Can you not just sms your contacts? Why everything have to be an app?

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Pressing the "Submit" button on their "Google Antigravity for Organizations Interest Form" (https://antigravity.google/interest-form) doesn't actually do anything for me (tried Firefox and Chrome) -> their metrics will indicate that there's no interest from organizations -> the product will be killed in a year.

</snark>

That blog post really downplays the issue that people have with the verification requirement and is tone-deaf. The resistance to get Google's blessing for app distribution is definitely not limited to students and hobbyists - and I don't think that's even the biggest affected group.

* R2

I dream of a day when my Mammotion Luba gets some decent working software. The HW is stellar, the SF is EXTREMELY bad :/

Agreed, the Mammotion hardware is amazing - the app is horrible. An open API would solve this as well, but there's little chance with the Chinese owners.

I switched from a Pixel 3a to an iPhone 16 and it really bothers me that it's way too huge for everyday usage. Maybe I have extremely short thumbs but here's the maximum reach I have on the screen when I hold my phone "normally" in my hand: https://i.postimg.cc/Cx97jxLZ/iphone16reach.png - I can't reach the upper part of the screen at all, without doing finger-gymnastics or using my other hand. I'd love to switch to a phone that is 50-60%% of the size of the iPhone 16 but there are essentially no (modern) options for this. It's really a bummer :(

It's clunky and stupid, but if you "swipe down" off the bottom of the screen, it will bring the top half down into the reachable area. That's the fix they chose, instead of making phones that fit in a human's hand.

I have both and they're surprisingly essentially the same size. Except the iPhone has less bezel and is thicker. I only have the iPhone for dev purposes and I actually prefer the Pixel 3a, but I'm afraid it might die soon...

Anyways, are you sure you're talking about the iPhone 16?

Potentially related to https://openai.com/index/estonia-schools-and-chatgpt/ / https://tihupe.ee/en to some extent.