Mo @mo@nitech.online

@MarkXA I’m sorry I didn’t hug you yesterday. I wanted to but I was too shy.

@platkus @schwa @uliwitness I didn’t say it was punishment. But it is inadvertently punitive towards people who can’t afford to put a larger quantity down up front. It’s a variant of Vimes’ Boots Theory: “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

@gruber @marcoarment i concede that HomePod Pro Max Ultra is the obvious name for a larger HomePod, but I think “HomePod Goes to Eleven” is the ultimate top end audio product name.

Just because something is difficult does not mean we shouldn’t try our hardest to succeed at it.

@fluxusnerd @nivrig I disagree. I love Trash Feory (for that’s how he says it!) but the Wet Leg one was really weak. I wonder is it because they are too recent a band? This weeks episode on The Pixies was great.

@schwa I still have DJI Go and DJI Go 4 apps on my phone. One was needed for my Osmo. The other for my Phantom 4 Pro. Could never remember which was for which. (Doesn’t matter now: Osmo won’t work with modern iPhones and the battery in the Phantom drained so much that it won’t charge.)

@MarkXA @nivrig I did take one out in August, but it was agreed in January last year so we managed to keep the rate! Sorry!

@schwa @uliwitness Had a quick look in App Store Connect and I think there’s enough flexibility there to allow the same pricing for the year as for the month. I know Apple introduced a whole load of additional price points in the last couple of years, so maybe it's easier for more recently released apps, but you can definitely do £2pm/£24py style pricing.

@uliwitness @schwa Might do. Don't offer yearly then 🙂

I know that folks will say "but I want to support my favourite apps and celebrity devs so I pay up front” to which I say “ask them for a donation/tip option”, which has the advantage of not being something that needs to be refunded.

@iain what if you've got a cool name like Rasterman? Is it a good experience then?

@doctroid I'm waiting for a delivery from Thonk right now. No Knurlies, but another Turing Machine. Oh, the Music Thing Modular stuff comes with Knurlies, IIRC, so won't need any for the new Turing Machine/Volts.

@doctroid What's a Synthcube? 😉 I'm kinda kidding – I think it's a US store, right? I'm in the UK so I've never used them.

@schwa also, there's an awful lot of bootlicking going on across the "community”. The sort of stuff that makes me cringe when their podcasts start getting self-referential expecting everyone to know who Marco or Siracusa is.

@schwa I'm still of the opinion that offering discount for a years subscription is where they went wrong. Price monthly at the same amount as the yearly rate and then people can pay as they go without the devs needing to hold onto the cash in case a catastrophic event like this happens. And you get the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that all of your customers are paying the same, and that you're not effectively charging people of limited incomes more than the people with money to pay up front.

@joshua I see where you're coming from, but I actually prefer “deceptive pattern” 🙂

As an additional point of view, I find that a lot of our English tech terms are not great when it comes to being literally translated into other languages. A “dark pattern" would translate strangely, whereas I think "deceptive pattern” would actually be more easily understood. And if it makes for a more inclusive experience, then it's a win-win, right?

@joshua That's a big bit of context that was I wasn't seeing there!